Farewell PB Youth!!

Tonight was the final night that the youth from Project Badi are in town, and so they gave their last performance at the Bahai Center. I will definately miss them! I love you joonams!

More juicy Micah

This afternoon, Bahar and I went to visit Pooneh, Mahan, and Micah Ghiassi one last time before Chase and I leave for the Czech Republic (Pooneh and company will also be in Memphis for the month). All I can say about these pictures is #1: Check out the mother/son admiration; #2: Check out the hair!; #3: Check out me getting to enjoy the juiciness of a sleeping baby on my shoulder. He is truly a beautiful child! :-)

Project Badi in the 'Boro!!

So, tonight was the final fireside held by the 11 youth from Project Badi who have been in Murfreesboro (which is about 30 minutes from Nashville) for the past two weeks. These youth have sacrificed a full month out of there fun-filled summer to do service projects throughout Florida (Gainesville, Tampa, West Palm, and Ft. Lauderdale) and Nashville. There are a total of 55 youth who are participating in Project Badi, and who started their journey a little over three weeks ago when they traveled to West Palm, FL, to start their training. During the first week, the youth all remained together in West Palm to learn how to conduct Reading Circles, which are small tutoring circles conducted in low-income neighborhoods and are aimed at helping children with their reading skills. The children who participate are also taught such principles as love, honesty, respect, truthfulness, and many other virtues. After that first week, they all split and are sent to different regions...and we were blessed with 11 of the finest! I might be a little biased in my opinion, but oh well...I love these guys! I am sad to say that tomorrow is their last day here, and my last day to see some of the youth that I have grow to adore over the past year. They are holding a performance tomorrow night at the Bahai Center (they do skits, a rap, some puppet shows...MAJOR entertainment) and I am sure I will shed some tears. These youth are strong, radiant, and the amount of love that flows from them is something that is undeniable. They love everyone, unconditionally...and you can feel that just by being around them. THAT is hard to find. I admire them, and they are the essence of what I hope my children will be.

Who wants to be a Superhero?

Last night, Chase and I discovered what has to be the most humorous show on television...Who Wants to be a Superhero? It began with 11 people dressed in their best superhero costumes arriving at a home where they were contacted by Stan Lee who, for those of you who don't know, is the mastermind behind such superheroes as X-men, Fantastic Four, and many others. These "superheroes" must endure many tests to show that they are worthy to gain the ultimate prize...to become immortal! They will have their own comic book and movie on the SciFi channel...all from Stan Lee himself! If you have the chance to check this out, it comes on Thursday nights on the SciFi channel at 9/8C. (In case you're wondering, I do have my favorite....I am cheering for Creature and her crazy white dreads)

Sorry for the delay...

...but lots is going on here with our upcoming move to the Czech Republic! We have been working on finalizing everything and basically selling almost everything that we own! In the process of doing that, we have also had to go through a MASSIVE amount of JUNK that Chase and I both seem to have accumulated over the years. I can tell you that we have about 5 full trash bags in our living room right now, and I bagged at least 8 garbage bags full of things (mostly clothes) to take to Goodwill. Now, for me, this has been extremely freeing! I have begun to love the phrase "out with the old, in with the new"! We have even managed to sell both of our computers and, with the money we made, buy a brand new laptop which is a million times better than our computers combined. I am typing on it right now, I might add, and have developed quite a relationship with this beautiful electronic device. We continue to pray that our trip will go smoothly and that our life in Hluboka will be as amazing as we dream it will be...we hope that you will keep us in your prayers as well! God is truly leading us on a path of adventure!

We have also been blessed to have the youth from Project Badi here for the last week and a half! I am always so thrilled to see my joonams from all over the south, particularly the ones who I grew extremely close to while I was in Florida (namely Adelia and Jordan). These youth are truly amazing in every sense and I am always so inspired by their entoooosiasm (that's for Yasha) and love of the Faith. They get all the "afarins" that I can give! They were here just last night for a fireside that we hosted...but, alas, I have no pictures to show you now...I will try to fix that tomorrow. I will work on putting some pictures up from their performance this weekend as well...

Sooooo, since it is way too early in the morning and WAY past my bedtime...I must say goodbye. Goodbye.

Wedding Pictures!

I am not going to write...I will just put the pictures up! Enjoy!