Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Saudi Arabia. We are hosting a thanksgiving meal at our house today, our first time hosting one, Gregs first time cooking the bird, my first time in charge of the sides. Heres hoping it will all work out well.

We have a lot to be thankful for this year and just to name a few: a good job, a great extended family, wonderful happy healthy babies, the opportunity to travel and see the world, our current location (the easy living with children and the maid who helps keep things clean!), and wonderful friends. Greg is thankful for "his patient wife and his healthy children" I want to know where he keeps this patient wife at! I am thankful for a husband who is such a good provider and tries his hardest to come home in a good mood to help put Lily to bed and listen to the not so patient wife complain about how hard her day was! (I need to try harder to be in better moods when he comes home!) In short we are thankful to have each other. We hope that everyone has a terrific thanksgiving, we are thinking of you all.

Chelsi and Babies

The Mickle Family together at the beach

What an adorably silly little girl

Lily holding Oliver for the first time

Giving kisses

A Sick House

Sorry it has been awhile since the last post. This last week has been a bit rough on us. My Mum left, and had (or is having) the trip from hell on her way back to Africa, but more on that later. Levi (our maid) introduced a cold into the house last week, and we all got sick, everyone but Greg that is. Even my Mum caught the bug before she took off! Lily ran a fever for a few days and was a bit on the tired and crabby side, plus the congestion. She is all better now except for a little lingering tiredness and she still has a runny nose. I was the next to fall victim to the fever, congestion, cough, and sore throat, but I seem to be on the mend as well, hopefully last night was my last little bought with the fever. It was too much to hope for that Oliver would escape without catching the cold, but he too came down with a fever. His fever didn't last more than a day and night, but he is now seriously congested, which is worse than the fever because he wont sleep, which means that I can't sleep, which makes me a very crabby Mommy! Hopefully this won't last too much longer and we can all be back to our normal healthy sleep loving selves!