Marsh Walk

We went down to walk around the marsh 2 miles south of our house. It’s the source of our year round mosquitoes. The Israeli mosquitoes are the sneakiest, fastest and best hiding mosquitoes I have ever encountered. They are near impossible to hunt and kill and random ones keep appearing to devour the kids.


We haven’t been up to too much for the last couple of weeks; work, a visit to the zoo, down to the beach, warm weather with shorts, cold days and rain storms. Currently the kids are passing a pretty nasty flu bug from one to the next. Hope momma and I can sit this one out. Ella is getting close to 5 and here she is working on numbers. I did a Mt bike race this morning and am now 4 wins in 4 races.


A good friend of the family passed this last week, our condolences to the Martins.

Hanna is 3

Tomorrow is Hanna's 3rd birthday but since Saturday is to Israel as Sunday is to the rest of the world we had a party for her tonight. We had friends over and a good time. Food for thought Hanna's 1st birthday was in Oregon, 2nd was in Arizona and 3rd here in Israel. Next year she should have a birthday back in NM.









Earlier in the week they made an octopus piñata.

The weather has been nice the past few days. We played at the beach yesterday, but don’t be fooled by the pictures. The girls didn’t go swimming and were in their swim suits for less than 30 min before they put on sweatshirts.

In the last week, while the news I read doesn't say, Israel has pounded on Gaza on a couple of occasions. Rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza with no hits near us since the cease fire. One day last week I was home sick and heard planes flying and explosions (big ones). The news reports Israel is blowing up tunnels, but not how many. I would guess more than 20 missiles on each of the days fired into Gaza.