a little about us

Here is a picture of us the Shapoval side of the family on Christmas 2007. On top from left to right...Jayson, Richard, Ruslan, Dad, and Oleg.. on the bottom are the wife's of the men. Me of course..... Yana, Oleg Jr on Ruslan's lap, Mom, Kristina and my Niece Marcella and of course my Yorkie....Kookla means doll. Here is a picture of Jay and me in the Ukraine. In September 2007, We rented a paddle boat from the owners or should say from the fair grounds people. The cotton candy that we had there tastes a little different than here in USA. We had a lot of fun. I still want to go back and maybe go visit the other cities that we didn't have time to do. This was like a honey moon for us....sort of.
The downtown of the little village that we visited in the Ukraine was Dnipropetrovsk. They were celebrating the anniversary of the town. Well we went and it was like at 10 pm. The party did not start until about 10 anyways, well we walked the threw the city to get from one place to the other. The whole city was up and there were rides and other fun stuff....It was like the fair grounds came to town and took over more than half of the city. Every body was walking and there was games and rides and singing and food and dances and just alot more fun stuff. It took us 4 hours out there and we still did not cover everything and every step... man our feet were so sore and we barely made it to the train station than we had to walk like 3 miles to get to my grandmothers house....what a crazy day it was...but fun.... The flowers were form Jayson that he bought for me for not even two dollars.
The top picture is of me on a bridge and a fountain in the middle of the the lake of the downtown of Dnipropetrovsk. The bottom picture is of Jay looking cool and all. We went to the mall and in the mall we went to this theater, and the cartoon that we watched was like 15 minutes long but when something shook in the movie your seat shook and if there was any water in the movie you got sprayed and we had to put on these 3D glasses and it felt like you were in the movie...kinda scary at first until you get used to it. It was pretty fun...to bad we heard about it later and we were only able to go once.
Here is a picture of one of the office buildings in the Dnipropetrovsk. It was such a pretty city and lots of fun places to go and eat...eat lots of the traditional food....I miss it too much....Jayson got used to it and liked it so much he asks me to make them.