The Genettis in Doha, Qatar - the Middle East

The Genetti Family, Mckenzie, Dom, Kylie(8), Megan (5), and Will (3), are living in the Middle East in Doha, Qatar, and having many wonderful adventures.  Here are the kids seeing a camel train out in the desert.

Here is Megan and Dom getting up close and personal with a camel.

They went out to the singing sand dunes one evening and were able to make them wail.  This was great for them because the humidity and temperature have to be exactly right for them to make their sounds so they were quite excited.

They would climb to the top of the dune and slide down which would cause the sand dunes to sing.

They went to visit some old forts out in the desert.

This is a tower at one of the forts with one of the kids looking out the window.

We all miss them so much, but they are having a remarkable experience.  They feel very safe and have a very close neighborhood.  The ward is huge and consists mostly of Houston folks from Exxon and a very large Phillippino population.  Hopefully they will be with us again for the summer. 

They are going to visit Italy this spring to do some geneology visiting places Dom's ancestors are from.  It should be a great experience for them.   And of course, they are also going to do some of the traditional tourist stuff too.  

Christmas Eve

Drew and TJ had a great time playing in the snow while everyone else built snow people.  Sidney and Taylee were having naps so that made it nice for everyone since those little girls are only 21 and 15 months old.  

Christmas Eve was so much fun.  Everyone got on their snow gear and we went into the front yard to build  a snowman.

After the first one was done we decided to build some more since there seemed to be plenty of snow and it really wasn't too cold.  Mitch was even using a butter knife to sculpt and fine tune each snowman.

When they were done, we had a photo session with the models striking poses with the snow family.  It wasn't 30 minutes after we were done when a huge snowstorm blew in.  But those snowmen are sturdy little buggers and are still standing strong today.

In the pictures are Avery Mortensen in the green, Mandy Reschke in the pink (by the way, she is wearing my old ski jumpsuit thing I wore many years ago but can still wear today if I really suck it in when I go out to snowblow), Drew Eden is in the white  and red, TJ is the multi-colored snow coat, Brett Eden is in the light gray, Mitch Mortensen is in the green and navy and Daren Reschke is in the navy blue.  

We had such a great time and a wonderful Christmas.  We had everyone with us except for Mckenzie and Dom and their family since they are living in Doha, Qatar in the Middle East.  We miss them so very much.  But it was so wonderful to have as many of us together as we did.  We feel so very blessed to have such a wonderful family who love and care for each other.

The Family

Here is all of the Miller clan as of August 2007.  I don't think there are any new additions on the way.  For those of you who may not recognize us, I'll just list the names. On the back row l-r there is Sidney Eden, Brett Eden, Lacey Eden, Daren Reschke, Mandy Reschke, Dominic Genetti, Mckenzie Genetti, TJ Mortensen, Mitch Mortensen, Avery Mortensen, and Taylee Mortensen.

On the front row is Megan Genetti, Drew Eden, Deb, Kylie Genetti, Ross Miller and Will Genetti.