Saturday, June 16, 2012

Fatih's Interview



Merhaba!! It's almost here!!! Hopefully, all will go well and Fatih will be here soon. We miss him soooooo much! If anyone reads this, please pray that the interview goes well and Fatih will get his visa. I am so ready to marry this man and begin our future together!

Have a great week everyone!!!

♥ The Özaydıns

Friday, March 16, 2012

At the park!!!

These were taken back in January, at our nearby park. The weather here was freakishly nice this winter, so we took advantage of it as much as we could.


As you can see, she loves to take pictures. I just wish I had a better camera, but for now, I will just have to edit the heck out of them with Photoshop.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

A few pictures from this past year!!

Fatih and Caitlyn before a softball game.


Caitlyn at the pow wow.


Fatih and his niece.


Caitlyn the gypsy.


Caitlyn at the park.


Mr. Handsome in the Bursa snow.


Love her so much!


♥ The Ozaydins

I'm baaaackkkkk!!!

Well, we are back. Yes, we, as in the Özaydın family!!!! Well ok, not quite yet but pretty close. Maybe I should give a little run-down since it has been over a year since the last post. During the time of my last post, I think Fatih had been back from Turkey for a month or so and was living in Austin, which means we had been long distance dating for 3 months. We had one awesome month to get to know one another in Tulsa, before he went to Turkey the first time. I don't how but we managed to fall deeper in love, despite being apart for so long, but we did. It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Eventually, we had seriously talked about marriage, and he decided that he needed to go back to Turkey and speak to his family. August 26 he left for Turkey, in November we announced our engagement and I sent in the K-1 Visa application for him to come back here and we could finally get married!!!

....still waiting. I guess I shouldn't complain, some people have been waiting for a while and our application has went through when it should. The average processing time is 5 months and we are at 4 months right now. We are waiting for his interview and hopefully, that will be quick. I mean I am a patient person and all but being away from someone for almost 7 months is very stressful.

With all of that being said, he and I have discussed today, that we should keep an updated blog about our life. I mean, who wouldn't want to read about a Turkish/American family? We will try to post in both English and Turkish for any friends or family that may visit our blog, and we promise to update as much as possible!!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!

♥ The Ozaydins


(Please forgive my hair, I am pretty sure I just woke from a nap!)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Joy of Cooking!!

I am not sure what has come over me but I have been a cooking mood. Now, I'm not saying that I don't cook. I pretty much cook every meal we eat. However, the past two weekends I have been cooking from scratch. I never do this and I don't know why because Cate and I have had so much fun doing it and the end result is totally worth it!!!

Our first weekend we made cinnamon rolls, sugar cookies, and bazlama (Turkish flat bread.)







This past weekend we made pumpkin cookies, chicken and dumplings, and homeade bread!!!





Halloween!!!

This year Caitlyn was Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz. Saturday, we went to Boo Haha at Brookside in Tulsa, Cherry Berry in Owasso, and the pumpkin patch. Halloween, we trick-or-treated around our neighborhood.

She dressed up for school...



Brookside in Tulsa...






See, I get in the Halloween spirit too!!!

Cherry Berry...


Pumpkin Patch...








What have we been doing lately?

Well...we went to see my parents a few weeks ago. While we were there we took a drive around the Wichita Wild Life Refuge and Medicine Park. I forget how pretty it is this time of year!!

View from Mount Scott...










Caitlyn on top of the world...







Medicine Park...