"The Big Feast"

Asli (pronounced Aas-la) is staying with us from August 15th through 24th. She is pictured with Lincoln who crawled into her lap while she was eating breakfast on Saturday. She was so touched. I had to come clean & told her that he's a "mooch" & probably wanted her food & that she didn't have to share with him if she didn't want to. It was fun to teach her a little English slang - mooch. She's going to learn a lot with this crowd :)

A little background: She is here to work on her English. She lives in Turkey & has been our friend's language teacher for the last few years that they have lived there. In the interest of keeping this relatively short, a while ago we realized that the Peters family (that we go to church with) know the Brian Greiwe family. The Brian Greiwe's are the cousins of our dear friends the David Greiwe's (which is how we met Brian's family - getting the connection yet?). 

We needed a good excuse to try the new rotisserie so had Asli, the Brian
Greiwe's, 1/2 the David Greiwe's & the Peters for what Tiernan called "The Big Feast". Which he was so right. Katie (Brian's wife & Asli's student) & Asli both made some Turkish food (delicious!), we had sweet corn, chicken from the grill (notice the guys drooling over the grill) & lots of other stuff. It was a great afternoon - we got to swim together & then feast together. There were 8 adults & 11 kids. Chaos but great! I was thankful that everyone was so open to participating in it with us & had the ability of going with the flow. The flow of 11 kids dictated quite a bit. As T was praying before going to sleep, he said "Dear God, Thank you for the big feast. Amen."