The Myers Family

Utah fun

2011-12-14T14:07:00.000-08:00

We made a trip to temple square to see the lights and get into the spirit of Christmas. There were tons of people, but the kids didn't seem to notice, we had a wonderful time. Here they are with their cousins at the statue of Chirst.

Here we are trying to keep warm looking at the lights.

We took lots of breaks insided to get warm. Gideon seems to love something in the tabernacle.

Leaves, Leaves, Leaves. We could not get enough leaves this fall. Benjamin would carry them home from our hikes and they would "steal" leaves from nieghbors because we did not have enough in our front yard.

They loved running an jumping in the piles.

Christmas if Coming

2011-12-14T13:57:00.000-08:00

The kids loved putting up all the decorations for Christmas. We actually put up our tree a few days before Thanksgivng. We have been enjoying turning on the lights and looking at our tree in the evenings.

Dan and I both wanted a real Christmas tree that we cut down, but when we learned all the permits were gone for the year, and my sister had a fake tree she was no longer using, and Dan really wanted to buy more climbing holds and well the fake tree was free, we caved and put up a fake tree.

Happy Birthday Maggie

2011-12-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

Our little Maggie girl just turned three, I can't believe it. She woke up at 6 am and was so excited for her presents. She opened them all before she ate Captain Crunch for breakfast.

This is an early morning shot of all the kids.

Maggie wanted a butterfly birthday cake and she was so happy that it was decorated with skittles.

This picture captures Maggie totally. The pinata knocked her down at one poin,t and she got right back up and kept on swinging. She got the leotard that she is wearing for her birthday and she has worn it every day since.

She wanted a butterfly pinata and I made one out of a balloon and I was going to put a picture of butterfly on it, but I went to bed and Dan decided to help me and decorate it and lets just say it was a work of love that took a long time and ended up looking ..... well just look at the pic.

We love are little girl. She brings so much love and spice into our lives.

Happy Halloween!!!

2011-11-20T17:57:00.000-08:00

I know you were all dying to know what the Myers were for halloween, so here you go.

Here we are carving pumpkins. The kids didn't really like the guts, so we had to help dig them out. Benji figured out that pumpkins make pumpkin pie. So we cooked them up and Sheri made a couple awesome pumpkin pies.

Benji the pirate, and Ellie the elephant ready to hit the road trick-or-treating!

To help the whole family hit the road ASAP after Dan got home from work, Sheri arranged a special Papa Murphy's feast! The kids didn't really like it. I guess they're too used to the cheap $5 cardboard Little Ceasar's fare we usually buy.

Here are the trick-or-treaters on the front porch. Maggie is a beautiful ladybug, and Ellie is taking care of Gideon the pumpkin. Ben has his game face on - he is ready to get some candy!

Dan's work had a big Halloween party. They spent tens of thousands of dollars on candy and decorations - each floor had teams. Dan's floor made a corn maze in their office. It was pretty darn cool.

Dan wore an outfit he picked up in Kuwait. He was definitely getting some nervous stares throughout the evening . . .

Man did we have an awesome Halloween. Gideon stayed home to help pass out candy, Ben and Ellie trekked tirelessly around the neighborhood for a couple hours, and Maggie finally caved and hopped a ride in the stroller on the way home. The kids are already planning their costumes for next year.

Gideon Blair Myers

2011-04-27T18:39:00.001-07:00

Gideon Blair Myers was born April 19, 2011 at 6:46 pm. He weighed 8 lbs 5 oz is 20 in long.
Here is a picture of Gideon coming home from the hospital.

Here are all the kids welcoming the baby home.

He is one mellow happy baby

He was my longest hardest labor at 5 hours.

All the kids came to visit the hospital and they wanted to hold him non-stop

Those are some chubby cheeks

This is just before they induced me.

Here is my huge belly before I went to the hospital.

Happy birthday to Dan

2011-04-09T13:30:00.000-07:00

This picture captures Dan's happiness and goodness. We are all so lucky that we get to have him in our lives. We love you.

