Catching up

I am planning on emailing a lot of my friends from Utah to let them know how I am doing here and tell them about my blog, so here is a quick update on how I am doing. Great. It was really hard at first without our belongings for about two weeks, but after the moving truck finally came I got really busy with unpacking and organizing. Then I got kind of burnt out on that. The Lord is really blessing us with lots of neat people around us. We have had a few opportunities to "let our light shine." We have a really great ward of down-to-earth, loving, caring and inclusive people. I am getting to know the other moms both in the neighborhood and in the ward. I was really sad to leave Holladay and my comfort zone, I even had dreams the first few days that we were still there, like Katie calling me about carpooling. But, now I feel like we are really here for an important reason, which the Lord is showing us in small ways.
Although I was dreading moving into a townhouse for the first year, it is actually OK. It is a nice new one and we have a lot of great neighbors. Ariel and Adriana are making lots of new friends in the neighborhood. They are also taking swimming lessons.

In my blog I started a "picture of the day" challenge so that will explain the past few entries.

It has been hard to take good picture of the day pictures lately. I tried to figure out which member of the family I haven't posted a lot of pictures of lately and I figured out that it was me. So after many attempts, here one that I like of myself, with Adriana.

Day 11

And here is one that Nikolay likes of himself.
Day 8
This next one didn't turn out that great but it was the only picture that I took that day.
Day 9
Here is the beautiful borscht that I made yesterday. I think it is a very photogenic soup because of it'd beautiful color.
Day10