Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas to you all!!!

I know it's Christmas Eve today but still... :) I hope that you all are enjoying your time with family today and tomorrow!!! What a wonderful time to celebrate the birth of our Savior!!!!!

We'll be opening out gifts tomorrow morning and the girls can not wait to open them up. We got them all wrapped last night and got them under the tree.

Our families and friends have been asking for new photos of the girls so I thought I'd post some pictures that I took of them from last Sunday as we were getting ready to go to Church.

Katherine, Leda and Sara... :)









Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!!

Nadya :)

Anniversary!!!!

My husband and I had our 8th anniversary this week. WOW! It's been 8 wonderful years!!! I love my husband dearly and I'm so thankful to the Lord for blessing me with such a wonderful husband!!!

We are hoping to get out of the house for a little this Saturday and do something together. Breakfast and some time at the beach maybe. I just got a babysitter so this might work out after all!!! :) Woohoo!!!

One of our awesome friends send us a bouquet of flower for our anniversary. The flowers are so beautiful and smell so nice!!! I put them next to my cropping table so I could smell them while working on things.

I thought I would share some pics of the flowers with you all!!! :)







So Happy Anniversary to those that are celebrating such event!!! May the Lord bless your lives together for many more years!!!!

Nadya

It's time for a post or two!!! :) Air show.

WOW! I can't believe I actually have some time to post a post here. It's been a very busy month of September. I haven't had time to come here and post anything in some time now, haven't even had the time to read up all of the blogs that I'm following. It's getting better but only to pick right back up in too the busy month of Oct.-Dec. In December we are having another Silent Auction/Bake Sale at our School as Fundraiser for our Church Building Fund. So I've got A LOT of projects to do. I'm really looking forward to that. Can't wait to show you all the things that I have in my head to do... LOL :) If only it was easy to get them out of my head.

So anyways, this post is about this past weekend. We had such a good weekend spending as a family. I got to scrapbook in the morning, kids played nicely so that was really good. :) At about 3pm we heard some airplanes flying over our house very low and very loud. We came out to see what was going on and found out that it was an Air Show that weekend at Hickam AFB. We watched those planes from our house do all sorts of things. It was really awesome. They were flying so low that baby Sara was trying to hide her head she kept saying "My head" LOL :) it was cute. The girls LOVED it. We took some pictures and videos from our back yard.

On Sunday after morning Church Serves we decided to go to the base and see the planes more up close. We have never been to an Air Show before so this was really neat to see and experience. I was so impressed of how the base people had everything organized for the civilians to come on base to watch the show. They had roads blocked off and enough military men and women to guide us to where we needed to be at. It was really neat.

Here are some pictures that we took and a video or two. I have a small digital camera so our pics didn't come all that great but still they look cool I think. :) If you click on the photo you'll be able to see it bigger.











And here are couple of videos. The camera had a hard time focusing so sorry about that.



Please ignore the commentary.... LOL :) These are just the two of my favorite videos.



Thanks,
Nadya :)

Beautiful wedding!!!! and "Just Married" sign!!!!

This was one of my last projects for the wedding that I was helping out with. I had a lot of fun doing it.

The wedding was June 27, 2009 and it was such a beautiful, personal and intimate wedding. No one had a dry eye in the room. It was just beautiful. You could just see God's presence in the wedding and the love that the groom and bride have for each other. I cried and laughed through the wedding ceremony and through the reception.

This is me and my husband at the reception with the bride and groom.



Bride and Groom right after the ceremony when people got to walk up to them and congratulate.



I just love these photos of them walking outside after the wedding ceremony.





And here is the sign that I did for their car. We (the Bride helped) used a foam board to attach all of these fun things too and then the groom attached it to the car.



Used: Plantin SchoolBook, Lyrical Letters, Eccent Essentials cartridges.
Chocolate chalk.
Stickles.
Flowers.
Jewels for the middle of the flowers.

Close up of the corners.





And here it is on the car.



Thanks for looking!!! :)

Happy 4th of July!!!!!

Hope you all are having a wonderful day!

We are getting ready to go to our Church 4th of July picnic. Softball and Volleyball are on the game plan... and LOTS of good food... :)

Later we are planing on going to the beach with my sister and her husband and watch the fire works show. Hopefully there will be parking... :)

Happy 4th!!!!!!!

