A wee reminder....

Its the first Saturday in the month - you know what that means!!! Its
LIVE CHAT NIGHT
for anyone who wants to come along and chat.

I will be on from about 8pm (english time). (This time I really cant stay on till the wee hours of the morning - I have to be at church early tomorrow, Leah is singing and needs to be there early....but I am sooo looking forward to chatting tonight - hope some of you can make it!)

For those of you new to it - just press the button on the left hand side of the screen. The one that has a smiley face and says - CHAT WITH ME. See you later!!

A Brand new them....

Sara and Andrew decided that today was the start of a fitter, healthier life!! This decision was helped alot by the fact that the sun was shining and Sara had just bought herself a new pair of running shoes. But to give Sara credit, she has spent the last few months training for her go-kart trip to Belgium so she is in pretty good shape. Andrew on the other hand has a lot of work to do!! The only thing fit on him is his fingers from pressing the computer keys!!

So this afternoon Sara went for a 5 km run. She was so energized from that, that 15 minutes later she was wanting to go out and run again!! So she got Andrew in on it too. He was literally pressurised into going a run. (He tried to come up with every excuse in the book, but Sara had an answer and a solution to any excuse he had. In the end he caved in!)

Off they went....

Then this evening I have been playing taxi driver. Kritian had to be left off at his friends house. He is staying there this evening and has tomorrow off work. His friend has bought a boat and so early tomorrow morning they are driving to the fartherest part of Denmark so they can sail it home over the weekend.

Glad its him and not me. I get sea sick just thinking about it. Anyway he was so excited about it all. He had all his sailing gear ready (most of it borrowed from friends and family since we dont have any of our own.) The good news is that I have the car for work tomorrow, which is quite alright with me:-) Another bit of good news it that tomorrow is my last day at work before Easter!! Yipieeeee!! I have all next week off plus the Monday of the following week. I can hardly wait!!

Summer time

It´s now offically summer time, so Leah and I thought it was about time we tried to learn a bit of French.

This evening we got out the "Learn French" disc and got it installed on the computer. (Now this was no easy task -believe me!! The disc I have is about 12 years old so it wouldnt play on the newer computers in the house. Leah has an old computer that Kristian put together for her from old pieces of everybody elses broken computers. Thankfully the disc worked on that, but her poor computer couldnt keep up, so after about 20 minutes it went blank! Bit like the rest of us when we get up in years - it needed a wee rest.)

We did get to learn some words before the computer went blank and now we are having fun walking around the house asking each other "Where is the train station?" "Where is the bank?" Once the computer rests for a while it should be up and running again by tomorrow.

Kristian took a bit of a video just as we were getting started. We didnt even realise he was filming - we were so involved in our new language!! (and working out how the programme worked!) haha

We sure did have fun!

Tea for two...

This was a Friday night with a difference. Usually all the kids are home, we get cosy with our sweets, crisps and cola and we watch X-factor. Well this Friday was different. Leah was going to stay with her friend Mia, Sara was going to her friend Magnus and Andrew was going over to Thomas. Suddenly it was just Kristian and me that would be home for dinner and Xfactor.

We had to drive Leah and Sara to their different friends, so we decided we would get a bit dressed up, and after leaving them off, head out on a date night together. We dropped the girls off and then decided to try a local restaurant in our town and just give X-factor a miss.

However as we drove to our town we both were unsure about what we really wanted to do. We just couldnt decide if we really wanted to miss X-factor. In the end we decided, we would try one of the local pizzerias that we hadnt tried and just head home for X-factor, it was afterall the final. (We are such loyal fans!)

And so thats what we did. We got two different pizzas so we could share. They were delicious. We sat in front off the TV and ate them while watching Friends. It was sooo cosy. Then X-factor started. It was such a good show and to top it the guest group to sing was Take That. I loved Take That when they were out all those years ago. So I must admit, I went a bit crazy!!

Our favourite singer won! We had voted for her right from the start. Kristian actually knows her. She sang in a gospel choir that he went to Italy with about 7 years ago.(Kristian was the guest sax player) She belonged to the local Pentecostal church at that time.

If you want to have a listen, check her out below. I love her singing this song! Here´s Linda......

They´re back!!

.....and you wouldnt half know it!! The house, that had been tidy all week, looked like a bomb had hit it within a few hours of them coming home. Having said that, it is just GREAT to have them home again. (They arrived home at 4am Thursday morning!)

They had a brilliant trip to Belgium. Have a look at some of their photos.....

Here they are all set to go. This was taken Saturday morning, before them lay 850km.


But the girls were happy. They enjoy being together, they always have lots of fun!

They ate some good food during the week.

And ran into a snow storm!!

Monday there was rain, Tuesday there was snow! The weather wasnt on their side. But that didnt stop the Vikings!! They were out training whether there was rain, shine or snow!!

Below is Sara in her new sponsored cart.

Winnie gets some brotherly advice from Ronnie!

What can I say? - the trip was a big success. I think this is going to turn into a Rasmussen tradition!!

Winter is back....

....I awoke this morning to a few flakes of snow flying around outside!! I couldnt believe my eyes. Yesterday was soooo nice, it actually felt like spring and today was the total opposite, so cold and wintery.

After work I came home and collected Leah. We then headed over to my friend Jettes house. She had sms´ed me yesterday asking if I wanted to come by as her hubby was in Finland with his work and she knew Kristian was also gone. Her wee son Jonathan was sick with a throat infection, so she couldnt go anywhere with him.

So Leah and I headed over there. We ordered some chinese and spent a lovely few hours with them. It was just what Jette and I both needed - a good girlie natter and a bit of a laugh. Even though Jonathan was sick, he was still as cute as ever, a real wee charmer.