Scouting activity to the US Bahrain Naval Base

Yesterday Jon got to take his Boy Scout troop to the US Bahrain Naval Base.
It was quite a neat experience for the boys. They got to see and do a lot of cool things. They were all very excited when they got home.

Family Photoshoot!

I really wanted to take some nice outdoor family pictures this year. A girl in our compound is a photographer and was willing to take our pictures this year. Unfortunately a few days prior to the photoshoot our company put us on lockdown because of certain events and threats that had and were occurring in this part of the world. Our lockdown restricted us from every activity besides work, school, and "basic essential shopping" (and we were strongly advised to grocery shop as a group, not ideal when you shop for a family of 6 and take up most of the trunk of the car with groceries). This lockdown came at a pretty bad time since Christmas was 2 weeks away and I had not started on my shopping yet. Our Christmas shopping was soon going to become "basic essential shopping"!

Because of the lockdown we were no longer able to go to the location I had picked, so the photographer suggested indoor shots with her green screen. She was able to take some pretty cute photos!

Julien

Logan

Kia Ora

Eden

The kiddos!

 The fam.

Jon and me

Kiki and Daddy 

My babies and me!

Oh Christmas Tree!

I was so happy to find a Christmas tree and decorations this year. And because we don't have a nativity here, I printed a picture of the nativity and mod podged it on canvas, so we also had our very own nativity. Having a Christmas tree and nativity up brought a little more Christmas spirit in the house.

My friend Stacy even helped me sew these very cool Christmas stocking! 

I just love this Arabic pattern!

Next year I plan to put our names in Arabic lettering on them!

Cooking with Daddy

Jon was preparing steaks this morning and Eden insisted in getting really close to watch him cook. 

It was very cute!

a sweet face!