So it's been a week since the plane last came in! I heard we got lots of mail that came in today. I got a couple CODs my hubby send down from Wal-Mart. We are replacing all our glassware with BPA-free plastic cups so that when Roni is old enough to start drinking from cups we don't have any that she can break. Trying to think ahead! :)
On Saturday the 28th we went ahead of the bay and caught 30 humpies out of the creek for drying. That was fun to go up there, it was calm but super foggy. I ended up getting soaked chasing fish down to where my hubby was snagging them out of the creek. I had lots of fun though! Roni was probably wondering what we were doing, I kept telling her we were fishing and showing her the fish. She's such a sweetie! She didn't fuss or anything, but after we got home she fell right asleep. I figured she got a good amount of fresh air and got worn out watching us run around. My mom and Aunty came along too, they watched Roni for us while they picked berries and watched us in the creek! Happy to get fish to put away for the winter! Now to look after them and clean the fly eggs off them so they can dry up and be put away in my freezer! We now have 40 on our dry rack! My hubby went up the day before and ended up getting 10 of them.
Our female chihuahua is in heat. I'm hoping to breed her once and get some puppies from her before I get her fixed. All my dogs are registered and fully papered! I'm excited! So we'll see how that goes along. If she does have puppies I want to keep one and maybe sell the rest for 300 with papers... we'll see though.... after she has a set of puppies I plan on getting her fixed.
I still can't believe it's been a week exactly since the last flyable day, but then again it is Fogust... The state ferry Tustemena should be back here this coming weekend. I don't plan on going on any more ferry rides this year! I should have everything I need for now until we go down to Seattle next month.
I surprised my hubby with a new 160GB iPod for our anniversary! It just finally came in the mail! He's super happy, excited - like a little kid in a candy store! His last one was a 60GB from when iPods first came out and it finally stopped working a couple months ago. It makes these weird sounds inside it.... and instead of paying $200.00 to get it serviced - I figured I'd just order him a new one!! I engraved it "To the one I love, from your wife and baby girl!" Ohhh I wish I had the camera when he opened it! I swear his smile couldn't get any bigger!! It makes me fall in love with him all over again sometimes when I see that happy-excited smile on his face. Reminds me the day I told him we were pregnant, and the day I asked him to marry me, and the day I asked him to go steady! I love him soooo much!!! <3 Veronika is weighing in around 22lbs today (I weighed her at the post office on their scale). I didn't get to measure how long she is now though. She's starting to learn how to roll over from her tummy to her back - hasn't mastered it but is getting the idea! She still loves to play with her feet and always seems to be saying "agooo". She loves when I play peek-a-boo with her, she absolutely loves her "Jenny Jump Up"! I got her watching cartoons, mostly the ones I like - SpongeBob Squarepants, Looney Toons, all Disney cartoons, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, Gummi Bears, Jetsons. I think she just likes to see all the colors on the tv, pretty soon she'll learn what they are. I need to invest in some Baby Einstein and Dora the Explorer DVDs....
I really can't believe how fast this month as blown by! Its been 5 weeks since our church wedding! Veronika is now 5 months old.... where is time going? Today was the 1st day of school for our kids here on the island. Hope they all do well and get awesome grades!
Geothermal has wrapped up and they are all done doing what they were doing. The boat harbor people left for a bit, but they should be returning here soon. Today is the last day for the cafe to be open for now, the cooks are going back to Dutch Harbor. So it's slowing down a bit here on the island. Still mass people at the cannery though. Our office phones are finally working again, the ACS phone guy snuck in and got everything back in order! Thank goodness. We should be having a Doctor coming down next month to do check-ups on everyone. I'm waiting for them to get vaccinations so Roni can get caught up with all her shots. She's due for her 4 month vaccinations, but the power went out at the clinic and they didn't have a back-up generator and they ended up losing all their refrigerated items (meds, vaccinations and what not). So I had to wait to get her shots done.... I'm hoping to get her 6 months shots done in Anchorage before we fly back home from our trip.
