The Rasmussen Family: Back to normal....

....well as normal as I can be!!
After a few days of celebrating Kristian´s 50th birthday, life, once again, settled back to the normal every day routine.

I must admit by Friday I was feeling rather exhausted!! I hadn´t stopped all week and was in need of a relaxing evening. Kristian was off work Friday (9 sept) however he was up at 6am ready to travel to the other side of Denmark for a go-kart race. He would be away all weekend.

I would be alone Friday evening, so I had a plan. I came home from work, spent 3 hours cleaning the house, changing the beds and doing the washing. I have no idea where I got my energy from but I knew if I got everything organised and cleaned on the Friday afternoon then I would have a weekend without housework!

It felt soooo good to accomplish what I had set out to do and I rewarded myself with a delicious dinner, some chocolate and a cola!! It was then feet up on the sofa to watch some TV and a film. It was the perfect Friday evening!

Last Saturday morning I was able to relax. In the afternoon I headed over to my other neigbhours house for a Summer party in her garden. It was sooo much fun. We went into the forest in teams, and had different competitions and quizs to complete. It was fun to meet her family. It was then back home to get ready for an evening out with my crazy friend Anne.

We went to a lovely Italian restaurant not far from us. We had delicious food. The weather was gorgeous so we were able to sit outside and enjoy both the food and weather.

After dinner we went a walk around the small town and found some lovely shops - pity they were closed, although maybe it was just as well they were closed! We were in the mood to spend money and buy clothes!

We had such a cosy evening exploring the wee town. At 8pm we headed over to the cinema to see the new Bridget Jones film. It was so funny.

It was then home to me for coffee/tea and a good old natter. It´s great to have friends to share life with.

There was also time for a bit of silliness! There was a lot of laughter. Anne left in the wee hours of the morning! We really have to remember that we are not sooo young anymore! It was a killer getting up on Sunday morning!

I spent time during the week looking at old photos again. I found some funny ones from a few years back.....

I was also looking for photos of Leah from when she was small. It was her birthday on Friday and I wanted to use some of the photos to decorate the table for our evening meal. I found some cute ones of her.

It really doesn´t feel so long ago that she was this size....

Friday 16th Leah turned 19!! Once again we were celebrating!

We had invited Andrew and Camilla to dinner and also one of Leah´s friends. Thank goodness she didn´t want a huge party for her birthday. Lasse unfortunately could not get away from the army to come celebrate with us.

We had a lovely evening together. Good food, good company and a good film to end it all! Just what we all needed on a Friday evening!

Leah got some new things for her room. She wants to paint and re-arrange her room so she was sooo happy for the new things that she got!

Saturday morning I was up early. Laura, Pernille and I had planned a girls day out. We started the morning at McDonalds for breakfast. It was Egg Mcmuffins all around - yummy!!

Then we headed over to this huge material and wool shop. It was amazing. I was getting sooo inspired to make things. We were there to find material for Laura to make new cushions for her sofa. We spent a few hours there and could easily have spent even more hours, but we wanted to get to the farmers market too!

It was late afernoon when I got home. It had been the perfect Saturday out.

Leah arrived home from work and got ready for a date with Lasse. He had come home to take her out for dinner to celebrate her birthday.

Today my mother-in-law had invited her daughters and daughters-in-law to lunch.

We had such a great afternoon together, just us girls! (well our wee nephew happened to sneak into the party but that was ok, he was allowed to stay! :-)