Katch-up

So its been a little while since I got on so I have quite a lot to say.
First off here is a link to all the pictures that I took over the weekend on our way down to Oslo:
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Now I hope that works. Okay, so much to say. So Friday I got to skip out of school and take a trip down to Oslo. It took us about nine hours and we stopped several times along the way. We had a little fire and ate hot dogs, and a the kids went hiking around the woods. We stopped in Lille Hamer, which is where they held some of the Olympics back in '94 or something like that. We also stopped just at a rest stop/gas station and that is where all the troll pictures come in. It was a very long long long trip.
When we arrived we were able to stay with a really nice older couple. They had a very big home and we were able to have the whole top floor, which had three rooms and a bathroom. We toured Oslo a bit, and unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries even though I had put new ones in before I left the house the day before.  We went and saw an amazing old ship called "The Fram" which went down to the Antarctic and when they brought it back they stuck it in a museum.
We went to a statue garden, Tyler, A.J., and I stared at the ground the whole time.....We couldn't wait to get out of there. We didn't stay very long at all Thank Goodness. We went to the Youth Center and got directions to an amazing Kebab shop. (They are a lot like Gyros but a lot better.) They were huge, my parents cut two in half so us kids could each have a half. It was about 6 inches long and 2 or 3 across. They were so good, but I don't think I could have eaten a whole one!
Unfortunately we ran out of time and had to come home my dad had a meeting at 3:30 so we had to get home before 2. My siblings and I stayed home and played games with my mom. The next morning we got up and ready for the meeting. We were able to find seats, even with all the people that were there and my dad stopping to talk every few feet with someone he recognized from 20 years ago or a missionary that was recently in Trondheim. As we started the meeting quite a bit was in Norwegian, but the General Authorities speak English!! So I was able to understand it! They reorganized the existing stake and added the SECOND STAKE EVER IN NORWAY!!!!!!!!! All the Saints here are pretty excited.
After the meeting we started our nine hour drive back home stopping a few times to look around and get pictures. Then we were home.

One other good piece of news, I am signed up for EFY Europe! It is going to take place in Sweden and most likely in English since Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians don't understand each other very well. I am going to take a train down to Oslo and then a shuttle across the border to the city in Sweden. I am so excited it is the first week in July, and this will be my first time to go! Any way I'm pretty excited for that.

If you read this please leave a comment, I want to see how many people read this-because I don't have a little counter thing. The one that is available on the blogger is screwy, it keeps giving me different numbers every day and they don't go up the go down. 8 one day and then 2 the next. Any ways Thank You for reading this!

Have a "Ferry" good day!

Today we got bored of sitting in the house and it finally warmed up enough that we considered venturing outside. So my dad found a ferry that goes across the fjord. If you walk on it's free so we decided to go for it. It was about a 20-30 minute ride from one side to the other. It was warmer outside but it was still frigid when you are standing in the wind.
We were all pretty hyped up about being on a ferry and were running everywhere trying to see as much as we could. Once we were on the other side we didn't feel like walking up the long hill to the few houses we could see. So we just wandered around the dock. My dad pointed to a big pile of snow, which we could see the ocean on the other side of, and he said we could stand there and get sprayed by the ocean. We did and I was expecting a light mist. NO! It was full on drops, after standing there for two or three times A.J. was pretty wet. Skylee thought it was so much fun and kept saying 'one more.....one more'. After that we went the other side of the dock where it wasn't quite as wild. My brothers then proceeded to get into a snowball fight that managed to hit me, Skylee, Dad, and Mom.
Today was also our first day of a language class taught by the missionaries. They did really well for not having a manual to teach out of and teaching to a wide variety of people. The couple missionaries were there, as well as my family. My family is pretty varied, My dad who is a genius at the language. Tyler who picks up odd words, Skylee who knows her basic numbers but prefers to say them in Spanish, A.J. who is trooping through all the weird words, and me...I am learning an odd word or two from Eclipse and can dissect very very simple sentences. Of course the missionaries are learning the language themselves, as well. They kept asking my dad for an easier or simpler way to say a word, one that we could remember. They taught us how to pray in Norwegian so that we can do that. Although we are going to need a bit more practice.
School starts again tomorrow and I don't know if I should be down or not about it. On the one hand I want to get a grip on the language and this is the only way, on the other it's school. Although I don't thing that this is nearly as strenuous as an American school. I mean 5 breaks a day and no real set teacher. Maybe I should enjoy this. Oh...I think it is arts and crafts day too, Sweet.
Hopefully it continues to warm up as the week goes on. Have a very good day!
Ok I was going to post this after I had added pictures but I haven't yet and so I am just going to put it on before it gets too late.

