Mark and Victoria

03 March 2014

Christmas 2013

Christmas Eve we spent alone, but we must have been good, because SANTA CAME IN PERSON again this year! VIDEO HERE!

A glimpse of the Christmas stockings can be seen HERE.

Christmas Day was a fun get-together with Mark's three brothers and all the Fisher cousins.

FILMER: Christmas Madness Christmas Piano with Troy. :)

Christian, Cecilia, Anja, Eliot, Elina on the left.
Merritt, Jim, Isak, Craig and Mark on the right.
Elina had made the snowflake in the ceiling all by herself.

The madness has begun.

Waiting to open still.

Ett litet julspel hade vi också!

Troy fullkomligt ÄLSKAR sina små brorsdöttrar!
Och det är en besvarad kärlek.

En av Isaks höjdpunkter vid alla familjesammankomster är att få sitta vid pianot med Troy och lira lite.

Isak 6th grade Christmas Band concert

Isak had a Christmas concert with his band. He is no longer playing the violin in orchestra, but tried out as one of 20 for percussion in band. He was one of the 6 who made the percussion!

Click to see and hear the brand new band players doing Ode to Joy and one other song! The little enthusiastic "howler" you can hear on the film would be Julia.

The picture above shows Isak sitting next to his buddy Brody, from church, who plays the tuba. They have several classes together at school.

Lucia 2013

I år hade vi ett hyfsat lyckat Lucia tåg uppe i Norra Oklahoma City vid Skandinaviska klubbens årliga julfest. Barnen fick gratis julbord som tack för sin medvarkan och vi hade inte kunnat ha en mer tacksam publik. Värdet var lite ostadigt dagarna innan - vi fick en del snö som för Oklahoma innebär tveksamma trafikanter eftersom vi inte har plogbilar här, typ. Men tre av oss svenska mammor vågade oss ut på vägarna och mellan mig, Carolina och Anna-Sofia så har vi faktiskt 13 barn. Alla utom lilla Maya medverkade i tåget.
Filmklipp kan ses HÄR och ÄVEN HÄR.
Här kommer bilder.

Uppvärmning i körrummet.

Luciatåget på scen.

Anja gillade julbordet.

Delar av familjen Jensen:
Carolina, Maya, Hannah och Matt.

Anna-Sofia och hennes tre flickor.

Julia körde inte så varierad kost.

Köttbullarna var populära!

Isak och Daniel.

Hanna, Christian och Anja vid julkrubban.

Silly faces!

First Piano Recital

Isak and Elina had their first Piano Recital at the beginning of December. They both did really well.

Isak played "The Medallion Calls" from Pirates of the Caribbean as well as "Joy to the World." He was disappointed he messed up a little on "Joy to the World."

LINK HERE to his performance.

Elina played a piece from her lesson book as well as "Come All Ye Faithful."

LINK HERE to Elina's performance.

Cousin Fun!

We've had quite a few weekends with the cousins, Eliot and Merritt, this fall. We always look forward to seeing them and Uncle Jim.

Sunday morning.

"The sun is too bright, mom!"

The girls wanted to pose with Uncle Jim!

Recap: Jackson Carnival and a few others

I am working full-time for the first time since having children. The school is called Jackson Elementary and Julia is a student there. In the fall the annual carnival was held. Here are a few pictures:

Pony rides! The normally extremely fearless Julia is DEATHLY afraid of tall horses. This is as large a horse as she will get on, and she doesn't want it to move. She will tell us by holding up her hand how small a horse she needs. She's talking about a Labrador.

Carnival fun!

Anja had a good time!

Elina spent her spare change and won a cake! :)

I helped out with the ponies the whole evening.

Anja rode a few times.

Two of my co-workers.

Elina on a mule with Ms. Jenny Pratt, teacher of the year.

Friends over at our house!

Backyard fun!

Evidence that they really DO love each other.

This is Julia at the annual jog-a-thon fundraiser for Jackson, called the Tiger-Trot. I did not attend the Truman jog-a-thon because I am now a working mom, so no running pictures of Elina or Anja.

01 November 2013

Halloween 2013

For the first time since we have lived in our current house (since 2009) we actually went Trick or Treating our neighborhood. We had our friends the Sturges family over (Isak and their son Brody have classes together at Alcott), and our friend Erica and her son, Ian, came also. We had a wonderful time. It was really nice to meet our neighbors and see the Halloween "climate" here in our own neighborhood.

The day began at school. Julia dressed up as a dragon. That costume has been in the family for a long time now and without my ever promoting it, every kid has wanted to wear it when they were 4 years old.

Since Julia goes to school where I work, I was able to go to her party.
For the first time, I was NOT able to attend any of the other kids' parties.
Anja was sad about it after school. :(

Caleb, Isak, Ian, Drake, Anja, Julia, Leah, Elina and Brody:
Ready for Trick or Treating!

Isak, Caleb and Brody went Trick or treating alone. They ran most of the way, I think, and came home to dump their candy, then went out again with empty bags...