Greta 11 months

I am watching some old baby videos of Greta, and this is so fun:

Feeling nostalgic these days.

Greta learning to walk. 10 month old. Fuerteventura, Spain

Memories

I was going through some old pictures yesterday, I just have to share. I think she is wonderful. Less then one month old here:

September, the 22th, 2011

Melsomvik. Sep, 22th

More old pictures!

Scrapbooking

The summary of the year

Today it is the blog's birthday. I started blogging on the 30th of December last year. It has been many interesting things this year, and thank you all who read about our everyday life.

I will just write the highlights of our year. Month by month.

January has been a nice start of the year. We went all together to Tromsø, where I ran my first half marathon. I was pretty happy with the result, and we had a wonderful time watching the Northern lights for the first time in our lives. We also went skiing many times and I tried downhill skiing for the first time. I learnt pretty fast. Santiago is skiing very good now, too. Nex year, I go to Tromsø again, but this time I will be alone, for the first time Greta will be home with daddy without me. I think it will work just fine. We did some cross country skiing too, and we were surprised that Greta liked to join us in the "pulk". Greta also tried both types of ski, but she still preferred watching us do it, but this year she participates more actively.

February was the month of Santiago's birthday and Greta's carnival. I started sewing and was happy to find out that I like it. Lots of skiing and walking in the snow. Lots of guests. The Kongsberg fair with different attractions for kids, even when it was cold weather.

March was the end of the season for skiing, and we enjoyed cross country skiing in the mountains. The spring came in March this year. I learnt how to crochet, a bit.

April. We had a wonderful vacation in Eilat, Israel, for two weeks. Greta had her second birthday there, enjoyed the sun, the sea and lots of time with her parents. Nice! When we came back, the spring (or summer) has already begun in Norway and the grass was green. Greta received many presents from many of our friends, which is always so heartwarming. At the end of the month, Greta tried herself in some new sport activities and she liked it.

In May we went for our first trip to the top of the mountain Gaustatoppen, and had a family weekend in the mountains. I ran the spring run in Oslo, 10 km. Greta celebrated her birthday with her friends. The summer is inevitable at this point.

In June Santiago's brother Javier visited us here in Norway and we had a short road trip to the south of Norway. The weather was great, too. This month we started participating in the local orienteering tasks, and quite liked it. We also started looking for a new car and thinking about selling our previous car.

July is the month of Kongsberg jazzfestival. Greta is painting on the kids wall for the festival. I started cross-stitching as my new hobby. Greta tried playing tennis and thinks it is fun, but does not have enough patience yet. At the end of the month, we celebrate our 6th anniversary by going to pick berries to a farm with our friends from India.

In August we bought our new car and went for a trip to the western part of Norway with our friends.

September was a great month because Greta could spend lots of time with her grandparents, my mom and dad. We went to the summer house in Tønsberg, and had our family run, Greta with her 500 m, me and mom halfmarathon and dad the whole marathon with great time.

October, I love it. My birthday and yellow leaves. A 10 km run in Furumo for me and a kids run for Greta. We also went again to Gaustatoppen, just because it was just great weather we could not miss it.

We were waiting for snow the whole month of November, but it did not come just yet. So it was pretty strange to attend to the Christmas fair without snow... But Greta had fun. We also spent some days with our new friend from Ukraine, and she is so good with Greta. We also went for our last trip this year to the summer house in Tønsberg. And it was nice to start to prepare for Christmas.

December is just Advent and Christmas time. And I love that it is so much about the family. More decorating, children crafts, advent calender, Christmas parties, ingerbread cookies and gingerbread house, first snow!!!! Presents! And Christmas. And opening of the skiing season.

We had a great year. Did you?

Melsomvik. Sep, 20th, 2011

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Scrapbooking

It has been a wjile since I did scrapbooking. Lately I did more knitting, little sewing, lots of shopping, enough cooking, quite a lot playing. So no time for scrapbooking. But today I decided to do a bit. Greta was so tired after the music today, tht she fell asleep in the car. Of course she woke up when I took her out of the car, but still she went to bed pretty early. Santiago works some overtime tonight, which all together gives me time for my hobby. I was looking through some old pictures (last autumn), and was amazed by how much Greta has changed since. She was still a round baby then, but now she is a little lady. But she was also funny then, and I scrapped this picture when she runs happily just outside our house. Hehe. With a finger pointing up for some reason :-)

Memories: more Eilat

I am still not finished with the pictures from Eilat. So I will show just a couple of more.

1. Greta and Santiago enjoy the sun and the beach

2. Happy Greta

3. Greta enjoying the swimming pool

4. And the ice cream

Yet another birthday

A few weeks ago we had a birthday for our children that became 2 year old. 6 kids of the same age, born between 1st and 15th of April, 2009. I don't post pictures of other kids, just in case. They had a great time. We rent a kindergarten and ate and played there. Greta uses a dress she got from her Spanish grandparents a year ago, it is fit now :-)