Happy Christmas/Glædelig Jul!

Wishing you a very merry christmas and a fantastic new year!

With love from the Hart-Larsens

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Freezing temperatures

Johannes holding on tight to Molly.

The water is frozen in the fjord....

its very slippy! This is the shore line!

Back home to prepare for christmas night.....

Christmas dinner, there are 2 ducks and a Linda McCartney nut roast in the oven as I write ; )

Dancing around the christmas tree, Aunty Viki's song book is at the ready

Presents from Father Christmas, fingers crossed!

Nissene/elves...

We're up at the summer house now ready for a danish christmas.

Here are the little ones preparing rice pudding/risengrød for the elves!

We all eat rice pudding on the 23rd, with butter and cinnamon sugar. The leftovers are used to make a christmas desert of rice, whipped cream, almonds and hot cherry sauce. The traditional pud of the christmas dinner on the 24th dec.

We took a little bowl of the rice pud out to the elves in the wood shed. The elves are often nice and leave little chocolates and things around for us, but sometimes they play tricks on us, like turning the milk pink! At the kindergarten where I work one morning we came in to find tolilet paper hanging all over! You never know where you are with the elves!!!

With christmas fast appraoching we thought we better be very nice to them!

The next morning we found an empty bowl and a big present, a marble run.

Those elves must have liked that rice pud!

Grandparents day!

Alfie's kindergarten had a grnadparents day, it coincided with a visit from grandad, so both sets were represented : )

There was decoration making, jigsaws, sewing, baking followed by lunch and a trip to church with parents and siblings. The day finished with æbleskiver (a danish doughnut/cake) and glogg/mulled wine.

Alfie thought all this was great!

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Other news...,

Alfie made lollipops at kindergarten to his great delight!

We went to our village christmas party on Saturday, Father Christmas visited and all the children got lucky bags.

Alfie could only join in with the games when he'd eaten all his sweets, he's inherited his mum's sweet tooth... ; ) The giant tree was traditionally decorated with Danish flags, mini drums, angel hair and real candles!

We've decorated oranges with cloves and sequins (with colourful pins through the middle), a easy and effective holiday craft : )

Now best get cracking with; christmas cards, I'm very late for international post I'm afraid, collecting more firewood, stoking the fires, christmas cookies, getting ready for Grandad's arrival and cleaning (always last on the list I'm afraid!!!).

Hope everyone's december days are going merrily with time for a bit of realxation!

Trip to London

Two weekends ago I made a quick trip to London to visit my sister and mum.

It was a great trip away without the kids!!!

This is Vik's new house, very nice indeed!

We did alot of christmas shopping and wrapping with a tape dispenser that goes on your arm!

outside activities

Off to deliver eggs to a neighbour...

Sledging at Stenkilden, molly's not as daring as Alfie but she did have one go!

Alfie and Christian in their element!

Molly and I left the boys to it and went home to make sure the fire was still going!!

inside activities!

Making wrapping paper with potato prints, messy but effective!

Waffles for breakfast at alfie's request

and cookies too.

All yummy!

snow

This was the view this Friday morning out of the door....

We've had alot of snow and even more set to come this weekend!

Poor Molly fell on the way to the car!

I had to park the car at the entrance to the farm last night. Our car has broken so we're borrowing Farfar's little red car until we buy another one! Tusind tak til Farfar/Many thanks to Far Far.

Molly's second birthday

The beautiful birthday girl

We were all very excited by the cake!

Molly with Faster Lotte and Johannes

Pass the parcel : )

hello again

Hello

Sorry for the long absence, we've lost the camera : (

This is most unususal for us, hee hee ; ) All fine here, we've just had a wonderful day celebrating Miss Molly Millie's second birthday. Aunty Lotte has taken some pics she's going to send.... We've got English grandad staying with us at the min. which is great. We've just had a nice half term holiday seeing some sights around here, back to work and kindergarten on tuesday.... Tomorrow we're celebrating Molly, a party with her childminder and the other 3 little ones she looks after, should be fun..... I'll get back to baking cupcakes and the no. 2 biscuits!

Hope all well...

Goats!

Christian and Alfie builing the goat house! We've just recieved 2 goats, its been very exciting and alot of work!

Testing the goat house..

The goats arrived 2 weeks ago and have only just been allowed into their part of the field. Our first attempt at fencing them in was unsuccessful, and the next one and the next one!

I just managed to take this photo and they were off, luckliy we had christian's dad to help round them in! They just ran out of the electric fence and didn't seem to be bothered by it all, so we changed it for another one, which also didn't bother them. They have had a very small area this past week which was fenced off with planks. However this also had to be adjusted as they climbed and squeezed out of that! Real escape artists, anyway they seem settled now in a fence with chicken wire and planks, no electricity either : )

They're very friendly and seem to be enjoying their new surroundings, when I find the camera I'll take some photos of their new pen. We've also got 9 new chickens, the old chicken's haven't been laying very many eggs so C's dad came with some rescued battery farm chickens. They stay out late and don't even like to sleep on the perch with the other chickens. They're very curious, I found one in the hallway this afternoon!

Visit from granny

We had a surprise visit from granny 2 weeks ago, yeah!

We had a lovely week at home with trips to the park and Mariager.

Relaxing with a juice.

Granny even made treacle tarts, Alfie's fave!

She also made lots of apple pies and tomato sauce for the freezer, sorted the greenhouse, made chutney, arranged the cupboards, laundry... It's a very long list and we all miss her lots now!!!!