Meetings in Bloomington Illinois..

I had a meeting in Illinois on Monday which meant Gma did school pick for me...

Miss Vika decided not to take a spot at school.. hmmm... She said she "FORGOT" to take a nap. LOL Well about 5 minutes after leaving school she must have remembered to take a nap. :-)

Believe it or not.. we have scheduled our one year follow up appointment with our social worker... Praise God!!!

Prayers for the people of the blast in Moscow.

Amy and I traveled here each time we went to Moscow. We also used this airport when we left for home with Vika.


The airport blast

Snow...in the STL

Well STL had about a foot... depending where you were.
So ready for Spring! :-)

Aunt Mel was super and let the kids come over while Amy and I were at work. Vika is super smart.. She does not like the snow! So instead of palying outside in the cold snow.. she and Brook got in a warm bath and played.

After picking up the kids from Aunt Mel's I went home and cleaned the driveway with the snow blower. Justin took over snow blower at the house and did a great job. The only trouble with that is I went from running the snow blower to running the shovel. LOL :-)

We got our driveway all cleaned up and then headed to Gma Fridley's for driveway clean up. I used to have tractor duty there, but times are changing. Another tradition handed down to the younger Fridley generation.

The future class of ILS..

Stopped by the ILS basketball game last night... and these 3 cuties sat in the bleachers like they were in high school..

Brrr... its still cold in STL..

One snow day this week.. But thankfully Mrs Dolak has a few snow days built in! Yeah !! Justin and Vika spent the day with Aunt Melanie & the girls..

Can you believe we have already scheduled our 1 year post placement review by our social worker!! Thank God...

Friday Justin has a sleep over Friday night.

I have a Flight instructors seminar this Saturday so Amy & the kids will be running on their own this Saturday.

End up the post with a pciture of Vika sitting in the laundry basket on the phone while Im ironing..

Just catching up...

Brrr its cold outside...

Todays forecast is SNOW... blech! 3 to 5 inches are forecast for the STL area.

Spent the weekend inside as much as possible.... :-)

Amy and I did Yoga twice this weekend. Man do I enjoy that.. For the guys out there who think Yoga is not a work out... try it...

A look back last year this time... http://fridleysjourney.blogspot.com/2010/01/been-long-week.html

Vika & Justin are doing well... We are actually signed up for her 1 year at home review by our social worker.. Can you believe it? Praise God...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

We had a great Christmas & New Year.


The Disney trip (Walt Disney World & Disney Cruise) was outstanding!!! Vika & us enjoyed it all completely! Our cruise was a southern caribean and it was out standing.... Vika cried when we had to get off last week... We already have next years booked so she is counting down the days already.

Looking forward to 2011. 2010 was a very emotional year. Hoping for a smother but yet fulfilling year.

Thanks to Aunt Mel & EA we had da great new years eve...