American in Norway

Whew...What a weekend/week. We started celebrating NORWAY took FIRST in the Eurovision !! Yea...makes me proud to be an ALMOST Norwegian... This means the contest will be coming to Norway next year...(Dane has already asked for tickets for his birthday next year...lets hope it comes to Oslo...) Sunday we had a FULL day of 17 th of may FUN FUN FUN... This was the NICEST weather I have experienced on a 17 th of May... & YES the American went bare legged & in sandals... it was SCANDALOUS (at least for my MIL) No post would be complete without my throwing my kids faces all over the post... Here are some of theBEAUTIFUL traditional outfits ... To answer s ome of your questions from my last post about the dresses.... -They are expensive because they are hand made & because of all of the silver on the dresses... -I do not have one (although I kinda wish I did) ... because I'm not Norwegian ... you can tell where everyone comes from by their dress... I would feel silly wea...

It's Friday, It's Friday, Thank Goodness it's Frid ay!!! YIPPEE!I'm playing Candid Carrie's Friday Foto Fiesta Finish again this week .So after you're done here, go over there and check out who's playing thi s week!!! This is my SCANDINAVIAN COWBOY... Dane Colten on his 8th B-day Its THAT time of the year again...Dane's birthday time..... Oh sure, his birthday isn't for another month... but we have to start planning NOW... He told me last year he was O V E R the "theme" parties... he was just too big for them.... (mommy, a little sad...) "Oh okay... honey whatever you want..." So for this year, We thought about a trip to the amusment park... "nah... Magnus dosen't want to go...because Olliver doesn't want to go---" whatever... Go cart racing? RIP off.... it came to about $50 per child for a soda & 15 min of drive time... We are running out of time! What are we going to do? Finally baby boy AGREED to have O...