Recent happenings

It had been a while since I got the photos off my phone. Here are some of them: 

They're coming out in very random order. I probably uploaded too many like this one anyway, but I just can't get enough of the beautiful sky, the hills, and the kids up on top in the evenings when we go for longer walks.

Saturday evening we had new friends and old over for dinner. Masha is new to our church, and she was the camp doctor this summer. Asya loved getting to spend time with her. Masha and Prawin just got married. And Dasha is Raia's best friend. Asya wanted to make taco salad for everyone, and I think everyone liked that idea.

Jaan has been planning to fix up a bike for Bogdan for a long time. All the other kids have bikes, but Bogdan has been without. While Jaan was gone, our neighbour used the parts that Jaan had been gathering and pretty much made one working bike out of three broken ones. Bogdan is loving it! 

When our Russian-American friends moved away, they left us lots of new-to-us toys, books, and art supplies. Playtime has been like after Christmas around here almost every day.

Next are more photos from evening walks....

Our kids have been enjoying various slumber parties with their friends. Here's Asya "reading" after she came home from one of those fun nights:

Art school has had speical "art parties" off and on all summer, but our kids hadn't gone to any of them, until the last two. Asya and her friend attended and had a wonderful time!

And here are all the kids (except the littlest one) from our house on their bikes:

That's all for now.