Spring? Break

So I promised I would keep this up during spring break...so here it is. 

It has continued to snow non-stop during this week, the nice thing is as soon as it does stop, it melts! But the other day we went out with an evil plot. Build a snow fort to attack my dad as he came home! 

We built the fort and were ready to attack when he got there when he called my mom, he would be picked up by the couple missionaries and taken to their house to help unload the new bed they had bought. What a bummer we couldn't attack him now. We still managed to have a good time though in the snow.

We attempted to build Calvin and Hobbes snowmen but we had enough troubles building a traditional one. 

 We live on a hill and as it has been snowing a LOT we have to shovel the snow off of it. Our snow shovel is a lot like a pan with a lawn mower handle attached to it. And it makes perfect sleds....We all had turns going down the hill, my mom pushed Ty and A.J. and Sky down. Then I wanted a turn...So Tyler got to push me. We went all the way down from one sign until he let go of me and I crashed into a snow drift on the side.

 My mom decided she wanted a turn too. So I got to push her down. She wouldn't let me put the picture Ty got of me pushing her though. We have played a lot of computer, watched a lot of T.V. (they have M*A*S*H here!), and played a lot of bored games, and done a lot of snow shoveling. To help me stave of the boredom, before school got out I got a copy of Eclipse in both English and Norwegian. So now I am slowly working my way through both copies. I do it sentence by sentence and when I have problems with a pronunciation or wonder what the word is I have a walking translator down stairs.
 My computer just went funky and now  this is on the bottom of this. I don't really know why, or course it did all that other stuff on accident any ways. Back to the walking translator, I am so grateful my dad has the patience to answer my endless questions. He tries to help me not only pronounce it right but use it in a sentence. I will come running down the stairs with my book in my hand and show him another word, ask him to say it, and then tell me what it means. I repeat it, thank him and then go up the stairs again to keep reading. It gets me really excited when I can use a word that he has explained for me or that I have figured out with the help of the English copy. This is just 'Flott' or Fantastic, I can read a book like this.
Well we are half way through Påske break (Easter) and I am excited for what to do in the next few days. For one thing it is my parent's anniversary tomorrow. Then Easter Sunday, and one finally day of break and then back to school. We need to get out the egg dying equipment though. I wonder what else Eastery we can do in the next few days.
Okay, I couldn't resist NOT adding a Calvin and Hobbes snowman for the end of this (thanks Mom for the suggestion):

I might have overdone it on pictures but you can never just read one Calvin! It's like eating only half the bar of chocolate, it's IMPOSSIBLE!!!! Any ways enjoy, because I sure did!

April Fools Day

So the first day of spring was March 23 right? So yesterday was April Fools Day, and Mother Nature decided she wanted to get into the jokes as well. She started to play one  on us. About a foot and a half of snow! Oh,  it is freezing. I am sure the Norwegians are loving it however, they all enjoy skiing. Oh, I am shivering here. Now why would it start to snow?! We can't enjoy Spring Break like this!
Oh, well. Now that I got that off my chest, I can start to enjoy Spring Break. We are going to do a lot of crafts to decorate our house. Flowers made of tissue papers, drawings, and other paintings.
Any ways I all keep this updated about what I am doing this week. Have a great time!

Here are some pictures of outside yesterday. Oh, its cold!