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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Jul/Christmas 2011
Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. Hasn't really happened all that much lately.
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 :)
Btw, here are pictures of our baby girl from the last ultrasound at 31 weeks. Above you can see her face, which she is trying to hide behind one hand. Underneath you can see her umbilical cord right next to/in front of her face. She is getting so big. Oh, and she is sitting breech (head up, butt down) at the moment. But she still have a few weeks to turn around, the right way :)
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.
(http://www.ogdencity.com/en/about_ogden/special_events/christmas_village.aspx)
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 som 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 livingroom, 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:
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 som 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 livingroom, 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 :)
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
SEMA Show and Las Vegas vacation
Last week we went on a short trip to Las Vegas. Michael was lucky enough to win us tickets to the SEMA Show there. The SEMA Show is a huge convention held in Vegas every year to promote new products car related.
Wednesday we packed up the car and headed south. We stopped for meals twice, and took it easy on the way there, so we arrived about 9 hours later. Checked in at our hotel and went to go check out the town a little bit.
Thursday early morning we got up and headed to the Las Vegas Convention Center where the show was held. We were "opinion leaders" so first we had to go "work". We basically had to go through one part of the show and state our opinions on a piece of paper. We also got a free t-shirt for doing this :)
After we finished with that, we had free reign of the whole show. So we walked, and walked, and walked, aisle after aisle looking at cars, and car products! It was pretty awesome! Outside they had a "car show" with hundreds of cars, all different and special in their own way. They also had set up a drifting track, so we got to watch mustangs drift out there. There was a lot to see and do. We probably took thousands of pictures!
After the shows end thursday we were pretty tired after all the walking, and all the impressions, so we took it easy and relaxed at the hotel.
Friday morning we again headed for the SEMA show, just accross a big parking lot. We visited a lot of companies. To mention some; Ford, Chevy, Hyundai, Toyota, Kia, Local Motors, House of Kolor, Bondurant racing school. We saw engines, (some with 3500 horsepower!), transmissions capable of up to 2500 hp (and they only cost $2800!! pretty cheap..), superchargers, turbos, aftermarket parts, body kits (like a camaro made to look like a pontiac), prototype cars, new cars on the market, kit cars and lots and lots of other products and fun people. We really enjoyed the show a lot. We got to expereince something we never thought we would, and we learned a lot too.
The show ended with a cruise, most of the cars that had been parked all week were now ready to go back home. It was awesome getting to see and hear the cars pass us by. It had rained for a few minutes, so it was just wet enough that it was easy to do burnouts too, some did, some didn't. It was a great ending to a great show!
After the cruise was over we headed out for dinner, we just had to go to Buffalo Wild Wings! It is one of our favorite restaurants, also where we had our first date. They don't have any in Utah :( We enjoyed good chicken wings and moved on to "the strip". We had been invited to a SEMA afterparty on the 64th (!!!) floor, the penthouse, of "THE Hotel". It was fun, great view and some fun people.
After hanging out up there for a while we decided we hadn't seen enough of Vegas yet, so we walked up the strip to see some more. We stopped by the Luxor, MGM, New York New York, the Bellagio and walked all the way to Paris. It was a lot of nice buildings to look at!
After a long, slow walk, my pregnant self can't walk too fast or too far now a days, we went back to the hotel.
Saturday we checked out of the hotel and headed out for a nice brunch. After looking around for a little while we found the perfect nice little restaurant the "Grand Lux Cafe" inside the "Venetian Hotel". They had very good food, and for once we actually ordered (and finished!!) desert. We walked around some more, looked at the Venetian, the Mirage and Treasure Island. We actually got to witness a couple getting married on the Pirate Ship out there too. It was nice :) We took it easy and just relaxed. And we left Las Vegas at about 6pm. We drove home in about 7 hours, just eating on the road. It was nice to sit in the car and relax, talk about everything we had seen and dream about the future.
It was a really great trip. We actually realized it was our first vacation just us two together! (Not counting our trips when moving!).
Sunday we relaxed at home and looked through all the stuff we had gotten at the SEMA Show.
Here are some pictures of what we saw and did in Las Vegas.
The Bellagio Hotel
SEMA Show
Awesome office chair
Ken Blocks Focus, he drifts for DC Shoes. ( See youtube)
Prototype Scion
Twin turbos :D
Hennesy, only $950.000 :)
The Riviera Hotel, "our" hotel.
Our delicious desert :)
Some of the stuff we got at the show.
Wednesday we packed up the car and headed south. We stopped for meals twice, and took it easy on the way there, so we arrived about 9 hours later. Checked in at our hotel and went to go check out the town a little bit.
Thursday early morning we got up and headed to the Las Vegas Convention Center where the show was held. We were "opinion leaders" so first we had to go "work". We basically had to go through one part of the show and state our opinions on a piece of paper. We also got a free t-shirt for doing this :)
After we finished with that, we had free reign of the whole show. So we walked, and walked, and walked, aisle after aisle looking at cars, and car products! It was pretty awesome! Outside they had a "car show" with hundreds of cars, all different and special in their own way. They also had set up a drifting track, so we got to watch mustangs drift out there. There was a lot to see and do. We probably took thousands of pictures!
After the shows end thursday we were pretty tired after all the walking, and all the impressions, so we took it easy and relaxed at the hotel.
Friday morning we again headed for the SEMA show, just accross a big parking lot. We visited a lot of companies. To mention some; Ford, Chevy, Hyundai, Toyota, Kia, Local Motors, House of Kolor, Bondurant racing school. We saw engines, (some with 3500 horsepower!), transmissions capable of up to 2500 hp (and they only cost $2800!! pretty cheap..), superchargers, turbos, aftermarket parts, body kits (like a camaro made to look like a pontiac), prototype cars, new cars on the market, kit cars and lots and lots of other products and fun people. We really enjoyed the show a lot. We got to expereince something we never thought we would, and we learned a lot too.
