Jessica Svetlana

Jess and I did a mini photoshoot. I am no photographer (as can be seen in the first picture--I couldn't edit out the flash), but here's what we came up with...

~Our Lions~

I think they pulled off the "mean" look very well!

Thank you Aunt Barb and Uncle Roger for taking us to get our faces painted... :-)

Can you believe?

Check this drink out! it was featured on Yahoo today.

The Unhealthiest Drink in America Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32 oz)
2,310 calories
266 g sugar
108 g fat (64 g saturated)
Let's look at America's Worst Drink in numbers:
73: The number of ingredients that go into this milkshake.
66: The number of teaspoons of sugar this drink contains.
11: The number of Heath Bars you would have to eat to equal the number of calories found in one Baskin Robbins Large Heath Bar Shake.
8-12: The average number of minutes it takes to consume this drink.
240: The number of minutes you’d need to spend on a treadmill burning it off, running at a moderate pace.
WOW!

This week:

~the weather has been amazing....
~we began the countdown for school to end and Ms. Charlene to come (3 weeks left!)
~Sam and I played violin and drums at church in praise team
~Josh's art school was canceled for some reason...
~Josh and Sam had baseball
~in science we studied crocodiles
~Papa went on a business trip
~Mom had an MRI done on her back and found out she has Herniated disks
~my eye swelled up (we went to the dr., I am fine)
~we found mysterious brown spots on our door
~i made brownies
~we all went to the gym (not unusual)
~the dog took a swim in a pond and came home filthy
~i worked on my English project
~had my last vocabulary online class
~that's our week in a nutshell...

~Our little Da Vinci~

As the school year comes to an end, Jess' art school assigned to them a sketching project: to sketch and paint a member of your family with an object in their hand. Jess conveniently picked me (very convenient, huh?). So here is how it turned out. She is painting it in now, so I didn't get a finished picture....

She did FABULOUS! I just love my jaw! :-)

Lasagna and a party!

This past weekend, the family (except for me and Sam) went out to Khimki to visit our old neighbors. Meanwhile, Sam and I invited Marti and Andrei to come over...we made lasagna, watched 27 Dresses and then went to bed! Fun!

the sauce:

lasagna before going into the oven:
Sash and Marti
Sam and Andrei

~Egor~

Tete Lena sent us pictures of "OUR" Egor. I have officially named him the cutest boy in the world (in my opinion, of course :-) Enjoy!

Look at that smile! Isn't it the cutest?


Oh, and we still haven't heard what all you blog readers think about me and Tete Lena. Do you think we look alike? *post a comment*

Happy Mothers Day~

Happy Mothers Day, Mom and Grandma! We love you!

Today in church I prayed for the mothers. Here is my prayer: Lord, thank you for Mothers. Thank you for putting them into our lives to raise us and to lead us towards you. Thank you for giving me a great Mom and friend. Bless all the moms today and fill them with your presence. Amen.

Old Pictures~

I was looking at some of our old pictures (2002-2004) and thought I would post some. I tried to get them in order, but I don't think it worked very well. Some of them were scanned, explaining blur and "tilts". :-) Enjoy! ~sash

Commenting 101~

A number of you blog readers have emailed me and asked how to comment. Here's how:

At the bottom RIGHT of each and every post, you will see a link saying _ comments. The _ will be a number (usually 0 cause we don't get much comments). Click on that. Then type in your comments, choose your ID (Google account, name, anonymous) and click "publish". Wallah! You have officially commented. I congratulate you! :-)

Now, lets see how many comments we can pull out of you! :-)
~sash

More Pictures~

Here are some pictures that Tete Lena sent me:


Sam and Gleb are on a tower thing by the water....
Then Dennis, Rita, Josh, Jess and Danielle are watching the guys climb up. Next, Egor and Sasha; Sasha and Dedushka...

Vadim, Egor and Sasha

I think thats about all the pictures we have from the trip. Hope you enjoyed them all! I will post more later this week...~sash

Thank you!

We want to send a BIG BIG THANK YOU to our family back in Ukraine. We had a LOVELY time with you, and can't wait to see you again. Thank you Tete Lena, Dyadya Gleb and Egor for hosting all of us and feeding us--it must have been crazy to have 11 people living with you for 3 days! Thank you Dyadya Vadim, Tete Rita and Dennis for the Shashlick and for all of the candy! It was great seeing you! Thank you Babushka and Dedushka for coming down to spend time with us and for all the help and effort you put in to making our trip a great one!!!

We can't wait to see you again soon--hopefully not as long as last time!!

Love you!
Alex, Danielle, Sasha, Sam, Jess and Josh

PS: Tete Lena, please email me the pictures on your camera so I can put them up on the blog! Thanks!!

BUMP: Who knew...

It happened again. Except not in a train, but on the kitchen floor. They fought with each other over the DS and then came to me for help. I finally ended their misery and took it away... :-)




Who knew that a Strawberry Shortcake for Nintendo DS was interesting, complicating and overpowering? Well, Jess and Papa figured that out. They fought over and played the game on the ride back for over an hour. Whenever Jess couldn't "run away from the giant cheese slices" (which was quite often), she'd ask Pa to play for her. Then Pa would take over, and so on and so forth. Pa played by himself for about a half our....I guess the rated E for Everyone, really means, for Everyone!