mellandagarna mys

the snow has melted a bit and christmas is over, and papa is home.  so it time for washing cars in freezing weather and playground fun!

karate chop!

i am getting old!

Tidholms dropped in for a visit, the girls were so very happy!  and we celebrated me getting even older. (gammal tant!). 

Julafton! time for presents!

Tomten har kommit och hälsat i röke igen i år!  with tons of presents for our princesses and even some goodies for us boring adults.  super mysig with lots of fun, yummy food and dear family.  happy holidays to all!

did i mention way too many presents?

 

and farfar even got an ipad from farmor, which eijla was happy to show him how it works!

tivoli with the tidholms!

when two of our favorite people come to town it is time to drop everything and have some fun!  that´s right auntie zita and uncle fredrik came to brighten up the holiday season!

we headed off to tivoli i copenhagen with them.  rita found all kinds of christmas decorations!

it was chilly but beautiful!  fun to have a little holiday cheer!

gingerbread and fotoshoots...

it is beginning to look a lot like christmas...  and smell like it too. thomas and the girls made some yummy pepperkakkor the other day.  they are so funny when they bake.  but as usually it was a load of fun.

 then i did a quick fotoshoot with the girls a couple of weeks ago for our christmas cards.  they were so silly, and really were hamming it up.  but we managed to get a few cute pics.  the dogs even got in the christmas spirit!

zoe loves the winter...

but still hates wearing socks!  but we are somehow managing to get her to dress weather appropriate most of the time.  the school had a field trip to the ice rink, so zoe has been practicing at home.  it was her first time ever ice skating, and it has been reported that she did really well.  she absolutely loved it.  she really wants to go back to the rink, but none of us can skate, so we keep trying to distract her with other things.  bad parents!

 she made us a snow heart...

 uh, oh, look what glitter did to my winter gloves!  oops!  naughty dog.

thomas cheats!

so the company christmas party involved curling this year.  never tried it before.  it was pretty fun. but i am not a sports person.  thomas had his own technique.  not sure you are supposed to send two at a time..

lucia!

well, many of the swedish traditions are still new to me. but i am getting better at them,  this year i even managed to remember lucia, and fix costumes for the girls.  the both wanted to be tärnor this year,  which is good for me as it is an easier costume than being lucia!  they were so cute.  thomas and i got to go to both eijla´s dagis lucia, and zoe´s school lucia.  zoe even sang some of the songs this year.  anyway, i thought they were so very adorable!

a visit from the lovely danes

our dear friend christina came for a visit.  she is always a great hit with the girls, and she brought along the adorable mie, better known as rebecca.  there was all kinds of fun.  the snow sledding...

 the poo game on the ipad...

 and the christmas market...

it is probably a good thing we do not have pictures of us playing wii, but we all had a great time.  zoe is always so sad to see christina go.  she is already planning her next visit!

the winter feeling...

the snow is falling. everything is white, and the girls are loving it.  sledding and snowball fights abound.  but makes us look forward to some warm days on a beach in india.

första advent

 so it is december, it is dark and cold, but the warmth comes from all the mysig christmas preparations. while in paris thomas and i picked up some super yummy cheeses, and some meat (not so yummy for me).  so we had a great första advent dinner.

 then we set up and decorated the tree.  one of our favorite things.  perhaps one of the few good things about being home in the winter time.