Thursday, 13 January 2011

December 2010

I really should get some of the pictures from last month on here... I think I'll just do a quick little recap and post some pictures.

For some reason they've uploaded completely in the wrong order and moving this many pictures around on this program takes ...well way too long for me to attempt, so they'll just stay the way they are. -Sorry!

This was how tightly packed our car was on the way home from my parents in Germany after Christmas. Packed with christmas presents as well as the things Quentin and I brought home from England. Thank goodness for Quentin's excellent Tetris skills!!



 I drove all the way homw (only seven hours as opposed to the twelve he drove on the way down in a blizard!) and halfway home I asked how his legs were. (Nobody could move their legs for all the STUFF we were bringing home) He just said "they're ok. I can't feel them anymore..."
 At least, as you can see, spirits were high (thank goodness!)
 Cousins concentrating
 On a walk down to pick up the kids from school I had to run back for my camera, as everything looked as though it had been dipped in sugar. Doesn't it look just like candied fruits?! Very beautiful and dangerous. I don't know how many times the pram has saved me from frapping over!

 I also tried taking a Christmassy picture of the kids. It took quite a few tries. Liam kept crawling off and the other two ended up in fits with my attempts to keep him there and all the silly things I was doing to get him to smile.
 I love this one with Liam's you're-so-silly-mum-expression:-)
 I finally got this one, which I really like. They look like little angels (the lies a picture can tell muahahaha)
 And so we added a nicotine 70's look to it for our christmas letter, which only half of you got as usual, as I never got around to translating it (ahem...)
 Making "Lucia breads" -A Scandinavian Christmas tradition.
 My son, Kim Larsen:-)
 Right after Christmas I surprised Quentin with a date trip to England as a 10th anniversary present. We had a lovely trip and didn't realise until the next morning, when speaking to Ertin on the phone from the hotel room in London, that everyone back at my parents had got a sickness bug and were fighting each other for the bathrooms. It was an absolute nightmare few days for my poor family. Yet when we got back, the children thought they'd had a great time. Thank you, we owe you! is all we can say!
The London temple grounds decorated for Christmas.
Quentin and Liam on a London train. Liam was the warmest kid in all of London. We were amazed at how little the other kids were wearing (ie no gloves, hats, snow suits etc and often they would put their arms up and their bellies would show brrrr.) We decided to start a company exporting snow suits to England:-)
 This is what it looked like here on the morning of the 23rd, the day we were meant to travel to Frankfurt. It had been clear the day before but there was a blizard all night. Hence the fact that the trip took 12 long, slow hours!
 Football tournament. I love this picture because Joshua is on the end of his team and just put his arm around the guy from the opposing team too. So cute:-) Although, look how far back his arm stretches, freaky!
 He's super proud of his medal, as you can probably tell from the look on his face:-)
 Christmas party at church. I like thios picture of Erin. She thought it was both hysterical and embarrasing that her best friend's dad was Father Christmas and that he kept talking to her as Santa even though she knew who he was. She's getting so big:-)

 And I just really like this picture of those two lovely men / boys:-)
So there we have it. A complete jumble of memories from last month! But at least they're on here now.
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Crabs and Star fish

Crabs and Star fish
One of our most favourite things to do is to go to the beach at the end of our road and catch crabs and star fish. Erin and Joshua are little pros at it now. They both crack open their own mussels, attach them to the line and drop the crabs in the bucket. The girl in the blue dress is Erin's friend from church. They love playing together and are so similar, both in looks and temperaments.


Views from around our house

Views from around our house
We love the area we live in and Quentin can't stop taking pictures of the harbour whenever he walks across the bridge, we must have a million and in fifty years time, Sønderborg city council will propably contact us about copies for their records of the city... This was taken with our mobile.

The beach at the end of our road -we feel very lucky!

Welcome to our blog

Well, we've been in Sønderborg for a year now and time has really flown by!

We've bought a house in Augustenborg, which is a village 8 km from Sønderborg. It is also right near the water and is on the island of Als. We can't wait to move in on May the 15th.

