Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving Birthday

Thanksgiving
Micah, Christy, Tanya, Kolya, Edna, Olya, and Dominic

Today we celebrated Thanksgiving with the Claycamp family, our neighbor Olya, and our friends Tanya and Kolya. Dominic's 16th birthday was yesterday, so we celebrated that as well. It was fun explaining to our Ukrainian friends about the different traditional foods that we had prepared. "So why do you call it stuffing even though you didn't stuff it into anything?"

Thanksgiving
Olya and Tanya with Dominic in his new vyshyvanka

The best part was explaining that Thanksgiving was a day set apart to pray and thank God for all that He has given us and for the many ways He has blessed us throughout the year. Of course our Thanksgiving meal was actually a blend of Ukrainian and American dishes. It just seemed fitting since God has blessed us by bringing us to Ukraine and filling our lives with all these wonderful people who we otherwise would have never met.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving
Kolya gave Dominic this Bila Tserkva milk jug which was perfect because one of Kolya's favorite English phrases is "Dominic, drink milk!"

Thanksgiving
The J's (Jeremy, Joshua, Jaden, Justin, and Josie) watching "This is America, Charlie Brown" about the first Thanksgiving. It's surprisingly full of historical facts.

Thanksgiving
Justin especially liked Joshua's Soviet protective mask

Dominic's 16th Birthday
Here's the cake I made for Dominic yesterday

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I'm so thankful for the path that God has placed us on and all the people and blessings along the way. We have so much to be thankful for.

2 comments:

Ira said...

Guys,
this is awesome. Especially taken into context the next post, there is truly so much to be thankful for...
And yes, I will not lie, the food looked AMAZING!
Drooling Ira =)

Greg and Edna Silva said...

Ira,

We will have to get together this spring and just make a bunch of Ukrainian dishes together. :) We really love Ukrainian food and are learning as much as we can from our neighbor, who is a wonderful cook!

Edna