Happy 80th Morfar

We traveled all the way to Texas to celebrate Bjorn’s 80th birthday.

Traveling from New Hampshire, Vermont, and Arizona all of the Thelemarck’s  arrived just in time to celebrate the holidays and the birthday together.  It was absolutely a wonderful time.   

Happy birthday Morfar!

Christmas Dinner - When in Rome do as the Romans do.

We had such a fabulous time preparing a delicious and authentic Mexican meal for Christmas dinner.  Peter ordered tamales from a nearby Mexican restaurant and then we set about making sopapillas, guacamole, Mexican rice and more.  Sopapillas are rectangles of fried dough that form puffed little pockets that you fill with a savory mix of beef and green salsa.  You can also drizzle them with honey and powdered sugar for dessert.   

 Dinner was absolutely delicious!

                                    Tamales                               

Hannah prepping sopapillas                   Judy making sopapilla dough

       

                                                                    Fried sopapillas              

 

Mexican Rice                                  The Fixin's 

The meal

The desserts 

My Cowboys

5 Cousins in Texas : A Series

On Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve with Rudolph 

On the Texas Coast

Creating Trash Art on the Beach

At the Witte Museum

By the Pool With a Toad

Hay Jumping

Goofing on Hay

Cowpokes

Bang!

In a Live Oak 

With a Dinosaur

Watching Disney

And more Disney

Ringing in the New Year - 2020

Saying Goodbye

It’s a Cowboy Christmas

We’ve been celebrating Christmas in Texas this year, and of course it feels very cowboy-ish.  Claes’s family, our family, and Bjorn and Jane all came down to Pete and Jen’s, not only to celebrate the holidays but also to celebrate Bjorn’s 80th birthday.
It has been just chock full of so many great moments, so many lovely family experiences, so many good meals, and such a good holiday.   Here are some of the highlights.

Our bunch of cowpokes on Christmas Eve.

Kuba, a lone cowboy

Two amigos

Kaj, shooting his rubber chicken

Christmas Eve smorgasbord.

                       Swedish meatballs, Janssons temptation, ham, Kroc, crispbread, and more.

Cowboy stockings for everyone!

Including: sherif badges, pistols, little rubber horses, gold nugget bubblegum, 

cow tales and lots more.

Holiday Kick Off with Friends

NOTHING beats the first days of the holiday vacation.

This time a gaggle of us headed down to the ice at the Intervale, to celebrate the holiday vacation, play on the ice, roast hot dogs, and just all in all relish the joy of community.