Daddy's gal

Elin must be with Nate at all times when he's home.
And she loves wearing her little poncho.
And we can never have too much orange in our house, be it clothing or hair.
Happy Wednesday!

SCSU Hockey!

Nate and I went to a hockey game recently with friends.
So much fun.
I would like to clarify that hockey is not that meaningful to me.
I was there to support Nate's love for the game.
And for the complimentary popcorn.


See how much fun this was?

Lots of people we love were there!

St. Cloud State was playing Michigan Tech.

I don't know much about hockey but I know that Michigan Tech

. . . doesn't win hockey games.

There are lots of things I love about hockey games though. Like the zambonies. Zambonii?

Especially zambonies that look like grocery carts. Those are my favorite.

It might be hard to tell in this picture, but my other favorite thing at SCSU hockey games?

Ice-skating cheerleaders!

It wasn't until I married Nate and he forced me to go to hockey games with him that I realized such a thing as ice-skating cheerleaders existed! I'd never seen the like!

Oh goodness do I ever get a kick out of them.

There are also lots of other fun things that happen. Like when cars drive out on the ice.

And the Blizzard Blimp drops envelopes full of freebies.

We didn't get a freebie. And that was okay.

My other favorite thing! The Kiss Cam! I have waited for *years* to be on the kiss cam!!

Nate's a little terrified of being caught on the kiss cam. Especially because when the kiss cam came around at this game, he wasn't even sitting by me, but was sandwiched in between a bunch of guys. That would have been awkward.

As a side note, the game was also going on during all of this.

Saint Cloud whooped Michigan Tech 3-0.

But I brought my knitting so I wouldn't have to be too concerned about the score.

We had so much fun! I LOVE hockey games!!

Cutie fix

I haven't blogged for a while . . . time for some Elin pics.
She is almost 19 months old. When did that happen?

The end!

Viggo is SEVEN!

Yes, it's 2011, and a couple weeks ago we celebrated Viggo's seventh birthday.

Our old man.

Birthdays are super-special around here. I wanted to surprise Viggo starting with breakfast. This looks like an ordinary white mug with hot chocolate inside . . .

But look what was waiting for Viggo at the bottom! How cool is this!

So for breakfast, we had pumpkin pancakes (at Viggo's request - I had just received a case of 12 cans of organic pumpkin, so he had pumpkin on the brain), clementines, and hot chocolate. My kind of breakfast!

He thought his dolphin mug was so cool!

We had hot dogs for lunch.

And Viggo had an entire can of pop. That was his surprise from Nate.

Personally I thought the dolphin mug was way cooler but whatever.

Then Viggo dove into his piles of gifts. Wow! Thank you so much, family!!

The peanut gallery was close by to politely watch presents being opened.

I am so happy Viggo got a loom; now he can make us some new place mats, napkins, rugs, etc.

Svea did some birthday twirling!
Sometimes after she goes to bed I put this skirt on.

Just kidding.

Maybe.

Viggo got Lego games galore.

And Elin was totally getting into the birthday spirit! She was having almost as much fun as her big brother was.

Viggo got so many wonderful, thoughtful presents. Thank you to everyone!

Time for ice-cream cake.

I made this up for Viggo in 2009 and he hasn't wavered yet from this ice cream/hot fudge sauce/oreo layered dessert. But this year I was busy working, so Nate made it instead of me. Nate even made the hot fudge sauce from scratch. Viggo was a little stunned when he found out Daddy made his birthday dessert!

Nate got the stamp of approval as a good cook.

Svea was excited about the delish dessert too.

After several bites she declared herself near stomachache status.

Happy birthday Viggo! We love you and are so proud of you!