Hanukkah 2011

Grand Floridian First Stop on Hanukkiah Scavenger Hunt

Dayna innocent bystander in purple shirt

Hanukkiah at the Grand Floridan Resort

Bay Side Tower Contemporary Resort

Ft. Wilderness Resort

Boardwalk Resort

Magic Kingdom in background

Seven Seas Lagoon

Dayna's Owl sketch

David Pavlik 3rd lighting the Hanukkah Candles First Night

David Jr. & Nory Pavlik

David and Mimi Pavlik

Dayna, Vivian and Jillian

Left-Alexis, Jim, Axel, Stephen, Alex, David & Kiril

Dayna, Jamie, Rebeka, Ben, Ian Jayce, Vivian & Jillian

Jordan, Johnny, Maria and David

The first night we had David & Nory Pavlik over for dinner. After the visit the Lord gave David this song, Be a Maccabee.  Let's be different in a indifferent world.  

In the middle of the week we had David & Mimi Pavik for Dinner.
Also sharing a Hanukkah Dinner with the Blume family and friends.  On Shabbat David starred as King Antiochus with young adults assisting in the retelling in dramatic presentation of the story of Hanukkah

Sunday we travelled to five resorts on a scavenger Hunt for Hanukkiahs 
We shared gifts, Jillian wrote encouraging notes to her friends and Dayna painted an Owl for Jillian and Wine bottle/wine glass sketch for Daddy

Dayna wrote a poem for Mommy that made me cry.  We retold the miracle of Hanukkah that The Maccabees had a great victory over the Greek Empire and rededicated the temple for Yahweh.

We focused on being a separate family in the Greek world we live in today.

This was our Feast of Dedication, Hanukkah Celebration.

I Corinthians 6:19-20

Realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, ²⁰ for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

Dayna's Poem to Mommy at Hanukkah

A soft voice

A gentle smile

A peaceful gaze

In a sense of style

A loving mind

A caring heart

A creation of God

That's set apart

A remarkable soul

A face so radiant

A skillful person

She's the perfect parent

My Mommy