One Week!

In one weeks time Gabe and I are flying to Washington! Needless to say, we are excited and busy. We have all kinds of wrap-up work here in Germany before our two month vacation (woot!) and then we will plunge into the wonderful madness that is final wedding preparation :-) this includes, but is not limited to, building our wedding cake! making tree decorations, figuring out what food to have, enlisting/enslaving labor for the wedding day, and making as many important decisions and personal connections that it's possible to make in the frame of 2 1/2 weeks. whoopie!! Then we are off to CO for a "mini-honeymoon," and Christmas and New Years with Gabes family and friends--the closest trade off for only really being able to get married in one place at one time (although, friends here in Germany have asked if we'd have a live wedding feed, hahah!)
I'm off to try and get some more work done. Please pray for our safe travels, and health as we head into this crazy season! Much Love.

I'm coming home in one month!

Things are going well here in Herrnhut. This last weekend I celebrated at a surprise birthday/going away party for one of the couples on staff, ate Mexican Shabbat dinner, cooked Saturday dinner for the students (for which I get to take a morning off later this week :-) and hung out with Gabe. That's about the extent of excitement around here--we love to have birthday parties (and there are a lot of us so it happens often)-- but there isn't much else to do in our funny tiny town.

The weather got frigid again this weekend, and I heard that it's supposed to snow again. At least this time it really feels like fall out! There are parts of the path to work that are several inches deep in leaves, and they were fun to kick through this morning, but with the afternoon downpour, I doubt I will enjoy them the same way on the way home...

Wedding plans are plugging along. It's a bit hard for me to be so distant from it, and yet it approaches! My biggest helper and wonderful mother is now on a much deserved vacation, leaving my youngest sister to help with the mailing (yeah, we're a bit late) of the invitations :-)

Life is sweet, and I can't wait to connect with as many of you as possible when I am home/at the wedding!!!