atti's first camping experience

atti spent his first memorial day weekend in the great outdoors.

big thanks to elizabeth and tim for planning the trip... and uncle ethan and auntie katie for... well... surviving.


daddy and atti


uncle ethan and atti


umma and atti

saying goodbye...

several weeks ago we hosted a goodbye party for the groves'.



atti had a great time at the party.


atti and major groves modeling the combat crawl. perfect form..


classic graceandjer


lovin' the ladies...


the party was for bryan and richelle... but atti was trying to steal their thunder...

life at 7 months.

atti at 7 months...


all shnazzed up...


doing a little morning reading...

atti-clean.

three times.

my parents came to visit us this past week for the 3rd time in 6 months.
and according to my dad, my mom checks this webpage 3 times a day.
(hi umma!)
i'll try to update more. promise.


atti and halmuni and halabuhjee reading...


atti and his grandpa.


out to dinner in guilford.


halmonee and joon-young playing together in his new top of the line exersaucer.
thanks halmonee and halabuhjee!

please come again!

happy half a year!

it's hard to believe that atticus is already 6 months old. he's growing up so fast.
soon he'll be walking... going off to college... getting married. (sigh...)

to iraq and back.

we just got back from a two week trip to the middle east. it was atti's first trip to iraq and our second. we wanted to show atti where his mom and dad met and introduce him to his Kurdish family.

here we are at the new Sulei airport. after taking this picture we were politely told that we weren't allowed to take pictures. us, tourists....

we celebrated Naw Roz, the Kurdish New Year, together with my host family.

here we are with our most beloved friend Sermed, who took us out for a wonderful meal.

here we are with Jer's friend's family...

on our way out, we spend 2 days in jordan. 

that's all for now... more pics to come soon...