Sara is 19 years old....

It was her birthday yesterday - 19 years old! Only 1 year left as an official teenager!! (Depressing or what?!!)

So Sara wanted a new room for her birthday. (And believe me, she didn´t have too much bother talking me into getting her that present!!) So last Thursday we headed off to the one and only.... IKEA!! Then it was off to the paint shop to get some paint and new wall paper. She wanted one wall done black with silver flowers (I know it sounds disgusting but it looks really well!)

So all day Saturday was spent painting and decorating her room.

Now how many hours can it take to wallpaper a tiny wall that has a big window in it? Well for Laura and Kristian it takes 4 hours!! (3hours spent arguing about how to do it and 1 hour doing it! haha) It really did take us 4 hours to paper it, we had no idea what we were doing! And with the wall paper having a pattern, we had to get it matched - what a nightmare!! and with a window to paper around too!! It was more than our wee brains could manage!

We finally got the paper on and it looks pretty good! Only a couple of places had to be patched together!! haha Sara was a happy girl!

She also wanted a thing to hang her clothes on (can´t think of the English name for it at this moment). She didn´t want an extra wardrobe, but wanted her clothes to be seen on this stand. It looks ok , wouldn´t be my choice, but she loves it!!

I couldn´t let her birthday go by without a wee present to open, so she got a tray/desk thing, from us all. She can use it to put her laptop on while she is in bed. She was over the moon!

Kristian woke up sick on her birthday. He was meant to be teaching at some course but woke up with absolutely no voice - although now and again there was a wee croak from him!! He also had a bit of a fever.....so off to bed he went again. That meant that last night it was just the kids and I that went out celebrating. We headed out to the local Chinese for a buffet. It was a lovely evening. We were all home by 8pm as Sara had loads of homework to do!!

Now all the birthdays are over for another year!! Phew - we survived again!