Happy Birthday to Ben!!

2011-04-09T13:06:00.001-07:00

We celebrated Ben's birthday today. The pictures are in reverse order, but I hope they give you a feel for the fun day.

more presents.

Collecting Candy after the alligator broke.

Opening presents.

Yum, Yum, yum. Ben wanted to eat the head off the alligator.

I can't believe my baby boy is 4 years old. He brings so much love and goodness to our family. I can still remember the day he came into our family and it makes me happy, although a little inadequate.

We went to the party supply store to find an alligator pinata and they had one, but as soon as Ben saw this dragon one he couldn't part from it. He carried it home on his lap. So much for a themed party. Everyone got a whack at the dragon and then Dan let all the kids jump on it because is was not where near ready to break. Then on round 2 Ben broke the pinata.

It is actually not Ben's birthday for another couple day, but it is Dan's birthday today. Ben and Dan decided they could just share one cake; that made Ben really happy and he kept saying my Dan and I are sharing a cake.

Here is a pic of some of the kids starting the party. They colored pictures of an alligator, then the tried jumping over an alligator on the ground. They then had to keep a balloon in the air as long as they could so the alligator didn't chomp it. Then they had an egg hunt, pinata, cake and ice cream and finally presents. It was such a fun day and the kids loved it.

Ben requested an alligator cake and this was the best we could come up with

Ben's birthday started a few weeks ago when his G&G Myers sent him a present that he got to open early

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Happy St Patrick's Day

2011-03-18T07:31:00.000-07:00

Here is the whole gang in their Green clothes. They pinched Dan 50 times in the morning until he put on a green shirt. We had a wonderful day full of green fingernail polish, green bows and green food. We also went up the canyon and got to eat lunch with Dad, what a treat.

I kept telling Maggie to look at me and this is what I got

Ben in his green camo shirt

Maggie in all green. I made her bows to wear for the occasion

Eleanor in her outfit getting ready to leave for school

I made Ellie a green flower for her to wear. She loved it.

Green pancakes for breakfast, if you can't tell this is a 'strong man'

Ellie and Ben licking the frosting off the knife. Those kids love sugar.

Our St Patrick's day cookies. They are left over Valentines cookies that I froze and then we just used green frosting. The kids didn't seem to mind, in fact they loved it.

Daddy and Ben making cookies

A little late but this is what they got for valentine's day. My mom always left us a note and a treat and we are continuing the tradition. They love Cheeto's and I never buy them so it was a real treat. It was a little bit sick though, they ate them for breakfast.

While they were sledding this winter Ben got a shiner. At a later appointment the doctor later ask Ben if his Dad hits him.

2011-03-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

Ellie spent an afternoon teaching Maggie how to dance. Notice all of Maggies "kicks and jumps"

Old News

2011-01-11T13:30:00.000-08:00

Ellie had a Christmas dance performance that was adorable. She got to change into three different outfits and she enjoyed it so much. Here she is as an angel with baby Jesus.

Here she is as an elf, she danced to the 12 days of Christmas.

Here she is as a snow man. She danced to frosty the snow man.

We are so proud of her.

This picture gives you an idea of our life the first weeks of December. The kids all got the flu and they were up all night for a week. Dan came home and caught me like this, we are both really asleep.

I know this is a little late, but I think it is still fun to see. Here are the kids with the Myers cousins. Ellie was a black cat, Benji was a pirate and Maggie was a ladybug. We had a great time at Dan's brothers house even though it poured rain.

Here is the everyone who dressed up.

Our first stop of the night on Halloween was to G&G Condie's to see all the cousins.

Here is our whole family.

We were lucky enough to have Grandma Cindy here for halloween and she even helped us carve pumpkins. Ben also learned how to cross his eyes and he thought it was SO funny.

Here is Grandma making her famous sugar cookies with the girls.

The kids just love frosting and putting sprinkles on sugar cookies. It has become a tradition for every holiday.

