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.

up and well, almost on time to school...

everyday eijla, the dogs, and i walk zoe to school.  we are usually late, or arrive just as the bell is ringing.  none of us are morning people.  but we get our butts out of bed, bright and early, and make it there one way or another.  though at the moment it is still light, it is getting darker and darker every morning.  boo hoo.

yup, my daughter loves her ribs, okay, so i guess this proof that maybe she is more thomas´ than mine!

happy halloween

what better way to celebrate halloween then by carving pumpkins and then going swimming!

 

then we even went trick or treating, well, kinda, we headed across the street to ebba´s house.  the girls wanted to be ghosts this year.  though after we got back home they changed their minds and wanted to be princesses.  so they changed garb and went trick or treatin´ here at home as darling little princesses.

fall is in the air!

talk about extremes

today the girls were dressed up playing in their princess dresses, and they paused long enough for me to grab a shot of my little models. 

 moments later thomas came home from work, not looking quite as pretty all dressed up in blaster dust!

move over monet!

cuz here come the thoren girls, and they mean some serious business!  we painted and decorated stones for the garden.  good cheap fun.

ystad djurpark

becoming a bit of a tradition.  we head to ystad once a year to gawk at the animals!  the girls love petting the goats.

  and there were even pony rides this year!  both girls had a turn and thought it was super fun, (four thumbs up!).

 glitter even got in on the action.  here they are all hanging out at a lookout station checking out the monkeys.

 then there is the playground.  i have to say it is a great place for kids,  though it was way too cold to head to the swimming pool this year.  i even think they are closing the park in just a few days for the season, so we barely made it this year. 

 stopped by farmor and farfar´s on the way home for dinner and glitter got her first bone!  she is growing so fast!

farmor´s utställning

farmor had an ustallning at borgeby  slott, so we stopped by.  the girls had a great time on some swings that were hung on some trees out back.  they played for hours.  luckily it was not raining as much this year as it did last year! 

 farmor and eijla enjoyed a quick dance to the live music.  a fun day out.

a bit of garden help

this my last week of freedom before i have to start work again, so the girls and i have been out in the garden getting as much done as possible.  the girls planted all the seeds for their flower garden.  not sure how many actually got in the ground and how many blew away...

 eijla picked a daffodil in the field and put it in her hair.  she was so very proud of it.  so cute.

 not sure how, but eijla can pull zoe up the slide.  she must be crazy strong, cause i can tell zoe is not helping that much.  super eijla!

 continuing her superness, she decided to rake my garden, good thing i had not planted any seeds there yet.  what a great helper she is.

cykels och blommor

the weather is warming up, the flowers are growing and pappa has gone back to work.  in our effort to survive a few hours without pappa snuggles we took a bike ride.  bonita loved it.  ran around like a crazy dog, i think she knows spring is here too.  zoe of course found lots of flowers to pick, so it was a very slow bike ride.

zoe has actually outgrown her bike, so eijla has inherited it, she can barely reach the pedals, but she loves riding it anyway,  mamma just has to push her along most of the time.  zoe is getting really good on her scooter.  cannot believe how fast the girls are growing up.

bring on the spring!

it is nice to be home again, despite the cold.  we are spending as much time as possible out in the garden, getting it prepped for when it stops freezing at night, and well, just playing around and having fun.  the girls gravitated back to their play tower right away.  eijla was so cute even though we made her have her winter overall, she insisted on wearing a tutu over it!  what a silly goose!

 zoe playing tit-ut from the tower..

 and while we played, pappa rotertilled up both my garden and the girls soon to be wildflower patch.  what a great guy, think we will keep him.

 then we found a great deal on a riding lawnmower on blocket, and could not pass it up, even though the grass is not even growing yet.  it is still fun to ride.

 and then of course there is much planting of seeds in the greenhouse,  it is not so green now, but it will be.  oh yes it will be, the girls are helping see to that.  bring on the spring!

baby´s got a new do!

so today we finally cut eijla´s hair for the first time!  it was a tough moment for me.  but it wasn´t so hard for eijla!  our "wild child"  sat still as long as she could play with the itouch!  what did we ever do before we got that thing?!?!

my little girl looking so grown up!  

then i had to share this one from yesterday we had ice cream on the beach at sunset and the girls we just so sweet together.  moments like this i really really miss my lens, but i am doing my best with zoe´s little camera.

last minute stuff before we are off!

 so zoe and eijla have been really great at entertaining themselves while we have been trying to get everything ready at home.  zoe has been giving eijla ballerina lessons.  it was so cute! 

 and then of course we have been bad parents and let them watch movies now and again (okay at least once a day! but are very glad we do not have tv!).  you can see how trance like they get while watching.  yeah, our kids are addicts.

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then after months and months of having a half torn up bathroom,  we are tearing it all out.  we finally got an offer, and so hopefully we will have a real bathroom again when we come back.  so thomas has spent the last week ripping it down to the framing...

 and here we have it,  a nearly empty room... just waiting to be molded!

 so this is it.  we are off next week.  excited for a new country and lots of new adventures! 

the leaves are falling

fall is here.  the cold weather has set in,  time for us to leave.  but before we do, best to have a bit of fun!  we raked all the leaves in a bit pile at the bottom of  the slide and let the girls go crazy...

 it was so much fun.  fall is also a great time of year, even if i am sad to say good bye to all my green things....