11 Years Ago....

Shane and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary on August 15, which is also the day that he arrived from Sakhalin! Jet-lag, schmet-lag....we celebrated by going to Pappasito's for dinner!

On our wedding day

not taken on our anniversary, but a nice picture of the two of us :)

Boys (and 1 girl) in Doha

While Sam and I were in Dubai, the boys (and Catrina) were at home. On Friday, Shane and Adam went over to jump on the trampoline and throw some balls around. It got pretty hot out on the trampoline, so Rob and Shane started squirting them all with water guns. Shane brought the video camera, so we have a lot of video of their 'playdate'. I will edit it and post it in a later post, or at least provide the link to my Google Video account. Meanwhile, I was able to get some stills of the video for this post.

Playing on the trampoline

They had to put socks on them because it was so hot!

Shane armed with the water gun

Rob's turn

Catrina is saying "spray me"!

Playing ball

Shane and Adam working on his catching skills

Happy Birthday, Shane!!

Wednesday was Shane's 33rd birthday! Adam picked out a Mickey Mouse card to give to Daddy, and even signed his name! Of course he wanted to sign it in yellow crayon so it's kind of hard to see. Anyone who knows Adam knows that we have to have cake for a birthday, so Shane decided he wanted an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. The only one they had was bright yellow with roses on top, but hey - in Doha you can't be too picky!

Adam sang "Happy Birthday" and then helped Daddy blow out his candle - which, if you notice, is a "3". I couldn't find any regular candles and they didn't have any more 3's, so that's what we used! I guess we should have just lit it twice!

The business card curse

Shane recently got new business cards and brought one home to show me. One side is in Arabic, and the other side is in English. They even have his name in Arabic! It is pretty funny, since the last time he got business cards we found out not too long after that we were moving to Doha. Now that he has these maybe we will move again...

The Frog & Snowman

Shane and Adam "made cake" (played with playdough) this afternoon. They were both so proud of what they made, that they made me get the camera! Shane was especially proud of his frog, and Adam thought his snowman was pretty good, too!

So long, Salam Plaza!

Today is Shane's last day of working at Salam Plaza (small brown building). As you can see, the construction around it is pretty heavy. I can't believe they let them work there this whole time. He moves to another temporary office until the Exxonmobil building (blue glass) opens next year.