Village Girls

Megan had a blast playing in the village on our recent visit. She played in the springfed creek, ate lots of blackberries, cracked walnuts, and observed the honey being harvested. Her hands are still black a week later from the walnuts. Our honey friends had her and Brianna special kids bee outfit made so they could watch. They are a little spoiled.

Bee Boxes

Here's our bee friend in the mountains of K-stan with his bee boxes. Notice the little black solar light on the right. They have these around in an effort to keep the bears out of the honey at night.

Honey

We got to watch our friends harvest honey on our trip to the village recently. Hard, hot work!

Harvesting Honey

King and Queen Bee

These are a couple of our friends. He deals in bees and is one of the best bee keepers in this area of the world. His youngest daughter is named "queen bee".

Village brooms

These two cute kids wanted to pose for a picture. A lady had just finished scraping all the seeds off of the end of these broom plants on the piece of wood. They will then tie up several pieces together to make a broom. They K's still haven't figured out to put a handle on the broom yet.

Sifting sunflower seeds

Megan and her village friend are sifting through sunflower seeds in the village.

Friends

The girls made friends with Naomi and Jada, twins from Britain, at the pool. They were a foursome!

Girls

My girls are growing up so fast! A beautiful pic of us after a full day of swimming and relaxing in front of a beautiful sunset.

Slip and slide

Water slides were on the agenda every afternoon! They had a blast!

I did it!

There was a 50 meter pool at the hotel where we vacationed. Megan is taking after her Daddy and was determined that she was going to make it all the way across. She did it and this is her proud "I did it!" look.

Buried Alive

I buried Megan in the sand. She was a little anxious because she was so close to the sea and the waves kept crashing in.

Sandy squid

The girls and Tim spent lots of time making this squid and enjoying some fun in the sun.

Happy Birthday & Anniversary!

Tim and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary while on vacation.

Megan also keeps reminding me that now I'm over the hill.

Big chess game

Megan was contemplating her next move as her and Brianna played a BIG game of chess.

Pretty in Purple

Brianna is getting bigger and prettier everyday!

Made in the shade

Brianna and Megan made in the shade. We had been so busy this summer that it was great to have some family time just with our girls that are growing up so fast.

Bananas

I had never seen a bananas growing on a tree and was fascinated by the blooms end. There were banana plants in all the gardens of the hotel that we were staying in for vacation.

Again Daddy!

Every evening after our meetings we would join the kids poolside to swim, play and relax. There was an awesome group of people who came to keep our kids while we were in training sessions. Several of them were swimming certified and spent time with the kids improving their swimming skills. Of course then there was time just for fun like this pic.

Sunset

This picture perfect sunet over the Sea of Marmara was begging for a picture to be taken.