Finally blogging

2011-01-07T15:37:00.000-08:00

So I was going to make my blog private and I never got around to doing that, instead I just never update it. :) We had a wonderful holiday season with lots of laughs and a few adventures. Here are a few highlights.
Grandma Cindy made us all aprons for Christmas and they are so cute. Maggie wants to put hers on every day and help me do the dishes. The apron also hides very well that I have a huge belly and I am due with a baby boy in April.

Santa brought the kids BYU t-shirts and hats and they love them. Ellie tries to put her shirt back in her drawer every day so I will think it is clean and Maggie and Ben can't figure out where there shirts have gone when I put them in the laundry basket. Truthfully, I am glad they love the school their Mom and Dad graduated from and I hope they go there some day. Go Cougs!!!

Dan took Ellie skiing on Dec 23rd and she was exposed to strep, actually she shared a straw and drink with her cousin who cultured strep that night. We were sure Ellie was also going to get strep so we decided not to expose the whole extended family and we did the Christmas Eve festivities all alone. It turned out to be a wonderful evening. Our small family played each part of the nativity and the spirit was strong as the kids really got into acting their parts. We sang lots of song and I rocked all the kids to sleep while the Christmas lights were on and I sang them the Christmas songs from the primary book. It was such a memorable wonderful evening. This picture is Ellie playing the Angel (one of her many parts).

This was so precious. Maggie took her role as Mary very serious,here she is rocking her new born son as her donkey (Dan) watches her.

Here are the shepherds in the field.

Here is the whole family getting ready for the festivities.

I played the part of Herod and when I was done Benji said 'next year I want to be the bad king"

Here is Ellie and Ben with G&G Condie getting ready to go on a sledding adventure. We have been sledding and hiking many times since it snowed.

Going Private

2010-03-30T18:41:00.001-07:00

We are making our blog private, if you want to still look at the blog send me an email.

happy easter

2010-03-27T22:14:00.001-07:00

I decided to sew the kids easter dresses (and a tie), here are the results... Not so bad for a first try.

2010-01-22T17:40:00.001-08:00

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

More Fun

2010-01-22T13:26:00.000-08:00

Ellie started soccer a few weeks ago with her cousin Mallory. As you can see it was way exciting- except Ellie cried the whole first game. She didn't realize that people would be running and shoving. She has not gotten the hang of it and even kicked the ball once last game

We had dinner and FHE with my parents a few nights ago and Maggie loved Grandpa Condie

Our poor cute baby Maggie had to get glasses. Her one eye goes in a little when she is tired and they are hoping these will help.

I think she is an absolute doll.

Maggie's first pony

2009-11-09T19:22:00.000-08:00

Hiking at Rock Canyon

2009-11-09T19:11:00.001-08:00

This picture was for Grandma Cindy's benefit. We just have to give her heart a little jumpstart every now and then. This is a little climbing area just a quarter mile or so from the car, next time we want to bring a little picnic and climb with the kids (as soon as you're up for it, Katie!) These are some happy cousins! Benji was a little bit nervous about all this arm-lifting while sitting on top of a big rock. His favorites are the rocks you can throw. For some reason, he particularly likes chucking them into bushes.

Maggie loved the backpack! And Sheri was a real sport letting us drag her up here early in the morning. Maggie looks like a conehead!

This is the line-up. Clearly a bunch of hardened criminals. You can tell this bunch has been having way too much fun together. Especially that girl standing on one leg. Definitely shifty. Thanks, Uncle Eric for bringing the kids! We loved hiking with you guys!

Our shipment

2009-11-09T19:00:00.000-08:00

SO our shipment finally arrived from Jerusalem......only about 4 months after we packed it up, and our house is a mess.
This is what the kids were doing while I was trying to go through boxes, just gotta laugh so you don't cry.

This is a shot of our house AFTER we got through more than 80 boxes.

New Stuff

2009-11-09T18:48:00.000-08:00

My sister Rachael sent us a bunch of clothes and toys that they were not using any more. Ellie had to try all of them on and keep all of her toys around her for day!!! Thanks Aunt Rachael

Happy Halloween!!!

