kiddies

All quiet on the Brussels front

Haven't heard (or seen any posts) from the Ives in a while. Everybody else is on board.

Click on the link to see our chanukkah pix

Slideshow

Chanukkah Sameach

Bangitout.com - Interactive Singing Menorah

Chanukkah in SD

 

fun pics

Shechianu, I have pics to share! :)

Uriel's masterpiece: Ice sculpture of a car

Chanuka Party!!!!!

b"h

K, i've been officially a member of this blog and i never go on it and i never post...... but i think i might become an active contributor :) here's tons of pics of the awesome chanuka party at ari and sharons -thanks ari and shira for the delicious food and sharon for the clean up! :)

Happy Birthday!!!!

Happy birthday Sara! Happy Chanukah to everyone. All the brochos bgashmius and bruchnius.

Calender!!

Ok everyone this is the story...I am willing to make a calendar, if you are willing to help. How?? If you send me pictures (yes even you Shaindy and Sara:) So if you would like 2 be in the calendar, you have 2 days-if you need one extra, call me otherwise i will assume that you do not want your kinderlach to be in the calendar. So anyways you have 2 days-till monday night california time to send me(the bold ones r mandotory-the others are optional):
1) Individual pictures of everyone in your family
2)Whole family pic-parents and kids
3)Pic of your kids together
4)Pic of you and your spouse
5)any pics that have bubby, zeide, uncle dan or me in them
6)any pics of people eating(and in our family i sure you will have no prob with that ;)
7)your wedding pic-just shira
8)purim costume
9)any other cute pics
10)commonly found (for ex. orin-sleeping with gemara, me-eating, dad-on skype, uriel and eyal-fighting:)
11)the correct hebrew dates for your birthdays, anniversary-any other date you would like noted on the calendar
12)any other ideas you have

If you don't have pics then please follow the steps below:
1)charge your camera
2)give your kids naps
3)invite a bored friend over
4)hand them your camera
5)smile
6)upload the pictures
7)send them to me

Please post on this so that i know you got it and so i know that you read to the bottom:)

Rivka!

PSI-What's with 9 kislev?!?

I think it's something with 9 kislev...any of the nieces or nephews that were not born on 9 kislev, their names start with an aleph or a mem. Only dina and rivka don't :)

mazel tov to the ives on your newest addition, rivka. It's a beautiful name. Was she named after anyone? Hope mommy baby and family are doing well. May you guys have lots of nachas from rivkah. post some pics cant wait to see her!!!
love,
sharon, ari, avigayil and micha

Mazal Tov!

Wow! Mazal Tov Sara and Zevi, we are thrilled!(b'h Mendy and Dina have been having a constant flow of new cousins) This is really exciting. May you only have Nachas and Simchas from all your children and from all those you come into contact with. A Gut Voch

Find Uriel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akXHHgwzDPY

micha and avigayil

The long awaited cuties!!

Our Sunday afternoon outings have transitioned to e-outings due to the change in weather. We ate with Shluchim the world over: Belgium (our brother-in-law! YM had an easier time getting into the kinus than Zevi did...), and Shabbos day at the Volvovskys with Shluchim from Milwakee, Silver Spring (worked with Uncle Joe), Santa Rosa, CA (I never heard of it) , and Cypress.
Please contact us by phone only, as it may be until the next kinus before we check the blog again...
Love,
Yisroel Meir and Shira

Just thought it was a pretty inspiring story...

You know the saying "but from my students i leart the most?"
So as you all know, on Sunday we had a really nice Friendship Circle sailing event. One of our regular volunteers came with his whole family, and they had a lot of fun bh. Then on Monday afternoon we had hebrew school. This volunteer's younger brother is around 9 years old and was in one of my classes. During davening, we get into a lot of discussions and talk about why and what we are saying. So by hareini mikabel, I was asking them what we where saying and one of my students said, we are telling Hashem that we are going to love our friends and family. I started explaining to them-that ahavas yisroel isn't just for our friends etc. Then this boy (who was ar the program the day b4) says "Morah Esther that's what Friendship Circle does right? I mean the whole point is that we are making friends with these kids that are different for us and don't have any real friends. That's really nice. You see I understand these kids because i'm also different. I have ADHD but i still like being with friends."

Heart Of Sailing

Baruch Hashem we had a really successful program on Sunday-BOATING!!! And we had a clown that did face painting (that we brought) and all sorts of fun things. Of course we can't forget our wonderful troupe of clowns (that we did NOT bring) called "Clowns of....." basically some religious mexican kids and guys who dressed up as clowns who sang a bunch of their prayer songs. don't ask!!! cuz enough of our families already did :)

Happy Birthday Bubby!!!

well you tell me which clip is cuter!

congratulations on our blogs one year anniversary

Well, we've had a pretty slow start as far as making this the most happening blog out there. But it has really been nice having it. Anyway, like with any birthday it is time to re-access and see how we c2an make it even bigger and better. Should we add more relatives to it. Should we make some sort of blog competition- etc.

Uriel scored a touchdown!!!

green kids