Our NEW writing center. This is something I REALLY wanted to implement this year and together, we did it. Its Arabic/English and its the talk of the school. WE are proud! ♥ my Arabic teacher Shamsa!

Our VP finally purchased couting bears for us and the kids, as you can see are already enjoying them, sorting going on here....love it! :) I made some fun little sorting cards and pattern sheets and they are going to town with it. I have some smart cookies this year! :) Some stinkers too, about 3 boys-the ones you see here standing up....yes they are a challenge!

Precious little girl, sorting beans for our garden unit! They are having so much fun with hands on learning! ITs so new to them and its so fun for them!

Talking about 1-5 this week and I made up some of these fun playdoh mats from a great site I found. They kids just loved it....they spent a really long time playing with these great mats!

Matching numbers! i cant believe how much time they spend on this.....its new and they put it to good use! I was proud of my hard work on centers this week! Andy did not like all the ink I used though! Ink is SO expensive here and the schools just dont have the money to supply us with it, so I spend a lot myself! :(

Our kids are so scrawny! Rydge and Noah, buds hangin poolside for pizza and a movie(cant forget the fries too!)

Rylan eating his pizza poolside for movie night! They had a B-L-A-S-T!!!

WOW, another week down! Its going SO fast, just like last year. We had an enjoyable night by the pool, with about 6 other families. We watched a kids movie, enjoyed visiting with other adults and the kids played so hard with all the other kids and they ate pizza. IT was good for them. We have settled nicely into our new home, its actually like a home now, last year was just apt. living, this year is so different. The kids are so much happier altho Rydge keeps saying he misses Hili because he had sand there. Well.....the rest of us DONT miss Hili! I plan to take the boys to my school on Saturday, so they can play in the sand and play on the slides while I organize for next week. Its a nice covered area for them to play and I need to clean my desk area anyway at school. Andy will have some time to head to the mall to sit at a local coffee shop and download some movies hes been wanting to do. We dont have our internet hooked up yet, so we are using a USB type thing for now, which works, but we are limited on downloading and uploading. We mainly have it for basic stuff and for an occasional SKYPE. Anyway, we all good. We have our nanny/maid moving in in a few weeks, so we are very excited about that. It will be nice for Andy and I to get away without the kids when she arrives. We need to get out, just the two of us every now and then. I will introduce you to our new gal in a few days. She is a sweetie and we are very excited to welcome her into our home and give her a better life while also helping us. Its a win win for all of us! Take care!

Love,

Abby

Our Villa.

FAMILY PICTURES 2011. Shauna Welch did a fabulous job! I hope to get some out in Christmas cards.

The below pictures are for you mom! I didnt include everything because our room is STILL in a wreck! Its very nice and large and the kids, Andy and I LOVE it! Its feels like home where the hili apt didnt. Its lovely and we feel very blessed to be there. We have a total of 6 bedrooms and 7 baths. YIKES, that is a LOT of toilets. We have two kitchens, which we are using one for a laundry area and then 2 family rooms, one for the family area for TV and the other being used for the kids game room/toy room. We also have a nice formal dining room. We love it! We hope to get internet of some sort today or tomorrow. Talk to you later.

Abby

storage in Rylans and Our bedroom. So nice to have!

Front of house.

me on landing. LOTS of stairs. gonna have a nice tush...haha!! Andy down below!

upstairs playroom/game room for boys

kitchen...we have it all set up now, stove and everything. this was the first pic we took.

boys with their little table in kitchen. its nice for snacks and such.

living room...we feel at home, now! Our apt was just not cutting it! Its super nice. we are very blessed.

YES...BBQing AGAIN! Love love love it!!!

nice area for kids to roam and we have our OWN parking, no fighting for parking anymore!!:)

more area for kids. no neighbors yet, they will move in October.

Rylans LOVES his new space to sleep.

Dining. We got this table for 270$ from a teacher who left. What a STEAL. Its awesome!

Rydgees room

rylans room

kids hangin with their daddio! Andys chilling with a beer...:)

First DAy of School for the kids and I. The boys had returning friends, so that made their day much brighter. IT's hard to go to school not knowing anyone, but they both have friends from last year in their class, so that was good! The boys attend school from 7:45 to 1pm. Andy is home right now, but looking for a job! We did lose our villa, that was villa two and now onto a third. But third is a charm right? I hope so, its amazing, we would NEVER be able to live in a place like this in the states, its a mansion! I cant wait for visitors and its not costing me anything but electricity and water. This runs about 100-150 a month in US dollars. Its really large, but I wont say anything else, because it might jinx us, AGAIN! I will celebrate with photos once we move in. We are to be out of our current place on the 14th, thats THREE days. Its been quite stressful, but we will get thru it. We just want a place for the boys to play outside safely and alone! They need their own space and WOW this place has it. I am off to bed now. Talk more later.