So that's where the talent went!

Follow the link!
Follow the link!

Nothing by the 19th bear

This be by one of my most noble relatives the Troels!

While most teenagers went and bought the latest CD he saved up his money and bought strange instruments that I had never heard of or seen before. Walking into his room was a little like entering the lab of a mad musical scientist....and fun!

Sadly this is the only YouTube video there is, not super high quality, but hey, guitar hero!

So here are a few more of the pictures of my visit back home in the Mother land!

The super cute baby is "Troels, the next generation" better known as Bloeb.

Bloeb is with his very happy Farmor and uncle Kasper. Then we have 4 pairs of pants with people inside them all looking at a picture. the visible people are Troels and Thomas.

My fantastic Aunt with my fantastic grand featter.

-Cousin once removed?-

Giving me the look of a skeptic.

He was not to impressed by the flash on my camera.

I never realized how loud i am with my kids until I got to see Gabriel and his parents interact, they are so tender and mild and QUIET and then the Crazy me comes along and scares him half to death every time I open my loud mouth.

Yes little man you ARE the center of the universe.

There he is!

Troels. When we were kids we used to play, then we got old enough where I was a girl and he was a boy and it did make a difference. Then we became teens and,Troels and Michael were since the day Troels was born and are still the best of friends, and, we had a million insane adventures. Festiveness and just fun. Home made horror movies anyone?

Kasper, Kasper, Kasper.

I finally got to know Kasper. He is great of course!

Clara! I finally got to meet and know my grand kusine!

We had fun together.

She is Ian's age and since I missed my own kids terribly I had all kinds of attention to give her.

Troels and his fantastic wife. She's the best and her name is Anna! I like that name you know.

Of course she is the best. Troels picked her!

And this is why they call him bloeb.

look how satisfied he looks with his handy work.

Mama Anna says, "what a talented young man you are! just look at that! The next Picasso!"

Clara doing her snuggle thing. She is a little snuggle bugger.

Notice the gold star in the window. Traditional Danish Christmas decoration.

looks like the mess is almost cleaned up now.

I love that blue and white sweater by the way.



And we're of to Sweden!

My moms oldest brother and his wife and my adorable cousins.

In their lovely mountain home with a view over the ocean.

This from the street just a little ways down hill from the house.

Cute Little sweetish looking farm house.

The house we lived in when I was little was painted the same red because my mom loves the little red sweetish wooden houses so much.

Susanne the beautiful.

All bundled up for the wonderful cold.

Little Cecilie having fun on the trampoline.

You just gotta love all the wood!

Little Cuteness!

More cuteness!

Now that is what I call baby proofing your coffee table.

And I miss this kind of bag of candy!
Bless you Scandinavia!

Sigrid. Queen of the house!

Hans Henrik cooking up a storm.

OK so I think he is actually doing the dishes but it just does not sound as rad.

Funny face!

banana time for the monkey.

Henrik took me to see his forest lands that come with a house and a lumberyard plus stables and other goodies.

This is a view from the front steps of the house. There is a nice sized are cleared for parking and working in between all the small buildings then there is another area cleared for backyard purposes the rest is just pine forest and wildlife.

the inside of the house is mostly empty because they do not use it much in the winter.

This is an old house. Everything is heated with a huge wood stove in the basement. This is the oven. Back in the day it was used to bake bread. I'm sure it still works fine but not the kitchen upstairs has modern appliances.

I love the skies casually stuck in the basement

Here is Henrik next to the oven again. The Big white block with pipes all over it is the mighty contraption.

The little oval door is the oven closed. The wood stove heats the water in the house as well. That is why we came. The water in the pipes inside the house has frozen and burst a pipe upstairs. So there was some cleaning to do. It heated up in the house nicely quite fast.

In the basement there was a big room full of wood for the stove as well.

The old hayloft in the barn is empty but the mighty orange lumber maker is enjoying the place of honor.

My uncle the lumberjack / social worker HA ha.

Henrik accidentally taking a picture of his many layers of clothes.

1. Camouflage jacket

2.Plaid fleece jacket.

3. green jacket.

4. mystery tan. barely sticking up on his neck.

Me in the stables. These once held horses.

Me and some hay!

Once the wood stove started going the snow started melting of the roof.

A quick walk from the house to the tree fort/hunting cabin. This little bridge went over a shallow creek

So much wild life here. The ground was covered in tracks. Here is a small sample! Deer, rabbit and Ida! There were also bird and fox tracks and who knows what else.

I promised my children that i would build a snowman and take a picture. Well it was not exactly snowman building snow but I did it!

The Mighty Snowman with his powerful straw arms declares his intentions to dominate the world!!!! MuHhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa......

I think we ran him over when we drove out of there but I'm not positive so watch out world.

And last but not least. I was quite impressed with their grocery store. Even though it in no way compares with HEB it had an amazing selection on the fresh produce and I tried mu first dragon fruit. Quite good. Slightly kiwi-ish.

Mighty Stroller

Oh my goodness.

This kind of stroller is like something out of a dream.

I have no clue (OK a small one, but not getting into that right now) why the stores only sell crappy plastic strollers around here instead of something like this lovely thing.

This was the day I arrived in Denmark, Michael picked me up from the airport, we did not even leave the airport we just went downstairs, jumped on the metro rode for about 5 minutes got out, back up, and walked over to his apartment which you can basically see from where the stairs for the metro come out of the ground. Because the wedding was close at hand and this was the last week of Michael's limited time to do any sort of prep we spend a lot of time cleaning. Michael's polderarbend was that night - this is sort of a surprise bachelor party- Because the night was about making Michael happy they took a break from partying to go and help him paint the bedroom, I had borrowed his house key so I could lock the door when I went to meet Bettina in downtown Koebenhavn (Cobenhagen). Suddenly Michael calls her to inform them that they need the key back so they can get in to paint so my girl time got cut short but i got to spend a little time with my brother helping clean the apartment so it was really pretty nice. And besides, how often do I get the chance to go to a polderarbend for a guy? Heh, Never!

So here he is partying away!

Ah yes so festive is he not?