Christmas party at the Wold's

Mom is reading "The night before Christmas" to all the kids.

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Christmas party at the Wold's

Guess who we invited for our Christmas party.  Yap, Santa and Miss Claus came by and had presents for all 19 kids.  Not bad for being two weeks before Christmas.

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Marius' favorite chair

This is Marius' favorite chair.  This is where he watches his favorite TV shows such as Sesame Street and Curios George. Today he is having strawberries and watching a movie with Mom and Dad.
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Marius at the photographer

These pictures were taken on May 22, 2007

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The Blazers 2007

Here are the Blazers.  As of today we are 4-4 (4 losses and 4 wins) after a rough start of 0-3.  We have two games left.  One tomorrow and one week from tomorrow.  Bear is second from left bottom row.

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The Blazers 2007, Goalie/Defender Bear and Coach Dad

Here is the Wold portion of the Blazers (our soccerteam).  As you can see we still support ROSENBORG.

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Halloween

Here are the kids on Halloween.  Marius is the cow, Bear is a ghost and AJ is the Ninja soldier.  The kids went from door to door in the neighborhood and collected candy to last until Christmas.

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Pumpkin carving party

We went to a pumpkin carving party today.  This is dads work; A Gargoyle.

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New Soccer Stud

Here is my latest soccer recruit for our team.  His name is Marius, his got great speed, ball control, vision for the game, aerobic and anaerobic capacity, willingness to run and agility. The only thing Marius is missing is SIZE.  Just need a few more years and you will be there Marius

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Tumbleweed Park

We went to Tumbleweed Park today.  The park is located in Chandler only 4 miles away from our house.  We had great fun at the park today, it is amazing what a bucket of Chicken from KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) and a soccerball can do for family entertainment. 
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A bird's eye view of our House in Chandler

Here is where we live in Chandler, Arizona

 

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Marius Bullriding

We just found a new sport for Marius at WalMart.  He was hanging on pretty good on the mechanical bull.  Yeeeh Haah.
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Arizona Rhytm Connection

We went to an art festival in Scottsdale today.  They had tons of food, lots of jewelry and most importantly they had drums.  Here is Mom and AJ with the Band:  The Arizona Rhytm Connection.
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Soccer update

We might have started out bad (0-3) but we are sure on a roll now.  The coaching staff was fired and Bears team is now 2-3.  We won 4-1 today with Bear as a defender and goalie.  Bear had 5 saves today as a goalie. Great job Bear.
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Fisherman AJ

What can I say, AJ is a great fisherman.  There is some serious work, screaming and panick behing this picture.  The story goes like this:

AJ is casting away (AJ had already spent days with Mom up in the Mountains earlier this year learning about the art of casting) and he catches a fish on his 3rd cast.  Mom freaks out and tells me that I am now reponsible for getting this fish into my hands so we can take the picture of the fish with AJ in the background.  As soon as I have had this responsibilty for about 2.5 seconds the fish unhooks himself and gets away.  I was facing an official scolding when faith came true and  AJ came true and caught another one, which resulted in this picture.  We now officially have proof for the history books.  AJ CAUGHT A FISH, GREAT JOB, AJ.

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AJ & Bear

Another picture from our boating experience. AJ and Bear were being great on the boat.  Arizona desert in the background.
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Co-Captain Marius

Marius was helping Mom as her Co-Captain.  Marius was a great help in making sure Mom steared clear of shallow water and cliffs.  Marius, you have future as a boater in Arizona.  Marius would like to end up with a "Waterfront property in Arizona"......

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Captain Mom

Here is Captain Mom.  She loved driving the boat and being in charge of where we were going.  Mom says I am being a terrible back seat boater.  I have to fill her in about my true boating experience in Norway when we owned a 12 foot aluminum boat and a 20 horsepower outboard Mariner engine.  She has no appreciation of my adventures when I waterskied behind our 12 footer  in 30 foot waves coming off the Atlantic ocean.  I was actually waterskiing and driving the boat at the same time.  She does not believe me....

