Skyping with Michael

I haven't written much about Michael since he's been gone mainly because he's an avid facebooker! He gets on facebook daily and occasionally posts pictures of what he's up to. He keeps very busy working 6 days a week for at least 12 hours a day. His only day off is Sunday. He doesn't mind working so much because it helps pass the time. We are able to talk to him daily and most of the time it's on skype. It really helps a lot because it brings him into the room and Emily can interact with him. She loves to skype because she can babble with daddy and play peek a boo. She won't talk to him on the phone but she doesn't hold back on skype. He is living on a base called El Dafur just outside of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. He is a little over an hour from Dubai so he's gotten to do some fun touristy things! I posted a map of the middle east because I know most people don't know where the UAE is. He is near the Persian Gulf. My brother is currently in Qatar. Both of them will be coming home in a week. Michael will just get to stay here for a week. He gets to go to an engineering conference in Austin and stay with us. After the conference, he gets a 4 day pass to spend some time with us. We are so excited to be getting some Michael time!!! I know that he can't wait to be here either. We didn't know that we would get to see him twice this year so this extra week is a really exciting and much needed surprise! He will be back in February for about 2.5 weeks. I'm sure that I'll have lots of pics to post next week. Emily is so excited to go to the fair with her daddy!

Self portrait while we were skyping

This is Michael in his room.