Christmas 02.

Here is our Christmas tree. Very plain and boring this year. :/ :) We didn't put our beautiful, glass ornaments from Prague on there this year, for fear of the tree being tipped over and having them broken. We bought the tree at IKEA when we lived at the radhus (townhouse). The ceilings were pretty short there, but now we have an old house, with high ceilings, and the tree just looks silly now. The fake trees here aren't as full as the American trees. Even Fredrik wishes the Christmas lights were like the ones in the US. Next year we hope to.. put a little more effort into everything.. :/ :) When Leia will hopefully be a little more into the season (maybe). :/ :))

She wasn't interested in the presents at all. She didn't even try to open one present. She played with things after we opened them, but she wouldn't sit still long enough to even hold a wrapped present. Her favorite present was Mommy's set of Rubbermaid Tupperware containers from Mormor and Morfar.. :D She played with those the most. :))






We all received some very nice presents. :) For Fredrik I bought him a very nice work bench that he really liked and wanted. :) For the cellar. :) It was delivered about a week before Christmas, and the nice delivery guy that is always at the house carried it in for me because it was.. a bit heavy. :)) So it stayed unwrapped in the hallway until yesterday. :) And Fredrik put it together today.

But we all received very nice presents and we had a very nice Christmas. :) So we want to thank everyone for the nice presents we received, and that Leia received. :)


Leia having some Julmust:






For Christmas Eve/Day dinners, we had our favorites from the Swedish Julbord. And a few favorite additions of our own, including some delicious cheeses and crackers.


And a few pictures from our present-opening:

















Tomorrow we'll be going shopping! Or at least we'll be going to a "mall" and looking around. :) We left a lot of pacifiers at Farmor and Farfar's when we were there. We went with 3, bought 2 while we were there and came back with 3. So we need to buy more. We can't keep up with them, and Leia always keeps some at daycare. We'll be going to a place we took my parents this summer. We know it will be crowded, so we are mentally prepared for that. ;) We decided to go somewhere where there aren't as many stores, for our trip tomorrow, so we won't be too upset if we don't get to do too much because of the crowds. We'll save other trips for hopefully at least less-crowded days during vacation. :)

Leia has been very happy and pleased and content, and we are all really enjoying her happiness. :) She laughs constantly and loves to play.. even if she doesn't stay with one thing for very long. She loves to make us laugh and she loves to give hugs and cuddle.

It.. annoyingly has been making us talk a little more every day.. even just passing comments.. about having another baby.......