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Trip to the lake

We all went to the lake this weekend.  We rented a 100 horsepower waterski boat with kneeboard, wakeboard and a fishing pole.  Bear went on the knee board and Mom and Dad went on the wakeboard.  We had some great moves, however, my cameraphone does really poor action photos.  I would have shown you my backflip on the wakeboard but you would not believe me because my face don't show very good when you do a backflip 70 feet away from the boat going 30 miles per hour.

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Marius in the pool again.

It is late September and we are going into a more pleasant weather period.  It is colder at night now so the pool is getting colder also.  Marius loves his swim suit which keeps him afloat, and is getting quite the dare devil as he loves to jump into the pool.

Got to go, see you later, Dad.

Hot September

I will do this one in Norwegian for my Mom and Dad:

Det er fremdeles godt og varmt i September, i dag er det 40 grader.  Du maa holde deg i skyggen eller i badebassenget i dag.  AJ, Bjorn og Marius stortrives i badebassenget.  Bjorn hadde sin foerste fotballkamp idag med pappa som trener.  Vi hadde fire 12 minutters  omganger med mange vannpauser.  Vi tapte 1-3, vi maa si opp treneren, det var daarlig taktiske loesninger fra treneren.   

...and now in English:

It is still hot in September, it is 105 today.  You have to stay in the shade or in the pool today.  AJ, Bear and Marius love to play in the pool.  Bear had his first soccer game today with Dad as the coach.  We had 4 - 12 minute quarters with lots of waterbrakes.  We lost 3-1, we need to fire the coach, no great tactical solutions from the coach.

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Trampoline at Grandmas house

We went to Grandmas house today.  Marius and Bear enjoyed the trampoline.  It is 6pm and 103 degrees Fahrenheit (close to 35 degrees Celsius) and we are headed home to jump in the pool.
Hasta La Vista, Dad.                

Bear went to his classmates (Grant) birthday party today while Marius, AJ and Dad went to the arcade.  Mom had a well deserved brake today, so Dad was on duty.  AJ and Marius had a great time.  They both enjoyed car racing.  It was cheap, Marius had just as much fun without tokens, while AJ needed a few tokens while he was becoming quite the experienced driver.  I am glad we still have a few years before AJ becomes eligible for driving.

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Bear and Marius are enjoying themselves in our pool. The best time to swim in Phoenix is at night. Marius loves to swim, and Bear enjoys his company. I just performed a back flip into the pool and landed violently, I am now sitting at the edge nursing my wounds. I was never good at this when I was twenty, and I am still not good at this at forty. Bear thought my backflip was very funny though.

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This is a picture of Bear from our last years trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Bear and Dad is excited about next week.  Bear is starting on a 8 man soccerteam with Dad as the coach.
Later, Dad.

This is our "goodlooking" Marius.  The last few days, has been a troubling few days.  It has now been about 2 months since Marius was diagnosed with Autism.  We have been very concerned but have hope in that his talking is improving, and he seems to be doing better.  Our occupational therapist said this week that we have some more signs that he is Autistic.  He has "sensory issues" that are typical of Autism.  He does not like to hold hands together with some other sensory issues.  We now have to help Marius with these sensory issues by deep pressure manupulations, pillow fighting (this is going to be fun), playing with play dough, using swings, trampoline etc.  We keep hoping his situation will improve.

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AJ went to a Yu-Gi-Oh card tournament yesterday.  He did really well according to his opponent, however, his opponent discovered later that AJ had false Yu-Gi-Oh cards.  Dad was very embarassed but claimed ignorance.  AJ had no idea that there was false cards in existence.  Dad had no idea either, in fact, dad and mom have no idea how to play the game.  We will be back next Friday, AJ seemed to really enjoy the game.

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This is our great Marius who does have the attraction to motorized vehicles.  He loves his electrical ATV and he does his best driving in the nude.

Alf

Day one of the Wold's blog

Wow
I have now setup our blog!! I guess that now the expectation will be that I put pictures up and write stories about what is going on in our personal life. I figure this is a great way to communicate with my Norwegian friends and family also. Since my history is great as far as letters and updates to friends and family in Norway??!! I am now going to email pictures from my phone to my computer so that I can post them here.
Alf