A trip through Saudi

On Thursday and Friday we drove through Saudi Arabia to get to Jordan. We drove for two days, a total of 18 hours of driving. We were exhausted once we got here.

We weren't the only ones with the idea to travel north for the summer. There were many Saudis with the same idea. We thought we had packed our car pretty full, but then we saw many cars like this one, full inside and bags stacked on top too!

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Garga'oon

Sunday night was Garga'oon in our village! It's a celebration of one of their imams and everyone in the village gets involved. Many houses are decorated for this event!

Every house prepares candy and treats for the kids. All of the kids and even lots of adults go house to house filling their bags with the treats! Some people say that it's like halloween in the States, but it feels really different for us. No one dresses up like characters. The children dress up in new clothes and the younger ones wear traditional clothes.

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Father's Day

We had a fun Father's Day celebrating the wonderful Dad that Tim is! It's tradition for us to go bowling on Father's Day. All of us were looking forward to doing this!

Tim is such a great dad! He's very involved and loves these kids. We're lucky to have Joseph and Faith too. I guess we're all blessed by each other!

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Good-Bye to Jared

Sometimes I'm painfully aware that time is passing quickly. Last week was Jared's last church with us before their family would go to the States for the summer. In September he will go to boarding school with his sister instead of coming back with his parents. We're going to miss him so much.

It has been such a privilege to watch him grow! In the last few months he's gotten really good at playing guitar. On his last friday at church he lead worship with Tim! We were all so proud of him!

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Celebrating 13 years of marriage!

June 3rd is our Anniversary. This year we celebrated 13 years of marriage! We've spent half of our marriage living in the Middle East. Time sure flies! It's hard to believe that we were in the States for 6 1/2 years and we've been overseas for the same amount of time.

In the next 13 years we look forward to watching our kids get through the school years. As we step into this new stage of life we're confident that God will continue to be faithful!

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