ending oh nine, beginning twenty ten

New Years Eve...
We went to a party at our friends' house (well, her mom's) and stayed there for a couple of hours. We had a great time and so did E. She didn't want to leave. But we went home and put her to bed and watched a movie and then we fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 6 minutes after midnight. Yep, we missed the ball dropping. We did however see some clips of the shift from 2009 to 2010 from different parts of the world. All I can say is fireworks, fireworks fireworks... and then we get to America... light bulbs - lol! Even though I was never big on spending a ton of money on fireworks when I was living back home I still miss the tradition of walking outside in the cold to watch them. Not really the same thing sitting in your couch watching a ball of light bulbs move a few inches.

New Years Day...
We went sledding with some of our friends. Well, the guys took the kids sledding and us wives stayed home with the youngest ones. Sledding is fun, but this year I preferred staying away from the hill.
Today was probably the last time we saw some of our friends before they move far away. We will miss them!
I'm still very much pregnant which means that C didn't get his tax return. Sorry, babe!
Right now E is asleep (only took one timeout tonight to get her to stay in bed. Improvement.) C is putting a wardrobe together for baby H and I'm on here. For about two more seconds. All done!

Shower

I went to a bridal shower in S yesterday. I left 45 min. before it started, thinking that would be plenty of time. Well, it wasn't. The main road was closed off due to a parade, no detour signs, there was a festival going on so tons of cars. My plan was to find a parking spot near the restaurant since I had a pretty big load of presents for the bride-to-be and for her sister-in-law who just had a baby. Well, I realized that it wasn't about finding a parking spot close by. It was about finding a parking spot. I actually found one in the second parking lot I tried. A car was leaving as we pulled in. I had no idea where we were, but it turned out to be not to far away from the restaurant. God is good! I loaded the stroller full with gifts and bags, the diaper bag didn't fit so I had to carry that. I put a monkey harness on E and we started walking. On our way to the restaurant we passed the bride-to-be. Oh, no! It said on the invitation that the shower was a surprise. I looked away, hoping she wouldn't recognize me and then I called her mom saying I might have blown the surprise. Luckily she already knew about it. And when we got to the restaurant she said, I thought it was you.
Ella did really good. She cried twice. Once b/c she fell and once b/c I tried to put her in a high chair when she was perfectly happy in my lap. Other than that she did fine and was really cute in her new dress.
I left the party early, but later than I had planned, 10 minutes after E's naptime. And as we left the parade ended so we had to fight all the people walking and traffic leaving at the same time as us. It took a while to get home. E got her milk and then she fell asleep. I went out to the pool to walk aroud in it as it was filling up. There's a lot more to say about that pool. But that's a story for another time.

Jag Älskar Sverige!!!!

Happy "6th of June", Sweden!

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Birthday

Happy Birthday E!

Birthday

Grattis på födelsedagen lillebror!

Happy Birthday, babe! I love you!!!!!!!!!!

October 26th

Grattis på födelsedagen, lillebror!

7lbs 5oz, 19½"

I'm an aunt again. I'm so excited and I wish I could be there. I did get to hear L over the phone. She's loud! I love her already! And I can't wait to see pictures.

Congratulations B & S!

October 13th

Grattis på födelsedagen, lillebror!

new boots

I found another pair of boots for E for Halloween. They're not brown (my favorite color) like the ones I bought yesterday. They're beige, but they are still very cute, and they cost less than half of what I spent on the brown ones.

The dress is dark brown, but the thing that goes over it is beige so the new boots will be perfect.

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Grattis på födelsedagen mamma!

midsommar

jag vill också fira midsommar, med dans kring midsommarstången, blommor i håret och svenska jordgubbar.

breakfast

Mmmm... äter knäckebröd med ost och gurka och dricker nyponsoppa. That's what I call breakfast!

Happy Father's Day!

Family hug

Oh, I've got to write this down. It's the cutest thing and it happened during one of our family hugs. So my husband and I are both holding our daughter and we're all hugging and then we take turns kissing her and I give my husband a kiss. Then we both give her another kiss. Then the cute stuff happened. She put one hand behind my head and one behind my husbands, pushing our heads together so we could kiss again. It was so sweet!

I went to the most amazing baby shower today. All the details, from the invitation to the decorations, the cake and the people in costumes, oh, and the shirts made especially for the new mommy and daddy we're just awesome. We weren't allowed to wrap our gifts but had to present them in a nice way. If I can figure out how to do it, I will post a picture of my gift.

I did it! Can you guess the theme of the shower?

Tomorrow is Father's day and I know what I want to get for my husband, but I just can't make up my mind about the final choice. Hmm...