Mangoes, mangoes, mangoes....

The girls and I got to pick our first mangoes this season off of our mango tree today. I was so excited!!!!
We are having a lot less mangoes this year but still there's plenty to share with friends on the island. Wish we could mail them but we can't, because my parents would LOVE to have some.

Fresh mango off of a tree are so much better then from the store. I didn't used to like mangoes until I tried right off of a tree.... and YUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!! It was so good!!!

Here are some pictures of the mangoes that we picked today. I think we got around 9.



These are really nice size. We do get some that are much bigger then this. Those are really cool. :)


Yummmm!!!! They are in the fridge right now waiting for tomorrows morning. :)

My sister is flying in tonight....

I can not wait to go to the airport and pick up my oldest sister and her husband tonight. :)

I cleaned the house yesterday. Washed everything that there was to clean. But I'm paying for it today. My body hurts.... My arms hurt from scrubbing... but my house is CLEAN! :) Woohoo!!!

Hoping to do some cards with my sister while she's here..... and go to the beach!!! :)

The New Look!!!!

Hey everyone! :)

A very good friend of mine who is very creative and knows what she's doing in the computer area did the upgrades for my blog... :) I'm so not a computer person and I'm so excited to have a friend like Lita who can do things like this in a meter of a click of a button and from the side of the world, Australia that is. You can visit Lita's blog here . She has amazing traditional and digital layouts, beautiful peaces of jewelery and is just the sweetest thing ever!!!! Love ya Lita!!! :) Thank you so much for helping me out with my blog!!!! Your the BEST!

So, what do you all think about my new look? :)

Baby Sara turns 2 years old today!!!!

I can't believe my baby is a two year old now. Where did the time go? She was just born and now she's walking around I mean running around telling people what they can and can not do. :) Yup, my little baby is a two year old. WOW!

Katherine, Leda and I started off our morning by singing a Happy Birthday song to Sara she was so excited. Then we had cereal for breakfast.....

I did a little video for our family and friends of Sara saying how old she is now....



One of our friends has a pool in their neighborhood so went to the pool to celebrate Sara's Birthday. We had 11 kids and 4 moms helping us celebrate her Birthday. It is always so fun to get together with girlfriends and the kids had a blast at the pool. Sara was scared of the water at first but by the time we had to go home you couldn't get her out of it. We had egg sandwiches, strawberries, grapes, pasta salad, some veggies and dip, chips and I'm sure I'm forgetting something for lunch. Our awesome friend Kristen made cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles, yummmmmmm.... Then Sara opened her gifts took her for ever to do that she sure loved the attention she was getting. LOL :)

Here are some pictures from our day at the pool.

Birthday Girl.


lunch time...


Yummmy cupcakes....




Three sisters.... If you are able in anyway to get all of your kids to look at the camera all at the same time in order to take a nice picture PLEASE share your secret. Because it took 3 of us moms to get this picture taken.... LOL :) Some one was always looking some where else. Sara is still not looking at me but at list she has her eyes opened... LOL :)


Then there was the opening of the gifts. She got... a Mermaid Barbie that she is so thrilled about.... She's playing with it right now... :)


Sesame Street Abby Cadabby Building Set. She loves this as well.... So easy to put the peaces together for her.


And look at this beautiful dress. And it's in BROWN and PINK colors!!!! :) So cute... and our friend made a matching hair clip to go with the dress. Isn't that too cute! :)


A Bath basket. Now she has her very own bath towel and a hand towel. A new tooth brash, a bath sponge and some other fun things. :)


The kids climbed a tree while they were waiting to go swimming again after eating lunch. This is Katherine picking out from the top of the tree. She was standing on the branch and her head was above the tree. That was cool.


Aloha!!!!


Just to show you that the tree wasn't that tall.


Swimming pool fun. Our friends.


Leda...


Katherine with her friends... she's the girl in the middle.


and Sara..


Happy Birthday Baby Sara!!! :)
Love mommy!!!

The girls and sand crabs.... What a hoot..... :)

This past Thursday evening we spend with our friends at their vacation cabin at the beach. Katherine was at the camp so we just had Leda and Sara with us. They got to go hunt for some sand crabs and had so much fun.

