Libya: The Beach and First Day of School

 This blog used to be mainly for family in Libya to keep up with the kids' growth and our latest news and it is now shifting to a blog for dear friends (who are as close as family) in the US, to insure you don't forget us!

These are pictures of our first visit to the beach. The water as absolutely beautiful.

And the first day of school for the girls! We've decided on a public school and more reflections on that soon insha'Allah -- probably on the other site: lifeinlibya.wordpress.com

Nusayba's swim lessons

We enrolled Nusayba in two weeks of swim lessons and I'm so pleased with this class. Not only is it less than 10minutes away, but the coaches are great and the program they're following is awesome. Five days later and Nusayba learned how to dive! She didn't figure it out at swim class, but we went to a friend's house and she kept trying 'til she got it...

Random pics

[Disclaimer: these are very old. It seems I had uploaded them a long time ago and just realized they were saved as a draft and never published...Ooops!]
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I wanted to post these random pictures up (mostly of Abdurrahman) before our highly anticipated trip to the east coast insha'Allah.

Eid ul-Adha

Abdurrahman did not like the smell at all...he was pretty miserable!

We left Allaedin at the slaughter house and headed over to Lemus Farm

Of course Asmaa had to show me that she could ride without holding on :)

Abdurrahman's favorite part of the farm. As we were heading out, there was this tractor, you insert $2 and get to experience the cement :)

They now call him Arnold and he's hung right above Abdurrahman's bed :)

First Day of School

 Kindergarten, here we come!

Sometimes I can't believe she's just in first grade!

 

More Eid pics

I forgot to include these in our last set of Eid pictures. After salah and visiting some friends, finally at about 4:00pm on Eid, the kids got to enjoy their gifts.

 Technically, this wasn't Abdurrahman's eid gift. We got him a puzzle, but later returned it and got him a "spiderman" skateboard--not pictured. here

 The Joyous Eid Mess :)

 And this year we did it! We put up Eid lights--I think I was more excited than the kids :)