Jingle, Jingle!

This will be more of a picture show then a blogging.  This is how our christmas holiday has been so far.

                        Rogers family christmas party.  Anne and John 

         Kent and Brian Mindy, DeDe, Caroline, Jenna and Jamie
Cat, Sarah, Patrick, John, Lauren, Oliver, Jenna, Mary, Victor
Patrick's Missionary farewell.  Michigan bound!     

Judd, Fran, Charlie, Ali and Julie

       Madeline and Mindy 
Maddie, Lauren, and Cat
Ali bird, and Laurencita
Aaron's Missionary homecoming,  Mia, Aaron and David.
Arri hugging her nephew
Cat hugging her Cousin.
Aaron just off the plane
Artem, Sasha, Cat and Lauren, waiting, waiting, waiting
Still waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting!
And yet still, waiting, waiting........................
The kids up at the cabin
Rogers Christmas party.  
Maddie, Anne, Sarah.
Cat, Arri, Sarah.  (Sarah just jumps into all the pictures!)
John and Lauren.  (Where's Sarah?)
A Young Men's, Young Women's, Christmas Activity 
They had a blast!
Family Christmas picture!  No, I didn't get our cards out this year.  I tried!  At least we took a picture!
My side of the family, Christmas eve party!  It was very merry!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  Ours was great!  We got two very big gifts this year, and they are the best christmas presents we ever received!  They had a great time too!  Artem said "Santa is a good man!"  

                                   HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Their Day!

Our boys were baptized on Saturday the 15th of November.  It has taken me this long to get my act together and put the pictures on the blog.  It was amazing that they wanted to be baptized so fast.  We had an excellent translator that just hit it off with the boys on the first discussion. The boy's had a lot of questions, but after a couple of weeks, they really wanted to be baptized, and were excited about it.  It was a great evening.  We had a lot of people show up, and the boys thought that was really cool.  Thanks again to all that came.  It really meant a lot to us.

Catching up, or trying to!

Here are some pictures taken through the time I last blogged.    

twilight

More pictures

                        

I was successful in putting the Hosting Video on YouTube.  You can find it by putting the words "Hosting Save a Child" in the search area.  

                    The boys are playing around at the concert.

                  Cat and her Friends were glow sticks for Halloween.  

Save A Child Foundation

For the last couple of weeks, the Save a Child Foundation, (with which we found our boys through)had their hosting program.  They brought over about 5o kids from Ukraine this year.  At the end of the program, they had a benefit concert.  Sasha took part in the singing and playing the flute, and I was in charge of a video, made up of families experiences with the hosting program.  I will try and put it on YouTube.  The file was too big for this blog site.  The concert featured America's Jr. Miss Lindsay Britton.  And the Osmonds 2nd Generation.  It was a great show.

                      Howard Stern marries Molly Mormon

Halloween starts early on our street.  The YM/YW had a fashion show night.  The boys drew girls names and dressed each other up.  They has a great time.





                 Grandma and Grandpa at Maddie's Birthday.
This is what Artem likes for breakfast.  Honeycomb cereal, blueberries with chocolate syrup! Yummy!  Actually it doesn't look that bad.