Merry Christmas 2012

We’ve had a very enjoyable Christmas and vacation so far! It started around 8pm Friday evening when we said goodbye to our students with a little Christmas program. Søren, Silas and I enjoyed a relaxing weekend with little to do Saturday and Sunday. We had so much open time that we could spontaneously invite some friends over one day and go swimming another day.

Then Christmas Eve arrived and the adventures picked up. I played horn and sang at our church service at 11am. It has become a tradition that I sing O’ Holy Night as the opening song, and tradition held this year. We added a little gospel sounding ending this year, and I think it sounded really great. I was personally frustrated that my voice wasn’t completely at it’s best after completely losing my voice over 3 weeks ago. But with a lot of prayer, I was able to get through the whole thing, and even hit the high note at the end. In the recording a small kid glads and says YAY! in the rest right after the highnote and the Gospel ending. Cute!

After Silas’ nap we headed to Holstebro to be with Søren’s sister, Ulla, Peter, Lukas, Nikolaj and Celina, along with Søren’s Mom. We had some time to relax before eating, where we just watched some Christmas Disney programs and Silas played with Nikolaj’s new kitchen stuff making coffee for everyone. 

Søren and the boys watching Disney

Playing kitchen.

We had an amazing dinner consisting of: Duch, Pork Roast (flæskesteg), 2 kinds of potatoes, red cabbage, chips, gravy and other condiments. It was very delicious. For dessert we had the traditional Ris alamande (Rice pudding with almonds) with the undtraditional Strawberry sauce. There is always 1 large almond hidden in the pudding and whoever finds the almond gets a present! And this year it was me!! I had never won before, so I was pretty excited. I got a new DVD and hope to watch it soon.

After dessert, Silas opened his presents, as it was already getting late. We all sat around as he ripped of the paper himself. It was fun seeing him this year, as he can now show his excitement. While taking the paper off he would exclaim “Neeeej” in a very excited voice and with a huge smile. After unwrapping every present, he then wanted to actually open the item, and begin playing with it right away!! He really liked the sled he got and wanted to sit in it to open the rest of the presents!

Neeeej!!!

Playing with Uncle Peter

Then we all walked around the tree sining Christmas Carols before finishing where we ran around the house holding hands singing “Nu er det jul igen…” (Now it’s Christmas again). After that it was finally time to open presents. Lukas and Nikolaj had been incredibly patient, and it was fun to watch them get so excited and shout “This is just what I was wishing for” after opening many gifts!

Singing around the tree

We all recieved some wonderful gifts and enjoyed each others company. To end the evening we read the Christmas story from the book of Luke and were again reminded of the greatest gift we are given every single year, the birth of our savior.

We spent the night at Søren’s sisters’, and the next day Silas woke up at 6:45 even though he didn’t go to bed until after 9pm the night before. We had lots of time to play with his new toys before church and after church we had another great meal. After Silas’ nap, he got to open his final presents and then we headed home. Silas was so tired and pretty grouchy the whole day.

"I am soooo exhausted"

When we got home we set up his new trainset, put on some Christmas music and opened our stockings! It was a great way to end the Christmas festivities.

Silas and his presents.

Merry Christmas Everyone!