a garden day with my little ladies

what a great day to spend with my little girls in the garden.  they helped me water the greenhouse...

zoe helped to find as many cucumbers a possible in all the big cucumber leaves...

it is nice to see there is so much more green than there was a month ago. the tomato plants are turning into a tomato jungle.

yum!  cherry tomatoes!  now they just need to turn red,  i have not been able find any red ones yet because zoe always beats me out to the greenhouse and eats them all, buse unga.

then we had a picnic lunch out in the yard.  finger food, the only safe bet with crazy eijla`s crazy eating habits.

then our neighbor came over and told me i should make a bush fort for the girls.  our neighbor is great when she comes with ideas, she says them as commands almost.  always makes me laugh. but it was a good idea and they had bushes that needed to be trimmed so it worked out for both of us.  the girls seemed to like it, now we will just wait and see if they grow roots and survive.   this has been one of these days when i cannot thank my lucky stars enough about how lucky i am to be a mom to these two amazing little munchkins.

back on swedish soil.

none of us are morning people, but we all managed to make it up and out the door to the airport on time. thanks to tony our wonderful chauffeur. so we flew back to göteborg...

and do not tell tony, but on the way home we stopped by for a visit withe franz and anna and their two adorable little ones.  they had this great outdoor farm/play area nearby.  had a fika, did a bit of playing and enjoying the company...

little inez was just so cute and so little.  not sure i remember that eijla was ever that small.  now she is jsut a bit ball of buse!

they even had some animals there that the girls could pet, including this huge rabbit.

great seeing franz, anna, esikil and meeting inez.  zoe and eijla though inez was just the greatest.

and the two good looking gentlemen of the house...

still a bit of drive ahead of us, we stopped an hour or so from home and bought picnic supplies at ica, and headed to the nearest beach we could find. 

some moments in life are just too perfect for words...

believe it or not. zoe took this picture, she is really turning into a little photographer.  i might have some serious competition soon!

what a great trip.  i tell ya,  traveling with my family is just one of those things i am so grateful for. 

pinic!

so i filled the bread maker with all the ingredients, and set the timer, thinking we could have delicious fresh bread for breakfast the next morning.  however i neglected one small item.  i forgot to push start!  so there was no bread for breakfast.  instead when it was finally ready later in the day we had a picnic with "momma bread".  yum!

these are the times to just enjoy.  wish i could remember that more instead of thinking in the back of my head of all the other things i should be doing.  honestly there are no other things i should be doing, than soaking up these moments of being a family.  who knows how long it is going to be until the girls won't have time for us.  so now we need to make the time for them.