The weather is cooling off, not many sunny days (not like we had that many this year anyways). Temps holding in the low to mid 50's during the day and dipping into the low to mid 40's at night. Pretty soon we will be having our first freeze. Oh we went berry picking the other day. I was having fun telling Veronika what we were doing and what berries were what. The moss berries are still small and the blue berries are tart. The blueberries usually sweeten up after the first frost. The salmonberries are hard to find this year. It seemed like everything started to grow a little late this year.... the fire weed is already blooming (the 1st sign that fall is here). All the Pink salmon are in the creek and the silver salmon are showing up (another sign fall is here). Pretty soon the island will go back to being this dead grass brown color.... Wish summer could have lasted longer....
I have finally got all the pix of Veronika uploaded, now to label them all...... I have a bunch from last month and this month to share! I can't believe how fast babies grow.... what happened to my little 7lb baby?!?!?!
Well I hope all is going great with everyone else out there!! Take care and until next time TTFN!
Monday, August 30
Friday, August 20
Friday, August 20, 2010
Well what a way to wake up. At 8:40AM today, we experience a 5.3 magnatude with the epicenter being 15 miles West of the village. Shook my house pretty good. My brother-in-law who is working with the geothermal crew cracked a good joke about it. He said "Our drill must have hit the spot!" I couldn't stop laughing after he said that!
Here is link to the USGS earthquake information web site: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010aebb.php
On their home page they allow you to see all the earthquakes in the US and around the globe, with information showing how big they were, what time and date and what cities it was closest too. Hope you enjoy the link!
Have a great Friday everyone. The ferry Tustemena comes in tonight for it's trip to Dutch then heading back up to Homer. We've taken the last 6 ferries but we're not heading over on this one! Looking forward to our trip to Seattle next month though!!
I have lots of pix of Veronika to share from last month and this month. Once I get them all uploaded I will be sure to get them posted to the blog!! Until next time TTFN!
Here is link to the USGS earthquake information web site: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010aebb.php
On their home page they allow you to see all the earthquakes in the US and around the globe, with information showing how big they were, what time and date and what cities it was closest too. Hope you enjoy the link!
Have a great Friday everyone. The ferry Tustemena comes in tonight for it's trip to Dutch then heading back up to Homer. We've taken the last 6 ferries but we're not heading over on this one! Looking forward to our trip to Seattle next month though!!
I have lots of pix of Veronika to share from last month and this month. Once I get them all uploaded I will be sure to get them posted to the blog!! Until next time TTFN!
Thursday, August 19
Thrusday, August 19, 2010
Not much has happened in the past week. My hubby made it home from his one week in Anchorage, where he had lots of dental work done and finished the week off by going to the Snoop Dogg concert the day before flying home and getting stuck in Dutch Harbor for day and half before catching a boat ride home (he got back around 2AM). I mean the weather was nice enough to fly... but Nooooo the airlines decides to wait and cancels for the day saying the breeze was too much, but yet they made a flight earlier that same day my hubby was flying back from Anchorage. Oh well at least he was able to find a boat and make it home! Then the weather, which was supposed to be blowing like 35MPH, decided to die down and we got a couple flights the next day after he already took a boat. Oh well saves us his ticket to use for another time!
In the past week we had 2 flyable days and got 3 flights in. I am waiting for my new pair of DC shoes to come in! I'm due for new shoes, I've had these ones for a couple years now!
My hubby picked up a bunch of cute 12 and 18 month clothes for Veronika. He has some good taste in clothes, which surprised me. I love all the sets he brought home for Veronika!! She's fitting 12 month clothes now, 9 months is getting pretty tight on her. Next week I'll get her weighed and measured for her records! She's such a big beautiful baby and I love her so much. She's into giggling now and getting a bit tickle-ish!! I love her little giggles! On Friday the 13th she mastered rolling over from her back to her tummy, but hasn't quite figured out how to roll back over to her back yet. More tummy time for her!!
So I got like 15 humpies from the Shangins the other week and hung them to dry. They are almost ready to put away in my freezer!! And guess what?!?! So I was putting clothes away in Roni's hamper and I heard this noise on my dry rack located just infront of my house connected to my porch. I thought "damn cats" and ran to the window to see what was getting into my fish. Usually the stray cats will climb up and help themselves to my fish... but what I saw totally surprised me. Here were two pitch black ravens fighing over my fish!! I ran out to scare them away and one decided to grab a fish and fly off with it, leaving me 14 on my rack. In the 5 years that I've had my dry rack and been drying fish this was the first time having to deal with those damn birds! I thought it was kind of funny, but I was mad at the same time... all that work to get them cleaned and dried just to have a raven take one! I think today I'll put them in my freezer!
