back to reality...

yeah, so after a wonderful vacation it was back to the horror that is our bathroom.  thomas had to pull of the entire floor before someone would give us an offer to fix all the hidden faults.  the former owners had screwed and glued the floor so much it was an insane job to pull it all up.  good thing my husband is strong as an ox!

 then a pleasant surprise!  zoe lost her first tooth.  we managed to knock it loose while going down a slide together at lalandia, and then today she just pulled it out.  hard to believe how quick she is growing up!

last day of vacation

our last day of fun.  we stopped off at monkey tonkey land and the girls built themselves a bit lego fort.  which they then destroyed. 

 then we just had a few hours of waterslides and splashing about. 

 eijla even insisted on going on some of the slides all by herself!  "kan själv!"

this mini vacation was a blast,  it was so much fun and the annermalms were great companions.  but then it was time to head home again.  definitely going to have to try and do this again sometime.  glad we have such water babies!

LEGOLAND!

an off another couple days of adventure.  this time to legoland, which luckily was literally just across the street from lalandia.  and legoland is definitely full of legos.  everything was made of legos.  zoe posed in front of the lego zebras...

 then thomas and eijla blew me kisses from a lego boat.

 the first ride of the day was great fun for the girls with frogs sits that went up and down and up and down, and they laughed the whole time.

 then there was wild roller coasters, made of, yeah, you guessed it... legos.

 i finally made it to mount rushmore, but not sure it counts cause yeah, it was made of legos!

 however the merry go round was NOT made of legos,  might have been the only thing in the park that wasn't.  eijla had a great time going on a ride all by herself.

 

then there was a 4D movie.  it was pretty fun.  though it feels a bit strange to have the characters in a film spray saliva at you!

 had to get a pic of the girls with lego scubaman!

 there was even an amazing aquarium with huge amounts of fish, sharks, rays, and lego scuba divers...

 the crabs however were not made of legos...

 there was even time for an ice cream break.  eijla and thomas shared what is one of the biggest ice cream cones i have even seen in my life!

 in the lego wild west there was fun canoe rides,  here are thomas and zoe about to get splashed!

 zoe even went panning for gold!  look how much she got.  she even got it "melted" into a medallion.

 more rides...

 and even a picnic lunch and a concert...

 zoe and thomas danced to brian rice...

 there were pirate water fights.  poor jessica against these four crazies.  hmmm, i wonder who got soaked!

 then there were tons of mini lego lands.  they had huge villages, copenhagen, los angeles,  and much more. they even had a star wars exhibit.  the details are amazing.  little wedding groups in front of the churches,  tiny cows on the hills.  it was incredible.

 time for some fun for the little ones at the lekland.  zoe and eijla were beginning to run out of steam at this point.  it was a lot to do in two days.

 had to get "our" pic with the statue of liberty! (made of legos, of course!).

legoland was much better than i expected. we had a great time, and there was so much to do.  the kids had a blast.

splish splash with the annermalms in denmark

so away on a little vacation with the annermalms to lalandia in denmark.  two days in a row we splashed and slid down all kinds waterslides. and oh, were we pretty even under the water...

 

or were we????

 we had a great time.  the water was warm, the kids were happy and the parents were relaxed. here we have crazy christer and his gorgeous mermaids...

 zoe and rebecka had to share eijla, but they managed to find a balance...

  mathilda played in the waves...

 

and we somehow managed to get all of us in a photo together.  check out the  crazys slides it  the background.  they were a blast.

 

 and of course we had to stop and snuggle with the goats on the way back to the cabin.  which was great.  plenty of room for the eight of us.  tomorrow awaits legoland!

crafts and parties, it's what zoes live for...

my crafty little ladies have been really into painting lately.  zoe is the pyssla master.  she loves to create.  she gets so excited i tried to capture a shot of her excitement while getting ready to paint the other day.

then this summer, zoe and all her friends have turned 5, here she was super excited to go to cornelia's brithday party.  she has become such a big, independent girl.  i love it, (though i sometimes miss my little baby). 

fall is in the air...

been more and more inside the house due the colder temperatures.  summer is really coming to an end.  but i am loving being able to spend so much time with my girls.  zoe, my little photographer, loves using my camera, even though she can barely lift it.  she got a cute shot of eijla and i the other day.  still impressed with how well she frames shots and manages to get them in focus!

thought this was a cute moment.  eijla eating her yoghurt, but apparently was not quite tall enough, so bonita's bowl was the perfect little thing to balance on...

yep, fall is in the air.  zoe was super excited when she saw on the way to dagis that our uterum windows were all fogged up.  she quickly put the new development to good use and practiced writing her name...

my baking buddies

the other day zoe and eijla helped me make molasses cookies, or maybe i should say i helped them.  as they took over the show...

but it seems like the final result was definitely approved.  had to fight them off with a bat so they did not eat all the cookies in one sitting.  they sure do have a sweet tooth these kids.