We have a crawler!

Our little sweets has hit another milestone. A few weeks shy of 9 months and she is crawling. Ella has been crawling....backwards for the last month or so and rocking so we knew it was getting close. Well on Sunday I put her down thinking she would stay put for a moment and I walked away...well she FOLLOWED!! Were so proud of our little one. She is doing great. Now I get to look forward to the constant checking of the floor and then dare I say it....WALKING!

The Home...

Downstairs- the basement is finished and they gave us all you see in this room! The entertainment center, 2 couches and a recliner! We took all they offered!!

This is upstairs, I have since added a console table that goes in front of the window. The old owners also left us the 2 couches, end tables and lamps in the background.

The girls room! I love that they have thier own space right now. I have thier Names up now with a few pics and if we get it, well be touching up the paint to make it a bit more "girly"

The front of the house.

My favorite part of the house, HANDS DOWN. The kitchen. This thing is HUGE! It has a bar to die for and we were given some stools to boot! They also left the fridge which was a blessing. Cant quite get the full effect of the kitchen here, but believe me. Anyone would love it!

Notice I did not say "Our home..." We hope that it will be shortly, but as most things go, the process has been sped up a bit and were desperately trying to get all the "ducks in a row" to make this happen. Please keep us in your prayers. I believe we are shooting for June as the closing date. At any rate, here it is...keep in mind it is RIGHT after we moved in, so it looks a bit more put together now.

The 2 car garage is seperate from the house, which is nice and not so you cannot see it, but it is there. There is also a sandbox behind the garage and a swing set in the backyard which we have already taken advantage of! We also have a shed in the back with a small loft above. So fun for summer sleepovers!!

Come and see us to get th full effect- we would LOVE to see you!

The Martushev's

Chubba Chubba

Out little Ella LOVES the water... which makes her Dad very happy as he is an excellent swimmer. Its the getting out part that we tend to have a struggle with. So what do we do to remedy the situation?

Put her in front of Little Einsteins of course! It gives me the time I need to get her lotioned, clothed and ready to go. And Ella? When her friends are on, she could care less what is happening around her.


I must have said her name 5 times...Nope. Nada. Nothin.

But our little chubba chubba sure is cute.

Tuckered Out.

Ella had a rough day. She was getting over being sick (only the icky 24 hour thing-thank goodness) and so I decided to let her just roll around for a minute with her bottle and see if she would soothe herself to sleep. WELL...

31...and Counting

Artyom turned the big 31 on Sunday and we celebrated Russian style with all of his friends over for a small get together. It was so much fun. Sofia and I made Papa a tie quilt of U of U print and Sofia (with Betsy's help) had the cutest card for him Ill have to post those pics later.

Anyway. Happy Birthday My Red Flame! Hope it was a good one.

And yet...he does

Our two little valentines...
This was taken after I started to make breakfast and did not hear anyting from the hall in a few minutes. Sofia helping herself to the CHOCOLATE!

When I married Artyom, he was very blunt in informing me that I should not expect flowers, presents, etc. throughout our marriage as he is just now that way. YET. On the day that has been established as the day of love, or the day people are forced to pay moola for chocolate, the girls and I woke up to this....

A balloon for each of his girls and chocolate to BOOT! He went at 1 in the morning after we were all fast asleep and set it up for us. Funny thing is: he thought the susprise was ruined when I woke up about 3AM to get a bottle for Ella. I didnt even notice it! Great job my Red Flame. It was a great day with the bouncy house, lunch with Paul, Liane and Madalyn and a very quiet evening with the girls.

Everyone loves brown and blue eyed girls!

yone loves brown and blue eyed girls!

Just had to post this one, where Ella's eyes are SO blue and Sofia has her beautiful browns. Maybe we will get a green eyed next. (No, I am not announcing anything). Just relishing my two little sweets.

A day in the life

A day in the life

I have a great job where the girls get to come to work with me and and even greater girl, Betsy who watches them downstairs while I am in my office. I asked her to get some candid pics of the girls the other day and this is what she gave me. There were so many to choose from, I took just a few. Thank you Betsy! We love you!