The show ended with a cruise, most of the cars that had been parked all week were now ready to go back home. It was awesome getting to see and hear the cars pass us by. It had rained for a few minutes, so it was just wet enough that it was easy to do burnouts too, some did, some didn't. It was a great ending to a great show!
After the cruise was over we headed out for dinner, we just had to go to Buffalo Wild Wings! It is one of our favorite restaurants, also where we had our first date. They don't have any in Utah :( We enjoyed good chicken wings and moved on to "the strip". We had been invited to a SEMA afterparty on the 64th (!!!) floor, the penthouse, of "THE Hotel". It was fun, great view and some fun people.
After hanging out up there for a while we decided we hadn't seen enough of Vegas yet, so we walked up the strip to see some more. We stopped by the Luxor, MGM, New York New York, the Bellagio and walked all the way to Paris. It was a lot of nice buildings to look at!
After a long, slow walk, my pregnant self can't walk too fast or too far now a days, we went back to the hotel.
Saturday we checked out of the hotel and headed out for a nice brunch. After looking around for a little while we found the perfect nice little restaurant the "Grand Lux Cafe" inside the "Venetian Hotel". They had very good food, and for once we actually ordered (and finished!!) desert. We walked around some more, looked at the Venetian, the Mirage and Treasure Island. We actually got to witness a couple getting married on the Pirate Ship out there too. It was nice :) We took it easy and just relaxed. And we left Las Vegas at about 6pm. We drove home in about 7 hours, just eating on the road. It was nice to sit in the car and relax, talk about everything we had seen and dream about the future.
It was a really great trip. We actually realized it was our first vacation just us two together! (Not counting our trips when moving!).
Sunday we relaxed at home and looked through all the stuff we had gotten at the SEMA Show.
Here are some pictures of what we saw and did in Las Vegas.
SEMA Show
My growing belly
I just felt like making a little thing to show how my belly has gotten bigger the last few months :) Enjoy :)
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Been a while
So, let me see, what has happened the last few weeks. My belly has grown :) Finally, I actually look pregnant now, that's nice. The baby is kicking and moving around a lot, I can now feel when she has hick-ups and she's been playing and pulling on the umbilical cord too. I like it, it's nice to feel her in there, making sure we know she's there :)
We got a surprise package in the mail the other day. One of my good friends sent us a gift for baby, an "infant to toddler rocker" chair! It's awesome, and I love that our baby will be able to use it until she is 2-3 years old, at least! :) I had to put it together right away :)
I've also been a little crafty of my own lately. I tried something new, and managed to make/knit a baby hat with two colors and a small design! And it turned out really nice, I like it a lot, very cute :)
Yesterday I sat down and made a warm bag to use in the stroller when it's cold outside. All I need now is some buttons for it. I made it in fleece and I will leave it with an opening so I can choose to fill it with more blankets when it's colder, and take them out when it's a little warmer outside! I like it, it's really nice :)
It's fun to make stuff. And especially fun to make things I know our baby will get to use and enjoy :)
Here's some pictures of the things mentioned above:
My belly at 24 weeks pregnant.
The awesome chair for baby :)
The cute hat I made, "Strawberry hat".
I made another one, bigger size and a darker blue color.
The bag I made, open.
The bag when it's closed up. Only thing missing is the buttons :)
We got a surprise package in the mail the other day. One of my good friends sent us a gift for baby, an "infant to toddler rocker" chair! It's awesome, and I love that our baby will be able to use it until she is 2-3 years old, at least! :) I had to put it together right away :)
I've also been a little crafty of my own lately. I tried something new, and managed to make/knit a baby hat with two colors and a small design! And it turned out really nice, I like it a lot, very cute :)
Yesterday I sat down and made a warm bag to use in the stroller when it's cold outside. All I need now is some buttons for it. I made it in fleece and I will leave it with an opening so I can choose to fill it with more blankets when it's colder, and take them out when it's a little warmer outside! I like it, it's really nice :)
It's fun to make stuff. And especially fun to make things I know our baby will get to use and enjoy :)
Here's some pictures of the things mentioned above:
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Sightseeing in Utah
This past weekend, Sunday to be precise we were invited to go on a "cruise" with some friends. Basically they wanted to take a drive up in the beautiful mountains around us, see all the nice fall colors, and have fun driving around. We ended up being 7 cars, all really nice fun cars. 1 yellow Honda s2000, 1 white 2010 Mitsubishi Evolution MR, 1 blue 2011 Subaru STI, and 4 Chevrolet Cobalts, 1 turbo the rest supercharged. We had lots of fun and we got to know a couple of new people. For anyone local, we started in Kaysville, went up to Snow Basin (Ski resort) took a break to enjoy the view and talk. From there we went over Trappers Loop over to Huntsville, we stopped for lunch at a Subway there, from there we went almost to the top of Monte Cristo, about 9000 feet/2700 meters. Beautiful!! From there we went back down through Ogden Canyon.
Here are some pictures from the trip and some of the nice cars :)
The extremely beautiful landscape of Utah!
The 7 cars. From the left: s2000, Evo MR, STI, and the 4 cobalts.
A closer look at the 4 cobalts. Ours is the 3rd from the left. :)
Ours is the second from left.
Nice view, both of the landscape and a few cars :) This is down Trappers Loop.
Almost at the top of Monte Cristo. Notice the snow in the background :)
Another nice view picture :)
Here are some pictures from the trip and some of the nice cars :)
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