Lake Tahoe December 2013

I am behind in posting  and I will just share pictures of our Lake Tahoe trip  right before Christmas. We had a great time, kids loved it, and we spend 7 days there. It was me and my  7 children, and my sister Inna with her two babies. Sergey had to go to work, but he joined us for last 2 days. We rented the same house, and are so so appreciated and grateful to our "friends", and for their big heart. We are thankful that they did let us to rent their house again! It was awesome!

Movie time

 My niece Vicki

First evening my parents drove with us, and took Sergey back home. 

 My parents, my sister and little Sammy, me and Sergey

our twins on a rocking chair

 Breakfast time, they all fit :)

Play Doh fun

 two cute princesses

 baby Sammy

 We took kids out of school for whole week, and did some school work everyday

 playing wii

 It was kind of stormy for few day, but for one day it was just beautiful outside. We all had fun in the snow. 

 My beautiful sister and her little cutie

 A lot of joy :)

 All kids loved baby Sammy, and really enjoyed to spend time with him. They all were very gentle 

 We played many board games, and Twister too

 A little girl and shoes :) Best place to play

 This was our last day. Sergey came and we went a few houses down to have fun in the snow. Almost all snow were gone, but we found few spots where kids could enjoy sliding on the ice.

 DD and Denny

 Denny and EE

 Denny and DD, a lot of laughter 

 Sergey had his exercise for a day by pushing all the kids. He gave up and said, that it was his turn :) Kids couldn't even move him :)

It was great time as a family. Everyone did awesome. Kids behaved, and were very helpful. Will do this again some time later! 

Happy 9th Birthday EE and 6th Birthday Denny

Our sweet son turn 9 year old in January. This was his first birthday with us, his family.
This child came from very rough, and neglect place but making progress constantly. There is still a lot of work needs to be done, more patience from our side,  and a lot more time needs to pass before he will feel safe and be completely healed. He is my little boys, with biggest heart. He loves to help, be around mom, and just be goofy.

EE is very sweet, outgoing, smiley, cuddly and just beautiful child in and out. He taught us a lot in the past year.

Also our youngest son had a birthday. He turned 6. Denny is our sweet, kind boys with charming smile. He is my first born, and I really thought that after having him, I will never have kids again. He was most difficult child of mine, but today, 6 years later his is a joy, well, most of the time :)

Happy birthday my sweetest sons. Love you to pieces!