nov 13th - christmas

So, on to christmas. since we're in Ghana over christmas my family thought we needed to celebrate it a bit early this year. So almost all of us gathered at my aunt's place last saturday, for a full day of puzzles, wine and home cooked chinese food. just my kind of christmas.

we went all in for the REAL christmas feel. 

food preparations

dads home made spring rolls are AMAZING.

puzzle! a completely impossible on - monet (he must have been almost completely blind about then...)

peter reading away on his beloved kindle.

dad posing in his apron. he started dancing after that, but unfortunately all the pictures are blurry... 

svante. 

and that was that. the rest of the evening we had loads of food + talked. quite early we got too tired and crawled to bed. when we finally woke up this awaited us:

breakfast, as it should be!

november 12th - kids + wii

I've been a bit behind on posting pictures the last week. It was a very, very, very crazy week for me. My last week at work (right now it's my first free day, and it's six full weeks until I start at the new office, in Ghana). This means massive amounts of work, a lot of hours at the office, combined with a fully booked social life and some extra work I took on (don't ask me why, I don't know)

Anyway. Now I'm in Örebro with pretty much nothing to do during the days, except my lunch dates. I'm therefore gonna post ALOT of pictures from last weekend and a few this past week, then we'll be up to speed.

first out: November 12th. My niece and nephew decided they wanted to stay with us a night before we left. And so they did.

tyra in all her pride and glory

iphone + kids = love

we brought out the big guns after a while

and tyra took her time colouring a page in our wedding guest book. 

at first joar got sucked in with a pc game, some star wars crap. 

but then it was time to move on to the seriously fun stuff - wii snowboarding!

he was fast

and quick!

then it was time for bed. I (27 years) was exhausted and went to sleep the same time (9pm) as tyra (6 years) did. it was AMAZING.

the morning after looked a little like this:

we brought out the computer again. we can't help it, our computers are always out and on. 

tyra played an oddly girly game. I tried to make her drive around cars, but no no no. all she wanted to do was paint nails. at least it was less morbid compared to the knee surgery game she made me play the night before. 

ella hung out on the couch next to us and we petted her a bit. 

then the parents arrived. more cat petting. 

tyra getting some tech support

then my other brother + wife came to pick us up. a few minutes later we were on our way to my aunts house to celebrate christmas. more on that later today, because now I have to get prepared for lunch! 

christmas plans

We are spending this christmas in our new home country and have planned to find a suiting beach resort. And today I think I've found it. 

so, between christmas and new years eve, it looks like we'll be hanging out at Big Milly's, just 30 km from accra. I'm sure it'll be a blast.