Christmas Trip - Part 1

Every year for the past 3 years, we've spent Christmas with our dear friends Randall, Liz, Morgan, and Micah. We were in training with them in the US before we headed over here and we just love them! They have become like family to us over here. (I know I've talked about this fam before...)  Our first year, they came to our city for Christmas. Last year, we were all in language school together, so that was easy. And this year, we came to them!

Playing in the airport, waiting for our flight! She was so excited to see "MICAH!"

Seriously excited to see each other! These three are best pals!

It's so rare to get a true, genuine smile from Lucy. I just love this shot!

Our sweet friends made a banner for us!

Ok, this picture is from Turkey, but I'm not sure I ever posted it... Are they any bigger now?

 Back to our current trip...

On Christmas Eve, we went to one of the big malls here in their city. The Daddies were quite entertaining with the balloons and the 3 white kiddies running around!

Then they all got on the train! Yay! All crammed into one car.

 They made their own train as we were walking out of the mall.

The day after Christmas we went to what is called the Tree of Life. The story is that this is THE tree from the Garden of Eden. Only God knows... So it's this huge tree out in the middle of nowhere! It's up on a small hill in the middle of a bunch of oil fields. I know my mom loves trees!

 Friends!

Can I even explain to you how STRONG the wind was?!?!

 The boys climbed up the tree

 Aren't they cute?

 We climbed up for a cute picture together and Liz said it looked like a Senior picture pose...

So... of course, I had to give her a TRUE Senior picture shot! 

 Yay! Tree of Life! We're having so much fun! 

More later!