Christmas and New Year

Aiden, our oldest boy, and Lia from our church are Santa's gnomes ( not elves) at the New Year (not Christmas) play. Santa or Grandpa Frost, as they call him here, comes on New Year in the former Soviet Union.

Our trip to a castle in Ukraine not far from us.

 Aiden flexing his silly muscle

 Teresa being her beautiful self. (steven writing, just to clarify)

 Steven trying to pull off a cool-guy pose.

Elias putting in the last tweaks to get 14% more breathing efficiency out of our snorkel. 

Scott Fales, who stayed with us for a week, actually pulling off the cool-guy pose.

Genesis...take 2

Can a parent objectively say his kids are beautiful?

Genesis

"Thus saith The Preacher, in all the things that I have put my hand to, I have found that they (and this) are all vanity and grasping for the wind."

But The Preacher's Wife says - "Communication is good".

And The Preacher concluded that the wisdom he once heard was true. "A happy wife, is a happy wife".