Celebrating Christmas South African style on Christmas day

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"Celebrating Christmas South African style. @nikkimooki was cooking up a storm in the kitchen and served chicken, lamb curry, spinach, green bean, carrots etc. #cooking #food #christmas #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Family dinner at Mie and Knut as usual on Christmas eve

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"Family dinner at @miekarlsen and @knutlofthus 🎅🎄"

Christmas brunch with mor

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"Mum has been over for a Christmas brunch and we served some rice porridge and other good stuff. Now it is time to make red cabbage stew for the dinner tonight. Thanks for coming over @irmgard43 :-) #godjul #jul #christmas #rødkål #risengrøt #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Christmas party at Sasha and Ivar

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"Christmas party at @smdv and @ivarelvik - people brought different food and we brought deconstructed pinnekjøtt or pinnekjøtt på pinne :-) #food #foodporn #christmas #party #friends #pinnekjøtt"

Iron Maiden beer

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"Pre Xmas present from @nikkimooki : the Iron Maiden Trooper beer :-) #onthetwentythirddayofxmas #ironmaiden #trooper #beer #robinsonsbrewery #eddie "

The Christmas tree has been decorated

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"The Christmas tree has been decorated together with @nikkimooki and the presents are wrapped 🎅🎄we are more or less ready for Christmas #christmas #christmastree #grannestunet #juletre #godjul #norway #jul "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Shopping for Christmas gifts with Mie

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"Shopping for Christmas gifts with my sis Mie @miekarlsen #christmas #jul #kvadrat"
(taken at Kvadrat)

Hunting down the perfect Christmas tree

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"Hunting down the perfect Christmas tree with @nikkimooki - soon it will decorate our living room :-) #christmas #christmastree #jul #juletre 🎄🎅"
(taken at Plantasjen)

Thanks for all the Christmas cards

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"Thanks for all the Christmas cards! We do have room for more #christmas #christmascards #julekort"

Day trip to Oslo for work

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"As you can tell, Christmas is an important event in Norway. Gate 17 at Stavanger airport has been turned into the Christmas gate with a lot of decorations :-) #svg #airport #stavanger #christmas #jul #christmastree #juletre @svgairport "
(taken at Stavanger Lufthavn, Sola (SVG))

Making pepperkakehus

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"And the winner is: Empire State Building - we made Stavanger konserthus but we didn't win :-( #pepperkakehus #stavanger #grannestunet #empirestatebuilding @stavangerkonserthus "

At Pepperkakebyen

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"At Pepperkakebyen - gingerbread houses to get inspired before the contest tonight in our neighborhood #grannestunet #pepperkakehus #gingerbread "

A winter view from our kitchen

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"A winter view from our kitchen window today #stavanger #snow #morning #view #christmas #jul #grannestunet"
(taken at Grannestunet)

Christmas calendar

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"@nikkimooki makes a Christmas calendar for me and today it contains some lovely milk chocolate. I'm sure I will enjoy that later on 😃 #freia #chocolate #xmas #jul #julekalender "

Christmas decorations in the streets of Stavanger

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"Christmas decorations in the streets of Stavanger ;-) it looked pretty good when we stopped by the downtown area on Sunday afternoon - the only thing missing is a bit of snow ;-) #christmas #stavanger #jul #godjul #norway "

Lighting of the Christmas tree in Stavanger

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"Lighting of the Christmas tree in Stavanger #stavanger #norway #xmas #christmas #countdown #godjul #juletre"
(taken at Domkirkeplassen)

Christmas is over

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"Christmas is over and all the gingerbread cookies are for sale! #gingerbread #cookies #pepperkaker #christmas "

Christmas card from Hayley and Jordan

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"Thanks for the Christmas card @haleliz and Jordan :-) #christmas #christmascard #family "

Some of my Christmas gifts

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"Some of the Christmas gifts I got this year. Thanks to @nikkimooki , @irmgard43 , @miekarlsen , @frlo92 , @emblalo and the rest of the family :-) #christmas #presents #family #cufflinks #loccitane #bunad"

Gard and Frøya

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"And my lovely niece @frlo92 #christmas #family "