Mounk Enka

Last Saturday we took a drive up to see Mt. Etna. For those of you that don't know, my little guy Isaac has some speech issues. Not everything comes out how it is supposed to, but sounds really cute. The entire way there he talked about Mounk Enka. We heard it over, and over, and over again. Jacob was our geologist on the trip. Apparently they have talked a lot about the different eruptions that have occurred in the recent past at school in his Host Nation class and he told us all about them as we hiked through some of the craters in the lava. He is excited for Dad to get back so we can show him the craters. Caitlyn was our resident flirt. Our friends the Greathouses came with us and she has a thing for Mr. Chip. I somehow don't think that she needed to fall quite as many times as she did. :) I'm not looking forward to the teenage years!

What They Do When I'm Not Looking!

My kids crack me up! ... and that is why they are still alive. When I put the memory card into the computer, up pop these random pictures of the kids. In hind-sight, Jacob had the camera and Isaac was running up the stairs crying. How quickly a game of Indiana Jones turns bad! Now I know what they were doing while I was making dinner at least.

Playing Catch Up

Here are a few pictures of the kiddos from this summer. Note the big one. Is it too much to ask for him to make a normal face in a picture?

Getting Started!

I have taken forever to get this thing started, but here it goes... The Marley clan is now in Sicily, Italy. For those of you that don't know where that is, it is the island off of the southern end of the boot. So far we are all adjusting to our surroundings and for the most part, the culture. I'm not so sure that we like it all the time, but we are managing to make the best of it. Language is our biggest hurdle at the moment, but I'm not afraid to bother people until they figure out what it is that I want. :) School is well under way for the kids as well as their after school activities. I am trying to stay sane while Andy Bob Bert is away. (Didn't he just get back?) No one wants to read a bunch of blah blah blah from me so I will just share some pictures.