Oh did I mention on the last ferry I got hooked up with the Alaska Wireless unlimited plan (cell phones)?!?! I've been loving it, especially when my hubby was gone for 10 days. I swear we would have been burning thru money if we were using the prepay plan!! I love the new phone I got too, I think it's a Samsung GT-B3310. I like how it works and I love the slide out texting keyboard!! I also like how many pictures and video I can store on the memory card it accepts!! Makes capturing moments with my baby girl that much easier when I don't have my digital camera on me!! Its a 2 megapixel camera, not as great as my 10.1 megapixel Olympus, but it gets the job done when needed!!
The weather has been hanging out in the mid to high 50's lately. Feels a lot warmer than it's been most of the summer. The salmonberries are slowly starting to ripen. I had my first couple on my walk home the other day!! Time to get up on the hill and see how the blueberries and mossberries are progressing. Hopefully get to enjoy a mossberry pie here soon. I have to some how get more fish to try to get dried up and some for my freezer, get out and get some salmonberries and get those individually frozen. I like to get enough to share with my younger sister Ivy!
The wind has been blowing pretty good here all summer... we get a couple nice days but they are usually foggy. Typical for this time of the year but not typical for all of summer!! This time of the year I consider Fogust. Pretty soon all the flowers and plants on the island will start dying off and turning brown. The fireweed is starting to bloom, which around here is the first signal of Fall around the corner... something I'm not looking forward to... wish summers around here can last longer... I never even got to go out subsitance halibut fishing (jigging) with my handline this year, that will make this year 2 of not making it out on the water. Last year the hubby wouldn't let me go in a skiff because I was pregnant, and this year because I can't be away from my baby for long periods since she won't take a bottle and I don't want to take her out with us for fear of getting her too cold! So maybe next year, hopefully!!
The people putting in the new electric lines are getting ready to head down to the end of town I live in. It's going to make it difficult with there being no room to put a detour road down that way and they are going to have to remove the boardwalk in places to get the new line placed... hopefully they can get it done quickly. I'm not looking forward to when they dig up my yard... hopefully they can do it nicely and get my grass laid back down nicely so it doesn't look all crapy... but I've seen what they've done around town already and doubt that it will look as nice as it does now... That's going to take a couple years for it to even back out and look nice again... oh well... gotta get the new lines put in so I can't complain too much. They have cut the power out for a couple hours 2 days in a row while they dug around some of the existing lines.
I heard the Geothermal project is going to start to clean up and get ready to de-mobilize here soon. At least a couple week left with them doing their thing. I haven't heard too much of what is going on over there. Guess I have to be nosey and start asking. I also don't know the progress of the boat harbor ahead of the bay. Both crews have been working hard to get their projects finished.
The Cattle Co has been working hard too the last couple weeks. Getting all their supplies over to Akun, including a cement mixer and all the stuff to make cement. I heard they are going to get a warehouse set up out there, maybe even a slaughter house... So there has been alot of work being done on both islands. Pretty exciting to see all the improvements being made around here!
There's been a little quarrel going on over the open apartment in Aleutian Housing Authority's 4plex (on the hill I call it). They have one unit open and we have 2 people trying their best to get it. I wish the best to them both since they both deserve it. AHA will be making their decision here soon, good luck to the both of them! I know some people are trying to argue and make a big deal out of it, whoever gets it gets it, no need to start un-needed drama in this little town!
Ok well hopefully I'll get time to update next week what's going on in this part of the world! And I will try to get some new pix of Veronika uploaded (since I have posted any of her in July and this month)and some pix of stuff around town. Ok well until next time TTFN!!
In the past week we had 2 flyable days and got 3 flights in. I am waiting for my new pair of DC shoes to come in! I'm due for new shoes, I've had these ones for a couple years now!
My hubby picked up a bunch of cute 12 and 18 month clothes for Veronika. He has some good taste in clothes, which surprised me. I love all the sets he brought home for Veronika!! She's fitting 12 month clothes now, 9 months is getting pretty tight on her. Next week I'll get her weighed and measured for her records! She's such a big beautiful baby and I love her so much. She's into giggling now and getting a bit tickle-ish!! I love her little giggles! On Friday the 13th she mastered rolling over from her back to her tummy, but hasn't quite figured out how to roll back over to her back yet. More tummy time for her!!
