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!

Merry Christmas and Happy 2014!

Wishing you Happy New Year!

This was first Christmas and New Year for our family, as family of 9. It was not perfect, and me being sick through all the holidays didn't help at all. 

Our family grew  by 2 more boys during last year. In past 18 month 4 boys joined our family and they all came with their own issues and trauma. Our holidays were not even close to peaceful, but we are so blessed! We all tried to concentrate on positive and just survive! Today is first day of new year, and it was a little better!  We looking forward to this year and waiting to see what God's plan for our family! Love my kids, and just so blessed to have them. Holidays are huge triggers for kids, but its getting better and better. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday DA!

We have two 11 year old in the house. Back in November, we celebrated DA/Danik's birthday.

Happy Birthday my sweet son! Blessings to you from above, and I just want you to always remember, mommy and daddy loves you, and no matter what , you are always accepted by your family!

DA is very smart, happy and just sweet boy! He is opening up more and more, loves to help, and most of the time we don't' know that he is in the house :) He is gentle, younger siblings loves him, and he loves to play with them too! He is the one who always asking questions about everything, sometimes it's hard to answer his questions. Loves Indians , and if he had opportunity would go and live somewhere in the wild  :)

Happy Birthday Danik, Happy Birthday Danik, Happy Birthday Danik, Happy Birthday to you!

 Ready to pray before breakfast! 

 Waiting for his present

 Cake time

 Silly boy, he was playing and showing off :)

Happy Birthday Danik, we are happy to have your home! Blessed to be your parents!

1st Trimester -done

I am a little late with this post, kids are already back to school, but well I wrote this few weeks ago, and just will post this here now.

We are officially done with 1st school Trimester. Between Thursday and Friday, I had 6 parents conferences, I am so happy it's over :)

Overall boys did great job during 1st Trimester, they worked hard on their school and home work. I am so proud of them. Each child made progress academically, some more than others.


DJ- lets just say that he was much better last year, and he was trying much harder. The main issue, that he is not trying, and really not doing anything. We are working on this. There is huge possibility that he will need to repeat 6th grade again. I just have no idea how to motivate this child?!

DA-Made huge, huge progress. His reading is still behind, but math improved a lot. Last year we all thought that his weak spot would be math, but this year he is one of the strongest student in class, and getting math done quickly. Slow with homework, but getting done most of the things on his own.

EE-made HUGE, HUGE progress academically. I don't' worry much about him being behind in his math or reading  but his behavior  does rise many questions from teachers, and us, and there is just many  many issues we are dealing with. He is learning his multiplications, and doing most classwork. He needs a lot of supervision, but he is getting there, and trying hard.

SN-was trying harder last year, but still in only 1 year being in US, and never been in school before until he came into our home, he is doing awesome. He already cached up with his class level in reading and math. He is super smart! Most of the time he does his homework on his own, but sometimes needs a little help.

DD-is making progress. When he came, he was in 1-2 year old developmentally, and couldn't even hold his pencil. Today he knows most of the letters, number up to 10, and just made a huge progress in everything. He is still very behind, socially very behind, but he is smart boy and trying hard. Before he couldn't even put a dot, or write anything with out me standing over his shoulder, and now he is more sure in himself, and can do a line or two with out me being there! He is my smiley-funny boy! My little monkey :)

Denny-my A's and B's student. I am so proud of him. His teacher thinks that he is the sweetest boy ever :) I think that too :) He gets his homework on Monday for the whole week, and usually he is done with his homework in one day:) He needs a little supervision only with one or two pages, but he does all his homework on his own.

ElliAna-our princess, we do little writing and counting few times a week. She asks to do "homework" when her brothers come home. She is a little smarty pants:) We can easy send her to a 1st grade now :) , but she is only 3 years old.