Istanbul!

Istanbul is an amazing city!  Istanbul is the most unique and beautiful city I have ever been too.  We could not have chosen a better place for Mohammad's family and me to meet for the first time!  Take a look at these amazing pictures!

 Our amazing airplane!  The largest one they make!

 We look pretty good for 24hrs of traveling!

 The spice bazaar!  Istanbul has so much history and culture!

 Everywhere you turn there is am amazing view!

 This is an old Ottoman palace on the bosphorus with an amazing rainbow!

 Look at this ancient fort on the sea!

 Only Persians would bring their own hidden stash of tea for a private tea party on the tour!  BTW - it's not that I wasn't happy, it's just that this is Mohammad's 500th picture of the day...

 It is just amazing!

 I want a palace on the sea...

 Just look at the view!  So many mosques!

 This was our favorite food spot!

 Dr. Handsome and a beautiful mosque door!

 Madar-joon, Me, and Baba-jan!

 Vahid in another beautiful mosque

 The views are sooo amazing!

 Love this one!

 Look at those handsome boys!  Does Mohammad look like his father or what?

 I had to post this one!  LOL

 My favorite mosque.  Hagia Sofia used to be a church and was converted to a mosque quite a long time ago.

 Admiring the beauty!

 Breathtaking!

 The original!

 Part of my sweet family!

 Beautiful!

 The cat found him!

 Look at those spices!

 The men fish off the pier.. maybe a hundred of them!

 Galata tower is sooo lovely!

 Khooshkel!

 I just love flowers and the vendor is camouflage!

 How much fun it was to run through the thousands of birds!  Mohammad didn't think so...

 Brothers!

 We were photo-bombed by a bird!

 The pier with the fishermen from the other side!  The bottom level is all VERY fresh seafood restaurants!

 It's Farsi!

 So so amazing!  Gorgeous!

 Sweet tree!

 View from Topkapi Palace :)

We're building a house!

Over the summer of 2012 we started looking at houses and quickly decided to build our own (due to someone being very picky).  So we headed to Home Depot and bought some hammers and nails... just kidding!

I think we'll build a house here!

Pre-foundation

The foundations looks soooo small!  Are you sure a house will fit here?

Our house was a skeleton for Halloween...

OMG... it's a house!

We have some drywall!

Arches are in!

Yea stucco!

look at those windows...

We have stucco trim, trees, and cement!

Painted stucco!  Almost done!

How will we ever fill up this backyard?

Just working on the inside now...

It's done!

Our lovely lovely house!

Come visit us to see the inside ;)