Milestone

Alice on a mission

 

Sunday with the Ericsons

When I was in the US in 1999 I got to know the Ericson family and ever since then we've met up once in a while when they are in Sweden. I guess it's our turn to visit them soon...

Midsummer in Valdemarsvik

Marshmallows being bbq:ed

Movie time

Alice and her friend

Elias and his friends

Batman + one

The caped crusader is joined by the  pirate girl / Robin.

Batman in the house

Happy Birthday Elias!

 

 

Happy 5th Birthday Elias, our wonderful big little boy.

I can't believe it's 5 years since you came and changed everything we knew for the better. 

We love you more than anything

Mummy and Daddy

Pirate

Elias on his way to nursery. They have fancy dress today and dancing and other activities. Will be interesting to hear about it tonight..

Grandma visit & "Valborg"

On April 30th we celebrate "Valborg" in Sweden. It is all about celebrating the arrival of spring and for some reason we have huge bonfires in the evening. The kids have yet to experience the actual bonfire though. They are normally lit way after bedtime so we haven't bothered, but maybe next year. To do something special at least we decided to go to Skansen, and it turned out that was what pretty much everyone in Stockholm had planned too...

 A lot of queuing people..

 Elias queued very patiently for a very long time to finally, finally get to ride on a horse.

 Elias on "his" pony Walle

It was FUN (but a bit bumpy..)

Skiing

A film taken on the first day of skiing. Elias is going with Per from the top and then on his own the last bit. The second day we would take him halfway up the slope and he went down on his own the whole way. He started to get the hang of turning a bit by the end of day 2. Both David and I were so proud and impressed!

Back home

We're now back home after a great week up in Luleå. We've had pretty much a perfect Easter in my opinion. Great company, great weather, great fun! It was too hard to pick out pictures to put in the blogpost so I created an album instead...

Some of the highlights were going on the snowmobile and seeing Elias getting more confident on the skiis. I think we all wished we could have spent more time in the slopes because I'm sure he would have progressed even more then. Now we'll have to wait until next winter... But then we can hopefully get them both skiing.

Off to Luleå

Pilots Webber & Webber ready for take off!

An ordinary Friday evening at the Webber residence

Photo smile on!

England

At Arlanda we had juice and shared a burger while waiting for the plane (which actually took off on time!).

Alice had her first ever tea and crumpet. She liked both very much!

I went to a spa for 3 days with Juliet, Rose and Joyce. It was very very very nice!

We watched Finley have a riding lesson.

Elias and Alice fed apples and stroked some horses.