So I got like 15 humpies from the Shangins the other week and hung them to dry. They are almost ready to put away in my freezer!! And guess what?!?! So I was putting clothes away in Roni's hamper and I heard this noise on my dry rack located just infront of my house connected to my porch. I thought "damn cats" and ran to the window to see what was getting into my fish. Usually the stray cats will climb up and help themselves to my fish... but what I saw totally surprised me. Here were two pitch black ravens fighing over my fish!! I ran out to scare them away and one decided to grab a fish and fly off with it, leaving me 14 on my rack. In the 5 years that I've had my dry rack and been drying fish this was the first time having to deal with those damn birds! I thought it was kind of funny, but I was mad at the same time... all that work to get them cleaned and dried just to have a raven take one! I think today I'll put them in my freezer!
Oh did I mention on the last ferry I got hooked up with the Alaska Wireless unlimited plan (cell phones)?!?! I've been loving it, especially when my hubby was gone for 10 days. I swear we would have been burning thru money if we were using the prepay plan!! I love the new phone I got too, I think it's a Samsung GT-B3310. I like how it works and I love the slide out texting keyboard!! I also like how many pictures and video I can store on the memory card it accepts!! Makes capturing moments with my baby girl that much easier when I don't have my digital camera on me!! Its a 2 megapixel camera, not as great as my 10.1 megapixel Olympus, but it gets the job done when needed!!
The weather has been hanging out in the mid to high 50's lately. Feels a lot warmer than it's been most of the summer. The salmonberries are slowly starting to ripen. I had my first couple on my walk home the other day!! Time to get up on the hill and see how the blueberries and mossberries are progressing. Hopefully get to enjoy a mossberry pie here soon. I have to some how get more fish to try to get dried up and some for my freezer, get out and get some salmonberries and get those individually frozen. I like to get enough to share with my younger sister Ivy!
The wind has been blowing pretty good here all summer... we get a couple nice days but they are usually foggy. Typical for this time of the year but not typical for all of summer!! This time of the year I consider Fogust. Pretty soon all the flowers and plants on the island will start dying off and turning brown. The fireweed is starting to bloom, which around here is the first signal of Fall around the corner... something I'm not looking forward to... wish summers around here can last longer... I never even got to go out subsitance halibut fishing (jigging) with my handline this year, that will make this year 2 of not making it out on the water. Last year the hubby wouldn't let me go in a skiff because I was pregnant, and this year because I can't be away from my baby for long periods since she won't take a bottle and I don't want to take her out with us for fear of getting her too cold! So maybe next year, hopefully!!
The people putting in the new electric lines are getting ready to head down to the end of town I live in. It's going to make it difficult with there being no room to put a detour road down that way and they are going to have to remove the boardwalk in places to get the new line placed... hopefully they can get it done quickly. I'm not looking forward to when they dig up my yard... hopefully they can do it nicely and get my grass laid back down nicely so it doesn't look all crapy... but I've seen what they've done around town already and doubt that it will look as nice as it does now... That's going to take a couple years for it to even back out and look nice again... oh well... gotta get the new lines put in so I can't complain too much. They have cut the power out for a couple hours 2 days in a row while they dug around some of the existing lines.
I heard the Geothermal project is going to start to clean up and get ready to de-mobilize here soon. At least a couple week left with them doing their thing. I haven't heard too much of what is going on over there. Guess I have to be nosey and start asking. I also don't know the progress of the boat harbor ahead of the bay. Both crews have been working hard to get their projects finished.
The Cattle Co has been working hard too the last couple weeks. Getting all their supplies over to Akun, including a cement mixer and all the stuff to make cement. I heard they are going to get a warehouse set up out there, maybe even a slaughter house... So there has been alot of work being done on both islands. Pretty exciting to see all the improvements being made around here!
There's been a little quarrel going on over the open apartment in Aleutian Housing Authority's 4plex (on the hill I call it). They have one unit open and we have 2 people trying their best to get it. I wish the best to them both since they both deserve it. AHA will be making their decision here soon, good luck to the both of them! I know some people are trying to argue and make a big deal out of it, whoever gets it gets it, no need to start un-needed drama in this little town!
