Our House

nnBraden and I mowed the yard this morning. Fall is here for sure. We have six oak trees in our yard and the leaves never stop falling. Mowing this morning was more like vacuuming than cutting grass....

Sleepy Kyndal

nnKyndal has been sick this week. I think the medicine caught up with her. She fell asleep at the table doing her homework....

Bye-bye Facebook

Well it has been too long since I last updated. When we got back to the USA, I started using Facebook as a way to update and pretty much neglected the blog. Facebook continues to be a major frustration to me. I like to use Facebook as a one-way...

The Mother Lode

New English teachers from the USA showed up yesterday. My sister sent some goodies with them. We put most of the boxes back together for the picture. A good portion of the candy has already been devoured. Thanks Beck.nnnnWe now have five teachers here and the new manager for...

Happy Birthday Braden

Braden Perry Cox is 14 years old today. As a teenager,  you can’t really get as excited as you used to about the big birthday party and all the new toys you hope you will get; however, our 14-year-old was up at 7 this morning and waking us up...

Starfish

Found this starfish while I was swimming the other day. I only had my Sony (point and shoot) water proof camera, but I thought it did a pretty good job. Don’t worry, I put the little guy back in the water after I took his picture....

TEX-MEX in Hulhumale

We just had some of our friends over for some TEX-MEX food and games. We had burritos and played spoons. Turns out the tortilla chips from France are not that bad.nnInad entertained us throughout the night. If he wasn’t playing the guitar and singing, he was dancing and adding...

One of Many

Headed to the big city for groceries and a night out for dinner. Have big plans for 6 locals to join us for dinner tomorrow night. Yes, Nasha… Its you and your family. We have decided to do burritos to give them a taste of Tex-Mex. We also taught...

Slow Internet

We came to the conclusion that the Internet is just too slow for both kids to stream video classes so we decided to get a second Internet line in our house. This will help us broaden our broadband and double our 20GB per month cap. Let’s hope this works....

Football

We have been playing football almost every Friday. It has been so much fun to watch some of the local guys jump into our little American game. We play on the beach every Friday afternoon and have had different players each week. One week we had a basketball team...