Easter, ¿de veras?

Our first Sneak Baba (Snow Grandma), early February 

It seems like it has been the eternal winter around these parts.  Currently, it's snowing yet again.  Until today, the sun has been out and working at melting away the last blizzard's debris (over 24 inches of snow in 24 hours!)  We were ready to prepare for flooding, until it started again today, ughh.  With few signs of spring, it's been hard to even imagine that Easter is already tomorrow.  My friend Holly and I thought that we might wait to really celebrate in May with the Ukrainians (their Christmas and Easter are on the Eastern Orthodox calendar which is slightly different.)  The thought of Lent really never had time to cross my mind this year, so I figure if I start on "our" Easter, I'll just come a few days short of 40 days...there are also some more selfish reasons I have.  I bought myself a cute raspberry skirt a little while back, unfortunately I can't quite pull it off with my snow boots, and Zoya does have two Easter dresses after all :) Why not?
Below are pictures from February and March, outside it looks pretty much the same :(  CAN'T WAIT TO BE ON THE BEACH IN GREECE IN A WEEK!

Yes, this kid has too many clothes
(thank you grandmas and aunties!),
but look how neatly Oksana organizes them

Now look at Zoya's favorite game!

Our first snowman

View from the kid's room

Our Baba Zoya trying to play with the light up zippy fly, she laughed a lot as she figured it out!

First grocery shipment
delivered directly to our door!

 Although my tone is quite depressing, we've also really enjoyed ourselves these past couple of months.  As many of you know, we came back from break and then Ken left a week later to go to Phuket, Thailand.  He was gone a total of nine days.  Thankfully, I was the kids were on their best behavior, and though we missed Dad terribly, we managed.  Day seven was tough, but we worked through it and Dad came home to a door full of balloons.  And then we celebrated his homecoming with a "Pi Day" par-tay.  Rawly and I had so much fun planning the menu: Curry Pumpkin Empanadas (half-circles) with mint cilantro chutney, hand pie shaped as the Pi symbol filled with a date-goat cheese spread, nutella coconut Italian goodness (pictured below) and berry cobbler also pictured below.  Oksana and Rawly made a huge stack of crepes that we filled with caramelized pears and onions and blue cheese...so scrumptious.  I'm such a nerd.  I would spend all day in the kitchen planning themed menus if I could (and someone would do the dishes for me, ha!)

Bunk beds

Only Nya is able to get out, our kiddos have too round of a middle :)

Don't mess with this!

The chef at work filling mini pumpkin pies,
baking with mom remains one of his favorite things!

Heart melting, I had stepped out of the room and came back to
Rawly reading Zoya's prayer book, aka singing
"Buenas Noches" over and over again.

We finished just in time, literally 10 minutes before Dad was home!

So excited for his new soccer uniform from Thailand

All's right with the world when we're together

Pi's a crowd 

There's a reason why she's "Anty #1"

Well, that and she has a bright orange coat

First year tradition of ice cream on breakfast  for no school snow days!

Dulces sueños bella