Valodya lighting candles before the Good Friday service begins. Tom gave this idea to Valodya. We have done this at Capo before. After Valodya spoke we were each given a small piece of paper to write out what we wanted to nail to the cross. It still brings us to tears each time we hear the hammers ringing out. 

cross before the service 

communion table 

lining up to nail papers to the cross 

Klaus and Francie taking communion 

Cross with our sins nailed to it! 

Manuel blocking my shot! 

after the service 

All of these pictures were taken in Rome when she was six months old!

The written words are:

The Princess sleeps here!

The largest photo is her asleep in bed

The smaller one on top is her sleeping on a table in a restaraunt

The small one on the bottom is her sleeping in the stroller after we had been out for a walk

It says:

God gives us our family;

thank God we get to choose our friends!

What a cutie! Right now she is 15 months old.

In case you cannot read this it says:

Two of a kind. Tom and his best buddy Alexei. What one doesn't think of... the other one will!

Tom is teaching Alexei how to tie a tie! I am still working on designing layouts and thought these two are a great subject.