New Year's Eve party

New Year's Eve party

New Year's, 12 o'clock is fast approaching

I was smart and bought the non-tooting blowouts for the guys to play with at the table...

New Year's Eve dessert

For dessert, Anders and Lena brought a delicious homemade ice cream cake with passion fruit on top

New Year's Eve dinner

For the main course, chef Fredrik served gourmet pork with truffle sauce lying on a bed of lightly sauteed green beans with onions and cherry tomatoes. Assistant Faith prepared a delightful mashed potato dish and bearnaise sauce but it was sitting on the table.

New Year's Eve dinner

The appetizer that chef Fredrik prepared was a tasty cheese wrapped in ham on a leafy bed, drizzled with olive oil and garnished with capers

Getting the table set...

Glögg (spiced wine) at Ingela and Anders' house

Train and church

After this one, Fredrik got carried away with the whole village, notice there has appeared a goat in front of the train... later he adds ET reading a book in front of my church and an alien cow. Oh there is also an entire herd of marzipan pigs who have joined the village.

Frontal view of the gingerbread train

Faith's masterpiece

Ok, I did not know this was a contest between me and Fredrik, next year I'll be prepared! Notice the politically correct angelic choir singing in front of the church (one of them is black)

Fredrik's masterpiece

Fredrik on Christmas Day

Harley and Alison all dressed up

Fredrik and Inge

Ingela, Alison, and Harley after opening gifts

Christmas Eve

Before we tore into them....

Harley ate lots of eggs

Claudia, 23 December 2008

Claudia with my Christmas tree - the bottom half of the tree isn't so bad....

Alexandra and Madeleine

At work - we got Glögg (spiced wine), pepparkakor (gingerbread cookies), and 'luciekattor' (sweet bread made with saffron)

2008 Christmas Tree

I will have to take a better picture, my tree isn't the prettiest I have ever had but it certainly doesn't look as bad as it appears here

Colin's got Talent!

Our work associate Colin (on the right) turned 50 today and treated us all to cake and a special musical presentation

Christmas Cards

I only created two cards and a gift tag at the meeting, I am especially proud of the black one, I think it turned out wonderfully - it's hard to see the detail in the picture though

Christmas Cards

Anna and Alexandra working hard at making Christmas cards at our last meeting of the year

Alison's dance recital

My camera is messing up this night, I didn't get many good pictures but the show was great

Thanksgiving flowers

Everyone who came to my party brought me pretty flowers/candles, thanks!

Inge, Fredrik, Justin

I mixed it up a bit this year and invited some work friends to my Thanksgiving party

All dressed up

Madeleine, Alexandra, Faith, Anna - all dressed up before the company Christmas party

Train station in Helsingborg

I think the scouts were having some sort of ceremony - they were walking around with torches in the train station

Alison at dance class

Alison at dance class

In Ullared

What a sight!

huge shopping center, we drove about 3 hours to get to it!

Lunch in Ullared

Ingela and Anders

Ingela and Anders at the table

Alison and Inge

Alison and Inge at the table

Ingrid and Ida

Ingrid and Ida at the table

harley and inge

Harley got an electric razor from Ingrid and Inge, and Harley got a special instructional course with Inge on the care of his new razor.

Alison and Harley's birthday party

From the left: Fredrik, Ingrid, Ida, Ingela, Anders, Inge
Alison had a separate party with her friends in Helsingborg where she goes to school. We rented a building and she had about 35 guests. Harley is also having a separate party with his friends next weekend, he is taking a trip to a big computer lan party where he and 4 friends will stay 3 nights, it is called DreamHack and you can read about it at http://www.dreamhack.se/ , to see it in English, click the tiny British flag at the top of the page.

Second Life, line dancing at The Shelter

I'm the one standing behind the ghostbusters guy

Madde and Justin

Well, the sun was still shining when I suggested we walk downtown to eat lunch... that's when the blizzard hit. They look happy though, don't they?

First snow of the year

Alex and Carina

Pyssel!

New phone!

My telephone, my wonderful K810, jumped into the toilet. I had to order a new phone, this one has the same camera in it so now that I have all the settings fixed, I can start blogging again! My new phone is a C702 and this one is even waterproof....

What on earth??

I came home to this sight over the weekend; Alison had decided that her little brother needed new highlights in his hair

Harley practicing guitar

Harley had to practice for a song he is doing in music class

Famous guy!

After bowling, we went out to eat and this guy came into the restaurant. His name is Jonas Jacobsson and he won several gold medals in this year's paralympics competitions! Justin and Madeleine got to pose with him.

Bowling

Madeleine, Justin, and Brian at the bowling alley

Bowling

Brian is doing a victory dance after his third-in-a-row strike. Way to go!