Christmas is getting closer - I can feel it

I know it is really early to talk about christmas, but I just saw this "adventsstage" at Groovybaby and mama it is from Rice - I just thought it is funny how much it looks like the one i made last year. I would still like to have one though...

busy days

We met this jolly guy at the kindergarten christmasparty...

...we open several of these every morning...

...and some of these...

...we visited Tivoli...

...had fun...

...and we had to buy Brian a new wintercoat, because he forgot his at home, an hours drive away...!!!...

...we have made a lot of these (mazipan balls covered with dark rich chocolate)...

...the very first snow of the season, had to be tested...

...lucky for me my Christmas holiday begins tomorrow after work...

Christmas time is here

December mornings spend playing with the gifts from the advent calender

Dreaming of a white Christmas...

The adventskrans- for lighting a candel the 4 last sundays before Chrsitmas.

I think a was a little inspired from the work and art of Shane Brox

My three first advent calender gifts, from my "advent-calender-group" over at Scrapsisters.

...and even with all that going on, I can't seem to find my Chrsitmas spirit.

Christmas 2008

This years christmas cookies 

Vaniliekranse - Jødekager

Kamille and Signe came by

Christmaseve at Farmors

25th of dec.

Playing with daddy

Going to the playground

Today we are going to vist my parents and have "julefrokost" (Christmas lunch). My old (91 years)  grandmother was suposed to be there to, but she broke four toes yesterday, so they drove her home. I don't think she will be here next christmas...so i'm a little bit sad that i didn't get to spend any time with her.

Benjamins four christmases

I got this idea from from Rachel

December 05

December 06

December 07

December 08

I looove my christmas tree...

Just a quick picture of my tree (our tree, i know..) I think it is just beautiful, and just the way i like it. (pictures are really bad - took them just a little while ago - with no light or flash)

My pretty vintage santas - Benjamin hung them all close together  - i like it!

And a little peek at Benjamins kindergarden photos. He is just so cute in these.

It all looks like we are still spending chirstmas eve at Brians moms house, they will both (his mother and sister) wear a nicotine patch...

I'm done

I have finally finished my project (and turned it in).

Christmas here I come.

We bought our christmas tree today, and decorated it too. Hopefully i can take som pictures of it tomorrow. 

I have to go buy the last presents tomorrow (still don't know what to buy for Brian), I also

promised my mother to go with her for a mammogram call-back....(they say it is just because the first pictures isn't good enough.) Then when i pick up Benjamin, him and I are going to visit

his old day-care. That's wednesday!

...also we have to deside where to spend christmas eve. The plan was to visit Brians mother (his sister and her to kids were coming too). Both Brians mother and sister, smoke very heavily.

Benjamin suffer from astmathic bronchitis and really can't tolerate any smoke, not even if they go outside. We asked them not to smoke the whole day (yes even before we arrive, which is necessary, because all the poison gets into the clothes and hair)....they refused to do so!!!! Apparently they rather want to spend christmas with their cigarets than their grandson /nephew. Brian spend over an hour on the phone with his mother, in the end she said she wouldn't smoke (i don't belive her!) But his sister wont pick up the phone. 

Now i really just don't feel like going, but i will leave it up to Brian, I know if his sister refuse not to smoke, we wont go (we went to a chek-up with Benjamin today and they increased his doze of medicin...which should be reason enough, i think.)

Is it ever possible to have a problem-free christmas???? (and I haven't even told you about an argument I have had with my sister)

If you love pretty things, take a look at this blog "everyday beauty", it might just change my mind about using pastel colour at christmas (i'm a red-white-gold-silver-kind-a-girl, as most danes i think ( i know we are not all girls...) - unless the want their home to look like a catalog and go all black and purple this year)

Where did the weekend go??

This weekend really went by fast. Saturday morning the three of us went to Stor Bøgeskov (a really pretty forrest with a natural spring). I had to shoot a familyportrait for a friend, but it was really foggy and I'm sorry to say that the pictures are not my best. She is comming tomorrow to take a look at them...

The spring

Their dog - not mine

Later saturday we went to that christmas-circus for two loooong hours. Benjamin just didn't have the patience for that. Later Anna picked me up for a fun night of scrapping. I made 4 pages, but never used my new Dozen kit - I think i'll save it for this years christmas photos. Anna drowe me back home at 2 in the morning....

I have about 7 scrap pages i haven't posted yet - i'll do it tomorrow, can't take pictures in the dark. 

Sunday i made  appelpie, muffins and buns for our guest and we all had a really nice couple of hours. Hope they feel the same way

And spite all the activity, the picture above is all i can show.