The Orlich Oriel: May 2017

April 2017

We love that the kids' teachers at preschool send pictures to the parents.

William making and cutting his own cookies out at school.

Charlotte's first trip to one of the malls, after the boys ice skating.

Love this man! And Charlotte just absolutely adores him too.

cafe we like to get a frozen coffee from

fitness center Jeremy found and has been going to. For less about $16 for the month he can go three times a week and use all the machines!

just sweeping the grass...totally normal

Neighbors cooking sumalak as spring arrived

kids playing with neighbor kids...their language has finally gotten to a place where they enjoy playing together!

Jeremy's office manager holding a baby for the first time...he loves our kiddos and gives them tons of hugs when he sees them.

Traditional dress

Jeremy saw some interesting booths at a Tourism Expo recently

Daddy trying hard to feed her a bottle...she is just like the others, she doesn't want that thing! lol

On a journey to find a rock to close the dough mountain/tomb we made to celebrate Jesus' resurrection on Easter!

Found two big ones!

A neighbor friend came by just as we were about to start making the dough so he got to join in and help even though he didn't want to get his hands dirty!

Popsicle weather has arrived!

man doing work...on the second floor window...standing on top of the awning of the first floor...its a good thing he's lightweight!

babies sit out on the grating outside the windows too, doesn't matter what floor they are on.

First time eating deviled eggs!

William built the city Jesus came through on his journey to Calvary

Wanted to make sure we knew he was outside the city later

The kiddos loving on Jeremy's employee

local fast food called Lavash (which i think is actually turkic) is sliced from that big slab of meat that turns all day

first time on ice skates

kaitlynn decided to sit out for the first ice skating experience. but she's still a cutie!

Waiting on dad to put on his skates

it's like riding a bike, you never forget, and you only fall once or twice while remembering :)

5 years apart

twice a year our hot water turns off for a week, this is our bath for that week

I started to do a "day in the life" photo...but turned out to take more time than I had that day but I made it to 12 I think.
Started here with raw tomatoes, to get started making spaghetti. During the summer, when tomatoes are cheap, we have a local friend jar like 20-30 big jars of tomatoes to use during the winter. This year, a few of mine went bad so I didn't quite make it to summer again by the time I needed to start making tomato based recipes from raw tomatoes again. So I had to start right at the beginning of spring this year. Here's how it starts.

I cut out the part of the tomatoes that holds the stem and then put them in boiling water for a few minutes.

take a moment to check the dryer to see if the clothes are dry, transfer clothes from the washer to the dryer (yes, that is the dryer around here)

Start the dish washer...which looks very similar to my own two hands :)..and put them on the drying rack.

while listening to the word, or a song sometimes,

check the time on the washer...one load take 1 hour and 49 minutes to complete. and it holds maybe one day's worth of clothes minus any extras or jeans.

Check on baby :) all smiles

tummy time while mommy finishes the tomatoes

drain the water

take the peels off the tomatoes

let baby girl swing since this might take a few minutes

put the peeled tomatoes in a pot and season and let simmer for an hour or tow

make sauce for spaghetti on the stove and another tomato based rice in the crock to maximize the time!!

laundry in the washer finished

try to study while straightening hair because of the hot water being out...I pretty much made it the whole week only and only washed my hair once lol

get big kids home from school and read some books. That's as far as I made it on my day in the life pictures :)

boiling water for baths

Saw this car on the way home from getting the kids, you'd have to zoom in to see that the back driver's side wheel is up in the air because he drove his front wheels off into the gully!

william wrote a note to some friends he made in thailand but he didn't know you can't put the words wherever you want after you run out of space...so we just cut it all out and put it on the board and took a picture to send to them instead :)

a friend brought the kids rooster suckers from Russian

happy baby

they like this lego game daddy found

morning snuggles..a rare occasion !

neighbor friends came over to play...quickly turns into looking like a tornado went through lol but they enjoyed it

she's started rolling over from back to tummy this month

miss photogenic :) mommy I smiled

baby shower for a sweet friend

New momma to be!!

charlotte knocked out on a friend :)

tried to make jello cake for easter like jeremy's mom does....well I tried

deviled eggs were a success :)

she doesn't care about the cake that didn't turn out good

baked ziti for easter

Table set for our guest along with our play dough mountain/tomb to tell the story of Jesus' dying and rising again!! SO much fuN! New traditions for us! We are learning as we go and enjoying figuring out how to make our hearts focus on our God!

First major failure for dessert since we arrived...only make Jello cake in America people :)

flipping all over the place, this was probably one of the last times she stayed on her back!

Daddy did it

last day with our friend before he left for america. We enjoyed our time with him!

We will see him back here, Lord willing, in about a year!

We went to a friend birthday party and Kaitlynn helped make the cake.

And he helped eat the creme :)

fun game we played

they were blindfolded and had to tell us what they though the items were

Kaitlynn in a scarf

Happy Birthday to you!!

Gift from jeremy for completing my first language level checklist. Thankful he is proud of me even if it took me two and a half years to get the stuff checked off