A Sweet Family

We took my parents over to meet my language tutor and her family one evening. They are such a sweet family. My language tutor is on the far right. I've gotten to know her other sisters (holding Asher and Urban) as well. They absolutely adore Asher and Urban! It was fun to have my parents meet our friends.

Mt. Ararat

We took a day trip with my parents to see the country side and Mt. Ararat. It took about 2 1/2 hours to get there. It was a beautiful day and very clear to see the peak of the mountain.


A small village with a view of Mt. Ararat in the background. These small little villages are a common site along the way.


My parents in front of Mt. Ararat:

We stopped for lunch and this man spotted the foreigners right away. He was a very sweet man and quite the character. He had a tourism business and claimed that he had a piece of wood from the ark that was about 6000 years old, if we wanted to come with him to see it. :) We didn't take the time to find out, but enjoyed talking with him.

Urban was a trooper on this trip. This is probably the 3rd time in his life that he has been in his car seat for a road trip. We don't have our own car, so this is not a familiar way to travel for him. He did really well up until the last 20 minutes of the trip and then he made it clear he had had enough!

It was a fun to get out of the city for the day.

Two of My Favorites

These are two of my favorite pictures. Urban's smile says it all! He is truly loved by his grandparents.

A New Park

So it has been about a month since my last post. This country that I live in has blocked blogspot for an uncertain amount of time so I haven't been able to update my blog or see other blogs that use blogspot. But my techie husband found a way to work around this so our computer thinks it is in America. :)

Anyways, my parents came for a visit last week. It was a lot of fun and we really miss them. We had a fun time visiting a new park in our city. This is a big deal for us. Most parks here have pretty old school equipment. This park is pretty fancy for here. It has many plastic slides and a rubbery ground surface. It is pretty tall and has many tall ladders that aren't suited for Asher at this point, but there were a few smaller slides that Asher went down by himself. The bigger ones Reed went down with him.



Asher loved it, even though we went on a very cold day!



A family photo with a random stranger who wanted to hold our children and be in the picture (slightly strange, yet common here!).


We are excited to go back on a warmer day to this park and try out some more slides. More pictures to come of our time with my parents.