Beautiful Fall Photos

Pretty pine cone! This pictures was inspired by my sister-in-law Shelly who is learning to take the most beautiful pictures. This is nothing compared to her pictures, but I gave it a try!

Amazing Rainbow so close...due to Fall rains!

This gorgeous yellow tree was at the Zoo, and the 2 pretty girls below belongs to me!

Birthday Boy - 7 years old!

Birthday Breakfest - MnM pancakes of course!
Well, not realy Mnm's unfortunately...

A gorgeous day for the Zoo...

He has been wanting a remote control car for a long time!!! He was sooo excited!!

Fun with Nana

Nana came for an 8 day visit. It rained quite a bit, but the first day were we could see some sky we raced to the Atakule tower to get a view of our city. It was REALLY windy up there, as you can tell by these photos.

With all the rain we saw some amazing rainbows.

We are at the top of a lighthouse on the lake, Nana with the kids (except Carsten)

Below are pictures taken at the resting place of Turkey's first president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

First steps

Clouds

Brianna came to me recently and asked to use my camera. "The sky has lots of cool clouds!" she said. I didn't see them until I downloaded the pictures. This view is from our kitchen window.

Birthday Season!!!

Megan turns 9!!

Carsten turns ONE!

Heather turns 13 - we now have 2 teenage girls!!

Mike turns 41 - the candle was melting in the Dutch Baby pancake so Rach held it instead.

Vacation Bible School

Sail Away...at VBS...
these are the best pictures we took this past August. Rachel and Heather along with friends helped out leading worship and teaching the moves to the songs.