the Life of Olena

My Old Navy clearance find...$1.99. She looks so adorable in it. "Hand Picked" Pretty fitting to the occasion don't you think? Granted I am crazy for paying $12.99 for a pair of pjs but I just couldn't resist. I even bought them big so that she could wear them longer. Mommy's sick baby.

So much for a daily diary of our lives. Though my intentions are there, I just haven't felt like being on the computer. The weather is finally getting nice, my chores have been stepped up a notch and at the end of the night, sitting here trying to write something logical, just doesn't seem appealing to me. Good news is that I do have a few interesting things to post about... We are MOVING!!!! not anytime real soon, but within the next year. Jason and I finally made the decision to put the house up for sale next spring. This is a bittersweet decision. This is my first house, the house that I built my marriage in, and my family. This is also the home that Lana has grown to love and found comfort in But on the other hand I am singing with glory right now. We need something bigger. 3 big dogs, 2 cats, a lot of crap, and 3 people in a 1000 sq ft house. We're like sardines. Bad part of this of course is the market is not very promising right now, but we weighed our

I don't think they come much cuter than this!

too cute!

As you know we went to KY to camp with the Kissacks and Whites for a long weekend. We stayed at Big Bone Lick State Park, and despite the rainy weather it was perfect. For those of you who remember, the Kissacks and Whites are the families that adopted the other 2 girls from Olena's groupa. For lack of a better term, they are Olena's "orphanage sisters". The 3 families endured 5 1/2 weeks of Ukraine and the roller coaster adoption process together. During that time and over the past 16 months we have all become "family", so the reunion was heartwarming. The 3 of us come from opposites points of the US (MI-GA-OR), meet up half way around the world at an orphanage that had not had any adoptions in 1 1/2 years, and we adopt girls from the same groupa who are all the same age within weeks of each other; something tells me that these three girls are destine for something big and a life long friendship. For those of you who read Tonya's blog, I want to comment