Merry Christmas from Kyiv! Now that we have had a couple of days to relax and enjoy the calm after the storm of gifts and wrapping and parties and food, I wanted to share photos from our holiday season. We missed family, but made the most of our second Ukrainian white Christmas.
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| Peter and I squeezed in a date night before holiday break. The tree behind us was made entirely of champagne bottles and crystal. |
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| The tree was so pretty with all the presents underneath. |
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| The girls had a great time at the neighborhood December book club. |
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| KIS was really festive this year and had an entire Christmas spirit week. On this day, Susannah was dressed as Mrs. Claus. |
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| We went downtown for dinner and Christmas lights one day. |
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| The main tree wasn't lit yet, but we found some good twinkle lights. |
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| And some insane oreo hot chocolate. |
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| A cookie kit from our neighbor made cookie decorating extra fun this year. |
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| The girls made some beautiful creations. :) |
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| We were so happy to have Daddy home with us for a few days. |
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| We went to the coolest ice skating rink with friends on our first day of holiday break. |
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| The girls did great. |
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| The rink was huge and had this cool tunnel in the middle. |
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| We went the day before the temperature plummeted into the teens so we weren't too cold. |
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| Our friends Enesh and Maya |
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| Susannah and her best friend in the neighborhood, Adelia |
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| Sarah Avery and Larissa helping each other balance |
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| Post skating hot chocolate |
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| We had lunch at a mall food court across from the rink and enjoyed the holiday decorations in the mall. |
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| Day 2 of winter break was cinnamon roll day! |
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| We love this tradition even though it is time consuming and makes a huge mess. :) |
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| I think our neighbors love it too. |
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| On the 23rd we had a special visitor to the neighborhood. |
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| This Santa has a Ukrainian accent but he brings good candy canes. |
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| We love our neighbors! |
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| Christmas Eve sausage balls. |
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| Christmas Eve Pajamas!! |
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| This year Honey and Sally matched too. |
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| Watching Elf by the fire. |
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| "T'was the night before Christmas" |
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| The girls left Santa some awesome goodies this year. |
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| Christmas morning smiles |
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| Big presents were Hamilton dresses and a Wii. |
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| The girls love their Peggy and Eliza dresses. |
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| This girl was so excited for Christmas morning! |
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| Santa brought some new books. |
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| Susannah loves her Hamilton book. |
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| Sam left a goodbye note on the mantle. |
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| Sally destroyed most of her new toys by noon. |
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| Peter made some delicious Christmas bloody marys. |
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| Which we drank while watching the Christmas Eve service. (We really miss going to a real church for Christmas Eve, but our online church does an amazing nativity, so we watched on Christmas Day after lighting our advent candles for the last time.) |
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