Our Arrival to the Holy Land.

All set to go! We had to leave our house at 3am in order to catch our 6am flight from LAX. I decided to stay up and pull an all nighter so that I'd be nice and tired to recover from jetlag.

We brought so much stuff to entertain the kids, we were really stressed about Sebi being awful so we had to pull out all of the tricks.

Grabbing lunch/dinner in Newark during our layover... kids stayed in their jammies so that they could get ready for sleep. The flight was 10 hours so we were planning on sleeping at least 8 of the hours.

Finally arrived in Tel Aviv. The kids were great and awful all at the same time. They were very well behaved, but Stella only slept about 3 hours total and Sebi slept for 20 minutes twice. It was a nightmare, we were all exhausted when we arrived at 9am on Wednesday morning in Tel Aviv.

In order to keep ourselves and the kids awake, we headed to the park with Kari and Brooklyn. The kids loved running around after being stuck on a plane for over 17 hours.

Our sweet little niece, Brooklyn showing the kids the ropes.

Here's CJ and Kari's house. This is the main living room, it's so beautiful and Kari has already set up Christmas. 

The amazing modern kitchen where Kari creates the most incredible meals. Homemade everything for us, bread and all.

Our guest living quarters. We have the whole bottom level to ourselves, including a kitchen, a playroom and Sebi has his own room too. (Stella sleeps upstairs with the 3 girls.)

Our guest bathroom.