RushingIrish: December 2009

26/12/2009

Christmas

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Here are a few pictures of our kids enjoy their Chritmas presents.

Presents from Nana & Granddad

Presents from Omma & Abba

Sonja

Karina

Daniel

Timothy

Christmas Tree

17/12/2009

We see very little of the sun during the winters here in Moscow, so when it does shine we all enjoy those brief moments. However as we approach the shortest day of the year it doesn't get very high in the sky. As our windows face south you would expect us to get a lot of sunshine but as we are surrounded by high building we actually have only two short spells when we get Sunshine. These you can see in the two pictures below.

This was taken at about 10;30 when we first see the sun as it briefly pops up over one building and then disappears behind the other.

This is just before midday when it comes up over the tall building shortly before it disappears behind the nearer building and we won't see it again till the next day, if the skys are clear.

12/12/2009

Daniel TaeKwonDo

Daniel was performing some of his skills with his Tae Kwon Do group at the Christmas concert in school yesterday, I thought you might like to see him in action. He said to mention that it was two pieces of wood together that he broke!

05/12/2009

Daniel

Karina

Timothy

Late Autumn Evenings

Unseen guest

Friends & Co-Workers

Nathan

Elisabeth & Julie

Steve

Anton

Gudrun, Me & Steve

Karina & Kevin

A little while back some of our friends and co workers were in home so we had an evening together in our place.

She's a He!

We were told that the guinea pig we were getting was a "girl" and as one assumes that those who tell you know how to tell these thing, so one doesn't question it. So we all got use to calling her "her" "girly girly" and the likes and finally settled on a name "Jackie" we settled in to a happy life with our Jackie. But as Jackie began to grow beyond the size one would expect a female guinea pig to grow to and in fact as she more and more seemed to be the size of a male, one began to wonder. So after much in dept research and and a careful examination of Jackie (which she didn't really appreciate) our suspicions were confirmed, yes in face our girl was, beyond any doubt a boy. So now we struggle to call him "him and not "her" but we are sure with a little time he will be fine and i guess that should he have any problems we can always get him therapy. He is still Jackie!