Christmas day

The christmas-tree and the presents!!

The kids just woke up...

They are checking out the Thomas-train.

..and now its time for opening up the presents.

Christmas-eve

Waiting for Santa....

Might as well eat a cookie while we wait!!

Santa is here handing out the presents!!

Santa is gone and the presents are opened....that made Morris thirsty..

Christmas-dinner and Lucia

Chrstmas-dinner with family and friends!

Lucia at the preschool!!

There they are, singing christmas songs!

Somehow they all had their eyes closed at the same time...

Baylee Frances Bolton

Baylee Frances Bolton, only 30 minutes old!

Baylee with grandmom!

Birthdaygirl

Here she is the little birthdaygirl.....

Her brother gladly helped her opening up the presents! (notice that he is walking away with them!!)

We invited the family for dinner so Billy is sitting by the grill!

A happy little girl with a few of her gifts! (the soccerball in the background is her bigbrothers)

Since she cant blow out the candle she took one of the cherries on top!

Junsele

Morris is in bed at the cabin we rented.

Bianca wasnt in the mood for no sleep yet! (Isn´t she cute though in the outfit that grandmom and grandpop sent from the states?!)

At the zoo in Junsele they have cars you can drive, so of course Morris had too try (but morfar was close by to make sure he didnt crash to much)

...looking at the animals....

They are trying to get Morris to pet one of the goats, but he wasnt so sure he wanted to!
..finaly he decided to try!

Morris on his first marry-go-round!

Just had to try the truck before we went home.

The ball he won at the zoo and Lambi makes a perfect pillow..

He wasnt the only one who was tired!!

Morris is playing in the water at the summerhouse, while Simon is playing lifeguard!
Bianca is in a hopswing.
She got quiet in her walker, and now I know why!
Somebody got tired of always having to wait for his wife to braid his hair.....

Midsummer-eve!

Every year we celebrate midsummer, and the girls have fresh flowers in there hair and everybody dance´s around the midsummer-pole.
Here is Morris with his grandmom, dancing and singing!!

A picture of the few but happy people that danced around the pole!

Morris great grandmom who turn´s 90 in september!

Bianca is doing her own little dance on the table!

After our little dance around the pole we went to our friends house.
There we just enjoyed the company and ate!
Morris spent most of his time in the sand....

A lot of talking and volleyball-playing.. ok ok some drinking too!

Billy and Bianca are chilling!

Mothersday

On mothersday we went to "Källan". It´s a restaurant and a recreation hotel deep in the woods, or in a small village anyway. It was my grandmom, my uncle and his family, my parents and us that went there.
here is Morris in the pool with my mom...

Bianca and Billy was sitting and looking at them swimming..
..Billy just passed his swedish driving test this morning, so now he got a swedish driving licence!! Jihhoooo!! You cant see it but I´m doing a little happydance now! (well.... in my head anyway!)
Here is how it looks on the backside of the hotel, was plannig too take some pictures inside, but the sight of food made me forget it!!
Found the webpaige for the place though, so you can go there and check it out! http://www.kallan-hotell.se/

May 26th. Carcruising...

Every year on this day there is a carcruising going through the village, and some of our friends are in it.

This is my dads cousin in his car, and the white elbow you see in the back is Billy....

There he is, I dont think it will be too long until he has one of own!!
Morris is totally impressed with these cars, so maybe it will be a future father-son project?!

The cars went by as we were standing there talking but at the speed these cars are going it took them about 1 minute or less too catch up with them!!

Bath in the hottub and some other stuff

Somebody refused to admit he was tired, but it didnt take long until he fell asleep on the floor....

I was trying to take a picture of her teeth that are finally trying to brake through, but I´m not sure you can tell...

Here we are at the summerhouse in the tub.....

Here they are enjoying the warm wather!! Long after Bianca and I gave up, Morris was still in the water...