2009-11-03T17:37:00.001-08:00

We had such a great time trick or treating with cousins and getting so much candy!! Ellie and Ben cried a few time during the night because they were scared of mask, but overall it was a great night

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YUM!!!

2009-11-03T17:31:00.000-08:00

Sheri as a hippie. Peace

With cousins

Happy Halloween!!

2009-11-03T17:19:00.001-08:00

Ellie as a dancer/fairy (she kept taking off her wings) Ben as a handsome cowboy. Ride 'em cowboy

Maggie as a cat (minus her ears) she kept pulling them off

Have a good Day!!

2009-05-11T03:51:00.001-07:00

So I have been meaing to post forever, but time seems to go too fast after the kids get to bed at night. We have lots of new updates- I will put up pics of all these things later. First, Dan got his braces off. Yeah, he looks great!! He now has to wear a retainer for a long time. Then Ellie gave up her binki about a month ago. If you have spent any time around her you know she used it every night to go to sleep. We told her she was going to have to get braces like Daddy if she didn't give it up...she hasn't' asked for it since. We are so proud of her, she is growing up way too fast. Speaking of binki's....no one in our family uses one-Shocking I know. Maggie has started sucking her thumb and Ben has always preferred the thumb. Another piece of BIG news is that Ben is officially potty trained. Yippee!!! He has not had an accident in about a week and he love wearing underwear. This news is great except for at church. When Dan is sitting on the stand Ben has figured out that he only has to yell pee pee and I will run him out (usually passing Maggie to someone and Ellie runs behind me). Last week he said pee pee at least 5 times before I told he we were not going out again. We love that boy and his huge grin. Last but now least, we are coming home. We have our date, I think. We are leaving here July 10th, just two months left. I will be so excited to get home, but I am grateful for our time here.

Birthday boy

2009-04-23T10:31:00.000-07:00

Sheri wanted to make Benji's birthday special by designing a custom cake. She considered the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, and a fully functioning laptop cake. While her mock-ups were pretty impressive, she finally came up with something truly magnificent to dazzle the birthday boy. A soccer ball! Sheri only had a ziploc bag, frosting, and a dash of food coloring. Magnificent results! But most importantly, the birthday boy loved it.

Maggie discovered her thumb and now she won't take a binki

Happy Birthday Benji

2009-04-23T08:46:00.000-07:00

Our sweet baby Benji turned 2 a few weeks ago. If you ask him how old he is he grins and says two. If you ask him the first letter of his name, he grins and says two. Then you say LETTER Benji and he smiles and says B. We love our little boy and it seems like only yesterday he came into our family. He has so much love to give. He shares all of his toys with Ellie and if Maggie is ever sad he says mooch and then kisses her. He is also rather independent, and he will scream "own" if he wants to do something by himself. We love him so much. Happy Birthday big man.

We had a few friends over for cake and ice cream and after we sang he blew out the candles all by himself!

Ben loves books and wants us to read these new ones every day. The books have animals so he can practice his moos and cockadoodledoos, what more could a birthday boy want?

They were screaming to try the bubble-maker, so Dan let them try it inside. They'd shoot out a thousand bubbles then Ben would stamp on them one by one and laugh. We had to put it on a high shelf to rein them in, but every time they see it they plead to go outside and try it. Ben still hasn't quite figured out the handle and shoots himself in the eye half the time, but you still can't get it out of his hands. Remind us to wait a while before buying him a b-b gun.

The blue stretchy, sticky worm was an instant favorite. He wanted to yank and pull it, and looked on with disgusted fascination as Sheri helped him stretch it to the limit. He also got 20 other worms, frogs, snakes, and rubber bugs. He can't get enough of them, but they're a little too realistic and keep creeping Sheri out when he leaves one under the couch.
Benji loves Mr. Potatoe head. Every morning he wakes up and sees it and yells "Tato Head, Tato Head!" until we get it down for him to play with. He puts on a serious face and starts plugging pieces into Mr. Potato Head, and once he has him all assembled, often with the nose in an ear slot, he raises his hands in triumph over his head, puts on his biggest grin, and yells "Did it!"

