God save the Queen

Little S is becoming quite adventurous!

Opening a birthday card from Chrissy masi, Prayer masa and Sophia! She especially loved the artwork from her cousin, Sophia.

From Mike's facebook: "Latest additions to our telecommunications equipment. Used iphone 3 GS fully jailbroken and working? check! Reconditioned Soviet-era teal rotary dial phone hooked up and working? check! Those who know me will be able to guess which one I'm more excited about ;-)".

We had bought the used iphone months ago in the US, but never used it. Mike finally got it up and running and uses it as his daily phone. What's cool, is that it does not cost any more (for a monthly plan) than our regular cell phones: $5 every 30 days or so- can't beat that! And there are a few cafes in town that have free WiFi- so that's a bonus!

We have a land line for our apartment but never had a phone for it. Every month we would receive a bill for it in our mailbox (about $3) and have to pay for it at the post office. There is no option to NOT have the land line- so we decided to make use of it since we have to pay for it anyway. Mike found this awesome phone at the bazaar for 60r ($8)- it works beautifully.

Sojourn to the Lake

In between a break from English summer camps and classes, patients going on vacation or into the hospital and our language tutor not being available last week- we accepted an invite from our good friends (Volodya & Oksana and their 2 boys Volodya & Daniel) to have a rest at a nearby lake for 3 days.
It was so nice to just relax and not have to be anywhere at a certain time.
We had a lovely section of beach all to ourselves, an awesome outhouse and our friends did the majority of the cooking over a fire.

Definitely came back rested and ready for action!

Solomiya enjoying some waves (do not fear mom and dad- this is as far as she was allowed to go).

enjoying some rays and holding a rock.

Attempt at a family pic and showing off our awesome tan lines.

View from our private, exclusive beach. It was great to have a place to park our yacht.

Daniel and Solomiya! (2nd son of Volodya and Oksana). It was his 10th birthday!

morning sunshine.

every good and perfect gift is from above



James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

"...with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning"- man, thank God for that. At least one thing in our lives can be stable...

Current Events in Pictures

Solomiya has learned how to crawl into our closet (or wardrobe-thingy).

She is enjoying her new-found freedom of being able to travel from room-to-room independently.

Learned how to make a Transcarpathian dish: Lechos. So good and tasty (onions, tomatoes, banana peppers, chili peppers served over buttered bread and cheese); and a great accompaniment to any meal: Kvas!

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Getting ready to have a Skype call with Changepoint Church in NY.

Soap gotee. She did it herself.

Solomiya working on some standing tricks and other fancy-pants moves.

Sporting 'crazy hair'; an 'after-bath' special.

Solomiya got a letter in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa!

*birthday card*

Kid's English Camp

Mike is coo-coo for cocoa puffs