Something to think about.....

I found the above video on facebook last night. Thought it was really good. A reminder of the important things in life, things to remember to do, or to be in the New Year.

A picnic in -15 temperatures.....

...now that´s what I call crazy!!!

But that´s what my husband does every December with a group of other crazy men. They meet in the forest and talk about the year that has gone and their plans for the year ahead. (I think they cover alot of other subjects through out the evening, but wives are not let in on that information!!) The main thing is that they have a great time! They do it no matter what the weather´s like and last night it was -15 here!

Around 8pm Kristian was all set to go. He had his layers of clothing, a blanket, a bag full of goodies and loads of coffee to drink. Oh yeah, and a big smile on his face:-)

As usual they had a great evening. Kristian arrived home sometime around 3.30am!! I have said it before and I´ll say it again - CRAZY MEN!!!!

A penny for their thoughts....I think the fire has hypnotised them!

So relaxing....

This Christmas holiday has been soooo relaxng. Just what we needed!! We have done nothing but watch films, eat, go on facebook and eat some more!! It has been sooo wonderful to take time out from reality and just lock ourselves away in our wee apartment.

Yesterday I decided to paint. I needed a painting for my kitchen/dining room wall, so I decided to do something about that. I spent the afternoon painting and below you can see the result. I now want to paint two smaller ones for the other wall that so desperately needs something on it.

(The guy whose painting I copied is called Tim Gagnon. Check out his web, he is a fanatastic painter. I found him through youtube. He had a video where he painted the above picture in speed time...like in 3 minutes. I watched the video and got an idea of how he created the effect and then tried to guess the colours etc. I have now checked out his website where you can buy lessons. I am very tempted to buy some of his lessons. I just love his work. Check it out for yourselves.... http://www.timgagnonstudio.com )

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas from all of us!

Finally Christmas day has arrived. I hope that you are enjoying your day no matter where in the world you are. We have had a wonderful day - so far! We have just eaten the biggest and most delicious Christmas dinner ever - (even without the brussel sprouts and stuffing, it was delicious!) We soooo enjoyed it. Now we are all lazying around relaxing, each one of us in his/her own way. It´s wonderful!

For the Danes the big day to exchange gifts was yesterday - the 24th so late yesterday afternoon we headed down to Kristian´s sister to celebrate with his family. His other sister was there, and his brother with his family. We were 21 all together and we had a fantastic evening.

It was then home and to bed for "the real" Christmas day! I could hardly wait!! I had bought Kristian a really good present this year, something he needed but would never dream that I would buy him for Christmas. I had such a hard time not telling him about it, but I kept the surprise right to the end. So what did I buy him? A Nikon D5000 camera with an extra zoom lense. I got a bargin and I can´t resist a bargin so I just had to buy it! haha (Now my dentist money is gone so I have to start saving again, just hope the bill doesn´t come in January! haha)

Want to see Kristian´s reaction to his present? Then check out the video below...you´ll get a taste of Christmas morning at The Rasmussens!! Merry Christmas everyone!

Still no brussel sprouts....

...and the supermarket guy promised me they would have them today. A new delivery was expected:-( Then again, it was late afternoon when I went to town, so maybe they got a delivery and sold out very quickly!! Do people really LOVE brussel sprouts that much??!! Another more probable reason was the weather! We had a big snow storm last night so the roads have been awful to drive on. There have been delays and chaos everywhere. The delivery probably never arrived. Anyway I will, for the first time in years, have a Christmas dinner without brussels sprouts. I also don´t have any stuffing or Bisto gravy! What is the world coming too?!!!! Ah well, I´m sure I will survive! I´m actually sooooo looking forward to my Christmas dinner:-)

This evening Leah and I did some baking. The Chrsitmas music went on and we went mad in the kitchen. We made rice crispie buns, wee buns (or muffins as they are called over here) and lemon squares, half of which we ate this evening!

When Sara arrived home from work we all gathered in the living room and stuffed our faces, while watching Home Alone. It´s been years since we´ve seen that film. We really enjoyed it.

Now the big day awaits. Tomorrow we celebrate Christmas! Just hope the snow lets up so we can get to Hannes (Kristian´s sister) and then get back home again without any problems.

Busy,busy, busy....

...but so is everyone!! There is deadline to meet!! Ours is the 24th December!!

Yesterday was my first day off school and what a day I had planned! I didn´t manage to do everything I had planned but I got the cupboards cleared out in the living room and kitchen (yes again!! where do we get all the stuff?!!) I got our hall sorted out too! The coats and shoes that were piled out there was ridiculous! That´s all sorted now! And those 3 rooms are totally clean.

I got the food shopping done too. There was a big snow storm coming in over Denmark so I decided to do my food shopping late yesterday afternoon, just in case I couldn´t get out today.

I wanted to get in and out of town as quickly as possible.... but it wasn´t that easy. First the shop didn´t have any brussel sprouts left!! How can you run out of brussel sprouts?? I know I LOVE them but I thought I was the only one!! Apartently not!!

Then I couldn´t find a turkey breast!! None left - PANIC!! so I bought some roastbeef instead. I got a ham too, we always have ham at Christmas. However the missing turkey would not leave me alone. Is it really a Christmas dinner without turkey??? This question niggled away at my brain as I shopped. I had to find a turkey breast!!! So I did something that I didn´t want to do, I drove to different supermarkets just to check out their freezers. I finally found one!! A wee 900 gram turkey breast, not much, but at least we will all get a mouthful of the bird to make our Christmas dinner perfect!!

While I was gone Sara and Leah decided to clear up and clean out their rooms.

Sara ironed her clothes and sorted out everything in her room. She started by throwing everything outside her bedroom door, cleaned the room and then she sorted through the pile. Must say she did a good job but I wonder how long it will last, knowing Sara NOT LONG!! Usually a few hours later it´s impossible to see the floor again!

Leah did exactly the same with her room. Everything got taken down so she could clean.

She just piled everything on our bed while she cleaned and organised.

Her wardrobe was in need of help. It looked like a bomb had exploded in there. So out came all the clothes, they got folded and oragnised and now she has a beautiful, organised wardrobe...but for how long?

I was beginning to panic about not having a Christmas tree. We were meant to get it on Saturday but Kristian wasn´t feeling the best so we dropped that idea. I had gone to a few places on Monday evening to see what they had, but they only had small trees, ones that came just above your knee. The good trees were gone!! The kids were also getting rather worried that we wouldn´t have a tree this year.

But Kristian saved the day! Yesterday on the way home from work he called into a place and got the last big tree they had. We are soooo happy to have a tree even if it is an ugly old thing!!

We decorated it last night. It´s amazing what a few lights and a bit of decoration can do for a tree. It now doesn´t look sooooo bad.

Now I have another busy day ahead!! Today is our last shopping day, tomorrow the celebrations begin!! oh I can hardly wait!!!