Tim's Engaged!!

They dated for four years, two months and are now engaged to be married at a TBD date following their May 2016 graduation from Appalachian State University.  Those pictured below (plus the father of the bride-to-be, who took the photo) were all at the Somerville home in Montreat to share in the excitement the evening after the proposal and acceptance!

One Month Out

Just because we've been gone from China for a month now, it doesn't mean we're done with that part of our lives... as evidence, I submit these photos... the one at left of a group we had dinner with in Jacksonville last week that included Cory Zhu, the Chinese-American former student of Grace's who stayed with us three days in June ...the other, from one of mine (pictured front and center) who spent part of his summer in New York (and sent this picture with a note saying he has had a great time in "my" country.)