It was way too funny to see them jump in the sand because of a crab. The face expressions they had when the crabs were trying to escape from their cups.... Priceless!!!!

Our friends son and his friend had gotten a bucket and got some crabs in there. I did a video of Chris and the girls looking at the crabs. The girls are trying to protect Chris from sticking his fingers in the bucket because the crabs would eat his fingers.... LOL :)



No crabs were harmed during the making of this video...

Leda was OK in case any of you are wondering. :) Sara was just waiving around that fly swapper thing, she was killing bugs earlier. Yeah, the things our kids get to do at the beach..... :)

Nadya :)

The summer is here and it's time for Camp.....

Our oldest is old enough to go to camp now. WOW! The time has gone so fast.... I told her to stop growing but she just will not listen. :)

Katherine got to go to our Junior Camp from our Church last Wednesday through Friday. She was so excited. We packed her things Tuesday and she asked if she could sleep on the living room couch next to her bags... LOL :) it was like sleeping on the couch on Christmas Eve for her just couldn't wait to go to camp. I had to drop her off at the Church by 10am and on our way there she told us not to miss her too much and not to cry when she's gone. Too cute!!!!

Too bad I didn't get to go to camp with her so I could have some pictures to share with you all. I'll have to ask some of our friends for some pics. But I did take couple of pictures of her when we dropped her off and picked her back up on Friday.

Look at the pics what a difference in the pictures of the before and after camp...

Taking her bags out of our car.



group pic of her and her friends and one of our workers, a very good friend of ours.



Time to get bags in too the van... She is so EXCITED!!!!



And this is after Camp. Can you tell how tired she is? But she had so much FUN!



She did get sick though. Not sure what it was as she's still sick. I stayed home with her from our evening Church Serves today she's got a fever going and stuff.

Anyways, my baby is growing up and going to camps and such!!!!!! WOW!

Nadya

What a weekend...

This past Saturday was the first time ever that every member of our family was at a different place at the same time. We had so much going on that day it was crazy.

My husband hand an activity with his Sunday School boys and some men from our Church. They played football and had pizza, that I was in charge of getting to them... :)

Our oldest daughter had a play date with bunch of her friends. This was kind of a going away play date for one of the girls. Her dad is in the military and their family is moving away. :(

Our second oldest had a Birthday party to go too.

Oldest daughter was from 9:30am till 5pm
Husbands activity from 10am till 1pm
Birthday Party 11am till 4pm.....

I was in charge of getting everyone to their activities and getting pizzas for lunch for my husband and his people.

Then at 2pm I had a Bridal Shower that I needed to be at. With our youngest not getting any sleep at all the whole day I sent her off to a friends house for a nap while I went to the Bridal shower. She brought our youngest to her home put her down for a nap while her husband and their kids were home and joined me at the bridal shower. I have AWESOME friends. :)

During that time my husband was also getting ready to go to work off island. He needed to be at the air port by 4pm I think. So this is where all 5 of us where at different places.

Oldest daughter was at the play date.
Second oldest at the Birthday party.
Youngest at a friends house napping.
Husband getting ready for airport
and I was at the bridal shower...

WOW! I'm tired all over again just from typing all of it out.

Oh, and husband got hurt too. His big tow on the left foot got hurt (lesson learned DO NOT PLAY FOOTBALL WITH OUT YOUR SHOES ON) and it's kind of swollen now and blue. I told him to go see a Dr. about it so we'll see what happens. I'm just praying that it's not broken because that would not be good at all.

Oh and here are some pictures... Just some from husband's and Leda's activities.

They boys eating pizza ... That's husband giving out pizza and youngest daughter asking for some hugs from him.






Youngest daughter playing in one of those blow up things at a Birthday party. They had the castle from the Diamond Castle from the Barbie movie. It was HUGE and awesome. All of the kids LOVED it. It was hut though, on the sun and the rubber... It took some time for Sara to get used to the jumping thing, she kept falling and falling and telling people to stop... LOL :) Sadly I didn't get any good pictures of Leda on this thing.





It was one HUT day. Oh, and I got sun burned... the joy of my life... LOL :) But we all had fun and the Lord blessed our day by having everything go well.

The kids were so tired that they had a really hard time getting up on Sunday morning for Church.

Nadya