Wednesday, December 31, 2008
So long tooth, so long 2008!!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Christmas . . . Part Deux
Collin gives the best reactions to presents! Grace gave him the Star Wars lego set, so she's trying to see if he likes it or not (like there's any question!). Grace with her new Barbie turn-little-girls-into-consumers cash register set (again, my daughter . . . I loved cash registers when I was little). . .
Our traditional aebleskiver Christmas breakfast. We have also had nonalcoholic gløgg the last few years, which is warmed, spiced fruit juice with slivered almond and raisins at the bottom of the mug. I grew up eating cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast so this year I decided to make some to bring back the memories. YUM!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Christmas . . . Part One
Our traditional "very Danish" Christmas eve dinner of frikadellar (ground meat patties), potatoes, rod krohl (red cabbage) etc. Yummo.
Jons family has a great tradition of having a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas eve, but with food treats (see why I married into this family?). So this is after we were done with our "loot" as Collin likes to call it. . .
Friday, December 19, 2008
December Randomness
As I was going through my camera, I came across some that I didn't take and had to laugh at this one. Grace's turtle . . . in a bowl . . . I love being a mom!!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Advent
One of our favorite things about this time of year is celebrating Advent for the 4 Sundays before Christmas. We read Christmas stories and sing Christmas songs and eat a treat. There need to be about 30 Sundays for all the cookie recipes we want to try every year. Tonight was Almond Crescents. Delish. We used to have my sisters come over to do it with us and we made song books for each of us that I've been adding to every year. We love Advent! But we also miss having the kids aunties with us. Maybe next year . . .
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tagged
I just read on my sis-in-laws blog that she tagged me to list some 8's. That is just too many for me so since I was 4th on the list, I will do four things. . .
"The Christmas Miracle"
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Tragedy Strikes . . .
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Start of the Holidays
Collins Nutcracker ornament from the Nutcracker play that he starred in last year . . .
My mom, aka Martha Stewart's twin, makes gingerbread houses every year. Meaning making dough from scratch, rolling it out, cutting out the house shapes, baking them, drying them etc. for us to decorate. . . now that we live here we had to do it boxed style. Jon got out the dremel tool and glue gun, and we were in "bidniss". . .
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thanksgiving
I think one of the signs of a successful Thanksgiving dinner is when every pot and utensil in the house is dirty, so judging by our mess, ours was a huge hit. This is an "after" picture of the kitchen. (I used a different camera for the dinner and the card reader for that got left at Jons office, so they'll have to come later. I know you're heart broken.)We had a very quiet but good day with just the four of us and I am thankful that we were able to have so much this year to be able to make a dirty kitchen for Thanksgiving!!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Success!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Taste of fall . . .
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Gracie Loo, Suzie Q, Scooby Doo . . .
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Mom Randomness
This is Grace in one of her classes playing tug-of-war . . .
While I was looking at pictures on my phone I found this one from a long time ago. Grace loves to bring a "friend" with her in the car and I was saying that he (the frog) needed to be safe, so I buckled him in the front seat and the kids thought it was so funny so I took a picture to remind me of times I could make them laugh and didn't even have to work at it . . .