A blanket for a baby-boy

More than a year ago I visited Oslo. When I was there I bought some nice, expencive yarn from the store Nøstebarn. I was going to knit a baby blanket for my friend I thought. I wanted to give her something Norwegian and something of good quality. At that time I had no idea it would take so much time. I had to give up, the baby was born long before I even had a good start with the blanket. That was in May last year. Then another friend was going to have a baby in October. I was happy so to hear it was a boy, since the yarn was blue. I worked a little bit more on the blanket, and thought I would at least be done before October. Again I was wrong. I am not very good at knitting... I then got tired of the hole project, and gave up for a while. Now I have started once again, hoping to be done before we get our own baby-boy...

Updates :-)

This is how our stairs look right now. Not entirely finished, but very soon :-)

Our stairs

After a long, hard winter, the stairs outside our house looked like this:

Pretty boring.

My family visited us a month ago, and my dad spend a lot of time breaking it down together with Steen. Thank you dad!

I didnt know it was going to be that much work... And it has been even more work to rebuild it. Steen has been using most of his free time to work at it. And his good friends Poul-Erik and Hans-Jørgen has helped a lot! Thank you :-)

These pictures are mostly for my dad - he wanted to see how everything turned out. If he could choose, I am sure he would have stayed for another week, to help rebuild it, but my grandfather in Sweden was also waiting for them to come, so they better leave for some more vacationes (and work) in Sweden.

This is the foundation for the stairs, looking down on it from the front door.


Again the view of looking down on the stairs from the front door, now the outer walls have been build, and iron bars have been placed between the walls to add strength and stability.

Family weekend

In the end of June, all of my brothers and sisters came home to celebrate my mum and my dad. They have been married for 30 years this year, and our mum turns 50, and dad 55. Pretty much to celebrate!
It was pretty noisy and crowded at home that weekend. Espen, Claudia, Erik and Siri stayed in tents outside the house. The rest of us stayed in the house. As I just sayd, it was pretty crowded and noisy. But it was also good to see them all and get to spend some time together.
We also had a photo-session, were we took family pictures, indivitual pictures and couples pictures. It was a mess!! But the pictures turned out quite ok anyway. I`ll post a few :-)

Just for fun! Doing what Sondre is doing :-) He loves to put his tie in his ear.

Brothers and sisters.

GAUSTADTOPPEN 3 - the top

I have forgotten all about my blog for a while (again). Today I found out that I still havnt posted all the pictures I wanted to share from our mountaintrip this summar.

It is told that you can see 1/6 of Norway from the top of Gaustadtoppen, if the weather is good of course. But in Norway you can never count on the weather... So we felt very lucky when we reached the top in brigth sunshine. And the view was incredible!

It was pretty scary in the beginning, especially for those of us who are afraid of hights...... :-) dont mention any names!!

This is actually not really "the top". Its the plateau where most tourists come to enjoy the view.

Those of us who wanted to reach the real top!

The thoughest ones! (I wasnt there, my father took the picture. I was enjoying the sun and some rest at the plateau.)

As a big suprise Tone was also one of those who stayed at the plateau :-)

GAUSTADTOPPEN 2 - the hike

Early morning we woke up and prepared for the hike of the day. We prepared food, put on sunscreen and tried to find the right clothes for the days weather. It turned out to be 24 degrees and bright sunshine all day long.
We drove a few miles before we started to walk. It was quite a heavy way to the top, but all of us made it without any problems. Even little Ida, 8 years old walked all the way to the top without even complaining one single time. She is tough! It took us almost 2,5 hours to get there, and all the way we went up the montainside.
It was a beautiful day where we experienced the nature of Norway on its best.


This is the starting poing of our hike. Steen, Ole and my dad.



Children and sheep!


My beautiful sister Siri.



My entertaining brother Jon. He is soon going on a mission to Ogden. I will miss him a lot!



Smile!!!


Walking through the snow. It was very comfortable to walk in snow when the sun was shining!



Walking and walking.


My tough sister Ida!



Ole is having fun!


A little brake and some chocolate and nuts before the final part of the way to the top.

Kjekkasen min

He is the best!

I guess it's my turn to have my say at our blog. Unni does most of the writing here, and very rarely do I take the chance to write what I feel like.

Unni calls me kjekkasen. Now since i'm danish, I thought she was calling me gearkassen, ( the transmission in a car). So in response I chose to call her motor (engine).

Some people might say that's not a compliment or a nice thing to say, but when you give it some thought, engine and tranmission are build for eachother. They work together, and only together.

That's how Unni and I are. We really fit together, and why it took us soo long to get married, I don't know.. When i think of the good times we're having, and how much we agree on things, it hard to understand why it took us soo long to get married..

By the way. Unni is the best, - i'm only second best.. Sigghh