We're Engaged!

Our engagement night. December 8. It couldn't have been more perfect. Drew tells our story at www.mywedding.com/drewandbethany :)
After dinner at Javiers in Highland Park (Dallas). Right by this gazebo...
...and next to this fountain is where he proposed! It was beautiful.
See my ring! It is exquisitely beautiful.
After we're engaged...at a restaurant at the top of the Hilton overlooking the Dallas skyline, for dessert. We couldn't be happier or more excited....or more thankful for all God has done!

Thanksgiving 07

With Drew's family in Kansas City for Thanksgiving. His family is wonderful! Don & Julie, Drew, Amy (married to Quentin), Joe, Bo, Matt, Jack.
A fancy date at the Plaza for my birthday. Wow!
Outside the infamous "pretty house"...Santa's workshop gone crazy?

Dating Drew.

Before I post pictures of Drew & I engaged (!), here are some more highlights of one of the best journeys of our lives...getting to know each other.

London. August 07. Returning from three weeks in India.

Ha, ha! We did pretty good, I think, for a couple rockstars. :) A friend's dress up birthday. Kansas City weekend in early October to stay with Drew's family.
Enchanted Rock in Texas' hill country. We went hiking with friends from church.

New Friends in the City

With our new friends, Raksha and Pinky, at our favorite meeting place - Cafe Coffee Day!Girls at Cathedral Pre-University College (11th & 12th grade). We met up at lunches or after school nearly every day. Girls in Cathedral High School (9th grade) on the same campus. Precious girls!

Church, culture, clothing, and children of the Indian village.

The church at the Ashram where we joined with our Indian brothers and sisters for worship (both Western and Indian style), prayer, and teaching. It is beautiful to see both the cultural differences and the spiritual unity that make up the body of Christ. We took our shoes off to enter. The women and men sat on separate sides.
Women from the Ashram and surrounding villages, wearing traditional sarees. We had fun wearing some of the traditional clothes, too.
Do we look Indian? :)

The Indian women below wear a tunic top called a "kurta", baggy "Punjabi" pants, and the "dupata" or scarf. This is the other tradtitional outfit (called a "salwar") besides the sari.
The children are so beautiful! There is a children's home and a school at the Ashram.

The Ashram.

Our awesome team! The girls...Michelle, Callie, Me, Aubree, Krystal, Bethany Ingram.
The guys...Dagen, Joel, Drew, Matt, Ryan, Reid.The Ashram (Christian Retreat Center) outside Bangalore where we stayed for a week.

India. July 07

Drew & I a couple weeks ago in Bangalore, India, where we led a college summer trip from our church in Waco, Texas (an amazing trip! more pictures soon!). Our team ran up to the hotel roof to see the stormy sky, just before the rain began.