Thanks G Grandma Polson, Grandma & Grandpa Condie, Grandma Cindy, Grandpa Walt, and Jaymie. Benji loved his gifts and we felt loved and supported by family even though we are so far away

Laying on the sidewalk

2009-03-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

So we went outside the other day and Maggie was being really fussy. She doesn't really like the stroller or baby bjorn so I was holding her and playing ball with the other kids. My back was getting really tired and Ben really wanted to roller skate, so I made Maggie a little bed on the ground. Abusive? She seemed to really like it.

Could you resist this face?

FOOD!!!

2009-03-19T05:26:00.000-07:00

We love to eat. Every morning when I get Benji out of his crib he yells omeal (oatmeal)...you would think he might be starving with how desperate he sounds. Dan makes the oatmeal and he can't get it in fast enough. I made them a smoothie as well and they were loving it. And Maggie, well I just can't get enough of her adorable chubby cheeks, she has to eat really often to keep them so big.

St Patrick's Day

2009-03-19T04:57:00.000-07:00

Happy St. Patrick's Day a bit late. We had a great day wearing green and eating green food. When I told Ellie that you had to wear green she said that she would prefer is we would all wear pink instead. I told her that is not how it works. She said how about we could all wear pink on her birthday, I said OK so everyone get ready to have a big pink party in October.

We had a few friends over to eat green food with us. We did not dye anything green, we just ate taco's and I made green taco shells. And we had cucumbers, green peppers (cut like shamrocks), green Jello, pears, apples and grapes (all the green variety), green plates, cups, juice, and napkins. It was so much fun. I didn't get a shot of the dinner, but here are the kids in their different colors of green. It was really hard to get all 3 looking at me at the same time. I can't believe I have 3 kids. :)

Tag, Your're It

2009-03-08T11:13:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by my sister-in-law Katie forever ago but as things go I never got around to it, but I am doing it now............here goes 25 random things about me that you may not know.

1. I love to bake! I cook treats, cookies, bread, etc. almost twice a week.
2. I am scared of spiders, I mean I really hate those little things they creep me out, and no I have never seen Arachnophobia. I watched Charlotte's Web today and even Charlotte creeps me out.
3. I think that I married the best man in the world..........so I guess that means that all your husbands are sub-par. Sorry.
4. I love Mexican food
5. I worked at the Men's Dept of the BYU bookstore while I was going to school, my nickname was Sassy (my boss even got me a new name tag).
6. I went to Accelerated Learning Elementary school (My family calls it smart school).
7. My family calls me the weakest link, in fact my in-laws also call me that but I can pretty much do anything I have to. I have lived in Ukraine and Jerusalem, and I am the only one of my sisters to give birth naturally.
8. I love candy and treats............and more treats and chocolate.
9. I don't really like any bands or music groups, actually I don't like anything if it plays too long. Too much noise.
10. I am not very good at sharing things about myself, I like to keep things to myself. The only reason I am giving so much info about myself now is because Dan is sitting right here. He will share anything.
11. I got sunburned so bad one time that my face ballooned up and my eyes were little slits. My family called me elephant face.
12. I want to have a big family, I don't know how many big is though.
13. I love to laugh and I am usually in a good mood, and if I am not you can cheer me up pretty easily.
14. My arm, leg, head and one of my teeth were all broken in separate incidences by siblings before I was 4.
15. I have never been pulled over.
16. I taught at the MTC and was hoping to meet the man of my dreams in the process, but no such luck. (not a missionary, another teacher)
17. Because we live overseas I have had to breastfead in a lot of crazy places (and yes I felt embarassed the first fifty time) including the Vatican, the Coliseum, and the Pantheon in Rome; hiking in the Alps and the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany; in various parking lots, airports, bathrooms and churches/cathedrals; just about every historic, religious, and archaelogical site in Jerusalem, and all over Ukraine.
18. I have seen some wierd bathrooms. Ukraine had its fair share of squatters (and I will admit I got the bottom of my pants wet numerous time), but the one that takes the cake was in Jordan. A gracious Jordanian man let me use the bathroom in his humble home on a road trip in the middle of the burning desert - but I had to walk through a bleating herd of sheep coralled in front of the bathroom. I was wearing flip-flops. It was messy.
19. I served a mission in British Columbia.
20. I have never taken a foreign language in school.
21. I was in a beauty pageant when I was 17 years old. The Miss Strawberry Days Pageant in Pleasant Grove. I lost. No really. If they announced last place, it would have been me.
22. I was Snow White in the third grade play. I was supposed to scream when I was lost in the forest, but I had a weak scream. They called in another student to scream for me. I had to lip-sync a scream. You might think that weakest link nickname is valid after reading that comment.
23. I'm not very good at anything that attaches to my feet and moves (ice skating, skiing, roller-blading . . . not my favorites).
24. I believe that I have been blessed more than anyone I know.
25. I love being a mom, it makes me so happy.

