Yesterday we brought Yvonne and the baby home from the hospital. I had a friend of ours stay with Yvonne for a few hours so that I could go get Kenzy's birth certificate done. It is not like in America where the hospital issues files everything and then you get the official birth certificate in the mail or anything. Here you get a proof of birth form and you take it to a special office. Since we're Americans I had to have our marriage license translated into Arabic then turn in all our paperwork. So I got her birth certificate and had to have it translated into English for the US Embassy. We will go there first day they're open next week. I wanted to share with y'all the picture that will be on her passport for the next 5 years... and she is 2 days old in it. :)

This morning at 9:40 (GMT +2) Kenzy Ashlyn joined our world. She weighed in at 7 lbs 7 oz and is 20 inches in length. Enjoy a few hospital shots while I'm home for a few minutes.

Our little guy is 2 years old!

Here is the invitation we sent out to our friends.
















And her is a slideshow of his birthday party...

Josiah has really begun to love music lately, and his favorite song is "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Although not every word is recognizable and the motions seem to be a little too complicated to sing with, it sure is cute. Enjoy...

Josiah has been kissing for quite some time in the form of just opening his mouth and pressing it up against you. So we have been teaching him the kiss sound and he hasn't quite mastered it yet. His interpretation of the kiss sound is to make the raspberry spitting sound at your face. Here is a video of an example of him doing it...

Just thought y'all might enjoy these cute pics of the boys in the pool from this morning...

Well Landon's first week of KG1 is officially over. He seems to have had a great time. We are so excited that he is enjoying it. We were concerned because he can get kinda shy and most of the kids there are speaking mostly Arabic. But he is doing great. He gets on the bus no problem in the morning and comes home with a smile.
His first day sans parents was his birthday. They made him a crown and sang him happy birthday and made him feel real special. All the kids got a "first day" picture and his was in his crown. Here it is...

In this part of the world the kids have 2 years of Kindergarten. It really is more like preschool but we really wanted him to go to help him learn Arabic better. He has 2 teachers... one who speaks only English and one who speaks only Arabic. It seems like a very good program and we are excited that our big boy is getting to go to it!

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!