We were so lucky to be able to come to Minnesota for Christmas this year. I came already the 13th of December as I was coincidentally free from work that week already, and Søren came on the 19th.
While Søren was still in Denmark I had a lot of fun visiting girlfriends! It was fun to have some girl time with old friends. I have two friends who are also pregnant so that was fun to share stories. One day I met my friend Julie for a Expectant Mother’s Yoga class. It was physically challenging but felt really nice as well. Otherwise I had some lunch/dinner dates with friends Maureen and Andrea and friend/cousin Sarah! Friday the 16th we had a college girl’s night where there were 5 of us from St. Bens who got together for some quality girl time. We ordered pizza, chatted and saw a few Christmas movies before turning in quite late. It was a bit embarrassing though because apparently it was our friend Holly’s birthday and we didn’t even know it until her husband blurted it out to us right as he was leaving to give us girl time…we ended up putting some things together and singing for her to make up for our forgetfulness, but we were still very embarrassed!
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| Andrea and I |
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| CSB girls |
Finally after a week of girl and family time (and a lot of Christmas shopping) Søren arrived. There were horrible snow storms in Europe including Amsterdam so it was very exciting to see if he was even going to make it, but he did with only a 15 minutes delay! We felt very blessed. The day after he arrived we had a huge snow storm adding to the almost meter of snow we already had so it was incredible.
The first full day Søren was in town we went shopping for the last Christmas gifts and visited our friends Dan and Tara and their new baby Charlie. Søren and Dan spent most of the time in the basement recording some drumbeats for Dan’s new album. They had a lot of fun, while us girls chatted and I got to cuddle with the baby!
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| Dan and Søren recording |
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| Cuddling with Charle |
Finally Christmas Eve arrived and we headed to my Uncle Mike and Aunt Maggie’s house for a big celebration. All 28 of my aunts, uncles and cousins got together to chat, eat and play a little dice game! It was so wonderful to see everyone again and for Christmas!! In the middle of festivities my whole family gathered everyone and they had a little “baby shower” for us! We were totally shocked and received many wonderful gifts for our baby to come! It was fantastic.
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| A real Christmas feast |
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| A collaboration cake! |
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| Baby Shower for us |
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| The dice game |
For Christmas my Dad and his wife gave us tickets to the Minnesota Wild hockey game. We had incredible seats – 3rd row – and we could really see all of the action (well the Wild action was not so great, but it was still a blast to see live hockey!) It was Søren’s first game and we all had a great time.
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| See how close we were! |
By this time our trip to MN was almost over and we just had 2 days left. We spent a good part of the last days returning and exchanging gifts and shopping for what we wanted and needed in Denmark. The weirdest part was buying baby things. We had gotten a car seat at the baby shower and wanted to exchange it for a seat the we could use longer. It felt so strange looking for all those things. We also bought at diaper bag and had gotten a lot of clothers, blankets etc, so we could fill a small suitcase with stuff for OUR baby….so exciting and WEIRD!
We made it home safely on the 30th of December just in time to celebrate New Years with our friends Thorkild and Janni. We went to bed at 3am and slept until 12.30pm!! We were both so shocked when we looked at the clock! Oh well, I guess we needed the sleep on top of jet lag!!
Happy New Year everyone…we look forward to updating you all about the exciting things coming in 2011!
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