My Childhood home!

So the other day my brother in law, Mike, was showing us this system on the interned, were you can find any place on the planet and if some one has taken picture and uploaded it to the system, then you can see it.... Just out of curiosity, my mom and I were trying to find the street we use to live on in St. Petersburg, Russian, and all be darn, some one has actually been there and have taken a picture of OUR HOUSE.....can you believe it? I about fainted, when this image came up...THIS IS MY CHILDHOOD HOME....(if you look at the left corner, it is fourth flour, the window behind a tree.) That was were I grew up!!!
How grateful am I for technologies of today!!! And for who ever it was that was inspired to take a picture of this building....thank you stranger!!!
I was able to walk Troy through streets of my neighborhood and tell him a little storeys here and then, find my school where I walked to as a kid and stores were I shopped for bread and such....it was as though, we got to see a little slice of my childhood home town and I got to share it with Troy. It was really neat!

~I have been taged~ Now you have been taged also~Thanks Alli~

Two names I go by:
1. Hun
2. Mom
Two things you are wearing right now:
1. PJs
2. Garments
Two things you want very badly at the moment:
1. Have all of my to do list for this week be done
2. Go to the movie and just chill
Two people who will fill his out:
1. who knows
2. my freind
Two things you did last night:
1. Tought Young Womens class
2. Made russian food with my mom
Two things you ate yesterday:
1. Russian food
2. chocolate
The Last Two people you talked to:
1. Mom
2. My kids
Two things your are doing today (or did):
1. Going to sushi restorant (yes!!!!)
2.Cleaning my yard (yack!!)
Two longest car rides:
1. Rexburg Idaho to Disney land
2. Grace Idaho to Ohio
Two favorite beverages:
1. Diet coke
2. Herbal Concentrate, by Herbalife...it's is VERY good.

Mom's cooking

Grandma is in town!!!!! She always spoils us rotten. Today after church we were making "pelmenie".
Pelmeni are one of the most ancient of traditional Russian foods and have born many names through the centuries. Most historians agree that they originated in Siberia and were probably named by the Komi, a people indigenous to the Urals. In their native tongue, “pelnyan” means “dough-ear,” a reference to the food’s half-circular shape. When the word crossed into Russian, it changed a bit (as most words crossing language barriers do) to “pelmen,” whose proper plural in Russian is “pelmeni.” In English they are known most often only in the plural, perhaps because it is nearly impossible to eat just one of the juicy morsels. Chinese called it pot-stickers and east European pirogies are cousins to pelmeni. Italy also borrowed the concept and created ravioli, which, at least in appearance, are pelmeni’s closest relatives. And now you know a little history behind this russian food.
Troy, however, had his one creation going on...he insisted in putting as much cheese inside as it was possible. It was kind of funny.
They were delicious!!! Thank you mom!

Drew is 5 now!!!

My little boy has turn 5 years old! Boy, time goes by so fast.
He has been waiting for his birthday for so long. It seems that the whole world was having a birthday for the past 3 months or so. It was hard for Drew to understand why he couldn't have his birthday yet...On the morning of his birthday he came to wake me up and as I gave him his birthday kiss his eyes just lit up.."Oh, yeaaa!" he said. He was so excited that it was finally here.
We went to Chuk E Cheese's with some of his little friends and had a good time.
We love you Drew!

My 5 year old stud!
Drew is very lucky to have Rylee in his life. She was bugging us for almost 2 weeks about all the details of Drew's party and what she is going to get him for his birthday.
His little friends. Thanks to all of you for being there for Drew's special day.
The Chukee!!!

ME in Pictures

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name. (kid version: favorite animal?)

OK...just in case you wondering, here are my answers in words to the pictures I picked.

1. Anya

2. Apples

3. #84

4. Green

5. Troy (my husband that is)

6. Love water, miss diet coke

7. Small town in France

8. Strawberry short cake

9. Pure

10. My family

11. Hopeful

12. Her and I share the same love for daisies

And here how you can play:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.b. Using only the first page, pick an image.c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

Fourth of July

(Troy writing)

We had a great family day. We had a BBQ together and took quite a hike up the Bridal Veil falls yesterday afternoon. We took our Dog "Halo" and all the kids including Brooky. Its was much steeper than I ever remember it and some spots where you'd tumble and break every bone in your body if you actually lived through it... so it was a fun adventure and by the time we reached the top, the mists and sheets of falling water were a great reward for the climb. We forgot our camera, but asked a stranger to take a picture and email it to us!

We bought a box of fireworks and had quite a blast with the kids lighting them last night... then we watched a movie. Anya leaves for a Girls Camp tomorrow through Friday. So most of next (July7-11) week I'll be Mr. Mom tending the kids while she's gone. She's never been gone for this long from the kids before. She got some gifts so each day the kids can search for hidden treasures and open something that will remind them of her. Wish us luck!