Pictures top to bottom: 1. making graham cracker shacks with the cousins 2. Yaya with her completed house 3. Leah being the star of Bethlehem 4. Naomi and cousin Eli as Mary and Joseph 5. Yaya and cousins being angels 6. Our Christmas Tree 7. Heidi baby 8. The girls creating with some of their gifts
We spent Christmas Eve up with Grandma Ingrid in Hillsboro, OR. All of Lars's family got together for the yearly smorgasbord of delicious food, gifts from Grandma and this year we acted out the nativity while Lars narrated from Luke 2. It was a great time and great food. I tried brussle sprouts for the first time ever. Not too shabby. Ingrid roasted them with onions and pears. We also had danish pork loin, yams and apples, red cabbage, fruit salad, swedish meatballs, mushroom pate, hummus, meats and cheeses and crackers and Camille made a Yule Log for dessert. It was quite delicious.
This Christmas, as with many others, our family has been so blessed by the generosity of others. With Lars in his final semester of Grad school, we're livin' on love. Unfortunately, love doesn't put physical gifts under the tree...you know, the kind that kids like. Anyway, a couple days before Christmas, "Santa" left a box of presents outside our door. The girls were thrilled, and I felt very humbled. I can't wait for the day that I can give freely to others like that as well.
2 comments:
That's so sweet that someone did that for you. School will come to an end!
We had brussel sprouts regularly at our house growing up. HATE THEM!
End of school is in sight - yay for you guys!!! We totally empathize!!! Oh, and I've been meaning to try brussle sprouts... any particular way you'd recommend them? (Greg likes them - I've never had them...)
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