Philip at work

I wanted to take some pictures of Philip at work. However the thing is they don't let you going around taking pictures at the Embassy...makes sense. So for safety reasons I only got this picture of him hard at work behind his desk. We are very proud of him and love that he is literally one of the few and the proud. I think there are only like 5 or 6 Marines running the show at this embassy. We are going to a party at the Marine house this weekend and I will snap some more pictures if it is allowed. The house is on compound so I will see.

Miss Eliana

I was editing my pictures on my camera and realized I had forgot to post the pictures of Eliana in her going back to school outfits. She is getting so very big now!! Luckily she still loves to play and act like a little girl. It would be nice if she would like to start taking more steps to taking care of her hair and such. However my sister reminded me the other day about how bad I was with taking care of myself or how I never wanted to really dress up. I was a big time Tom boy!! Then one day I started going the other direction. I have then stopped stressing about Eliana being a Tom Boy. She has way more style and girly grace than I ever had at her age...lol.

12 Year Anniversary

Today is our 12th anniversary!!! I woke up to a lovely breakfast and flowers. The kids made me some cards and Philip showered me with affection. We were going to go spend the day at a nice resort at the beach however it rained...so we are taking a rain check. I think we will try for next weekend. We are so limited without having our own car. We really are dying to go on some mini trips around the area. I can't decide if we should head to Italy before the baby or after. I think we will most likely go prior. For today ...will we will just celebrate in the fact that we have made it through 12 years of marriage and have 2 wonderful kids to show for as well as a baby boy on the way!

18 weeks Prego Belly

I had a few request for belly pictures so here you go. We were heading off to the ambassadors house for a kid free dinner. It was a really interesting evening...I got to sit right next to the ambassador for dinner. I will try to post belly pictures more often to show everyone how big I get. I really don't think I will be getting very big. It is easy not to put on extra weight when you move to another country and food is scarce...lol

My First Trip around Tunis

KinderEgg

When Philip was a young boy and lived in Germany he would love to eat kindereggs. So he was very thrilled to be able to purchase the same candy today at the store for the kids. Around 20 years ago the little toy was just baked in the chocolate egg...how dangerous!! So being the great parents we are we bought them some..lol. Good news is they are placed inside a plastic egg now. The kids were very excited as you can see.

Family Walk

Well we decided last weekend we were sick of sitting in the house bored...so we took a family walk. The walk seem to turn into a dangerous little hike...lol. As we were walking up and down the hills,cars would zip by at great speeds. There was no safe sidewalk and there were tons of the scary thorn bushes on our sides. So on one side were the thorns and to the other the cars. The plan when we left was to find lunch at a little market area...which are very common for this area. However we walked for some time and found nothing. So in a heated and hungry state we found a lovely upscale hotel. The kids enjoyed there fancy water and french sandwiches. As we were leaving Elias was being a boy goofing off and fell flat on his face. There was the loudest smack...and then blood and screaming!! Wow did we feel out of place and odd as everyone stared at us. The good news is Elias was fine very soon after we left the hotel. Then we took a ride from the hotel shuttle..the man was very nice and wanted to take us. The funny thing was he took us the complete opposite direction from our house. He had thought we asked to go the the Residence Hotel...we were saying home. After a confusing shuttle ride we made it home. I put some pics of some of the things we saw on our walk.