Today is baking day with the Grands.

Baking with Baba when they still needed a chair to stand on to reach the counters.

2022

2023

Baking day last year! They are taller this year and the mixing and rolling will be simpler for these two! Here’s hoping we remember to take a couple photos this morning!

Back to the present…

We woke up to an inch of snow on Monday but that has been washed away by rain. Between the rain and the snow we’ve had beautiful skies as you can see in the collage above from our Colville kids’ driveway.

Our Westside kids attended a early Christmas Eve service at Canyon Hills. Canyon Hills scheduled several Christmas Eve services this year and last night was their first of 8 services stretched out over 3 days!

We will be attending our Candlelight Christmas Eve Service at First Baptist Colville on Christmas Eve at 5pm.

I’m feeling a wee bit nostalgic looking at some photos from Christmas past…

I posted this one on Facebook yesterday.

Me, my sister Kathy and my sister Vera in Montebello, California 1967.

All eight of the Bagdanov siblings.

Our mom and pop.

Christmas Day growing up we had church on Christmas day regardless of the day it landed on. In the photos above taken on Christmas morning we were all dressed and ready to drive to Los Angeles for our Christmas services. We’d come home for lunch and then back to church in the evening. This might have been the last year we split our Christmas day at the Molokan church in the morning and the Russian Baptist Church in the evening.

I’ll save more nostalgia for another day.