Day 1 of ski trip 1

This spring we have 4 ski trips planned in and last weekend was the first of them. We spent Thursday to Saturday in Storklinten with my old friend Karin (who now lives in France) and her family.

I left work just before lunch, went home and swapped car, from the empty one, to the one that Adam had spent the morning packing with skiis, food, clothes, porta cot etc etc. We picked the kids up from dagis and when we got to the cabin we had hired this is the view that met us. It was a really nice, cosy, modern cabin with 3 bedrooms and a loft and this amazing view. On top of that there were nearly no people at the ski resort so we spent the afternoon skiing and playing in the snow feeling like we had the whole place to ourselves.

 Felicia is nearly 9 and Anna 4 1/2 but Anna loves babies and Jakob loves older children so he hung out a lot with Felicia and Anna took care of Isak.

Food time for hungry kids....

Isak, the little angel, gets very frustrated at times when nobody can understand him and nobody wants to play with him.

Isak!

 Isak can now say one more word: Daddy! Finally he is saying something else than Mamma, Amma etc.

I ordered this balaklava for him through a guy from work and he loves it!

Isak all dressed up in pyjamas, balaklava and a tool belt, ready to go to bed. 

Birthday Party!

Sunday afternoon last week we celebrated Helena who turned 38! her mum's birthday is the same day so the party was at their place about half an hour outside Luleå.

Isak, Moa and Lucas

Isak concentrating

Quality time

Adam was tired after his boys night so Jakob and I went out when Isak was due to have his sleep. We went to the toy shop so Jakob could spend his birthday money from Jason and Karen (thank you!). He knew what he wanted, hockey players, goals and some pucks. After a  hamburger at McDonalds he played Luleå Hockey for a long time!



Me and the boys!

Last weekend Adam had a boys trip to Jens cabin out on an island outside Luleå. I haven't been home by myself with Jakob and Isak for a long time and it felt quite special. Stina and Lova came over for dinner Saturday night and after they left Jakob got to stay up a bit later with me when Isak had gone to bed.

It snowed during the night but the next morning the sky was blue. We went outside and I shoveled the snow, Isak tried to put the snow back on the drive way and Jakob just played in the snow.

I wonder why it is so much more fun to shovel Isak than to help me shoveling the snow?



Isak skating

 To keep the little freak Isak happy we bought him some second hand skates the other week and last weekend he got to try them for the first time. He was over the moon when he got them on!

He had no idea how to actually stand on the skates and he ended up just hanging in my arms. He was happy and I was exhausted after a minute trying to hold him up. Luckily he was quite happy to take them off after a while. At least he got to try.

 Jakob's dagis friend Eddie and his big sister Tuva (who Jakob loves...) were at the skating rink and they all had great fun together. The ice rink is by the local school not far from where we live. Adam and I did some serious skating and competed across the rink lots of times. I won of course :-)

Hot chocolate and sandwhiches!

Busy busy

My life is pretty busy at the moment. Work, family, riding club etc etc. Adam is doing a great job with all the house work and he cooks dinner every day. He doesn't just cook the normal week day meals, he also makes the effert to try new recipes and make some dinners extra special. He is for sure on the plus list at the moment ;-) He also surprisde me with having fixed baby sitter (mum) the day before Valentines day so we could go to the movies.

One more tooth gone...

I forgot to say that Jakob had to pull out another toot a couple of days ago. I picked him up from dagis in the morning to take him and he was a bit sad and told me with his lips shivering and with read teary eyes that he didn't want to go to the dentist. I just felt so sorry for him. When we got there it all turned around and it went really well, he lays completley still when he gets his injections and just listens to everything the dentist says. Yesterday I took Jakob to the toy shop so he could pick a toy for all the money the tooth fairy has given him latley. I was sure he would pick a car but no, he picked two white tigers, one of them was a baby tiger.

The party continues...

When the children's friends and our friends left it was time for the next lot of visitors to arrive. This time it was all the relatives, mormor, Maggi and Åke, Anders and the family, Åsa and the family and Andreas and Karin. Jakob and Isak got even more great presents, one was this soft and nice Luleå hockey blanket, what a lucky boy Jakob was!

Jakob and Moa played and had really fun all night!

Poor little Vilmer was a bit upset in the beginning but at the end of the party he was all happy again! At least I know now that he can cry, don't think I have seen that side to him before.

 Carina and super cute Nelly!

 In the evening we were 18 people here (including children) so that meant a bit of chaos even though I have to say it went really well. We took turns eating and some sat in the living room and some at the kitchen table and I think everyone had a good time. Nice to have everyone on my side of the family together like this, doesn't happen so often. Just a bit sad that dad is not with us anymore :-(

 At the end of today we had two very happy and tired boys and to tired parents who will all sleep well after a great weekend!



Another birthday party...

Jakob's birthday celebrations seem to have no end! Since it is Isak's birthday tomorrow we decided to take the opportunity to have a big day for both children. My morning was all about preparing the food and the cakes and Adam took Jakob skating and to Mc Donalds so I could get it all done when Isak was asleep. It worked out really well and as always Jakob was extremly excited. 

Getting a photo of me and my beautiful 5 year old boy was not easy, I had to beg him to be in the photo with me. 

Liam is also very interested in hockey so the 2 hockey freaks were discussing names and numbers on Jakob's bed for a while. 

After opening a large amount of really nice presents (it took Isak forever to open them but god he was in heaven!) the kids had some fika and birthday cake.

One cake with 5 candles and one with 2!

Isak trying to blow out the candles. 

At the start of the treasure hunt I managed to get them all to sit still on the couch for a couple of seconds. 

Isak and Jakob cuter than ever!





Winter!

 These sort of pictures have been going around on facebook for us northern Swedish people over the last few days. We have had a very cold week with temperatures around -25 to -30 degrees outside every day. So what do I think about it? I actually quite like it. There is something special about putting on layers and layers of clothing and to sit inside with a cup of tea and watch the beautiful sun outside. When it is cold like this it is almost always sunny! Saying that I don't want it to be like that for much longer. A few days or even a week is ok but now it is time for a change and a week with around -5 would be nice.



Jakob turning 5!

 

Wednesday earlier this week was finally Jakob's birthday. I was home sick and Adam had the boys home from dagis and took them to Leos. It was nice to spend some time with them in the morning and Jakob was so happy to now be a big boy! and he loved the hockey stuff that he got!

Mormor came over for dinner and to play in the evening. 

 Jakob's choice of birthday cake, ice cream!!

Birthday part with dagis friends!

 This  year we decided to have a birthday party for Jakob and his dagis friends. Jakob was so excited to have them all coming to his house!

One of the highlights of the day was the treasure hunt and Jakob was the lucky one finding the treasure. 

The party went and it was fun to see them playing together even though I really admire the staff at dagis who work with this every day. The way they play is very loud and crazy at times.

Some quiet time in the evenign after the party...