Hoppadihop!

Nice weather this afternoon, finally! We went out to 20th street and 2nd avenue to play basketball with Brittany, Andrew and some of their friends. A great oppotunity for me to pratice taking action shot -not my strongest point!

And then, to a "quick" burget at Shake Shack - I say quick, because it took us longer to be in the line to get the burger than to actually eat it. Ha! But it was oh-so-delicious!

Photo expo!

Felt so good to be part of it!

The clock is ticking :)

So the other bit thing that's been keeping me very busy these day: planning the wedding! Troels LOVED cutting and gluing these lovely lovely invitations hehehe - if anybody has an extra craft project, he volunteers! Oh, and our wedding website is ready too :) So go check it out! Go go go. We're getting super excited to partying with you all this summer, oh yeah!

oh, and look at the lovely people down here. I am sure most of you are going to recognize the smiling faces: they are our bridesmaids and groomsmen for the wedding.....they are in charge of keeping Troels and me sane that day :D Good luck with that!

Cranium night superstars

If you guys have never tried this game called cranium, go go now! One of the funniest games out there really. We had some friends come over for Troels' famous "pasta throw" - yeah we really can't call it lasagna anymore :D We had a blast....except for when I fell off my chair, a glass of wine in my hand -the chair slipped from under me I swear!-....and 1/2 hour later I fell in the stairs. Clumsy, me????

To the over side of the pond!

That being Brooklyn! We decided to take the Ferry to Ikea, it was WINDY but so nice to feel the wind on our faces, finally out of the city! I really need a break from it sometime. Went to have breakfast at a chill place with a view on the harbor and the statue of Liverty. So nice!

Danish Invasion 2!

Oh yes! You can NEVER have too many Danes around :) Two days after Troels' family left, our friends Rasmus & Line arrived with their oh-so-adorable-blondie-cutie baby named Mads (needs a list of silly danish names for your babies, anybody? Pam and Matt? Chouchou and Audrey? We got PLENTY! :D).

So nice to have everybody around, a lot of chilling out, taking walks with the baby -how I miss having little ones around! Of course the nights were also plenty of fun since Mads was teething :D mmm yeah that was fun!

Click click click

A few pics from my photo project. Loving this class.

Danish Invasion!

The guest season kicked off this February! Come one, come all :) Hanne, Steffen & Kaare were visiting us, and we went up skiing to Windham -well, when I say we....it was more like them....I MISS THE SNOW! The boys and Hanne went up the mountain, while Steffen and I visited the area. No Steffen - I will not go to the Fly Fishing museum...same goes for lighthouse museum :)

In the streets of New York City

Back to school

Just to photo school though :) My friend Brittany and I decided to dive in and take a class together that will hopefully help us a lot....So far the class has been super fun and interesting -and cheap on top of this, so if you are in NY and wanna take a class, I highly recommand Photo Manhattan. But stay tuned for the results of the class in a few weeks! PS: Expect to see a lot more pics in B&W since that's all I am supposed to do during the training.

A line of clueless people :D And we don't care :)
Brittany playing around with her camera

Big Beer Mountain

I mean, Big Bear Mountain - Oooppps a little lapsus :) We spent last weekend in Pennsylvania with our friend Alex and Brian. And it was FREEZING cold! We watched the temperature go down and down on our way from New York...and when we arrived at the cabin, it was -7 degrees Fahrenheits (-22 degrees celcium!)!!!!!! Hellllooowwwwww did we take a wrong turn and ended up in Antartica??

But our oh-so-lovely boyscout Brian us a lovely fire in the fireplace in uhm-uhm, no time with the lovely logs that our lumberjack troels cut out:D Oh you should have seen the smile on his face while he was carrying that wood around!

No skiing for me of course (so can't wait for next year), but I took pics and painted and chilled far from NY, and the other guys enjoyed snowboarding most of the weekend with all the fresh powder we got that weekend. And add to that our now infamous games of Cranium. Oh boy so much fun:D See you next year Big Bear!

At last......

I feel so lucky to have witness this day. It really could not come too soon.
"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics."
NOw, time to get to work, Barack. And us with you.

Dreaming of white and blue

Another beautiful winter day by Esrum Sø. I would have stayed there forever if my camera hadn't run out of battery. It snowed on and off today, and the light was the most beautiful, ever changing between the snow showers.

Swirling around like a little girl :)

Today Hanne made me try a beautiful family dress that I might be able to wear around the wedding and other fancy occasions. h I was swirling around like a little girl :) Hence the reason why the pics below are so blurry. I love it!

Whatever they were on, I want some of that!

hahaha ok, as promised...here are some pics from our New Year's parteeeey :D mmmmmm we went a long way from sitting quietly listening to the Queen's speech (pic 1) to....well this...this...this..mmmm I am not to sure how to discribe the mess that night was :D Oooooooh we had some fun. And you have not seen the videos yet! Thanks for the pics, Ditte.


Yaaaaaaaa

Celebrating the New Year, Danish Style!

2008 has been a very "interesting" year, for the good and the not so good, so here is to 2009 and what it will bring along! Celebrating New Year's Eve in Danemark was awesome. A few of the Danish traditions I thought you might want to know about:
- No public fireworks. Instead, EVERYBODY buys fireworks that they launch in the backyard. You end up with a sky lit up with the explosions, wherever you are. Really great!
- The hat tradition: don't ask me why, but you HAVE to wear a silly hat wherever you celbrate the New Year.
- Jumping into the New Year: litteraly, Danish people do that :) A few seconds before midnight we all got up on a chair, couch or whatever we could find, and jump down at midnight!
- Tradtional Danish songs: played by the national choir at midnight and sung like a karaoke by every Dane. Ohhhhhh my ears!

Here is a pic of Troels and I before we went out :) HEhe hopefully I can soon get one of the videos of the night so you can see the wonderful dancers we had that night!



HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!