Fun week!

These boys know how to have fun, anywhere, anytime.

It's been a fun week at school. On Wednesday it was pajama day!

They were read bedtime stories, and got to hang out in their blankets and pillows....I'm a bad mom, I forgot about that detail!

I picked them up from school on activity day. This term, both boys are doing soccer and it was cute to watch!

Another day they had a book fair where they got to buy books from the 1st and 2nd graders. They got comfy and we read some books.

These two....oh my. Another night, the Embassy had a birthday party for Dr. Suess. They served green eggs and ham, thing #1 and thing #2 cupcakes, and had all kinds of cute thematic activities.

Once of Caleb's good friends in his class, Hanna turned 6 and had a party at school. Caleb wanted to look nice for her birthday and picked a long sleeve button down shirt with a clip on necktie :).

My parents made a memory game of our immediate families and it is fun to see everyone's faces. Thank you, we are enjoying this very much!

Today one of the boys friends had a surprise birthday party at an REALLY FUN indoor play area called Gravity. I can't believe after being here for 18 months, this is the first time we have been here. The place is huge and it's a ginormous trampoline! There's activity areas, foam pits, sports areas - all trampolines!! And the best part....adults jump too, and we all did!

 And a fun obstacle area that both boys enjoyed.

 And a rock wall!

 Of course what's a birthday with out the firecracker middle east candles!

It was a fun week and we are looking forward to Nathan getting on a plane later tonight and starting his journey home! We have a couple of friends from Turkey arriving tomorrow for a few days, a friend from Ethiopia arriving on Monday, and Elizabeth on Wednesday. Yay for lots of visitors!

Brothers and Insanity

These boys. Brothers, best buds...most of the time. Love these two all the time. Enjoying their new scarves from Aunt Eileen - thank you! 

 We got popsicles at the commissary!

 The boys found their old and small shoes...and really wanted to wear them today. By the end of the day, both of their feet were hurting.

 We played at the Embassy all weekend long, it was beautiful outside! Look closely, Benjamin is throwing me a frisbee.

 The boys were learning how to play checkers with chess pieces today at lunch.

 Caleb has been falling asleep early the past couple of nights.

And the other night he really wanted to sleep in his spider man costume!

On March 9-10, Elizabeth and 8 other friends of ours will be running the Dead2Red race, and Nathan is brave enough to drive us!  It's a 242km (150 m) relay from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea, running through the night.  This year is the 20th anniversary, so it's going to be festive from what we hear! We are Team Trash Route, since this is the name of the route that many of us usually run. We pass lots of dumpster and trash along the way, so that's how it got its name. Anyway, stay tuned for the madness, and if you want to see more about the race, here's the link!

More Love

Happy Valentine's Day! The boys and hubby made me sweet cards and a bouquet of flowers.

The boys had a fun day at school and got a few valentines from friends and made heart crafts.

Benjamin made us a cute card at school :)

Look at this little ninja :)

Another night this week, we had an office party…we have 10 people in our office…and 4 kids were missing that night! Actually, 5 because Caleb hid for the picture. Between us 10 (but we are the married couple in the office), we have 27 kids!

This was just some of the shoes and jackets…there were other piles scattered.

One of our officemate's wife works at an Islamic school, and she started covering her head once a week out of respect. She was kind enough to bring her materials to teach me how to wrap my head in this style. I don't wrap my head here, but thought it would be fun to learn this style…there are so many!

These two…Benjamin and Mary….saving these pictures for their wedding. These little ones are two peas in a pod in school and anytime they get together. It is going to be sad when their family leaves Jordan in the next few months :(.

And Caleb and Sean are best buds too!

My little triceratops babies one morning :)

Happy boys one day on the way back from playing at the park.

Did I tell you that Caleb reads Japanese? Thanks for the Chinese magazines from the airplane dad and mom, haha!

That's our week :)

Feeling the love :)

As much as I want to blog more, weekly posts are working best now, so here you go! The boys were curious about how to make fire, so we explained that you can take 2 rocks and rub them together and use leaves as kindling. This is what I walked out to the next morning by our front gate. A bunch of rock/leave sandwiches!

Our grocery store recently got greek yogurt...and it's the same price as the other yogurt! I've been making greek yogurt for the past probably half year with a strainer. It's been good, but not as good as this! Super excited...it's the little things ;).

Tes helped the boys make us sweet Valentine's day cards. They are proudly on display our kitchen door :).

The other morning I was out running in our neighborhood and saw a flock of sheep and his shepherd. Look closely in the middle and to the left.

Our friends hosted a Valentine's Day craft party this weekend. We have a nice group of friends with kids our kids age. It's fun to get together.

Caleb showing off his heart necklace and decorated cookie.

Another day, I took pictures of our friend's daughter on her 1st birthday. She was a tough customer on the smiles, but so sweet and easy going! 

Sweet boy before bed last night.

Happy Monday!