Christmas 2010

"Food of Norway" cookbook for hege and randy

a portrait in beads of thomas from mina

mette had an idea to make hennie a stuffed cheetah out of some leopard fabric of hege's she spotted. we had a good afternoon finding cheetah images online and drawing the pattern in tape, and cutting it out carefully. hege did an even better job stuffing and stitching it together. a few hours after this photo was taken hennie threw up all over it and its still in a plastic bag waiting to be washed.

mette's wrapping paper

the jewelry boxes from fathermother were a big hit

the 5th Harry Potter book from Fridtof is almost 1000 pages long. Hennie is just finishing up the 4th and looking forward to getting started on it

home-made earrings from Mina

new cameras for each of them were also a huge surprise

mette doing experiments with her hair

christmas afternoon sledding by the Oslo Fjord. Hege is improvising using a flat-headed shovel (which worked really well)

Hennie and Hege


Hennie in her plastic bag

walk along the frozen Fjord - shortly before 2pm. about as bright as it gets - sun heading back down.

standing on a diving platform - tempting fate

along the Fjord, behind the Eilertsen's house

animal tracks across the frozen surface (fox and rabbits)

it was -16C (about 5 degrees F) and the air was icy and clean. we felt like arctic researchers