God really blessed us with the warm autumn weather. Everyone here said it was an unusual thing to have such warmth still in October. We counted it amongst our blessings : )
We were able to help Natasha, our good friend from church, with hosting a group of guys and girls from the Bible college in Germany. They stayed in Moscow for two days. We had the honor of hosting the four guys at Dean's apartment while he was away and Natasha hosted the two ladies. They came to Russia to serve for a few days in St. Petersburg and in Vladimir. Moscow was their recovery stop between the two. It was a real joy to fellowship with them all.

Here is a better group shot of some of them. This was a dinner the night before they all left Moscow. Natasha was gracious enough to host it at her place.

Tyler and the guys in the center of Moscow.

November Update

Okay, I know it has been awhile since our last posting. No excuses really, with the exception that Tyler and I haven’t had great access to the internet for the last month or so. I find that I am really missing having an easy connection to the web and beginning to appreciate the luxury that the internet afforded me in the past more than ever.



Anyways, to say the least, we have been up to quite a bit here. Since there is soooo much I could write about, instead of boring all of you with pages worth of our lives’ most recent and exciting events, I posted a bunch of cool pictures to tell the story for me. Like we all know, “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and way more entertaining I might add : )


PS-Make sure you read the captions for bonus details.

Beautiful autumn woods at the Moscow River near Pastor Dean's apartment (where we were staying for the first couple months).

Tyler and Champ enjoying the woods : )

Tyler found this awesome leaf for me. They actually weren't uncommon. We would see kids walking around carrying several like a bouquet of flowers. Pretty cool.