September 26th

We are home now and it is so good to be home!!!!! We got up at 3:30 am Thursday morning to be out and ready by the curb at 4:15 a.m. I couldn't sleep I was afraid We wouldn't wake up to our alarm like the day we were coming to Kiev. Everything went smoothly at all 3 airports, Kiev, Munic Germany, and Denver. We made it home 10 minutes early so around 4:45 p.m. It was a wonderful reunion with our family and friends! We are so thankful to be home and know that we received a few miracle's in our behalf through this whole process!!! Thank you so much to all who helped us!!!

sight seeing and dinner in Kiev

this is our new apartment

waiting

waiting and waitning for the boys medicals to be done

chilling at our apartment after showers and their own new cloths from America

practicing english

some of the goodbyes

The last time playing on there TV vidio games

signing the kids out of school for good

September 24th

This is the day we were suppose to fly out but had to change our tickets so we are still here. But it has been good. If you read the Rogers blog you can catch up for the last two days. Here in Kiev we have the nicest apartment we have been in and we have the internet here with no hassle so it is great to be able to e-mail our family so easily. We have one more apointment with the US Embassy today at 2 p.m. and then we all get to fly home tomorrow. Our flight comes in at 4:56 from Denver on United and the Morgans are trying to also get that same flight out. The Rogers and Hatches are on the same flight with Delta and get in at 8pm. We don't know if they are going to take us all to the airport at the same time or if they will split us up because of the 3 hour difference. Thanks, Ann for your comment Yes, Austin was wearing a BYU sweatshirt and that is the one thing we are bringing home with us. I am sure one of the American families bought it. We are Happy and Well and are glad we are almost done!!!

We didn't have candles so we used matches for Artem's birthday cake

playing computer games

this is the mall. the picture was taken through a bus window

Brent and the birthday boy Artem now 15

Austin's new glasses he just got yesterday but he won't wear them

Austin ate one big and tasty, a chicken wrap and 9 chicken nuggets

Sept 20th

Today we got the news that we had to change our flight tickets. We will be flying home on Thursday instead of Wednesday and we are praying hard that we won't have to change them again.
We ate at McDonalds today because it was Artem Rogers birthday. His is the 8th birthday we have celebrated since we have been here. Julie Hatch, Lucinda Milne's, Kent Rogers, Artem Milne, Todd Heiner, Janet Heinr, Vikka Heiner, and now Artem Rogers.
After McDonalds we went back to our apartment and continued to celebrate with cake pressent, and computor games. It was alittle warmer today and no rain! Yes!

this is were the boys take off all their shoes

it has rained alot!!!

market place when the day is over

laundry drying

the wrap around porch

Sept. 19th

We all got birth certificates today. Brent was gone the longest 21 hours mostly in the car. I'm glad I didn't have to go. I was home alone until 1p.m. when the Rogers made it back. I took lots of pictures of our apartment, finished my book, did some wash wrote in my journal. The Heiners and Tonya came back with the Rogers we ate some lunch and then we were off to the school. We stopped at the market first to find some Athletic jackets for the Heiners and we found a pretty good deal. Then the Heiners treated us all to crepes. We bought the crepes then jumped on a bus that was very full and had to stand almost the whole way so we couldn't eat our crepes until we were dropped off by the school.

We got our boys school transcripts and grades for their first two weeks of school this year. Then we spent time in their T.V. room again putting puzzels together, talking, looking at their photo's we had sent them, and the boys ended up playing hide and seek. You can't beleive all the hidding places in one small room. It was a fun day. We made it back to the apartment around 7 p.m. and waited for the Hatches to come get their luggage, and for the landlord to come collect rent, and for Brent to get home from his long long journey. They all showed up around 9 p.m. Hatches had to catch a train by 9:30 back to Keiv and they had Logan with them.

ghosts again in the gym

Sept. 17th

Today was a mixed up day. Natalie was suppose to get our boys out at around 10:30 a.m. and then we were going to meet her at McDonalds to eat and then go to the 1:20 show of BatMan. but at 10:20 when I called her she hadn't left her apartment yet and she said she would call us when she was leaving the school with the boys so we could meet her. Finally we call at 11:45 and she was on the bus coming and had forgotten to call us so we hurry and left our apartment to meet them. We went and got passport pictures taken of all the kids then we went back to McDonalds to eat lunch. We decided to bag the show bcause we had a teacher from the school with us as a chaparone and cute little Nastia Morgan with us.

After eating we walked around the mall for awhile, then picked up the passport pictures, then got on a bus to go back to the school. We had a nice program with Maria and Sergei kind of a going away program with the boys whole class. The boys sang and played the flutes. Maria told the boys how lucky they were to have families and that they better pay us back with kindness. It was very touching and then she handed us some of the boys school work and pictures and keep sakes.

After the program we all went to the gym to play more basketball. Parents against kids. Parents won 32 to 28. It ended up being a very good day!

leg wrestling

This picture is for Julie Harris

the ghosts

In all or pictures we took tody in the gym both my camera and Arri's had these spots. We decided they were ghost's it was weird

Sept.16th

Another cloudy rainy day. We were going to take the boys out today and go to the movies but the director wouldn't let us. When we got to the school Serge the boys music teacher was finally there. He's been out with a broken clavical. We got to play basketball in the gym It felt so good to run around and get a lttle exercise. Then we watched the boys play another class in soccer. It was rainy and cold!!!
The last 45 minutes we got to go in the gym again and play volleyball. It was parents against the boys. We wooped them. We have to get the boys passport pictures tomorrow so we might try the movie thing again.