Puzzler

2009-02-26T01:07:00.001-08:00

This is a picture of Ellie doing her favorite thing, puzzles. She can entertain herself with puzzles for at least 30 or 40 minutes. She also loves to imagine things and play make-believe. Lately she has been pretending she is going on an airplane flight. She has her suitcase all packed and ready to go. She is always flying to America (we all miss America).... Sometime she is going to see cousins but more often she is going to Grandma Cindy's.

Good Bye

2009-02-25T12:31:00.000-08:00

We had to say good bye to our friends the Crawfords a few weeks ago. We already miss them so much. They are great friends we met here in Jerusalem...now they are off to DC and then to Thailand. Their daughter Ellie and Claire were inseparable, infact Claire is now Ellie's imaginary (real) friend. Good bye, we will miss you, Thanks for all the great times.

Movie

2009-02-10T23:47:00.000-08:00

Since Maggie's birth I occasionally let the kids watch a movie. Here are a few pics of them staring at the TV. I could have taken 100 pictures and they still would be staring straight at the movie. I finally had to holler at them to look at me. Ben would watch a movie every day if mom let him.

All Smiles.

2009-02-10T11:46:00.001-08:00

Here are a few pics of Maggie. She is really growing up way too fast. She smiles a gurggles and is so much fun to have around. But of course we can never capture the cute grins on camera. None of these pics really capture her, but you get an idea of how she looks. She now weighs 11 lbs and is growing great.

Clothes Swapping

2009-02-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

Ellie loves changing clothes. Her new favorite thing is to put on Maggie's clothes, who knew that 0-3 month pants fit a three year old as shorts! We could have been saving lots of money on summer clothes. And yes that "tank top" in the second pic is Maggie's dress.

2009-01-19T09:29:00.000-08:00

Going out to play front yard (which is actually just the parking area in front of our house, no grass. Do you love the red eye?

Eleanor's favorite thing is to pick Maggie's clothes. When I am around I try to direct her to things that are cute and match. If dad ever gets Maggie dressed he puts her in whatever Ellie brings to him.

2009-01-19T08:06:00.001-08:00

We thought we would share a few sights we saw in Jerusalem this past month. Both Grandma's came to help with the new baby and so we took them out to see a few things.

I thought this was way cool. They are doing excavations around where Herods temple was and they have found a lot of interesting things. This is a bathing area that every person going to the temple had to pass through. You go down the right side before you have been cleansed then you walk up the left side. Neat!

Ellie and Grandma Condie in front of an old olive tree

Dan overlooking the old city (I can't figure out how to turn the pictures the correct way so for now you get to see them sideways.

The ouside garden area of the Jerusalem Center

Margaret Lynn Myers Blessing

2009-01-03T09:09:00.001-08:00

Maggie was blessed in church today. Some of you are aware that we were undecided on the name and there was some risk that Dan might pick a radical name that we would all regret. We named her Margaret Lynn Myers, after Sheri's middle name. It was a special church meeting, we would have loved to have more family there. Dan got to conduct the meeting and he bore his testimony about how being a father has taught him so much about God's love. We love you all and can't wait for you to see Maggie in person.

