The “extra special stuff”..

I apologize for making you wait sooo long for the “extra special stuff” I mentioned almost a month ago! My parents were finally able to come visit after 2,5 years!! How wonderful! We did not really believe it until we actually saw them at the sidewalk outside the gray airport terminal building. They made it and we were so happy to see them! 

I meant to post this earlier and I didn’t find the time so here we go again… picture bonanza! :-)

The day after they arrived we were invited to a birthday party in de Leon springs. We had fun at the party and we also had a chance to spend some time at our land there as it was one of our figure neighbors who had the party :-) 

Piñata time!

New pillowcase that mormor made him :-)










Back at the house and story time with mormor and morfar. 

When mormor and morfar came we only had one bathroom working. Our “new” bathroom was completely backed up, including shower, sinks and toilet. Alex and morfar tried to solve it with a snake but could not get to the problem even though they tried hard. We eventually had to have a Plummer come to fix it. 

Story time with morfar!


Visit to De Leon Springs spring :-)


Raffi showing his swimming skills












Raffi showing his reading skills :-)







Marlee, Alex and I went to a Desantis fundraiser dinner in the villages. Alex spoke there and me and Marlee enjoyed the food :-)


Visit to the Washington Oaks Garden beach side. It has really cool rocks (and seaweed apparently ;-)










It’s a good park for skim boarding as well. 






Visit to Kelly park/Rock springs. One of my favorite springs. You can walk up a short distance and float down the spring river, back to the swimming area. Such a wonderful place to take the kids. When the schools are out it can be hard to get in as the parks gets full but since we can go any day almost we try to go when other kids are in school :-)

Tiny detail, they celebrated my birthday and I got breakfast (and gifts) in bed :-)


Looking back now I really feel like we did so many fun things while mormor and mortar were here. Here is our next visit, Daytona lagoon water park. Christmas gift from mormor and morfar. Perfect weather for the water park and no people!!

Just a simple beach day :-)













Dinner out at River Grille. One of our favorite restaurants in Ormond. Great atmosphere and view of the river. Sometimes you can see alligators by the docks. 

To make sure we filled the day completely we took the boat out after the restaurant to show mormor and morfar disappearing island. We realized that it was not the best time of the year to do it as the water level was very high and the tide was really making the water move quickly. The kids had to be tied to a rope when they went into the water to avoid floating away!!

A last picture before they had to go back to Sweden! :-( Although it was very sad to say good bye I am very grateful for the tiMe we had together and all the fun things we got to do and see. And hopefully it does not have to be 2,5 years until next time!!

I almost forgot to mention something else that happened that has not happened in many years. I got to celebrate my mom for Mother’s Day, WITH my mom!! It was Mother’s Day here and not the Swedish Mother’s Day but still good enough! I am so glad we could go do some shopping and getting a pedicure only the two of us! Not sure that has happened since I had Marlee!!