The Making of a Birthday Present!

Well it's birthday time again and we just can't believe it was two years ago we welcomed little Miss Sadie McLean into the world! Last year we had the idea to make her a little kitchen and Stephen was planning on building it from scratch. A few weeks ago I was in the market with some friends, where I set my eyes on this little tea lady stand (that were being mass produced!). Here, women use these little stands to set up their tea and coffee to sell. But our little one has her very own kitchen now! Who needs Toys R Us or Wal-Mart when we have Sooq Shabby!

The original product....

Daddy working on the sink...

Blood and sweat went into this project (look closely at his hand!)

Then off to the welder to add the shelf!


And the painting begins...

The detailing...



and then..................

The finished product... with extras and all!!!


Little Missy, happy as a clam in her new kitchen!



HAPPY BIRTHDAY Miss Sadie Mac... you are precious and thank God for giving you to us!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Happy 4th!!

Happy Birthday America!! Hope all of you had a wonderful time of cookouts and fireworks!! We sure did here in the land of sand. On the 3rd we went and had a cookout with a group of Americas and had relay races and lots of games. We enjoyed hamburgers and good fellowship. (Sadly, these pics were too large to upload.) On the morning of the 4th, we went to an International Club here that has a great pool. Sadie Mac is a little fish and LOVES the water! Some friends sent us some floaties for her and she did great swimming in them! We spent several hours there, so like many of you we got too much sun! After that we went home for naps, then headed to a friend's house for a cookout. Our plan was to enjoy a BBQ on their roof but sadly a dust storm came through which kept us indoors. But, we still had a great holiday and are thankful for the freedoms of our home country!



Little Missy heading to the pool...


(Note: Due to problems with our computer we have lots of other pics and posts we want to update you with... but we have to wait a few more weeks for our new computer to arrive. So, hang in there while we have few and far between posts; You'll get a slu of them when we start updating at the end of July!!)