Merry X-mas!!

X-mas celebration with the Dahlstroms & the Whelans, what a great success!! Under the controlled chaos with three 3-year-olds, two 1-year olds, and two newborns, we managed to get through a three course meal, including 'glogg', a visit from the Australian Santa Claus, dance around the X-mas tree.... simply a perfect X-mas celebration! (and wow will all those kids sleep well tonight!)

Some pictures....

X-mas morning before all the guests... Matilde is teething so not the happiest girl on the planet... thank Godness for Tylenol!!

Playtime before lunch... I wasn't really trusted in the kitchen (except for garnishing with the tomatoes) so enjoyed the view through my kamera :-)

Lunch time!!

Christmas Gifts!!



To wind down, we took a dip in the pool after everyone had left. Thought it would be refreshing but my gosh was it cold!!

If Morten wants to have his traditional Danish X-mas dinner after all the Swedish food?!? Well, first he declared 'no way' but indeed he, together with Nady,  prepared the duck, the suger glaced potatoes, red cabbage... guess we are going for a run tomorrow :-) On a sidenote, the food was delicious and we managed to squeeze down some Ris a la Malta for the 2nd time today...

Finally, if the kids did fall asleep early? Matilde was down at 7.30pm where we had to keep her awake from 5pm onwards, Hannah at 10pm. She was way to excited about the X-mas gifts and ended up sitting chatting with us until she passed out... X-mas is exciting...! :-)