Aunties

I found some great pictures of my sisters I just had to share. I'll bet some of you didn't know that Arseny and Kyra have quite few aunties on my side alone. I have 3 sisters. Anyway we all just celebrated birthdays--HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLS!-- We conveniently all have birthdays very close to each other. Two of us have late Dec. b-days and the other 2 have Jan. b-days. So in about a 3wk span all of us have birthdays. This year I turned 30 (I know, I can't believe it either) and for my sisters: Sarah turned 27, Thea 21, and Priscilla 18! Amazing! I hope as old ladies we still get together and celebrate each others birthdays like we do now--it's a lot of fun! The first picture is my sister Sarah and I and the second is the lot of us from left to right is Pris, Thea, Sarah, and of course me.

She likes me, she likes me

Here are the two troublemakers in their Christmas clothes before Church. Kyranna is wearing a dress that her Godmother got for her. Anyway this pair was hamming it up on the couch and I couldn't resist snapping a few pictures.

What? ...2008 already???

Well where the heck have we been?
I think in a way we're still recovering from Christmas and Nativity Celebrations. We had a great time on Christmas day with my family there is a picture of Kyra with my mom. We also had friends visit ---Arseny and Kyra's friend Amelia and her mommy (my friend Laura) were in town and came on out for a little visit. There's a picture with "just the girls". Arseny opened packages and it was fun to watch. Matt and I got him an Ambulance that has lights and sirens and goes by itself. Arseny loves all sorts of trucks and rescue vehicles and so we thought he would just love it...and he hates it! He's completely terrified of it and if he even sees it he starts to cry. OK bad idea. But the balls were a hit...big surprise... ball was one of his first words and he loves them loves them. We celebrated the feast day of Nativity with friends and had a wonderful time. There was joy this Christmas season.