back in the ussr

After a long blogging sabbatical following our first-ever post, we are back online with promises to long-distance friends and grandmothers that we will be more faithful updaters in the future. Check in for new news and also to look at wedding pictures. Our dear friend and wedding photographer Tracie Faust will be with us the entire week leading up to the ceremony, so the proceedings are going to be well (and beautifully) recorded.

Abby's Update

I got picked up at the airport yesterday (7/26) after my six week adventure in India with Hannah. We saw the third-highest peak in the world from Sikkim, rode all-night trains like mad women, trekked to 16,000 feet altitude and ate curry until we popped. It was wonderful to be there, but it's also great to be back. Ben's parents, who are missionaries in the Philippines, have already joined my family at our ranch in Chugwater, and it is a great time for our families to get to know each other before the wedding.

Ben's Update

I spent the summer in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, the town where we both graduated from university. I worked at a downtown cafe while living with friends in an early 1920's apartment. I got the opportunity to shoot two weddings, one in Little Rock and one in Florida, and also spent a lot of time meeting small-town people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and documenting their lives. It was a great time to spend with friends and relax before the craziness of the wedding begins.

Details for The Big Event Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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