Bringing Raisa Home

Hi there. Our names are Oleg and Nataliya, we were born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to upstate NY in 1996. We are high school sweethearts and have been married for 21 years. We have 2 wonderful bio kids - 20-year old son Alex and a 6-year old daughter Victoria. We started our international adoption journey in September 2006, and in January 2008 we finally brought home our 10 (now 11)-year daughter Rachel from our hometown Odessa in Ukraine.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

One Year Home!

Where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday Rachel and I were flying home from Odessa, and yet it will be 1 year next week. It was a...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Family pictures!

We finally had our family pictures taken! My friend and co-worker Teri came over to our house to shoot our first ever professional pictures ...

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

First Mother’s Day with Rachel!

Ukraine doesn’t celebrate Mother’s Day. Instead, they celebrate a Women’s Day, which is great in my opinion – it’s a holiday for all women, ...

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Spring is here

After the crazy week of mid-80s and another week of 40s, spring finally came, and the girls are having a lot of fun playing outside. Every t...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Pen Pals

While preparing for our trip to Ukraine, I virtually "met" Kelly , another adoptive mom. We had so many similarities in our trips ...

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Weather in Rochester

March 30, 2008. Temperature: 28 ° F April 3, 2008. Temperature: 54 ° F April 18, 2008. Temperature: 85 ° F (notice the lack of leaves on the...

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Spring break

The spring break is here, and the girls are having fun. A couple of days ago we bought Rachel a new bike – something she wanted for a long t...

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