Let's face it...we really stink at dating! Tim and I that is. we have never really been good at it, even when we were dating which was about 3.5 seconds. first it was work, then it was kids, now it's we live in the middle of nowhere...where are you supposed to go on a date? no longer can the dinner and a movie date be a safe fall back. although i have to admit, i am kind of glad about that. i never liked that date. tim did, but i never liked going to the theater. so while we still aren't great about making time for "dates" we get a lot more time together and we connect a lot more. actually our marriage is thriving right now, and it's not because we have been going on dates or having "game nights". partly we have coffee together every morning, we talk about everything and anything. in fact we talk too much and have decided that a couple mornings a week we need to be in separate rooms, so we can talk to Jesus more! but Paul and Erin decided to take the kids for us and we got our 3rd date in 9 months. shout out to them! the kids had a blast having their own personal Olympic Games. They did NOT want to come home when we showed up to get them. Tim and i thought and thought beforehand about what we should do and we decided it would be fun to dig around in our yard and plant a few things and try to coax some life into it. however...it got super cold and snowed, so scratch that! instead we got in the car after we dropped the kids off and we had no idea where to go...so we looked out and saw that mountain in the first picture and what may be a road on it...so we thought...let's go find it. so we grabbed some flat bread, hummus, apples, cheese and chocolates of course and headed out. 
as we drove, clouds were moving in and snow was coming behind us, but not ahead of us. it made for a really cool sunset.
it's impossible to capture our landscape and scenery. but the road was amazing, up and down and all around. just a narrow dirt road with some of the edges eroding away. kind of scary....mostly fun.
we passed through two villages. if we weren't watching the turns in the road carefully we ended up right smack in villages. it literally felt like we were tiptoeing through someone's house. it was so bizarre. these houses are made out of stone and mud.
i wish i could say this is the car we took, but it's not. we just found it abandoned by the side of the road and i love these old land cruisers. tim and i decided that if we had been born Kurdish we would totally have been Freedom Fighters and owned an old car like this and driven all over Kurdistan together doding bombs and fighting side by side for the freedom of our people. now...in a way we really are!
Ended up in the backseat did ya?
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