Engagment Announcement!

From Liz Hulley — Andrey and I announced our engagement at church on Sunday. We had tried to keep it a secret since the proposal in December. 🙂 It was really fun telling everyone all at once! Andrey was preaching and I was upstairs at Sunday School, so he had to...

A Holiday During the Holidays

From MIR, in St. Petersburg — Last week, Russia celebrated “Unity Day,” which coincided with school vacation week. During this time, our dear friend David Hulley came for a visit.  As per tradition, he wanted to spend some time with kids from the “Fairy” group...

Dave Hulley in Russia

This is from Liz Hulley — My dad has been here for the past week and we have been visiting with friends. Maybe he will send me some of his photos. In the meantime, here are some taken when we went to lunch with some girls who grew up in the orphanage together....

Queuing

Another great post by Liz Hulley — with comments from her blog. I was very amused that my automatic Russian-English dictionary correctly translated the title of this post when my mouse hovered over it. The dictionary is rather incomplete and sometime supplies...