Birthdays.....

September month is always full of birthdays.. In the whole Rasmussen clan there are seven birthdays, three of which are in our wee family - Kristian, Leah and Sara! . 

Fourteen years ago on the 16th September at 5.27am Leah came into the world. She was a huge baby weighing 4700grms and was 56 cm long. She was an easy baby who ate and slept well and up until now she has been an easy teenager too. So far we can´t complain.

So Friday afternoon was spent celebrating Leah. She decided she wanted her presents after school. (We have always had the tradition that the kids got their presents in the morning when they woke. When they were small they loved this. A big fuss was made of the birthday girl or boy as they opened their presents, then a delicious breakfast was served, usually a cooked breakfast! But now that the kids are older they would rather sleep longer in the mornings, so we have started giving the presents in the afternoon.)

 So after school (and work for us) we gave Leah her presents and then celebrated with her favourite strawberry cake from the Bakery (yeah it was bought not baked, but that is just typical me!) 

 We had a lovely afternoon together. Then it was time to get ready to go out to eat. Another one of our traditions, the birthday girl or boy gets to pick a restaurant for their evening celebration (and maybe this was one of those ideas that seemed good at the time but that we didn´t think through. When they were small it was always Happy Meals at McDonalds that they wanted which was ok, didn´t cost too much  - nowdays they pick real restaurants!! I hate getting the bill!! haha)

So Leah picked her restaurant and we all headed out, well only four of us went to the restaurant. Sara had made other plans. 


You see Leah was going to camp with the church after we had visited the restaurant but Sara thought she was going after she got her presents and cake, so she made other arrangements. Rather exciting arrangements too! She had arranged with her cousin to go and look at an apartment in Copenhagen, one they might share together! (Yes it´s all rather exciting!) So Sara went off  to meet her cousin and we headed to the restaurant. 


We took a walk through the castle grounds (because we parked the car there, you know me and my free parking! haha) and we had loads of laughs taking funny pictures at the fountain.(Little amuses us!)

We finally arrived at the restaurant and had a wonderful meal. Then it was off with Leah to camp. The teenagers were going to spend the night at the church summer house. The camp started at 7pm and Leah arrived by 8pm. They had arranged a surprise party for her with presents and cake etc. She was so happy and was glad that she had decided to go even though it was her birthday. She had a great weekend away with her friends.

On Saturday morning we were invited down to Kristian´s sister´s Birthday. Her husband made a surprise brunch for her and invited us along with a few other family members.  Hanne was not expecting anyone and was rather surprised to see us standing there so early on a Saturday morning. We had a delicious brunch with loads of chatter and catching up.

 It was Hanne´s daughter that Sara had been in looking at the apartment with and they both loved it. There are in fact two apartments. The first is a biggish apartment with two bedrooms, livingroom, kitchen and bathroom. Then there is a little one room apartment with a tiny kitchen and bathroom. 


The biggish apartment is rented out until July next year,but after that Sara and Christine can rent it. 


The little one room apartment is available from February. Sara is now thinking about renting that from February to July and then she would move into the bigger apartment with her cousin in July.  It would be handy for Sara as it is only a few minutes walk from her school. She would save herself an hour and 20 minutes travel time every day.  


I think it would be great for her so let´s see what happens. She was really excited about it on Friday evening and was working out all the finances for it. As for me I was working out where I would have the bed, wardrobe etc when we finally get our old room back again!! haha

 After spending a few hours with Hanne, Flemming and the rest of the family, Kristian and I headed out to a tennis match. YES - I wrote tennis!! 


He was given free tickets to the European Championships through his work so we thought we would just check it out. We have only ever watched tennis on TV so it would be an new experience for us.  


It was Danmark playing Bosnia Herzegovina and it was fun to be in the arena while the match was on.  We stayed and watched for 1½ hours and then decided we had had enough.  We don´t know who eventually won as it was one set each when we left. It was fun to try something new, especially since it didn´t cost us anything!

Thursday was an historic day for Danmark. There was an election and  we got our first woman Prime Minister. I have never really followed politics before but this time I was really into it. I followed the different debates and found it all rather interesting! (I must be getting more mature! haha) 


Well Kristian was invited into the Parliament building to play his sax. There were big parties being held in Parliament, each political party having their own room to party in. Kristian was invited together with a gospel choir who were singing for the Christian Democratic party. 


I was at home following the election on TV and three times during the evening Kristian popped unto the TV screen. There he was standing playing his sax! He had a great evening. He said that the atmosphere was fantastic and he got to visit all the different policitical parties. He finally arrived home at 1am!! Unfortunately the Reds won and we have now got ourselves a woman Prime Minister! Let´s see how that all goes!!


An update on Dad:-  Dad is now home again. He got home on Thursday, late afternoon and is doing good. He just has to go back up to the hospital next week for a check up. He is sooo happy to be home again after 2 weeks in the hospital.


Kristian is now also going to Ireland in October.  At first we didn´t think it would work out, but it did. He will first come Saturday 15th and travel back with Leah and me on the 19th.It is not such a long time but at least he will be able to help with the heavy moving in those days. 


Sara and Andrew are staying at home to look after the cat, house and each other!