Skating fun during Christmas Break

Our son and daughter holding our new neice DJ, during the family Christmas Eve party at our home.
Greg took our daughter and her friends Meg and Mary to the local roller skating rink for some fun!
Photo of Greg Zaryk, Alexis taking a break during rollerskating.
Mary, our daughter and Meg.
Skating is the best, especially when your off from school!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Zaryk's! Snapshots of our yearly tradition of Christmas Trees!

Our Christmas tree in the front foyer, a 9-foot pencil tree. As always, click on any picture to enlarge image!
This is our tallest Christmas tree, a 14-foot Dunhill Blue Fir in our great room.
Our 7-foot dinning room tree and Greg's "A Christmas Story" leg lamp, an early Christmas gift to Greg from my father.
A better angle of Greg's leg lamp. F r a g i l e !
Greg's father painted this Icon in 1979 and is on display in our foyer during Christmastime. It's one of the last remaining oil paintings from Greg's father known to exist.
Our 7-foot tree in the kitchen.
A vintage silver aluminum tree with a spinning color wheel (not shown) in Greg's and my bedroom. Greg puts up his lighted "It's a Wonderful Life" village on top of our headboard during Christmas. Click on this picture to see the village better.
Our smallest tree is in our master bathroom. It's just under 3-feet.
Our daughter's 6-foot tree in front of her bedroom window.
Our son's 6-foot Christmas tree in his bedroom.
Grandpa's tree in his TV room.
Our 8-foot tree in the lower-level.

For the family and friends that couldn't visit us this year!

We put up a total of 13 Christmas trees! Here are 10 of them! Eight of these trees are full size. It has been a yearly tradition since we moved in our home 10 years ago. Friends and family are always welcome to come and see our trees which will be on display through Ukrainian Christmas, January 7th.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe, prosperous and healthy New Year! God Bless!

Halloween Fun!

Our pumpkins!
Meg and Mary with our daughter getting eady to go trick-or-treating with Greg.


A neighbor on our street awesomely decorated their home as a haunted house including a fog machine too.

Greg and I took the kids to a nearby apple farm in Amherst. The kids had some fun with the pumpkins!

Halloween was so much fun this year! It's hard to believe it's been over a month and a half since we went trick-or-treating! Where does time go? I'm hoping to post some pictures of some of our Christmas Trees soon!

Our recent road trip to Pennsylvania!

We went with Aunt Melanie to visit Claire at her college. We had so much fun going to PA! (click on images)
Two beautiful ladies! Our daughter's godmother, Aunt Melanie and her beautiful daughter Claire.
Mother and daughter time together!

Our Daughter's Recent Birthday!

We celebrated our daughter's birthday at our house with Grandpa, Ms. LaVerne and Meg and Mary. We then had cake at Bobchas house!



Uncle George, Fenja and Bobcha celebrated our daughter's birthday at Bobcha's house.

Aunt Val and Bobcha holding Sasha.

These rabbits are the cutest! The black and white one is called Oreo and the blue and white one is called Sasha.

Recent visit with Yuri and Nikolai along with their father George and their beautiful wives.

Arnold the Terminator have nothing on these guys!!! Greg's favorite shot of our nephews and brother-in-law...(L to R), Nik, George and Yuri. These guys along with Greg went on a cycle ride to Mantua, Ohio. This photo (above) says "Don't mess with us!"

(L to R) That's Nik's Harley Road King, Yuri's Harley 1200 and

George's Harley 883. Be sure to click on images to see these awesome Harley's up-close!

Before the ride everyone stopped to visit Greg's mom. Nik and Fenja, Greg's mom and Pei-Chi and Yuri.
Three beautiful ladies! Fenja, Lydia and Pei-Chi.

Nik and Yuri posing with their grandmother and her cat Johnny.

Summer Fun with the Z's, Part 3

Our last installment of "Summer Fun with the Z's"! Starting with watching a huge ore ship navigate through the Lock's (Lock #3) in St. Catherine's, Canada.
What's summer without going to the Cuyahoga County Fair?
We had so much fun visiting with all the animals and riding on the ferris-wheel. These cute piglets were fun to watch and pet.

Our daughter and her pet rabbit, Sasha.

The kids swimming with Greg at the hotel pool in Niagara Falls.

Misc. shots of Niagara Falls...Our favorite "summer" family destination spot.


We also visited Guinness and Ripley's "Believe it or Not" Museum and played blacklight mini-golf!
Underground black-light miniature golf and the wax museum were a lot of fun!

Wax figures of Harry Potter and the Terminator. Our summer vacations are always fun at the Falls! Next time you see any of us, ask us about the "mid-night fence" adventure!!!!