I will start with the last post from my other blog. But anything after this will be new, I promise :)
November was a relaxing month. We spent Thanksgiving with some friends, and had a good time. Mostly we have had a calm couple of months watching my belly grow and feeling our baby move around and kick and be busy in there. It is a lot of fun. Sometimes my whole belly will be jumping around looking like jello :)
December has been a nice month. It started with visitors from Norway. A friend, her sister and her cutest little niece (2 years old) was here for almost a week. We had a good time with lots of shopping, hanging out having fun and a trip to the hair dresser for the first time for the little girl. She did great and ended up with lots of little braids with cute beads on as well. She was adorable :)
Later in December we had the pleasure of enjoying "The Nutcracker"in aerial style. It was also a charity event. Some of my friends were performing in the silks, hoop and even a ballerina. They had a really great show! Here's a picture of them: (Aerial Amore)
We had a great time watching them, and enjoying dinner with them after the show. They made me really jealous, and I just wanted to get up in the silks. But as pregnant as I am, of course, I have to wait a few more months before I can get back into "my"silks.
Every year Ogden City has a "Christmas Village"(as seen part of above). As we checked it out on a Wednesday night we realized something was going on at the Amphitheatre there, and we got a great show. These cute little girls were dancing. They were adorable.
Then for Christmas this year we have my Sister visiting. That is so much fun. We haven't seen each other in forever, a few years!, so it is wonderful to have her here.
She arrived on Christmas Eve. We took a drive through downtown Salt Lake City to see the State Capitol Building and Temple Square.
When we got home we had "risgrøt"(porridge, made of mostly rice and milk) for dinner. We always used to have that for lunch on Christmas Eve growing up. But since it was already late we ended up having it for dinner instead :) Then we opened up some gifts that night, as Norwegian tradition say. For dessert later we had "riskrem", made from the porridge, cold mixed with cream and with sugar on top. It was great! We had a really good time, talking, laughing and sharing stories.
Christmas morning we got up, made a good breakfast, and opened the rest of the gifts.
We went out to watch a good movie at the theatre (We bought a zoo). And afterwards we walked through the Christmas Village. It was biting cold, but very pretty :)
At home we ate Christmas dinner. We had ham with rice and Bearnaise sauce, carrots, corn & bamboo shoots, and my sister replaced the ham with tofu (since she doesn't eat meat). It was really good food!!
We sat up late talking, we had lit candles all over the living room, and it was so cozy. I really enjoy having my sister here!
Here's me, the big belly and our tree on Christmas Eve, 33 weeks and 3 days pregnant:
That's about it for now. I'm gonna go enjoy my family and I promise to write again next year :)
