Hi All and welcome to the latest sager in the Jellybean's short history!!! I thought finishing work would be the best thing ever and I could just sit around and relax until the birth, sadly not so…… Ok so it's not quite as dramatic as that but we have had a busy couple of weeks. It all began with a scan done at 32 weeks where we discovered that the Jellybean is quite large...yeah yeah I know what a shock! But then our doctor told us that the hospital may want to take over our care after our 36 week appointment [View Full Entry]

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Fiko's 30th Birthday Well it was a few weeks ago now, but we celebrated Fiko's 30th birthday in style at Hard Rock Cafe in Surfers. It was a great turn out and lots of fun was had by all!!! In keeping with the retro theme of the Hard Rock Cafe Fiko celebrated the big 3 - 0 with an ice-cream cake, his loving wife arranged for him. With chocolate and strawberry ice-cream with a layer of vanilla with Turkish delight mixed in!!! It was fantastic even if I do say so myself!!! After the party the festivities continued well into the [View Full Entry]

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On Saturday our littlest friend, Kira Standeaven, was baptised in a lovely little ceremony held in Stu and Rach's backyard. Kira was so well behaved until handed to her new Godmoter. As the Priest handed Kira to her Godmother with the words "it is the Godmother's responsibility to care for the child no matter what" and with perfect timing Kira spat up all over her leather jacket!!! hehehehe The rest of the day passed with more food than any one could eat...how's that going by the way Rach??? Still loving those steaketts and potato bake??? Below are some pictures of [View Full Entry]

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17 Weeks - Gold Coast Hospital Visit Today we spent hours of our lives wwwaaaiiitttiiinnnggg at the Gold Coast Hospital Antenatal Clinic. We will not make that mistake again!!!! We have not been happy with a new doctor we had just started seeing so for this month's monthly check-up we decided we'd visit the hospital ... mostly because it was free and I hadn't collected my Bounty Bag! For those not in the loop a bounty bag is a bag of free stuff Ã'd been told about by my hairdresser and it supposedly contained chocolate!!! But to add to our [View Full Entry]

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Hello All It has been a little while since Fiko's last blog...but before you panic and think we are on holidays again, let me put your mind at rest. No we are not on holidays again but I am PREGNANT! And I know you're all thinking it..........no there is only 1 baby!!! Yes that's right 1 ...... no twins, triplets or quads for this little black duck!!! Yes Yes that's right, we are going to have a baby! It's all very exciting, we're at 13 weeks I have attached the picture of the scan we had this week. We also [View Full Entry]

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Tevfik's wedding Asia » Azerbaijan By Kate Fiko April 4th 2007 Kate & Fiko IsseverTevfik's wedding was great last night. They have a tradition where grooms friend will meet somewhere and then we all drive like crazy to pick his wifes from her parents house. From there we pick her up to get the where the ceremony, and reception is happening. [View Full Entry]

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Engagement Party Asia » Azerbaijan By Kate Fiko March 25th 2007 Kate & Fiko Issever Tevfik and Emilya had thier engagement party lastnight. It was a great evening but for me I was happy and unhappy because I didnt have my wife with me and my father. First we went to Emilyas parents house which we were suppose to be there at 6pm but usual we got thier little bit after 6, and then we had to take all of h [View Full Entry]

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Big day for Tevfik Asia » Azerbaijan By Kate Fiko March 23rd 2007 Kate & Fiko Issever Gulhan, Tevfik, Mevlut and his wife, and myself went to emilyas parents house yesterday after 4pm which we were suppose to be there 4pm but we got there late because of the traffic. When we got there they had a really old elevators which was left from Russians. The elevator got not much buttons left and acording to emi [View Full Entry]

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Azerbajan Asia » Azerbaijan By Kate Fiko March 20th 2007 Kate & Fiko IsseverI have arrived this country early in the morning after travelling more then 24 hours. I have never seen that many luxury cars in my whole life they have H3, Lincoln, BMWs, Mercedes, any luxury car you can image in are here. [View Full Entry]

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I realısed we haven't really told you anythıng about our home for the past few weeks. Adana, Fıko's home town! A cıty of over 1 mıllıon people, Adana ıs located on the Seyhan River. The fıth largest city in Turkey (after İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Bursa), it is the commercial center of a farm region where cotton, grains, and fruits are grown. An ancient city probably founded by the Hittites, Adana was colonized by the Romans. It prospered under the Romans and then declined. The city was [View Full Entry]

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