Baby Maggie's arrival

2008-12-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

More pictures of Rome

2006-02-05T06:49:00.000-08:00

We celebrated our first anniversary - January 14 -in Rome. We flew in on the 13th, and left on the 16th. While we didn't have a lot of time, we saw the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel, ancient Rome, and most of the sights that were on our list. We stayed in an 18th century monastery-turned hotel. We didn't have great luck in the restaurant department, so we ate gobs of gelatto to make up for it. Ellie was good most of the time, although we had to get creative to find places to feed and change her. All in all, we had a splendid time; we were together!

Sheri and Ellie in our room. It was small but warm. They had a pretty nice breakfast buffet.

Ruins.

Pretty cool view. You can see the Coliseum in the background.

I don't remember who constructed this arch and why.

We packed Ellie in tight to keep her warm.

This is inside the Coliseum where gladiators fought, and the government and wealthy citizens hosted other wild events. They've recreated part of the wood floor on the far side of the arena. It was covered with sand back in the day. The chambers beneath the floor held animals, gladiators, and other gear for special effects, which would rise onto the stage with the help of ropes and pulleys.

Here we are in front of the Coliseum. It was a pretty imposing structure - awesome to see.

That is one cute girl! We had to fight off those Italian boys with a stick!

It was getting on toward evening in this picture, and I think we were starting to get cold.

Pretty cool.

Sheri is the most beautiful sleeper.

ROME

2006-01-31T13:08:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from Rome, January 13-16. See our February 5 posting for more pictures.

New Year's

2006-01-29T12:27:00.000-08:00

This was the first New Year's we celebrated together as a family. We celebrated Christmas and New Year's for practically a whole month. Ukrainians still observe some holidays according to the Gregorian Calendar, so Old Christmas is Jan 7th, and Old New Year's is Jan 14th.

We took these pictures on New Year's Eve at Independence Square in Kiev, where the Orange Revolution demonstrations took place. The square is toward the end of Kreschatyk, the main street in town, which is closed to traffic every weekend.

We heard that this is the tallest Christmas tree in the world. And, just imagine, if you had the luxury of living in Ukraine, you could have seen it too..... truth be known, it was not a live tree, but a massive metal skeleton supporting greenery and decorations. It was still beautiful.

This road is ofen packed with cars during the week, but on Saturdays Sheri likes strutting her stuff down the middle of the street. This gives you a pretty good view of the center of town. We would have liked to show off Ellie, but it was a bit cold and she was asleep in her stroller just trying to keep warm.

This is Dan looking quite HOT in Ukraine, although he does seem to fit in a little too well with all the strangers walking around in festive costumes.

We couldn't pass up a photo op with this massive hairy beast!!!!! It took a lot of coaxing from Dan to get me on.

I was scared to touch Ellie after riding on the camel; the stench alone assured me that it had to be infested with some wierd critters or disease. I am still glad I didn't wimp out and miss out on the ride.

The Myers go to Washington

2005-12-27T10:54:00.000-08:00

We flew to Washington when Ellie was just two weeks old! After close to six weeks in DC, we made the long trek to Ukraine. Here are some photos from our time in DC.

Dan, Sheri, and Ellie at the White House.

The fiercesome threesome in front of the National Christmas Tree.

It was cold!

Grandma Cindy came to visit for a whole week!

Sheri's friend Liesel came to visit for Sheri's birthday.

Christmas in Kiev

2005-12-27T05:13:00.000-08:00

We've had a wonderful White Christmas in Kiev. Here are a few pictures:

We posed in front of the Christmas tree after church.

Christmas Eve with our neighbors the Kerksiek family and Tom Reese, and David Luke from Arizona, who is adopting FIVE girls in Ukraine!

Christmas morning - Ellie is excited!

Two happy girls!

A Christmas party at the Ambassador's