More Pics

I have hundreds of pictures from our trip, but I am only posting the highlights.  It is really hard to pick out what pictures to post when I have such cute kids!!

My sister, Aera, Zhenya and Leeza at the playground on the resort grounds.

My Ukrainian girls

Zhenya getting ready to ride the Buzz Lightyear ride at the Magic Kingdom. 

Zhenya and Leeza were taken prisoner with Zyorg at the end of the Buzz Lightyear ride.

Zhenya on the carousel

Mom and Leeza on the carousel

Waiting to ride on the Dumbo ride.  90 minute wait!

Zhenya ADORES his Tetya (Aunt) Aera.  They were attached at the hip.  There weren't many pictures without them together.

My beach babies playing the sand! They tan so easily! They will be little brown cookies by the end of the summer!

Zhenya loves big buildings.  I think he may be an architect when he grows up.

Hugs from Woody!

Even though Buzz was gone by the time we got there, the kids were excited to see Woody!

Zhenya reading the 10 commandments at the Holy Land Experience.

Leeza and her elephants!

Holy Land Experience

Yesterday at the aquarium

My aliens!

She loved sitting in the wet sand.  Boy, did we have a sandy bottom afterward!

The water was cold!

My baby boy!! I told him I was going to show everyone this picture!

Strapped onto a rocket in the Toy Story room.

Aera is just a big kid at heart!

My kids seriously eat anything I give them!  This is a soft shell fried crab!

Mini golf with papa!

Feeding the gators!

Wow...I am exhausted! Probably need to go back to work to recuperate!  My kids can't say they did nothing over the break!  Things are so much more fun now!!

Spring Break

Spring Break is almost over and I am just now getting a chance to blog about our time off.  A couple of years agp, Jeff and I purchased a mini timeshare of sorts..just a one week trip to one of the timeshare's locations.  We were suppose to use it by the end of 2010, but for obvious reasons we didn't get to use it.  I asked them if we could save it a bit longer so we could take our new children to Disney World.  They allowed us to do that, so we had a week in Orlando that we had already paid for before we got the kids. 
Anyway, the kiddos had a blast.  We went to the Magic Kingdom and to Hollywood Studios.  I wish we had went to the Animal Kingdom instead of Hollywood Studios though.  We also went to TBN's Holy Land Experience, Cocoa Beach and hung out at the resort for a couple of days.  It took us a couple of days to recuperate once we got home.  The resort was beautiful and if we weren't moving to Colorado to pursue the ministry we feel God has called us into, we might consider buy into a real timeshare with this company.  It was by far the best place we have ever stayed.  I miss the king size bed!!! 
As I may have mentioned Zhenya LOVES Buzz Lightyear.  We waited in line at Hollywood Studios for almost 30 minutes for a picture with Buzz and 5 minutes before we got up to the front of the line..Buzz left!!  I was so annoyed.  You would think they would have more than one Buzz Lightyear!  The kids did get to have their picture taken with Woody, and they were pretty excited about it.  We did not stand in line for photos with any other character.  Those lines were LONG and in the blazing sun! 
Here are a few of the pictures we took.

I will post more later..my computer is being difficult right now!!

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Report cards

The kiddos got their report cards today, and I am pretty proud of their progress.  Zhenya had good grades in all subjects in his 4th grade and Leeza is getting an award on Friday for Most Improved for learning her ABC's!!!  Boy, we have been working like crazy on those ABC's.  Leeza also knew 14 out of the 26 letter sounds!!!  Her report card showed alot of improvement from the previous report card!  She loves loves the computer and learning things on it.  Now she is asking papa for an IPad......my gadget girl!  We have access to IPads at our schools and the kids are crazy about them.  I am trying to figure out a way to justify the purchase...an IPad for mama and I will share it with the kiddos?  It can be used as an educational tool afterall!   Anyway, I am so proud of how great both Zhenya and Leeza are doing in school.  Zhenya did his first science project today!  He said he did good and got a treat from him teacher!!  Parent-teacher conferences are tomorrow.  Jeff gets to go because I have my own conferences at my school/job.  I am pretty sure it should mostly be good reports.  They are both enjoying school and learning.  
Here are a couple photos of Zhenya and his science project on erosion.