Kielbasa Day 2010

Yes...we had lots of fun!
Our daughter holding her cousin just as the Kielbasa-Day festivities were about to start. (Click on any photo to enlarge.)
Brother Kurt was the master formula mixer! Kurt had exclusive control over the 75 year-old family recipe for both, the Italian and Polish formulas.
A team of stuffers getting ready to stuff 500+ lbs.!
Our daughter and Lexie mixing fresh kielbasa.
Brother Kevin is blowing-up natural casings!
Our son starting a coil of kielbasa along with Jared and Abbey from the stainless steel kielbasa press.
The official weigh and packaging team, Ann, Ora and Susie.
Over 500+ pounds of kielbasa made!
Grandpa and the army of horseradish grinders!
Yes, even the strong can't survive grinding fresh horseradish!
Nobody could stop from tearing up!
Official Announcement!..declaring Ora Holowenko as the official Kielbasa Queen of 2010
Aunt Ora is crowned Kielbasa Queen 2010!
Grampa was crowned Kielbasa King! We had so much fun..if you can, join us next year for Kielbasa Saturday!

Our son's confirmation.

Our daughter making a snowman in the back yard.
Our son with his cousin and confirmation sponsor, Zach. They're getting ready to go to church for confirmation.
Cousin Zach, our son and Bishop Lennon celebrating after the confirmation ceremony.

Having fun during the long winter!

Trying out a 4-wheeler at the IX-Center's cycle show.
Getting ready to leave for the Father-Daughter dance.
Our handsome son holding up the tree!
Greg took our son, daughter and her good friend Meg to the nearby metroparks.
The Zaryk men!
GZ relaxing by the fire on a Saturday afternoon.

Celebrating Uki Christmas at Bobchas House.

Our son clearing away all the snow (almost a foot!) at Bobchas. (Click on any picture to see close up!)
Our daughter and Bobcha.
Nik trying out Bobcha's Zen garden.
Bobcha opening up her Christmas gifts.
Our son opening up his gift from Uncle George and Aunt Linda.
Bobcha and our daughter playing with Bobcha's Zen Garden that was given to her from Val and George.

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 and 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!