Crab Feast 2013!!!

 August 10th was our 2013 Crab Feast!!!

We had a wonderful time at Matt and Tiff's house - and a beautiful day!  Uncle Chuck and Aunt Peggi surprised us by coming up and joining us - all the way from Nashville!  Kristi, Josh and Rich came from Maryland.  Tim, Sara, Aunt Sheri and kiddos came from Baltimore!  And of course Mom Mom and Pappy and Matt and Tiff and all their kids!  

 Me and my Tweeter

 The Girls swimming in the fun pool

Caroline, Rachel and Lucie sporting the same swimsuits and looking adorable!\

 Little Timothy had a blast playing in the rocks :)

And pretending to squirt us with the hose attachment

 Aunt Sheri enjoyed some time in the pool with the kiddos

 Playing Volleyball outside

 Mikey

 Josh and Kylie having an indepth conversation...

 The "Big Girls"

Hannah and Megan

 Caroline and Kylie jumping in holding hands

 Matt and Mikey riding on the side of the car while driving through the grass...

CRABS!!!

 Dan, Uncle Chuck, Tim and Matt

 Josh and Jack

 Pappy, Kristi and Rich practicing for their talent show song

 Me and my girlies

 Tiff and Sam Sam

 Pappy

 Singing with Rich and Kristi and their adorable music sheet holder Sammi

 Caroline played a song on her recorder

 Lucie demonstrated her moves with a soccer ball!

 Mikey sang while Hannah played her clarinet

 Megan sang Ho Hey

 Laura did some gymnastics

Mom Mom had presents for the kiddos

 Hannah, Josh, Megan, Timmy, Jack

Laura, Caroline, Kylie, Mikey, Rachel, Sammi and Lucie

 Josh, Kristi, Uncle Chuck, Aunt Peggi, Pappy, Mom Mom, Aunt Sheri, Rich, Me, Dan, Matt, Tiff, Tim and Sara

 Tiff, Sara and Me

 Dan and Matt smoking pipes Hobbit style

 And playing ginormous boards of chess!

 Kylie and Caroline enjoyed some more swimming!

 I got royally sunburnt!

 Dan helped to make the campfire

Everyone gathered around

 And roasted marshmellows for smores!

 Caroline enjoyed them!

 Sara looks super buff in this pic!

 Enjoying the fire

 Mom Mom and Pappy

 Me and Jack and my sunburn

 Aunt Sheri and Tim

(a Mom and her boy)

 Sara and Timmy

(a Mom and her boy)

And Sammi in Pappy's hat!

A Blur

 Just in case you're wondering where we are - we're here.  Painting, ripping down wallpaper, ripping up flooring, more painting, scrubbing walls, taking down drywall, ripping up more flooring, shopping for hardwood floors and Caesarstone Shitake Counters that are ridiculously hard to find and doing more painting!

We're enjoying breakfasts and working hard and are thankful for help given to us by all our family to work on our house or help out with our kiddos!  We're up around 7am and get out to our house by 8am.  We get things done until lunch, eat a sandwich and get some more done for a while...and eventually eat dinner and put the kids to bed around 10pm.  It's made for long days, but we're getting lots done...lots more to do :)

Ma’a salama Kuwait مع السلامة

 The kids last picture at Dan's work - in front of the fountain!

Our last family photo at the airport in Kuwait!

Kiddos waiting patiently at the airport

 The ladies

 Jack reading

 Last picture of me and my Tweeter in Kuwait!

Ma'a salama Kuwait!

 Upon arrival in 'Merica!

So so happy!

All 11 suitcases were the first ones off the conveyor belt!

 

 And Sarah, Max, Heather, Abby, Mary Kate, Cole, Grammy and Grandad came to meet us and pick us up!

Annnnnd...we're back!!! 13 hour flight, first 11 bags off the plane and 8 family members to welcome us back to 'Merica after being overseas for 5 years! Already registered kids for school, got the keys to our house, saw 2 neighbors and got new cell phones! Now for dinner at Anita's!

Thank you, Kuwait, for our 2 years spent there!  We enjoyed quite a bit of it - made some amazing friends, had the oldest two learn Arabic well, were amazed that we could live on the Gulf and endured the heat and dust!  Ma'a Salama!