Leila & Nuri

Our plants :: Nuestras plantas

Our little girl :: Nuestra niñita :)

Bahia loves helping, here are a couple pictures of her "cooking" and the other photos are at our neighbors' garden, Dan & Dorothy, who have about 1000 bulbs planted of various types of flowers!!
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A Bahia le encanta ayudarnos, aqui van un par de fotos de ella "cocinando" y las otras imagenes fueron tomadas en el jardin de nuestros vecinos: Dan & Dorothy, quienens tienen unos 1000 bulbos plantados de varias clases de flores.

Bahia didn't want her picture to be taken that day, she was not cooperating, so this is the best we managed ;)
Bahia no queria que le sacaran fotos ese dia, asi que no coopero y esta es la mejor de entre las que sacamos :P

Visiting the Baha'i Temple

Yesterday we visited the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, it was a cold, windy evening in Chicago, but once we entered the Temple our bodies felt warm and our souls felt right back home! :) It was a wonderful way to finish this Fasting day for Nuri and a great treat for all three of us, especially for Bahia. We were the only ones at the Temple most of the time, so Bahia was able to say "Abha" out loud as she really likes to do it, and we could explore and say "wow!" when looking at the Greatest Name in the center of the lace-like ceiling, at the beautiful light features or at the little holes we found on the floor near one of the doors. :)
We went to Chicago to pick up Nader, our Tofighian relative who was going to visit us, but unfortunatelly his flight got cancelled and then re-schedule for today too late for him to have enough time to visit us and Chicago, so we are looking forward for his next visit in October/November! Enshallah!! :)

Some photos..

So much to blog!

Oh! There is so much to blog, but so little time. Let's see... we had a great 2008, we started it in Land O'Lakes with Nuri's parents and we finished it in Santa Cruz with mine. Bahia went from being a little baby to a toddler, she is running all around the house, repeating everything we say, copying all we do and becoming more and more independent. She sleeps in her crib wonderfully, sometimes she wakes up for milk but mostly she has been sleeping through the night. I love it! We love it! It gives us time to rest and talk in our bed, and spread as much as we want!! :) Nuri has been working, he got a new type of job at Rockwell and he is doing well and happy. As well he is working inside the house and later you will see some pictures of what is going on. He finished the family room, he put up two walls there and after painting now he is done triming and makind two beautiful frames for the windows there, aaand adding a wide windowsill for my plants! It is really beautiful, I love his work!! of course, I love everything about him ;)
Now he is working finishing the entrance to the house, he changed the tiles and also he is working on the trim work. The detail work takes a lot of time, but you know how patient is Nuri, so soon that work will be done too!
These days have been really wonderful, the days are getting longer and brighter, there is a feeling of happy days coming soon -warmer days for sure! We have been busy inside, but still we get to go out once in a while, Ruhiyyih and Bahia come along and we enjoy new flavors in town and also friends. Actually this weekend will be really busy with the Baha'i friends, we are celebrating Ayyam-i-Ha and there is an activity every day from Thursday to Monday! :D Wooohooooo!!!!
Also these last three weeks we've been blessed to have a little baby girl to come and play with Bahia two or three (or four) times a week. She is Bera, daughter of Susan and Elijah, good friends of us, and she is still too small to play, but Bahia is starting to understand better other kids, especially learn to respect them (and not bite them) and share, although she's been very good with sharing toys, but now she is learning to share her Mom, and that has been quite a wonderful process to see... especially since one day she'll have siblings ;)

Oki doki, at least I wrote something, next, I will post some pictures... and tell you more about the trip to Bolivia, we are kind of behind with all that!
Hugs, Leila