Nice mutlu yıllar, Aşkım!!!

Mehmet, Sude, Elif, the Birthday Boy!!
Today is my Fatih's birthday!! Happy birthday my love!! This is the second birthday of his, since we have been together, that I have not been near him. :( Thankfully, we will never miss another birthday for each other!!!

Fatih was approved for his Visa and once he receives it with his passport, he will be on his way here! Hopefully, before the 4th!! I am so stinkin' happy!

We would also like to thank everyone for the thoughts, prayers, and words of encouragement through this whole process. We are nowhere near being finished, but at least we can be together and start our future and God willing, add to our family.

Iyi günler!!!
♥ The Özaydıns

Corps Day 2011

I found a few pictures from last years Corps Day, which is my company picnic. It was held at Keystone Lake, June of last year. Last year was the first year I was able to go with both of my loves. This year, I had to go alone and even though I was with fun company, not having my family there just was not the same. Fatih is in Turkey, anxiously awaiting the approval of our fiance visa application and Caitlyn is with her grandparents for the summer. Mommy has been very bored, lol.


Here we are in the food line :)


Caitlyn and Fatih getting some yummy food.


Here we are surrounded by some friends. We are kind of hard to see, lol.

Next year, we will all be able to go and have a good time. Maybe we can get in some lake time this summer once Fatih gets home!!

♥ The Özaydıns

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

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.

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!)

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!!!