Joshua will be starting preschool in Augustenborg when we move and for the first time he'll be going without his big sister to look out for him. He clings to her quite a bit, so we're happy that there's a little boy he knows from church starting at the same time. Hopefully he'll settle in well and make friends of his own quickly.

Erin will be starting school after the summer holidays and all the children starting this year, will be spending the summer at the school (in what's usually the after schoolclub -SFO) so that they have a bit of time to get used to each other and the school. It's very good timing for us as they start there in May, -right when we move anyway. It saves Erin a move or us driving her from Augustenborg to Dybbøl every morning.

The kids are growing so fast it seems at them moment and they are really looking forward to spending some time with nana and grandad this spring (we're looking forward to them brushing up on their English too...) and to going on holiday to mormor and morfar's on their own this summer.

Quentin is still enjoying working as a physio and still travels to Aabenraa every morning. He is also the branch mission leader and the nursery leader. The primary president loves him and thinks he is brilliant in that calling... He is incredibly creative in the way he teaches the children and they all love him and their lessons. He says he loves teaching a class where the students' vocabulary doesn't exceed his own:-)

I am the primary president and am still enjoying that very much. I have an amazing councillor who makes my calling a breeze and the children are (mostly) just lovely.
I am working night shifts at the old people's home, which I do enjoy, but I keep looking for other, more creative work and would love to do something else.

Apart from that, there's not much going on in our lives and we quite think it's plenty, really...

We are looking forward to you all coming to visit us in our new house when we've settled in.

The historic hills behind our road by Dybbøl mølle (mill) are the perfect place to fly kites before bedtime... Afterwards we like to roll down the hills -All except Quentin who usually ends up feeling queezy.

2007

As you may know we moved to Sønderborg, Denmark earlier this year. February to be exact.
Quentin had just finished his MSC in physiotherapy in Southampton and with it being so hard to get jobs in England because of all the NHS cutbaks, he also applied to one here in Denmark. We'd always thought it would be fun to move here for a while and thought there'd be no better time than now while the children are still small. It was still a hard decision though and one which involved lots of praying.
We are so happy to be here though. We had originally said we'd "give it at least two years", but Quentin keeps extending that lol. I think that must mean he's happy here:-)
He's working hard at a private clinic and is doing really well there. I am so happy that he is able to do the job he has always wanted to do.

He also takes Danish classes twice a week in the evening and we are all impressed with how quickly he is learning. I'm sure it has a lot to do with his perseverance in speaking Danish even to people he knows speak English very well.
Apart from that he is the branch mission leader (okay, the meetings with the elders are in English for the moment being...)

The branch here is tiny (when we first walked into the sacrament meeting Erin thought it was Primary) and we were a bit worried about that, having always belonged to big wards. It is a very different experience and we have to give lots of talks etc, but we actually really love it. The branch is made up mainly of young families and a few elderly people. The children have made some great friends at church and so have we.

I have been working part-time as a home help, but stopped a couple of weeks ago. I would really like to do something creative and somehow utilise my education, but for the moment I am just enjoying being at home with the children and having the time to do the things I want to. I do start working as a substitute next week, but that means I can choose my own shifts and with the shift hours I still pick the children up between one and two. I am also the Primary president at church. We have about 12 children who come regularly and they are so good to each other. The older ones always play with and look out for the little ones, so being the Primary president is a pleasure.

Erin and Joshua go to the same preschool (børnehave) and love it. Joshua likes having his big sister with him and mainly play with all the "big girls". They also go to gymnastics, which seems to be something everyone does around this area, so we see all the children from preschool there every Monday night as well. They really enjoy that too. Erin chose an all pink and shiny gym outfit, which happened to be the same one half the girls had chosen too, so they all run around as chubby flashes of pink and think they're ballerinas. Joshua keeps telling me how fast he runs at gymnastics and loves going so much. They both think Mondays are the best because there's preschool, gymnastics and then Family Home Evening.