Landon turns 4 on the 8th... but we were having some friends over today with kids anyway, so we just told Landon that today was his birthday. haha.

Here are some pics from the party...

Due to super annoying music... I have moved the post here.

I got to do some scuba diving on a recent trip to the Red Sea. A Romanian guy that was on the dive with me took a picture of me with a puffer fish. He had to email it to me and I just got it... so enjoy!

Some of you know and some don't that we are having a baby girl this november.
Her name will be Kinzy Ashlyn. Kinzy is Arabic for "my treasure.

Here is a video of the 2nd doctors sonogram.

the boys had a great time drawing on their dry erase board. Landon had a great time drawing on Josiah.

Here are some fun pics of Jo having fun as a cowboy.

We had a great time yesterday celebrating our home country's independence day :)
We had lots of friends over and had burgers and dogs along with all the good fixins... like baked beans, corn casserole, and potato salad. Of course there was also plenty of sweet tea and lemonade on hand and a healthy desert selection (healthy meaning lots to choose from... but not healthy at all).
I also ran around the day before and found some fireworks. It was a cube of 25 mortars with one fuse and it put on quite a show for us. I particularly loved the name of the fireworks... make sure your mind doesn't read it the way it should be (I didn't notice for a day or so). The mortar tubes lobbed the rounds about 100 feet in the air and it was very nice :) Enjoy the vid.

Oh on another funny note... back in the states, when it came to fireworks, you would always hear adults say that they are not a toy. Well here... the word for fireworks is الالعاب النارية, which translated means "toys of fire." That just cracks me up.

We were eating dinner out on the patio tonight. When Yvonne was pouring herself some sweet tea both Yvonne and I distinctly heard Josiah say, "May I have some please". We both looked at each other with a look that said "did you just hear that?". So we decided we might as well encourage him and so now he has to say it before he can get something from us. Landon says it already so we know that the little guy was picking it up from his polite older brother. In this video it isn't as distinct as it was the first time... but it is still cute.



Here is a cute pic of Landon at the same time...


















And another funny pic that we took of Josiah the other night when he passed out at the dinner table. Too cute :)

While my mom was in town last month we planted all sorts of plants and flowers. Well they're getting pretty so these pics are for mom to look at.


Yvonne makes this really great Chicken Marsala sans Marsala and it calls for fresh basil so we panted some seeds and they're doing great.














This bushy little plant was about 25% this size when they left. He is affectionately called "cousin it"

So I like facebook for lots of reasons. One reason is meeting new people... not just finding old friends. I joined a group here that likes to hike and an American friend of mine and I joined them on a great hike through the canyons about an hour away. Most of the hike was through a stream and it was totally fun. We stopped at a waterfall and later climbed up it and jumped into the pool below. Enjoy the pics...

Landon turns 4 on the 8th... but we were having some friends over today with kids anyway, so we just told Landon that today was his birthday. haha.

Here are some pics from the party...