HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!

Wow, this turned out to be blue... Oh well, just imagine that it's red

Alittle delayed MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all! As you can see my blog is turned into normal again. I (actually Shane:) will be putting a link to the page he made for me when he popped the big question.


So I guess many of you have already heard the good news...

Me and Shane got officially engaged the 6th of December 2006!

I'm so blessed and lucky and the happiest girl in the whole world to have gotten the privilege to spend the rest of my life with the one man that I love with all of my heart!
Wow, that was a long sentence!

Thank you so much for this, Shane! Not only are you my fiance, but you are also my bestfriend. You have always blessed and encouraged me in so many ways. I love you.

Breathing the Breath, Matt Redman

We have nothing to give
That didn't first come from Your hands
We have nothing to offer You
Which You did not provide
Every good, perfect gift comes from
Your kind and gracious heart
And all we do is give back to You
What always has been Yours

Lord, we're breathing the breath
That You gave us to breath
To worship You, to worship You
And we're singing these songs
With the very same breath
To worship You, to worship You

Who has given to You
That it should be paid back to him?
Who has given to You
As if You needed anything?
From You, and to You, and through You
Come all things, O Lord
And all we do is give back to You
What always has been Yours

Yours

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

Kjære Ma!
Takk for din omsorg og kjærlighet
Takk for din tålmodighet
Takk for dine kjærlige ord og oppmuntringer
Takk for alt som du har lært meg
Takk for alle de ganger du har tatt vare på meg når jeg har vært syk
Takk for alltid ha satt mat på bordet
Takk for alle de gaver som du har gitt meg
Takk for alle de gode stunder vi har hatt sammen
Takk for alle de ganger du har ryddet rommet mitt for meg
Takk mamma!
Jeg er så uendelig glad i deg og jeg setter utrolig stor pris på deg.

Ha en fantastisk og velsignet dag!

Stor klem fra din datter

A Christmas without snow?

I've always celebrated Christmas at home with my family. Let me tell you how a Christmas day would be in my family.
In the morning...
I wake up (and i can wake up whenever i want:) to the smell of my mom's cooking preparations for Christmas dinner in the evening. Oh boy, i can tell you that woman can cook!
Then my sister and i watch all the usual programs that they show on tv (we are still in our pyjamas). Cinderella is one of the movies i've come to love. It's not the kind of movie you would expect to watch tho. It's made in the Czech Republic in 1973. And it's pretty funny too, cuz it's dubbed into norwegian, and it's only one guy talking for all the characters (You can still hear them speak in the background!). It's such a sweet movie.
After that we have RISENGRYNSGRØT (some sort of a norwegian type of porridge). It is SO good. You cook the sweet rice for about an hour, and then add butter, sugar and cinnamon on top of it. Yam!
The fun part is that we put one sinlge almond in the porridge, who ever gets it gets a present:-)

In the afternoon we dress up and go to church.

Evening...
O, how i love the smell of mom's food! (I usually help her prepare the food early in the morning) The sweet smell of her famous home-made potatosalad, spare-ribs, pinnekjøtt (salted and dried rib of mutton; only eaten during christmas), christmas sausages, mashed swede (oh la la, my favourite!), vegetables cooked for a long time in the meat sauce (mm!), and then of course the gravy.

Oh my goodness! Look at that delicious piece of thing!!

Then when dinner is all done, it's time to read the story of when Christ was born. I love this part, and i never get tired of reading it.

Finally it's time to open the presents. This is also one of my favourite parts. I love to see all the faces as they open their presents.
After the presents are opened and played with, it's time for dessert...

I'm not even gonna go there, the list is too long. But one thing you should know, it's goooood...

The night is still young, but we are all so ridiculously full, that we're all nackered. So we just hang out and talk and look some more on our presents.
If we're lucky it's snowing outside.

Nothing is like a Christmas Eve when it suddenly starts to snow.

Later that night...
I cuddle into my blanket thinking: Man, i love Christmas...