Summer in Norway 1 - trip to Kongeparken

The summer in Norway has been great so far! The weather hasn't been briliant all the time like in London, but the kids love to spend time with family and friends. We took a trip to Stavanger to visit Kongeparken (The King's Park), a fun park Jens and Oliver love! We went with my sister Ingunn and her family, and my parents came too. Weather was not great, but at least it didn't rain. And there were hardly any people there, so no queueing at all - absolutely perfect, the kids could go on every ride they wanted, and as many times as they wanted to!

We all had a great day, and Jens and Oliver didn't want to leave when we had to go. I suppose that's the way it should be! :)

After the visit to Kongeparken, we popped in to sweet Linda's house on our way home, to see her and her three boys Elias, Heine and Levi. They lived in London last year, but moved back to Stavanger last July. It is so nice to keep in touch with them! :)

SolgunnX

May Summary

May has gone by so quickly, and I've been busy, busy moving and having visitors. Although we're way into June now, I thought I'd post some of the activities from May.
My parents came over for 10 days, celebrating Olivers 7'th birthday on the 16'th, and Norway's constitution Day on the 17'th of May. 17'th is a big day in Norway, where everyone dresses  up,  wearing their national dresses. There's a big network of Norwegians in London, and everyone meets up in Southwark Park for games, parades, singing and fun :) The Norweagian princess was even there, which was pretty cool! ;)
As I don't have easy accsess to my computer here at my parents-in-law, I've decided to blog through my phone. So here's a few photos from May;

Bankholiday date and a family piknik

Finally we got some warm sun again, perfect for the bank holiday!!Started of bitterly cold on saterdays football practice but Sunday was a total different story!We have been so lucky to have a sweet 16 year old girl as a neighbour, and she loves to babysit!So yesterday we decided to go out on a date in Kingston, its so important to keep the romance in the relationship!And since my family is in Norway and Oliver's in Derby, im so happy we found a babysitter we can trust.Aleksander loves her to so he couldnt wait for us to go on a date=)

Perfect warm night to sit and enjoy wine next to the Themes, its so beautiful there.

Felt like we were in Spain on a littel mini holiday, so nice to spend some time togheter alone!Need to do it much more, no excuses no that we got a babysitter!And live in London,hello!!!All the things to do!

After spending the first half of our evening in Kingston, it died a bit down(even it was bankholiday and monday off). But they have a big nightlife where we live so we went back there and had such a laugh!! A perfect date with my perfect man!!Love love love!!!

 Normally I feel horrible hangover but after a cup of tea and some headache tablets I felt like new.
The weather is still great so we didnt want to waste the day off in bed, so we packed our bags with snacks and went to Epsom downs.

 Its nothing more cosy with a family picnic in the sun, we did syckle far so Aleksander impressed me!
Even he was tired he still went on going!

 Epsom Downs are really impressiv, its so beautiful and a great place to spend the day with the kids.
Today they were preparing the racecourse in readiness for saterdays Derby horserace, sadly im in Norway on saterday otherwice I would have been there!Oliver is going with some of hi's friends, will be great fun and lots of drinking!And off course betting on horses

 Aleksander got me play tick, he knows how to keep his mum fit.Cant remeber it was so exhausting playing tick when I was littel...But it's still great fun=)

 Some hills are just to hard for a littel boy to syckle, and to be fair we had been running around in the grass!Been a wonderful minibreak, but its only 4 weeks left before the summerholiday!!Cant belive it!Why does the time go so fast?!?

Irenex

Taco pizza horns

First of all, I think the weather Gods saw my blogpost yesterday, as this morning we woke up to warm, beautiful weather!! :) :)

Yesterday I baked pizza horns. Irene makes this recipe a lot; they are perfect for the boys to take to school in their lunch boxes for a special treat.

Firstly, make the pizza dough;  about 1/ 2kg flour, 1/2 tspoon salt, 1 tablespoon oil, 1 sachet dried yeast and about 3 dl lunk warm water. Mix it all together in a bowl and leave to rise for about one hour. These measurments are only approximate, as I don't ever follow a recipe myself, I just chuck it all in. You see when the concistency is right.
Pizza filling; 500 grams mince, 1 onion, 1/2 sachet of fahjita or taco powder, 2 tbl spoons tomato puree and a little water.

Roll out the dough to a big circle. Using a pizza cutter, cut the circle into 8 pieces.

add the pizza filling (or any filling of your choise), a bit of cheese and roll them up.

Make sure to twist the ends so they don't leak.

Brush them with eggyolk, add a little grated cheese on the top and put in the oven at 225 degrees for about 10 minutes. Really tasty!

Now I have to continue packing. Not sure I've mentioned it before, but we have to be out of our apartment by Friday. We are moving to my parents-in-law for a few weeks, until the school term finishes 21st June. Then I am taking my boys to Norway for a month or so whilst David is back in London working, and finding us a new, bigger house to live in. :) We need a new house ready by the start of August when we're coming back to England! Busy busy! :)

SolgunnX