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| I have a feeling this will be the favorite page for most of you. I'll be sure to put my latest pictures here and I'll try to keep the favorites archived. So, please let us know which ones are your favorites. Note: I'm running out of space on this site and NO ONE has specified any favorite pictures. Speak soon or forever loose the pic. :) I've now separated the purely Kuwaiti pictures to the Kuwait page. You can now access the Kuwaiti architecture pages through the Kuwait page. This section is for newest pictures, unless they are travel pictures or pictures of Holy places, in which case they would be in the corresponding page.
(1) (1) Here's my favorite new one of Niki. (2) Here's Niki in the front "yard."
(3) Here's Aquille at school ready to help planting. (4) Here's the boys at our school's Qirqayan celebration... chocolaty bags and all! I've been busy working on black and white pictures, that are too big to scan and finishing up my school yearbook, to that's were most of my new pictures are. Other picture categories: (click to pick one or just scroll on down) Black and Whites Important Events Oldies but Goodies Building a House Black and Whites: (* I think I've become over-organized. Some b & W photos are on the Kuwait pages and some on the travel page). Note: Pictures of everyone are available on the About Us page. To see a full sized version of the picture, simply click on a thumbnail below.
(1) The boys enjoying just being together. (2) Aquille sitting in front of the house. (3) Zaid in the garden wearing his lounging clothes. (4) Niki at the podium during the school production. (5) A Bedouin man preparing a camel for the camel races. One of my favorites. Check it out in full size. (6) Here's some kids in a beat up Toyota leaving the camel races. One of them was a jockey.
(7) The lady in the front repeatedly asked me to take her picture. Note her "dancing eyes." (8) This was a brother and sister team that befriended the kids at the camel races and also asked for their picture to be taken. Note the henna (dye) on the girl's fingers.
(9) This is a very happy jockey/trainer team. (10) A less happy but much fancier jockey with what looks to be a watchful camel owner. (11) This is a cool-looking camel trainer. See this one in full size.
Zaid graduating from the second year of Kindergarten, June 1998.
All Time Important Events (remember to click on the picture to see the special event in it's full glory!)
* I couldn't find pictures of many family events. Please send me a copy if you have them! Oldies but goodies: (well, not too old) Want Old? just scroll
(A) 'Aisha celebrating Qirqayan. (B) Some excited young men preparing a camel at the camel races here in Kuwait.
(C) My beautiful boys in their spring dishdaashas. (D) Here's the whole family on our trip to Colorado, August 1998. (G) Super-Pookie, in action. (H) Zaid enjoying his time on a huge slide. Interested in even older pics? There's plenty, just click on this line! Well, it's been 11 months since the ground-breaking and we're still a LONG way from moving in. The house barely resembles the initial plans and drawing but we really don't seem to care as much about details anymore... we just want a house!
(I) Where it all began. This is a rough draft drawing of what our house was supposed to look like. (II) This is the day (June 1999) that our land was surveyed. I've circled the four corners of our rectangular shaped plot in blue.
(III) Part of the foundation had been laid. In the back, you can see the section for a driver that will be separated from the rest of the house. (IV) The ground floor's been laid! (V) You can see Muhammad watering down the cement, which is done constantly. (VI) If you click on this pic, you will see the entire ground floor, from a distance.
(VIII) Here you can see the entire house, built up through the second floor. (IX) This is the main entrance, with the master bedroom's sitting area being built above it.
(X) Here's the house at 2 1/2 floors (XI) Here we have the third floor just about finished.
(XII) This is a close-up of the in-lay being set in preparation for the stucco-like finishing. I find the homemade scaffolding quite interesting!
Want to go back in time? Click here for older pics! What, you missed all the pictures of the beautiful homes in Kuwait?? Click here |
