Time passes quickly...

Well, I have been feeling guilty that I have not updated the blog in (what seems like) ages, but my "saving grace" was that Kristy was even more belated than me. Well, she updated hers yesterday; so, I felt obliged...

Even though we are traveling home to Tulsa for Christmas, I felt that we needed to drag out some of the Christmas decor to make the house a bit festive. I certainly didn't want to go overboard as there is nothing worse than coming home on January 4th to a house decorated for Christmas!

So, I set-up the tree and strung the lights on Sunday, Nov 29th and left the Christmas ornament hanging to Tim and Lexi. I went out of town Nov 30-Dec 4th to a training class outside of London and Tim and Lexi tackled the ornaments one night. I am so proud of myself, I have not moved a single ornament after they "decorated". Firstly, Tim got out way less than half of the ornaments (he thinks we have way, way too many). Secondly, Lexi hung EVERY SINGLE ornament herself... which explains why 90% are on the lower two branches. Tim lifted her up to hang the upper ornaments. So, as you will see from the following pics, the tree is definitely "unique", but hey... I didn't have the heart to re-do Lexi's decorating :)

We actually spent one recent weekend in Stavanger and enjoyed a stroll around the center on Saturday to help get us in the festive mood. Lexi insisted on the stroller and felt the need for sunglasses...despite the fact that the sun was no longer shining.


Just to give a quick "boathouse update", we spent our last weekend of 2009 in Feda December 4-6. Here are a few pics of our year-end progress. Nearly there!

Yippee! Finally, door handles!
Just waiting on furniture...

Second floor bathroom...

First floor bathroom...