From Doha, Qatar

Meet my long time friend...
This is my friend Melissa! It has been about 10 years since we last saw each other. We met while in tour in Japan and became such good friends. Ever since, we have kept in touch. When I moved to California, she moved overseas and we had made more than one attept to meet.... And finally we met again. Melissa and her Husband Haitham are in the States for about a month and they came to visit. It's been great becuase I've been wanting her to meet baby Andrew and Andy and I finally got to meet Haitham as well...

From downtown:

Andy, Andrew and Haitham
taking a break!

To the town center:

Melissa and Haitham

Our family

To a fun night at Gloria's:

As you know me, I could not pass a night to go out dancing. So our husbands took us out to have some fun. Turns out that this was the first time Haitham had been to a latin club. We enjoyed our friens and look advantage of the Salsa classes.

We are going to miss you. Have a save trip back to Qatar!

Cousin / Prima Charlotte

This looks like fun!

Just because...

At the Park..

Family time!

We look forward the weekend where we can spend some extra time together...

http://picasaweb.google.com/elizabeth.merkle/FamilyTime#

Our new little neighbors!

Meet our new neighbors Miles and Madeline

Packing and moving....

This is how our house looked almost a month ago, and believe it or not, there are still boxes laying around the house...

Don't pack me away!

Check him out!

Piñata time!

While in town, Margaux thought about having a Piñata party, so all the cousins got together and had some fun!

Not sure if you are familiar with this but when you are about to hit/break a Piñata you sing the following song:

Dale, dale, dale, No pierdas el tino, porque si lo pierdes pierdes el camino.
Hit, hit, hit,Don’t lose your aim, Because if you lose it, You lose the way.

http://picasaweb.google.com/elizabeth.merkle/PiAta#

2008 Reunion

We had been looking forward to this day for the longest. I had not had the opportunity to meet some of Andrew's cousins but that opportunity came the first week of August on our family reunion.