1. day Christmas from morning to evening! :-)

*** Merry Christmas to all our friends and family ***

And thank you very much for all the presents and the nice Christmas cards.

After a good breakfast Lisa started her treatment - then we went out for a walk :-)

Nicolai and Lars playing in the snow! :-)

After some hours outside it was good to come to Sveins parents for dinner. We ate good food and toooo many calories... :-(

Christmas Eve - Kids are sooooooooo exited :-)

Calories :-) - Dona and the kids ready for Christmas :-)

Table decoration is finished

Eating time - Pinnekjøtt on the menu! Lam :-) Dona was a bit worried because of the sheep smell in the house, but she said it was OK :-)

WOW, santa is on its way..... :-) Lisa a bit scared :-(

And the winner is! Hilde :-) New bike, juhu - And Alf PS3 - Cool :-)

Dona so happy for presents - Lars gave a good hug to Santa :-)

So many nice presents - Anna gave santa a hug :-)

A really nice santa. Dont think he was from this part of Norway, he talked a bit strange according to the kids :-)

Christmas day - Soo much snow outside!

What a fantastic morning! After a cozy breakfast Svein went outside with the kids while mum was inside preparing food for later. :-)

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" :-) And so it comes! :-)

Week 50 - Preparing for Christmas

Dona, massasje me please! :-) 10 times! :-) - Present from Lars, nice flower

A visit to Klepp to say hello to Jonas, Ingrid, Mona + family

Going to great grandparents graveyard with flower and candle

A walk in the streets - Looking for christmas tree

I think we go for this tree mum! :-) Lars fiend for sleepover. With pizza ofcourse! :-)

Sooooo much snow, Svein has to clean the garden

Decorating the Christmas tree - One new tigger in the family :-) Unfortunately one of the ornament is missing, so I was really angry when I discovered that. I just have to find it somewhere.

Playing outside in the snow - Preparing for dinner guests :-)

My sister with family, Mum and Alf + grandmum for dinner - Steak! :-)

Family Soma are home from Singapore for some weeks. So nice to see them again.

Sveins parets are here for a visit. Its nice to play some games :-)

Santa Lucia in Kindergarten :-)

Breakfast in the kindergarten. Parents came to watch the kids walking a parade and sang Santa Lucia. Sooooo cute! :-)

Week 49 - Riga to visit dad and Helena

Lene, Svein Terje and myself took 05:40 flight to Riga Friday morning. Quite early, but at the same time.... then we were in Riga already 09:40 (they are one hour in front of us). Unfortunately Johnny was still in Canada so he couldn't join us :-(

Look at the nice snowman in the midle of the park :-)

A pitstop for a "Riga Balzam" - it tasted actually quite good :-)

A walk around in the city......

....... and in the markeds

Very pretty town :-)

29 big Christmas trees around the city. They were very beautiful :-)

Dad open presents, a new calender and some new Sebago shoes - Dinner at home! :-)

Walking around on different markeds - like in Baku :-)

Dinner at TGI. Dad and Helena did not like the place, they said it reminded them of Mc Donald. Well, the food was very good and it tasted delicious. What more can you ask for, and far far away from Mc Donald on our point of view! :-) Maybe they are toooooo old for this kind of place? :-)

We had to clean Helenas roof balcony. She was afraid that the snow would melt and go into the house. It was a pleasure watching dad working removing the snow. Can you imagine! :-) Mr. Svein B. Svangtun himself in action? It was absolutely fab! :-)

View from the roof :-) - Svein Terje taking a break on the balcony :-)

You wount believe this either, but he was even removing snow from the car. "Der ingen skulle tru at Svein kunne bu" :-) In Latvia :-) Colder than he wants to admit he like it! :-)

Kids menu at Lido - Our last meal was as Lido. A huge buffet were you could pick what you wanted and pay for what was on the plate. They had some nice tips for kids plate! :-)

Lido by night. Its 16:00 and about time to go to the airport. Thanks for a great weekend in Riga. We had so much fun. It was great to see dad and Helena again. See where they lived and all the surroundings :-) A relaxing weekend with some SPA, shopping, sightseeing and being with family. So totally a great success! :-) Hope to come back! :-)