Birk Adventures

This is a little late, but I just want to wish Marian Happy #1 Birthday! She turned 1 on January 12. It's a strange milestone for me because I feel like having a one-year old should make me a seasoned parent or something, but I still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing! We had a fun celebration for her though. We had some friends over from the ward the day before her birthday and on her actual birthday celebrated with my family in Salt Lake. She actually did a good job of not getting too messy even though I let her eat her cake by herself! Marian staring at Robert Stong who helped her blow out her candle. It was great singing the "We're glad you're not 1, we're glad you're not 2, ..." song (which I sing faithfully to every family member, including my grandma who turned 95 last year) because it was an impressive "We're glad that you're 1!" Marian with her cousin Lizzie. Why can't birthdays stay this exciting? Adam was the amaz...

This was one of my favorite parts of Christmas--"dancing" around the Christmas tree. We held hands and walked around the tree singing carols. This is definitely something I would like to incorporate into our own family traditions. We called Denmark "Mordor" while we were there because it was always gray and cold. This is about as light as it would get during the day (except the two days the sun temporarily peeked out from behind the clouds). This is us walking on the road Adam's family lives on. These are the "nisse" or fairies/pixies that are part of Danish Christmas tradition. The Birks had a cute display of them in their house. Fireworks are a huge deal for New Year's. Adam's brothers spent hundreds of dollars on them. I was picturing little sparklers, but no. These are serious fireworks! (The illegal ones in America.) We had to wear goggles to observe (for some reason I just couldn't smile and try to look cute wearing them). We did some...