Our newest Harrington!

Dear loved ones, we welcomed our newest little Harrington on this past Saturday Morning. Ephraim Matthew Harrington was born on 5/9/09 @ 8:19 am. He weighed 7lbs and 1 oz and was 20 1/4inches long. He looks a lot like Kyra with all of his dark hair but there are facial expressions that remind me so much of Arsenios when he was first born. We're thrilled to have him finally here. Arseny and Kyra both think he's something wonderful as do we....we're feeling so blessed to have such a full and happy household!

1, 2, 3 look at me!

Here is Arsenios every April since his first birthday!

Happy Birthday Arsenios!

This year was Arseny's 3rd birthday! He calls it his "Happy Day" We had a party planned and as can be expected with toddlers we were all suffering from various illnesses on that day. So party was postponed for a week later but all in all we had a great time. Arseny got his beloved starwars Light Saber. It's all he wanted and all he talked about for weeks and weeks. At his party we had Arseny's best buds...Asher, Aidan and Sava come over for some cake and celebration. He got some great gifts that he absolutely loves and had a fun time with the kids! Here are a few pictures and maybe even a little "Happy Day" Song!

Look how we've grown

Since Arseny's first birthday I have taken his picture in our back yard every year amongst the multitude of grape hyacinth that grows wildly back there at this time of year. Here is one from last year and then one from this year. Amazing how fast they have grown.

Springtime are you here?

Spring took a long time to get here but once Lent was over and Pascha was on it's way we started to see the green of Springtime break through! Here are a couple from Pascha Day, second two are from Palm Sunday (hence the waving of the palm in the picture from Arseny) The last is the kids on Grandpa's tractor out at Grandma and Grandpa's. Grandpa pulled the tractor up into the back yard so Big boy and sister sue could climb up on it!

Some fun with Dad!

My kiddos love papa time, here are a recent few. The first is a funny one...Arseny and Kyra think its really funny to get Daddy's glasses and book and pretend to read like he does, I just happened to snap this one recently as Arseny was laying in bed "busy reading" Dad's do fun things like shoot bow and arrows, build forts, wash cars and of course watch you tube clips of the "Wiggles"

Getting through Winter

For all of you faithful followers of my picture blog...I have sadly let you down by my lack of posts. However, I am trying to get back to it because i do realize how much fun it is just to have the blog and keep it up even if I have fallen in love with facebook a little the Blog is much better just to see what's going on at the Harrington's! Ok so here we are and it's May! So time for a little catch up. Getting through winter was really hard this year. We had one heck of a winter with all the snow and cold weather and it seemed like it lasted forever...maybe that's just because I had two toddlers to entertain or it could have jsut been because it was well... long. Ok so here are some pics from that season We've got lots of bundled up kids, a picture from Christmas and one of Arseny making star shaped cookies for St Nicholas Day.

St. Nicholas Day

We celebrate St Nicholas day during the Nativity season each year. Our stockings get opened on this day and we tend to make special treats for others. This year we made special star cookies--sugar cookies with sprinkles. You'll see Arseny getting a cookie for breakfast as a real treat on the Morning of St. Nicholas day. We colored and decorated a calendar of St Nicholas (which I didn't get a picture of) On the eve of St. Nicholas day we go to Church and the kids leave their shoes downstairs during the service. The story of Saint Nicholas is read after the service to the children and all the while downstairs the kids shoes are being filled with treats (oranges and gold coins -chocolate). It is a lot of fun and I of course failed to bring my camera to take a picture of the filled little shoes. I did however get some pictures of the morning of St Nicholas Feast day. The kids are sporting their little reindeer antlers and so is daddy on one of them.

Let is Stop, Let it Stop, Let it Stop!

I must admit. I'm not very thrilled about all the snow that we've been getting. It's been so hard to get around with two toddlers while big and pregnant. We have however explored the snow and the kids got their chance to play. Arseny likes it but could take it or leave it...I think he likes looking at it more but Kyra on the other hand would stay out in it all day if I'd let her. So the snow stuck around through the holidays and then melted away over the course of a couple of days. Yesterday (New Years Day) we got the chance to clean up the yard(our huge pine tree dropped a bunch of heavy branches in our front lawn). Then Matt woke up this morning opened the front curtains only to find that it was....SNOWING AGAIN. So now we have a couple of inches and it hasn't stopped yet. We'll see how long this batch stays...hopefully not long.

Happy Anniversary to us!

Matthew and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this December 18th! However, our plans were majorly spoiled by the BAD weather and we ended up staying home...we couldn't even get the car out of the driveway the snow was sooooo bad. Fortunately a couple of days later we had a break in the snow and were able to get around and actually went and saw a movie together and then went out for coffee and desert after! It was fabulous to go somewhere without our kids. You forget how nice it is. Here are some fun pics I found while making an album for Matthew for his anniversary gift. The first pic was our official engagement photo taken in 1997. The second there is a fun one of us while we were dating. The third is our official marriage ceremony 12/18/98. The last is a favorite of us graduating college together at EOU in 2004. So much happened in 10 short years and I can't wait to see what the many more in our future will bring.

ITS A BOY

Well first and foremost ITS A BOY! I must say we had our ultrasound this last month and discovered we are having another little boy! We're thrilled! I'd have pictures but I forgot the dvd that I was supposed to bring! Ok so here are some other pictures from December...Kyra was not happy that I stuffed her into her new snowsuit to take a picture. Fortunately it was just in time for our record breaking snowfall that happened mid december. Another event was that Arseny got a "big boy" bed and here are the kids LOVING it! Of course now we're having going to bed issues not to mention that naptime has gone out the window with this new found freedom. We're debating about bringing the crib back as a reminder...we'll see. Kyra sporting her lovely hat and Arseny is wearing his "Priest"vestments and practicing censing, with his beloved censor. More to come!

My apologies!

I'm sad to say I have not been keeping up with my Blog!!! My attentions have been snagged by my recent discovery of facebook. I've been having so much fun I've forgotten to post on the blog!!! I must say the Blog is much nicer to use to let people know what's going on as opposed to the facebook page where you only just get to say tidbits. Ok so here we go...