turkish delight

so to close gavynns study of turkey we had a Turkish style tea party. Although it was not as authentic as we would have liked it to be it was still very fun. We had strong brewed tea (unfortunately i ran out of time an was unable to get real Turkish tea) an to go with the tea (the part the kids were most excited about i think) some turkish delight! In turkey its called rahat lokhoun and means soothing to the throat. the kids loved it i thought it was good its kind of like a jelly or chewy candy with some kind of yummy sugary coating , the flavor was nice.(maybe after seeing Narnia and reading all the hype of how when it was first made the taste testers wanted more and more, my expectations were a little high,) 

then we pilled up the pillows becuase thats how the turks would have done it and we enjoyed our tea, turkish delight and each others company with some  Turkish music playing in the back ground.

oh and the tea was served with sugar to keep with  tradition

tho i dont think its how the turks held their tea "parties" the kids decided to dress up

then gavynn told us stories of his "travels" to turkey. recapping all he learned threw his studies

arieana made her first cake from start to finish with no help. her favorite part was frosting it

Kyah lost her first tooth last Wednesday! she was so excited 

we put bead board up and painted and we finally finished and put up trim and my cast iron switch plate covers. I also painted the oak book shelves to match the trim and cabinets (which we painted awhile ago) still need to finish hanging my pictures and we hope to do something with the counter tops but i like how it is coming so far. pretty sure the next project will be the master bath but my husband thinks maybe we should work on the yard either way i cant wait                                           

we went to the park with some friends it was one of their sons birthdays so we went and hung out we hand homemade pizza popcorn apples grapes and lots of fun : )

I gave kyah (6) the camera ----->

and these are the pictures she took