Ok well hopefully I'll get time to update next week what's going on in this part of the world! And I will try to get some new pix of Veronika uploaded (since I have posted any of her in July and this month)and some pix of stuff around town. Ok well until next time TTFN!!
Thursday, August 12
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Well the last couple days have been feeling fall-like. The humpies (pink) salmon are in the bay, Josy and Tim Shangin got a whole bunch the other night and I was able to get 15 off them to dry! Thanks alot!
The weather has been pretty foggy most the time, usual for this time of the year. The plane makes 2 flights or more on days that are flyable, usually only 1-2 days a week if the weather permits. The island is slowly turning brown once again and the berries are starting to ripen up. I heard some people have been getting some nice ripe salmonberries... I guss I should wrap Roni up and head up the hill here soon.
My hubby went to Anchorage on the last ferry to get some dental work done. The enamel on two of his front teeth broke off near the gums, so I made his reservations to go up and get them fixed. I feel so fortunate that we are Alaska Native and get free dental/health care. Just another reason to love this great state! He went to his first AFC (Alaska Fighting Championship) last night and enjoyed it! I can't wait for him to get home, thanks a lot to my Sister Ivy for letting him stay with her!
The island has been pretty busy with all the crews here doing work. We have the boat harbor crew (Knik Construction), the crew putting in new power lines (Marsh Creek), and the geothermal crew working with the City.
The Geothermal crew are drilling over in Hot Springs Bay to see what and if we can make/use geothermal power. They have a helicopter that transports the crew back and forth from the village to the camp site. I heard they have a pretty good set up with sleeping quarters, a kitchen/galley, a wash room with shower and washer and dryers, generators for power (Mind that these are all in tents) and a cute outhouse. We have a couple people from town who are working with them, they go over for 3 days at a time doing "swap" outs. They are working 24/7. I heard some people are getting helicopter rides over to see the camp site. Wish I could go but I wouldn't bring my Veronika in a helicopter with her being so young, I'd feel uncomfortable with her being in it.
The restaurant finally opened back up on Monday the 9th. I heard they are going to be open year round, finally!! I had my usual French dip the other day!! Yum yum! I know the people from the cannery are happy they are open again. They have a new buffet set up, takes away some of the limited seating they had, but they have a pretty good selection of oriental food to choose from! :)
My in-laws celebrated their 28th Anniversary on the 9th also. We got them a bottle of Korbel Brut champange to celebrate with. We picked it up in Dutch Habor when we went over on the ferry, which came in on the 7th. The ferry will make round trip runs from Homer to Dutch Harbor every 2 weeks, stopping in various towns on the way down and up. They usually get here around 5AM, takes about a 4hr trip to Dutch Harbor then leaves Dutch around 4PM and gets back here around 7:30-8PM and stays for like 30-45 mins before heading back North. Veronika has rode the ferry roundtrip (5 total) since they first came down on June 26, 2010! It costs $31.00 one way between Akutan and Dutch Harbor. State rooms start at $24 for a 2 berth room with no facilities and $37 for a 4 berth with facilities, both one way.
Well the sun decided to come out today. Its about 58F outside today, a lot warmer than the 49 we had the other day!!
Well when/if I get more time I'll make sure to update my blog if there is anything else happening! TTFN!!
The weather has been pretty foggy most the time, usual for this time of the year. The plane makes 2 flights or more on days that are flyable, usually only 1-2 days a week if the weather permits. The island is slowly turning brown once again and the berries are starting to ripen up. I heard some people have been getting some nice ripe salmonberries... I guss I should wrap Roni up and head up the hill here soon.
My hubby went to Anchorage on the last ferry to get some dental work done. The enamel on two of his front teeth broke off near the gums, so I made his reservations to go up and get them fixed. I feel so fortunate that we are Alaska Native and get free dental/health care. Just another reason to love this great state! He went to his first AFC (Alaska Fighting Championship) last night and enjoyed it! I can't wait for him to get home, thanks a lot to my Sister Ivy for letting him stay with her!
The island has been pretty busy with all the crews here doing work. We have the boat harbor crew (Knik Construction), the crew putting in new power lines (Marsh Creek), and the geothermal crew working with the City.
