Happy birthday

42 years old! So now we are the same age. We woke up Ellen with birthday song and the tasty peanutbutter and jelly pancakes we got from Rick and Jennifer for Christmas. Then a lazy day where the hardest work was to check out a house for sale in the neighbourhood. Supper was a very nice roast with good Italian red wine. Dessert was a Russian cheese cake. I don't know what made it Russian, but it was good. Axel helped cook the roast and accompaniments and Rita the cake.

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Happy birthday, Ellen. Typical Danish early birthday breakfast with morning hair and all :-)

Axel's birthday

We came back from Germany on the 16th - just in time to celebrate Axel's birthday. Eventhough it was 1 AM when we finally reached home we managed to stir together the dough for the obligatory birthday rolls. Axel got this book from Rick and Jennifer. He also got tickets for Transformers. He loved it!

Axel's birthday

Since Axel's birthday is in the middle of the summer vacation we have a tradition of celebrating him before school ends. This year we had the party at grandma and grandpa Q's place. We had a lot of fun but it was hot! We've never seen the kids drink so much. On average each kid drank half a gallon of kool aid in 4 hours.

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We now have a teenager in the house. Since our boat trip was cancelled Erik had asked for a real brunch with bacon, scrampled eggs, pancakes and the lot.



In the evening Erik and I went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and then to the movies to watch Ghost Rider. It was great.

Ellen, Rita and Axel went to a musical. The tickets had been bought before we knew the sailing trip was cancelled.

Rita's birthday

We had a great birthday for Rita. In the morning we had fresh homemade breadrolls. Rita opened her gifts and was very happy. Preschool came for lunch. As is custom Rita got a very fancy hat. Ellen had made a beautiful teddy bear cake.

After lunch Rita and Ellen went downtown Copenhagen to pick out a build-a-bear. Hence Amalie was "born". Amalie is pink. Wears ice skates and follows Rita all over :-)