1. Mementos & Prikols of the year 2005 passed. From the Gorodnichy family: Part 1

2. The way it started: lots of snow

3. Practicing the feeling of sisterhood (Jan)

4. … and the feeling of space too

5. February: Hello, Buddy!

6. Mittens are good for many purposes…

7. Hello, my dear buddy, again!

8. Sure, eating together is more enjoyable (Feb)

9. More on eating together: Some are not looking for easy ways to eat Borch, while others have already finished it!

10. Still, eating together is good, as long as there is some food

11. Not only gloves are multi-functioning (or before doing ballet on your toes, your need to warm them first)

12. Sluzhu Sovetskomu Souzu! (feels like in the army)

13. March: Still lots of snow

14. We can make some real good pictures too! (March)

15. Hey, look at my fingers ! (April)

16. While you have fun, I’ll get some work done … and mine too.

17. I love my horse - I painted it (April) Spring opens new horizons for activity. But old activities shall not be forgotten

18. Happy 3 rd Birthday, Mila, from your sisters

19. I don’t know what I’m here supposed to do …

20. Watching other performing – that’s a different story Year end concert (in Russian School)

21. Part 2. Travelling and Camping

22. May: Travelling (by plane, by boat, by car) – Vancouver & Vancouver Island

23. Will I make it? (Papa, stop taking pictures - come and help your 3-year old daughter cross the Creek!) How wide is this tree?.. Some go fast. Some sleep at the same time (2-hour hike in rain forest) What Mila feels looking at this live star-fish (Vancouver)?

24. Sometimes it’s less :( (For Roxana) Sometimes it’s more fun:)

25. What a stay!

26. Looks – who’s there!

27. May: We just like it here (Vancouver)!

28. Aug: More camping, more boating, more bon-fire (around Ottawa)

29. August: listening radio, making a car

30. Pictures of wild camping (everybody goes wild eating yogurt)

31. Other types of wildness unexpected Wave, wild horses & wild dancing

32. Thrill and clean hands always!

33. Not afraid of waves anymore (small ones for now:)

34. Challenges and emotions of the real ocean.

35. Part 3. Back to school and to winter

36. Meet the rock-star! (Sept)

37. Fans are exuberant!

38. Mila (3y4m) and Roxana (1y7m) back to school

39. Join our fitness program: 1 hour of hike with two children on your shoulders every week-end is guaranteed to keep in you in shape) And you’ll get high… and entertainment too! (Both of them trying to sit at the same stone:)

40. Looking for a dish? Beware – you may find something else...

41. To drive that fast, you have first to... (Oct) No pictures please!

42. … refill your gas tank!

43. Wanna apple? - Lets pick some! (Oct)

44. Leaves – a matras, a foam-pit & the beauty (Oct)

45. Two sisters at Halloween!

46. “Keep your arms straights. Now lift up you legs. Keep everything straight” says papa… (Nov)

47. … “Crawl underneath my bridge! First, you - mama! Now, you – Roxana!” says Mila (Sept)

48. We like riding sleighs! (even on icy slopes. Ouch)

49. But some like it even more just pulling sleighs! (Roxana pulled both sleighs all the way home from the hill– 0.5km)

50. After 20 min on sleighs pulled by papa as he and mama skied on a 2 km trail, Roxana finally needed some comfort. (Dec)

51. And of course, Ded Moroz has come to see our Beau Sapin. And this time neither Mila nor Roxana were afraid of him (as they were with all previous Père Noëls)…

52. Because Ded Moroz was … But please don’t tell this to them this, because they still ask Dmitry to tell more about those Rain Deers of Ded Moroz Dmitry was guarding to allow Ded Moroz to stay longer at our place.

53. Wishing you a Peaceful and Inspiring year 2006 ! Roxana, Mila, Alexandra, Dmitry