SNOW strikes hard on the UK...really!!!

 Decorating our Christmas gingerbread ornament cookies with all the cousins over here is always fun...only little M was running around by our feet without patience to sit and place tiny silver balls on the icing...oh well...those pitter patter of feet will grow bigger very soon...and then we'll be waiting for the next little cousin to be on the move...my sister is expecting another one in January...busy times...the families are growing!

 this is Miss J's gingerbread house which she is right this moment as I type...stealing spaceships from and spiling sherbert ALL over the mantel...(SUCH fun!)

 Miss A needed a break from cookies and switched to play-doh for half an hour...

 then out came the lego...aaahhhh the lego...they both can play with this for hours upon hours...

 down went the Sun and out played the girls....we had another 15cm of snow yesterday afternoon...wonderful for us...not for travellers over here in the UK...they REALLY have NO idea how to function in the Snow...
LUCKILY Mr.R arrived early Sat morning and on time...3 hours later Gatwick and Heathrow closed down for the day...and I do beleive are still cancelling flights.

 Jumping in the snow never looked like SO much fun! Wouldn't that hurt ones knees though?

 I drew SNOW KINGS in the snow...and the girls made mazes and snow houses...

the trees are covered with with snow...as are all the roads...and the news can't stop talking about it.
England has a LOT to learn about how to deal with Winter conditions, but I don't think they want to pay out what they would need to to keep their Country running in these conditions....

How is the weather where you are?

Snowy wishes for a wonderful week...hey, perhaps we'll have a white Christmas!
HUGS
Char.x

God Jul...to one and all...

wishing you ALL...especially our 650 + FABULOUS readers...a very MERRY,HEALTHY and FESTIVE Christmas...
God Jul is Danish for Happy Christmas...and I wanted to see it every morning leading up to Christmas...so why not plaster it all over the lawn(in the snow).

This year I let them just have fun...go for it...and they did.

The cousins have been having such fun...I know little miss A and Little Miss J will miss Little miss O SO much when we have to go.

Can you believe it'll be 3 weeks that we're here already!!!

Well, my kind friends...may you enjoy time with family over the next few days....

We Celebrate tomorrow...the Scandi way:

Wake up to fresh coffee(very Strong) and croissants and Danish pastries.

Kids open their stockings...

Walk through the Farm to the Christmas Tree plantation(which was planted 20 years ago)

Choose a tree...(not always and easy task...my bro is very competitive!)

Bring it home...put it up...

Have a drink outside...yes a drink at 10am...(to warm your inners)

Decorate the tree.

Put Goose in BBQ because oven keeps blowing circuit

Decorate some more tree.

Set the table...have a snack for lunch.

Siesta time...

Wake up and help Mum in the kitchen

EAT...Goose, caramelized potatoes, peas, brussels,red cabbage and carrots.

Followed by Rice pudding with almonds..the Scandi way...(Mum hides a whole almond amongst lots of chopped ones...and whoever finds it wins the Almond prize!)

Resort to sit SOFT and open gifts...we only do gifts for the kids now...

and to bed!

I will definitely post pics in the next couple of days...

HUGS & best wishes to you ALL.

Char,ON