Happy Birthday James!

We have recently returned from a week in New York, which was great! As you can see, I have not gotten around to doing the blog for that yet but I just thought I would put on some photos from our day today - James' birthday.

James and the girls and his birthday cake.

We spent the morning ice skating in the National Sculpture garden here in Washington. It was freezing today (I think the maximum was about 2 degrees) but we still managed to have a great time. The girls did very well for their first time on the ice!


Ella gets a helping hand from an eagle (the mascot of the Washington Capitols Ice Hockey team, who were skating at the rink this morning)

Pia finds her feet on the ice.

Sophie and I enjoy a skate together.

Sophie and Carlson (apparently very famous in the ice hockey world!)

Last night we also decorated our Christmas tree with all the ornaments we have collected during our time here - so it's a very American tree!