Senchyna Family

Malanka 2010

 
 

Journaling from layout:

"As part of the traditional Sviat Vechir (Ukrainian Christmas Eve) celebration, the grade nine students performed a Malanka play. Under the direction of Pani Pohoreski they acted out the story of Malanka, a young beautiful Ukrainian girl, always played by a male student, and her fight to save Spring.  The lead male role of Vasyl is always played by a female student.  Emilee and her friend Melody were Malanka’s pigs, this was emilee’s acting debut and she did a really great job, we were both VERY proud of her!" 

here is a clip of her performance ...

not bad for being the understudy and only one day to learn her lines!

awards night at Jean Vanier

last fall Emilee received "the Most Improved Student" Award for all of her hard work in grade 8.  She worked really hard and really brought her marks up from the previous year.  We were both so very proud of her!!!

gotta love page templates ... I download this free one from Ali Edwards.  I think it took me longer to journal than it did to create the layout itself!  click here to download free template

Olympic layout

I'm on a roll, I've actually had the time to do quite a bit of scrapbooking this past week, I forgot how much I enjoy it!

the olympic torch

so Steffen called Ron on Wednesday just before lunch to ask if it was okay to skip half of one of his classes that afternoon. Normally we would have said absolutely not, but him and his friends wanted to see this ...

the torch went right thru Sherwood Park.  the spectators were given this keepsake mini coke bottle and a flag as souvenirs.  he was quite excited about the whole experience when he got home from school that day!

this moment

this moment was priceless ... for christmas I bought emilee a keepsake book to keep all of her tickets stubs from the concerts that she has gone to.  Before I gave it to her I found all of her old ticket stubs and put them into the book for her.  Once she unwrapped the album she was flipping thru the book and reminiscing about all the concerts she had gone to, when she turned the last page she paused for a moment as she looked at the tickets ... then she figured out they were not for a concert she had already been to but for the Stereo/Hedley Concert coming up in March that she has been begging to go to for the last 3 months.  Her exact words were "SHIT, OMG, ahhhhhhh....!"  it was a moment that all parents love to see after they have spent months searching for that perfect present for their child!

christmas in Calgary

this year Deanne and I were both able to make it down to Calgary after Christmas.  We spent the real Christmas here in Sherwood Park with Ron's Mom and his sister Judy, then the following Wednesday me and the kids (Ron had to work) drove down to Calgary to spend Christmas and New Years with the Calgary Crew!

 

we had a really good visit.  didn't do much, just relaxed and visited with everyone.  Wednesday night we did our 'traditional' christmas ornament exchange (always so much fun). On thursday Deanne and I wasted almost the entire day searching for a Source store that had a Sony iPod docking station on sale for a really good price - we finally found them downtown at Banker's Hall on Saturday morning before heading home (it was worth it in the end, as they work very well!).  New Years was fun - Sylvia, Doug and Tess came over and we spent the night playing games and drinking martinis!

2009 in review

Wow it seems like forever since the last time I posted anything here, it has been so long that I had to look up my access password!

2009 was a great year, alot of wonderful memories! I actually found the time to do some scrapbooking today so I did a quick layout of our favourite 2009 memories.    

 

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