Ice Skating Party

We celebrated Ariana's birthday last Sunday with an ice skating party for her friends. It was a fun time to get out on the ice and try our hand at skating. We had taken the girls prior and they had had such a wonderful time that we thought it would be fun to have a skating party. Natasha did great for her third time skating and didn't fall once. She loves to skate and we plan on going more often.
Natasha has completed two weeks of school now and is doing wonderfully. She is getting all her work done at school and has even told me that she helps some of the other ESL students with things on the computer which they don't understand. Her English is just growing so much and I don't talk in short choppy English much anymore to her. Lena will translate for Natasha at church once in awhile and a lot of the times Natasha says I understand before Lena finishes. So she is just doing great with English. She is getting some close friends at school as well. There are a few that she talks about often and we are so glad that she has friends at school to talk to. There is even a friend, named Tanner, which sometimes when she talks about him I always thinks she is referring to her little brother because she always calls him silly. She enjoys school except, she says, for all the walking! Some of her classes are on the opposite side of the building so she has to walk back and forth to get to these classes. I know that she'll get the hang of it as she has show us in so many other things how quickly she picks up on things.
The Olympics start tonight and we are all excited to watch them together as a family. It will be fun to see who likes what competition the best. I have a feeling that the girls are going to love the ice skating competition!

Pictures are of the skating party and Ariana's birthday