Monday, October 15, 2012

Elena's new Likes

Elena likes cleaning:  give her a broom, vacuum (when turned off), duster... anything we use to clean with. At least she thinks she's cleaning :)


Loves pulling on the blinds' strings, so we keep them almost out of reach :)



The queen of funny faces for photos

Standing when we go anywhere. Forget having her just sit in our lap! Gone are those good ole days ...

"Brushing" her own hair if given the chance. She "brushes" her own teeth too but I don't have a picture of that



When we lived at Grandma Mary's we had an awesome wood floor with lots of space to run around. Elena loves that walker/floor combination.






Saturday, October 13, 2012

My Family Came to Visit

My mother, Sonya, had not seen Elena in real life yet, so with some help we finally brought her to the US to visit.  She stayed for 3 weeks and we had such a blast together! To top that, my sister Jane came from England. It was a sort of family reunion!







































Sunday, August 19, 2012

Kevin's grandma Lola passed away on Aug. 16. We lived with Lola for over two years and she was a very special person. We have so many memories of her and I'm so grateful we got to spend that time of our marriage with her because we got know Lola well. She will be missed! I am very grateful to know about the Gospel and to have hope that we'll see her again someday!

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Баба Лола, на Кевин едната баба поина на 16ти август. Много ми е тъжно, че милата баба почина. Живяхме с нея за 2 години и повече и много се сближихме. Тя беше специялна жена! Благодарна съм, че знам за евангелието на Исус Христос и че имаме надежда да я видим пак след този живот.

Lola's favorite creatures: she always said she loved them more than she loved her own kids :). Their names were Odie and Puggy

Raccoon Adventure

So we were looking out the back porch and saw these two baby raccoon walk past our back door. They were so fluffy! I'd never seen an immature raccoon so I went out to see where they were heading. Well they were going to try to climb up the fence and go to the field behind it but they chose their climbing spot poorly. There are 3 horses and a donkey to the right of our house and when the horses saw the raccoon climbing they darted to come sniff them. It was very amusing to see a horse harassing baby raccoon. The poor things were just stuck, they didn't know whether to go down or up because the horse was breathing at their faces. Then another horse decided to join and bug them and eventually the babies got enough courage to climb back down where they started and to move away from the horses and try again.   

Както си седяхме на двора с Кевин и Елена видяхме две малки миещи мечки как минават пред нас в тревата. Толкова бяха пухкави, че исках да ги гушна! ( не посмях обаче, че ме беше страх да не ме охапят) Все пак ги проследихме да видим на къде са тръгнали. Стигнаха до оградата и тръгнаха да се качват по нея да стигнат до полето от другата страна. Двете бебчета си избраха много интересно място да се покатерят: има мини ранчо малко по-надолу от нас с 3 коня и 1 магаре. Единя кон като видя мечето веднага дойде и започна да ги подушва, а миличките мечета просто се стъписаха и не знаеха на къде да отидат. После втори кон дойде и накрая едното мече се осмели и избяга, а второто бързо го последва.

Why does a horse want to sniff a raccoon??
Не можах да разбера защо му беше на коня да души мечетата??





The raccoon get a break but not for long
Междинна почивка за миещите мечета

Horse #2 shows up to bug them
Кон №2 се появи да подуши и той

One of the babies braved it and climbed down
Едното мече се осмели и започна да слиза обратно надолу по оградата