The Geothermal crew are drilling over in Hot Springs Bay to see what and if we can make/use geothermal power. They have a helicopter that transports the crew back and forth from the village to the camp site. I heard they have a pretty good set up with sleeping quarters, a kitchen/galley, a wash room with shower and washer and dryers, generators for power (Mind that these are all in tents) and a cute outhouse. We have a couple people from town who are working with them, they go over for 3 days at a time doing "swap" outs. They are working 24/7. I heard some people are getting helicopter rides over to see the camp site. Wish I could go but I wouldn't bring my Veronika in a helicopter with her being so young, I'd feel uncomfortable with her being in it.
The restaurant finally opened back up on Monday the 9th. I heard they are going to be open year round, finally!! I had my usual French dip the other day!! Yum yum! I know the people from the cannery are happy they are open again. They have a new buffet set up, takes away some of the limited seating they had, but they have a pretty good selection of oriental food to choose from! :)
My in-laws celebrated their 28th Anniversary on the 9th also. We got them a bottle of Korbel Brut champange to celebrate with. We picked it up in Dutch Habor when we went over on the ferry, which came in on the 7th. The ferry will make round trip runs from Homer to Dutch Harbor every 2 weeks, stopping in various towns on the way down and up. They usually get here around 5AM, takes about a 4hr trip to Dutch Harbor then leaves Dutch around 4PM and gets back here around 7:30-8PM and stays for like 30-45 mins before heading back North. Veronika has rode the ferry roundtrip (5 total) since they first came down on June 26, 2010! It costs $31.00 one way between Akutan and Dutch Harbor. State rooms start at $24 for a 2 berth room with no facilities and $37 for a 4 berth with facilities, both one way.
Well the sun decided to come out today. Its about 58F outside today, a lot warmer than the 49 we had the other day!!
Well when/if I get more time I'll make sure to update my blog if there is anything else happening! TTFN!!
Friday, August 6
My church wedding on July 25, 2010
Well the love of my life Demetri "Boy" Tcheripanoff Jr and I got married on July 25, 2010 in our church, the St. Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox). It was a great day to have a wedding, the weather was nice out and I would say that almost everyone in town showed up. I even had a friend (AJ) from Nikolski, AK who was able to make it here for the wedding!
We had the honor to be married by Father Andrew Kashevarof. I would love to express all my greatfulness to him for being able to perform our marriage ceremony!
I would also like to thank our Tribal Office for letting us use their office building for our reception/potluck! Thanks also to my cousin Kay and in-laws and Trident Church for the food they brought and many many thanks to my mother Vera who did almost all the cooking herself (except for the potato salad, halibut chowder and jello that I made). I love my momma lots for going out of her way to help as much as she did!! I don't know what I would have done without her!!
The wedding ceremony was at 2PM on Sunday, July 25, 2010. I announced on the VHF radio that the time was changed from 3:30 to 2, but I guess some people didn't hear my announcement and ended up missing the whole wedding ceremony, to those of you who didn't make it I'm so sorry no one informed you of the time change. Our original date was supposed to be on August 14, 2010 but Father Kashevarof wasn't able to make it here during that time so we had to reschedule to a time that was good for both of us, so that's why our date was moved up to July 25.
Below are pix from our special day. I hope you enjoy them!! :)
PS. captions are posted under the pic :)
Texting me wondering where I was!
Walking out of my parents house where I was getting ready...
Walking up to the church with my dad Hugh,
My maid of honor my Sister Ivy and niece Aaliyah
Making our way to the church with my family
My dad ready to hand me off to my hubby!
Crowns, Holy Gospel, Cross and cup with wine.
My hubby and his best man, his brother John
First time getting to see each other dressed up!!
The left side of the church
Right side of the church
Igg (one of out crown holders), us, and my dad
with Veronika in the church entry way.
Exchanging the rings
vows
Standing on my Krusnamoms scarf (She passed away in 1997,
I felt honored to be standing on her scarf!)
Standing on my Krusnamoms scarf (She passed away in 1997,
I felt honored to be standing on her scarf!)
I felt honored to be standing on her scarf!)
The crowns being held over our heads.
