Whats up with us ...

Hello, so after a few seriously frustrating weeks trying to update and upload photos, I've given up and this'll be a text update.
Whats up with us, well, Uncle Larry has left us :(
While Andre was in the US and Larry was staying with us, he was introduced to any of our friends as Uncle Larry, my Rent-a-husband or Rent-a-dad while ours was away hehehe Of course to our American friends, this invoked endless teasing as when they refer to a guy other than the children's dad as "uncle" it means he's a "special friend" of Mom's hehehe So anyway we are very thankful to have had him here for the short time that we did and look forward to visiting soon.
While I am writing this, Andre is sitting in Yanbu again for a few days.
He is back tomorrow but I took advantage of his absence and put up Christmas decorations :D Those that know me, know I'd have them up all year round if I could ! Not because I'm lazy - well that too, but I do truly love it all. Yes the rule - so my friends inform me, is that anytime after Thanksgiving is good to start decorating. (Of course our Canadian friends said Thanksgiving was a month ago so there's nooooo problem) So what, I am a few days early :) mmmm a huge thing for me and I deserve a medal for it, even let the girls do most of the tree this time - so its not all even etc. but I managed to survive hehehe.

After doing the brown, red, even blonde, decided it was time to try black - for my hair that is ! So for Halloween, out came the box of hairdye. Andre's face when he got back from the US - Halloween eve was a hoot. Its faded now and is more a dark brown but we're getting really used to it and think it may stay for a while.

Really cooler weather here finally, first drizzle of rain on Friday, and Saturday we had some good showers. Girls wore long pants to school on Saturday and all of us had jackets on YAY ! No rain today but we're wearing long clothes and keeping sweaters with us now. We love cooler weather !
Won't it be odd to get used to heat suddenly when we head home for our 'winter' break in 3 short weeks ?! Looking forward to the short stay home for Christmas.

Well thats about it for now. Love, laughter, happiness and friendship to all.
Have a great day !

Halloween, poolside and The Beach

So its been a busy week or so, even more so than usual. And well this entry seems really strange ... been sitting in drafts for the past almost 2 weeks because of our connection being so terrible I haven't been able to upload any photos :grrr:

Last weekend we celebrated Halloween on the compound. Kids Halloween party on the Friday afternoon, this was the girls dressed up and then getting their faces painted at the party. Andrè and Larry had gone across to Bahrain for Andrè to ref. They arrived back just in time for Andrè to go trick or treating with the girls.

And trick-or-treating done, time for lights out and bed, school in the morning !

This weekend we spent some time by the pool - as you can see the weather has definitely cooled down. The wind was more a problem than anything else - the sun just didn't seem to have any power.

Andrè, Larry and I then headed out to the consulate for a Happy Hour Thursday night. A good evening had by all :)

Friday up bright and earlyish (got in at 1-ish and left the house by 8:30am) and off to the beach. Great morning, one of Aimee's friends from school was there as well so the girls kept themselves busy while I got some work done and we all relaxed a bit.
Back home and just about everyone had their afternoon nap :)

mmmm this may seem to be a photo of Larry enjoying the beach but in reality it was Andre enjoying the sights at the beach - look a little closer and you'll see what he was enjoying seeing :)

Of course a wonderful day had by all and everyone - especially the girls were rather pooped by the time we left :)