xmas evening

Jack & Rebecca and their girls came over for dinner on christmas night. the girls are becoming quite close, though hennie and sophia have a very turbulent love. Mette has started talking about Sabine all the time, calling her by her nickname, "Bean". here is their dinner table.

we started the evening by exchanging presents.

Sophia and Hennie

Bean had a cold.

Rebecca got the girls a really beautiful nutcracker - they are all realy into the ballet for the last couple of years and have a sort of tradition started in going to see one of the productions every year.

Single malt scotch. nothing but the best for my little princess.

After dinner we let the girls go so we could sit and attempt to have some drinks and talk and listen to music. we actually started to have a great time and when someone finally thought to check on the strangely content children, we found this.

these dresses were from Tante Tone and are beautiful. (they started the night with both wearing them, but we went thru about 5 costume changes, which is typical - especially when hennie and sophia start trying to out-princess each other)

right before we put hennie into the washing machine.