Andrey & Chris: February 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009

Pix from Andrey's mobile

I finally got a chance to check out the pix on Andrey's phone. I'm posting some of them.. so they're a mix from Dec.2008- Feb.2009

Patrick (3)- sweet slumber

Victor (8) & Lisa (9) on a trip to Ukraine with Andrey in the middle of Dec.

Friends: Julie (8), Vlada (10), Lisa (9) & Ola (11)- visiting Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Childhood friends: Lisa (9) & Vlada (10) - Dnepr. Ukraine

At Globa park: Lisa & Ola

Me on New Year's Eve- my 3 year old son took this pix

Sliding fun: Patrick, Victor, Vanessa

Patrick, Victor, Vanessa & Lisa on the best sliding hill around

Valentine's day eating out at Curry House: me, Victor & Vanessa

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Waiting for the subway on a winter morning

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Happy Feast 2009!

Ending of our feast: Lisa, me with cake, Vanessa & Victor

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Tomorrow is our 10-year aniversary! Here are some pix of the big day.

We got married in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine- Andrey's home town. We were both 19. We had family & friends there. My mom was able to come from Norway to be there during our wedding.

We first got married at the marriage office, then went around town to parks & monuments for pix, & then for the wedding celebration at a "turbaza" (rest place) out of town. We had a traditional Ukrainian wedding, with a "tamadan" (wedding organizers who conduct the activities & traditions).. all our family & friends stayed overnight at the "turbaza" & left around noon the next day.

Exchanging of rings

Ukrainian wedding tradition

Pix at the culture senter

Closest friends & family shot at the wedding office

Paying our respects at a war monument, a wedding tradition in Ukraine

Outside of the culture senter

Lover's tree

Andrey's mom made the first toast

Wedding dance

Cutting the cake

Monday, February 16, 2009

How we celebrated Valentine's

Since our anniversary is coming up & Andrey & I will be going it, we wanted to celebrate Valentine's with the kids.. so we all went out for dinner.
A little restaurant: Curry House
Nice food, good prices, perfect!!
Chicken curry, Lamb Tika Masala, Lamb curry... mmmm...

Friday, February 13, 2009

Valentine's day love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires; To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other waythan this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"