It's my Birthday!!

I absolutely adore Birthdays!! This year I turned 26, which wasn't so fun, but Chris and my friends made my day great :-)

Chris started by making me a delicious breakfast of pancakes and chocolate muffins - so healthy! He decorated the kitchen and had my gifts waiting on me!

Later in the day, he took me shopping and let me pick out 2 more gifts! We ate dinner and my new favorite restaurant - Red Hot & Blue, and then we went to see "Dear John." What a fun day!!

Here's a few pictures:

Love ya,

Michelle

Mumbai...

Wow! It has been absolutely FOREVER since I've posted anything! I promise to try to keep up with things a little better from now on :-)

A lot has happened between Christmas and now - the most important being our recent trip to India!

We couldn't have asked for a more amazing and moving time. God worked in wonderful ways and it was a very eye opening experience for both of us. It was wonderful to meet fellow brothers and sisters in Christ on another continent, and to witness the way they worship and spread the good news of our sweet Savior.

We're SO thankful and grateful for the prayers and support of our family and friends - we couldn't have gone without you!!! We're already in prayer about future trips God might lead us to participate with!

Here are some of my favorite pics from our trip:

Here I am with a precious little girl who came into the church looking for chocolate! That's a girl after my own heart!!

This shows one of my favorite parts of our trip! Teaching my students how to effectively explain and teach the Gospel to others :-)

Ok, this isn't one of my favorite pics, but I did want everyone to see how disgusting the squatty pottys can be!

I love this pic of Chris! So cute! These boys really enjoyed meeting him and Blake, another Southeastern student...
Typical Chris - surrounded by girls! Haha, just kidding! He's busy handing out Hindi tracks!


Love and miss you all,

Michelle

O Christmas Tree...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - and we're SO excited! This is my favorite holiday of all!
Last year, Chris and I put up a tiny Christmas tree on top of our TV. We had to keep it away from Gracie and that's the only place we could think of. This year, I convinced Chris to buy a 6-foot prelit tree. We put it up last weekend, and so far, Gracie has left it alone!!!! Yay!! It's pretty sparsely decorated, but we wanted to make sure nothing will break when she knocks it over, haha!

Here's a few pics of the tree and our stockings...

I can't wait till Christmas!

Michelle

Thanksgiving 2009

We had a very happy Thanksgiving this year! We were able to go home to Greeneville and had lots of time with our families. It was great! Chris enjoyed not having class for a week, but he has tons of work to do since the semester is almost over. Here are some fun pics of the festive tables our mom's set, as well as all the food!!

We had fun and we ate SO much - we're looking forward to heading back to Greeneville for Christmas!!

Love always,

Michelle

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! Our friends Robert and Jodie had us over to their house for a party! Chris and I dressed up as Clark Kent and Lois Lane (did you expect anything else??). Our favorite costume of the night was Jenn's!! She went as the winner of Publisher Clearing House's $1,000,000!! Hahaha, it was great!

We played Halloween Pictionary and Charades!! And of course, we ate a lot of food!!

Love always,

Michelle

Chris's 26th Birthday!!

We celebrated Chris's 26th Birthday at the beach with his parents! We had a great time...it was awesome to get away. The weather was perfect! We walked out on the beach, shopped a lot, and ate a ton of food, lol!

Happy Birthday Chris!!

Chris and Dennis just couldn't resist playing with the instruments at Cracker Barrel, haha!

Playing in the waves!!

I just love the beach,

Michelle

International Festival!!

Chris and I have big news!! We've been given the opportunity to go on a mission trip to India in January with the seminary!! We're incredibly excited, and when we heard that there's an International Festival going on in downtown Raleigh this weekend, we had to go check it out!!

We toured all the booths set up for different countries, and we enjoyed watching the international dancers.

Chris tried some kind of weird Korean food, and I ate a whole plate of Chinese food!! This is huge for me! I've always claimed to HATE Chinese food and I've refused to eat it up until today, hahaha. It was really yummy... Chris is excited that we can go eat it together now, and he won't have to wait for me to go out of town before he gets any! We looked at the Indian food, but since I couldn't make out what any of it was, I wasn't brave enough to taste it today.

Here are some of the pictures I took while we were there...