Crown holders, father and us
(Iggy holding Boy's crown and AJ holding mine)
Crown holders and us
(Iggy holding Boy's crown and AJ holding mine)
Crown holders, father and us
(Iggy holding Boy's crown and AJ holding mine)
wedding ceremony
Drinking wine
Crown holders and us
(Iggy holding Boy's crown and AJ holding mine)
Crown holders, father and us
(Iggy holding Boy's crown and AJ holding mine)
wedding ceremony
Drinking wine
(gee I didn't know it was strong wine from my sister Shannon)
Drinking wine
walking around inside the church 3 times.
cheesing for the camera :)
Drinking wine
walking around inside the church 3 times.
cheesing for the camera :)
Almost done, Father smiling at us
Kissing the crown held above his head.
Me kissing the crown head above my head.
Listening to advise from Father Kashevarof
Walking to the front part for our 1st kiss as a married couple
You may now kiss the bride!
You may now kiss the bride!
Our moms and Veronika.
My mom Vera on the left, my mother-in-law Alice on the right
My lil family with the Icons the Church gave us.
Our Families!
Our Families!
Us with our parents
The top of our church
Kissing the crown held above his head.
Me kissing the crown head above my head.
Listening to advise from Father Kashevarof
Walking to the front part for our 1st kiss as a married couple
You may now kiss the bride!
You may now kiss the bride!
Our moms and Veronika.
My mom Vera on the left, my mother-in-law Alice on the right
My lil family with the Icons the Church gave us.
Our Families!
Our Families!
Us with our parents
The top of our church
Walking out of the Church as man and wife,
getting bombarded with rice
Showers of rice!!
Kissing while still getting showered in rice
Giggling about all the rice
Shaking rice from my hair
Laughing about being showered in rice!
Everyone getting ready to go to the reception
All done throwing rice at us!
Time to go eat!!!
Walking down the boardwalk to the reception
Walking down the boardwalk to the reception,
while still shaking rice from my hair!
Walking down the boardwalk to the reception
Walking down the boardwalk to the reception
Time to throw the bouquet!!
Making sure all the girls are ready to catch the bouquet
Throwing of the bouquet
Throwing of the bouquet
Catching of the bouquet
Yay, Congrats Janene for catching it!!
Getting ready to get the garter to toss it to the guys
Getting ready to get the garter to toss it to the guys
Getting under my dress to retrieve the garter
Laughing hard at him
Pulling it off my leg now...
Ok got the garter!
Asking how he should toss it... me showing him a way...
He decided to just toss it...
look at the guys keeping their eye on the prize!
Jumping to get it.....
Jumping to get it.....
Yay, congrats Darren for catching the garter!!
Us and Father Kashevarof at the reception/potluck
Blessing of the food!
Waiting to eat....
Getting in line to get their grub on!
Getting ready to toast to the newly weds,
filling champagne flutes (I had sparkling apple cider)
The best man DJ filling glasses for everyone
Maid of Honor Speech
Best Man Speech
Us drinking to the toast!
Yay!!
My hubby and Father-in-law Demetri Sr
(I love this picture of them!)
Pulling the jello shots out!
Filling punch (Pineapple/OJ and Vodka) glasses,
handing out jello shots and re-filling champagne flutes
to the adults!
My bouquet and icons from the church
The Cakes I slaved over all day Friday!! I love how they turned out!!
Chocolate cake on bottom, cherries in the center, white cake on top, covered in homemade butter cream frosting and covered in vanilla fondant!! With pink edible ribbon, real roses and our acrylic cake topper with our names enscribed on it!
Don't they look awesome! My first time using fonant!
Chocolate cake on bottom, cherries in the center, white cake on top, covered in homemade butter cream frosting and covered in vanilla fondant!! With pink edible ribbon, real roses and our acrylic cake topper with our names enscribed on it!
Don't they look awesome! My first time using fonant!
Cake topper
Roses on the other cakes
Cutting of the cake!
Cutting of the cake!
Feeding each other cake!
Our cake with some roses
Money, money money!! Always the best gift!
My hubby and his parents - Demetri Sr and Alice
My family with my hubby's family
My cute lil family!
Us with our mothers
Best Man DJ, my hubby, me and my Maid of Honor Ivy
Us with the bay behind us
Us with the bay behind us
Kisses!! Us with the bay behind us
I love this shot!!
I would like to thank: AJ, Sandra, Lydia, my sister Ivy,
my mother-in-law Alice and everyone else that
took pictures for us and let me "steal" them!!
Again many thanks to those of you who helped us, gave us gifts/cards,
and of course to everyone who shared our special day with us!! <3
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