Grandpa Pentti's 80th

Pentti "pappa" (grandpa) turned 80. Happy Birthday once again!

Eero's early birthday party

We celebrated Eero's 75th birthday in January as we may not be able to be present on his actual birthday later on this spring. Eero got as a present a special tea mug his picture on. Alex was as interested in seeing it as Eero was.

Ice skating first time

During our Christmas break in Finland Alex learned to skate and play a hockey. Here he is with his trainer - dad.

Santa and Alex

Here Alex is sitting on the lap of the real Santa Claus from Korvatunturi, Lapland. (Santa's another title is Grandpa Eero.)

Christmas Greetings!

We wish you a very peaceful Christmas season and blessed new year 2012. Alex just told us that we should remind all the readers that they should put up a Christmas tree and some lights as we have already done.

...and we have been listening Christmas CDs already for a week... "Joy to the world the Lord is come..."

Alex a Mountain Climber

This summer we had a privilege to visit in Lapland where we used to visit once a year and where we were also engaged some 27 years ago. So after 18 years since our last visit there we returned to Lapland with Alex spending some week and a half doing all kinds of outdoor activities. One day Alex took a kids' introductory course of climbing. He was (as were mom and dad) thrilled to do that kind of cool thing with all necessary cool equipment.