Holiday Recap

Sitting at the train station at 4:45 a.m.  anxious to pick up our German son, Simon!!  He's coming home for the Holidays.  We love having him!!  He is studying physics at Oregon State!!  

My pictures are not in order... Janis flew over from Germany to be with his brother Simon for the Holidays.  Janis and Simon cooked supper for Marilyn's birthday!!!  Schnitzle and spaetzle!!  It was so good!!  Those boys are wonderful in the kitchen!!

Simon, Carla and Janis

Cory, Simon, Paul and Janis Christmas eve!!

Our great nephew Ian!!  Oh we so loved having a little one around for the holidays.  We thought of our little boy and took wonder in a new direction!!  Christmas joys through a child is the best!!  Ian is trucking the nativity animals around!!

Oscar Lake ... having a fish fry up at the "cabin" It was a beautiful drive and a nice time with family!  John and Becky fried the fish!!

My niece Shalee and Santa!!  We got Janis to play Santa for Ian!!  Buddy the Elf helped deliver some gifts too!!  And sitting on Santa's lap to get a present is tradition!!  

Auntie Marie and her nephews!!!  

I love my north woods birds!!  

Janis and Grant played a lot of guitar together!!  I really enjoyed having the music in the house!!

Yes!!  Momma got a picture with her family!!  This is NOT an easy task!!!

More music!!!  My brother  and his wife drove down for a visit with us before Christmas.  Always good to see them!!

Oh FUN!!  Here is our first annual fish fry!!   OH that's where my boys get the photo posing talents!!

Momma  Santa bought everyone a pair of SILVERS. I asked for a picture with them wearing them.  It was another painful photo op!! 

Hollyhock lane.... Minnesota

Oh What Fun It Is To Ride....

It is truly a HOLIDAY around here!!  Doing winter up Minnesotan style!!  These kids are having a blast!!  Ice skating, snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling, shopping, and tonight hot tubbing!!!  I have so many pictures to share and stories to tell!!!   Keep checking in for fun photos!!!

What do my wondering eyes see?

I came home tonight to find my baby dressed as ELF!  Should I be worried?  In our family the fun spontaneous spirit is limited to Ole and Lena jokes!! Grant   Elf prancing in my living room was a shock!!!  We love Grant for his funning and joy he brings!!  Imagine the family photo album 25 years from now!!!

We welcome Janis for Christmas!!  He flew in from Germany to be with his brother Simon!!  It will be a wonderful Christmas for this Momma!!  

HO HO SNOW

I love the seasons we have in Minnesota!!  When it's winter time bring on the snow!!  I have a beautiful friend who knows how to have an adventure in our own back woods and we take full advantage of it!!

Simon is visiting for Christmas and we hope to take him on more of our adventures!!!

It's that time of year!!

Time for Christmas card pictures.   I love getting them!!  We hardly send them!!  The Bergloff Family is never together at one time and if we were the men in this family are photographically uncooperative!!  Hope you have time to browse over the past year on this blog and maybe catch a glimpse or two of the family!  

Swedish Pannkakor

Just for fun I am going to blog about making Swedish pancakes.  While in Sweden I was gifted a jar of cloudberries!!!  I have tucked these treasured berries away until I got around to making Swedish pancakes.  Truth is I have never made Swedish pancakes!!  What's the matter with me?  So here I am going by a recipe found in my Lutheran Church cookbook.   A wonderful book full of great recipes but starts off with Lutefisk and White sauce!!  I have to turn ten pages worth of swedish recipes before I get to the pancake recipe!!  Uff da!  I mean Ish da to that Lutefisk!!   

Brook has NOT been herself lately.  Clingy  and has to be right in your business.  When she put her paws on the counter I had to ask John to grab the camera!!!  I wish I could understand what she was thinking!!  She got down.  She realized she wasn't to be up checking things out!!

My brother Todd and his wife Donna gave us a pint of Muddy Foot Prints organic maple syrup!!!  DEEE   LISH!!!  John raved about the syrup and loved the pancakes!!  More like dessert then supper!!!

A few spoonfuls of cloudberries and a quick trip back to Sweden for this girls heart!!  Thank you to all the family in Sweden who made our trip so wonderful!!! Wish I was on my way for another visit!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Dani has the turkey done and potatoes going and chopping the greens!!  

Dani attends the Cordon Bleau School of Cooking!!  She made our Thanksgiving and MMM was the turkey great and the gravy WOW!!! 

Remi with the new kitten!!

The men helping out doing the dishes!!  SWEET!!

I wanted to take a after dinner hike across the field and hills.  My m.i.l. having horrible bronchitis still made the hike a breeze!  Speaking of breeze!!!  A new front came barreling in and dropped temps like 20 degrees and oh were my ears frozen!!  The snow was flying the size of silver dollars on our drive home!!  It was amazing!!!  Jolly? Remarkable?  I loved it!!!