Somehow 2013 is over and so much has happened since I last posted. If you’ve been following my Instagram feed, you may have seen a few of these along the way.  In an effort to not make this an epic-ly long post, we’ll do a little recap and move forward into 2014!

I finished up our personal Christmas cards before December 25th (a miracle in itself) and made John go out in the falling snow for the photo on the card — he was excited.

The holidays with my family also included a ton of snow. It was a white Christmas indeed.

And what kind of Norwegian would I be without some lefse* for the holidays?

*My family’s ancestry is about half Norwegian and lefse is a must around the holidays. My dad describes it as a potato tortilla (which is semi-accurate) but you put butter and sugar on these guys. So tasty. This recipe is pretty close to the one I use. Continue reading →