The yearly ski trip!

For the fourth year in a row we, together with 5 other families, went on a ski trip together. This is a highlight of the year and I think and hope that the kids will look back at these trips with happy memories when they get older.

This year we went to Storklinten and left after lunch on Thursday and stayed until Sunday.  

 

 

The first day was very quiet with a Little bit of playing outside in the snow, and lots of playing in the cabin and just enjoying the views.

 

Isak playing with animals and daddy with his new toy.

 

The big boys playing with cars...

 

I somehow managed to miss saving the pics from day 2 on the memory stick when moving them from the other laptop (still haven't worked out how to download photos from the camera to my new laptop) so I quickly go from day 1 to day 3. When we booked this trip I didn't Think I would be able to do any skiing at all at week 34+ a few Days but I was very wrong. Every morning Jakob and I did some skiing together and I also got to do quite a few runs by myself. Skiing wasn't hard at all, it was only the taking on and off boots, pulling kids and lifting up Crying kids at times etc that was hard. Every day after lunch I also had a sleep together with Isak which was nice and necessary for me I Think.

 

Cooking lunch on an open fire is part of the deal when on holiday. Sausage and hamburgers taste so much nicer when eating outside.

 

 

 

Saturday after skiing we went to kids after ski with Music together with Gunnard! All the kids seemed to love it, apart from Isak who was attached to me with a very serious look in his face.  

Isak looooves Jakob!

 

 

Walking back from after ski in the evening.

Nearly there, Jakob did a great job pulling Isak on the bob.

 

Saturday night the whole place had a power blackout just when we were about to prepare dinner. That together with kids that for some reason had too much energy to be kept inside a cabin made us decide to go outside and cook dinner on the open fire as well. The kids had snowball fights and pushed each other over in the snow for over an hour but nobody got hurt or was crying, Amazing.

Zara and Micke were cooking this night so Adam and I didn't do much ...

 

A quiet moment with all four kids in our cabin sitting on the floor drawing.

Not long after all the mums got together in one of the cabins for the yearly girls sauna. A great tradition and sometimes the only opportunity to have a good chat without children and men disturbing! 

Sunday and time to go home. Zara and I took the kids out around 9:30 and left the guys stay inside to clean. Both Adam and I still managed to do some skiing before it was time to head back to Luleå for a birthday party at Leos. Jakob somehow managed to stay awake in the car, play hard at Leos and then go to his last ice hockey training in the evening. He scored 6 goals and his team won the match so he was very happy but tired in the evening. I missed having my afternoon nap that I got used to getting on the weekend and felt more tired than the Children in the evening. We all Went to bed early after a great weekend away!

 

 

 

Haircut

 

Jakob really needed a haircut so last weekend I took the kids (and mum) for a drive to Ale to let Maggi cut Jakob's hair.

 

He is not very patient but Maggi is so it went well.

 

 

Isak said he wanted to come back one day and let Maggi cut his hair too. What's wrong with mummy doing it?

 

The result! I Think even Jakob himself liked it!

 

After some fika we went to visit the sheep, I took some photos but they seem to have disappeared. Any day now they will start giving birth so we have to come back to see the lambs in a few weeks.   

Very pregnant

Today I am 33 weeks and 3 Days so not so long to go now. I have started feeling a lot bigger and heavier in the last few days.

Jakob and Isak seem very excited about having Another brother or sister and quite often want to pat the belly and talk to the baby. Isak was really cute this morning. He was talking to the baby and I said to him that it is really good that he does that, because the baby can hear it and will remember the voice when he comes out. The Word for voice in Swedish is very similar to the Word breast, so when I said that Isak started smiling and pulled up his t-shirt to show me his breasts.

 

I am still a bit worried about what this baby will be like when he/she comes out. The movement in the belly has not changed at all, it is going on pretty much all the time and I just wonder if this baby ever sleeps? in a few weeks we will all know...

 

 

Finally!

 

After weeks of being extremly lose Jakobs big front tooth finally fell off a few Days ago when he was grocery shopping with Adam. Luckily they found it on the ground so he could put in a glass of water for the tooth fairy. The new tooth had already started coming through.

Melodifestivalen

After some resting we all watched Melodifestivalen where the Winner gets to compete for Sweden in the Eurovision song Contest. Jakob had Heard all the songs at dagis and also had a favourite and he and Isak were really in to it all for the first time.

 

Isak adoring his big brother...

 

Everyone tired

After a day in Storklinten we were all very tired. I stopped at the lolly shop and the pizza store on the way home to spare the small amount of energy I had left for unpacking the car and tidying up at home. Jakob and Isak were Amazing and looked after themselves.

 

Last day without daddy

Last Saturday was the last day the kids and I were by ourselves. Adam came home in the evening after a week in Scotland. My plan was to spend the day with the kids at the riding club and Watch showjumping, but the weather was so nice that I decided to go to Storklinten instead. I knew my brother with family was there and also mum so I would have plenty of help if needed.

 

 

Packing by myself took a bit longer than normally so by the time we got to Storklinten it was nearly lunchtime. Helena made waffles for everyone in the Caravan and the kids did some drawing while waiting.

 

After lunch we spent a few hour in the slope, mainly the kids slope where Jakob and Isak played with the bob. Maria and Andreas were also there and Jakob and Alice had a couple of runs on the skis together. I didn't Think Jakob would want to go by himself but he did, and even shared the lift with Alice.

Playing in the snow...

 

Back at the caravan enjoying the sun!

The Amazing thing with snow is that there is so much fun you can do with it. While I was resting in a chair the kids played with toys in the snow and all of a sudden started a "snow war". It was Jakob and Moa against Anders. Isak didn't take any notice of what was going on around him, he just kept playing with a tractor.