And now the pics...

My computer will hopefully be back on Monday, faster and happier than ever! :-) Right now I have used another computer to upload some picture and a great video in the end!

American Easter eggs

Beach day with their fourth (?) cousins Seth and Silas

Easter egg hunt in the back yard :-) (I might have had more fun than the boys :-)



Visiting Silver Springs (great swimming!)

Seth is reading, one of the many books Jackie brought for the boys, for Noah and Marlee

By Uncle Mike's pool

The water in the pool is "only" about 24C so it gets a little chilli

A true Newman, already sleeping across the bed ;-)

Easter egg hunt at Marlee's preschool. Look at those happy faces!

On a mission!

We stole these two in Uncle Mike's garden. Is apparently Pommelos.

 

Turtle wathcing in Central Park



Turtles

Such a big boy sitting in Noah's hight chair.

 So close!!!!

No pics today either...

My computer did not come home today the computer doctor decided that it was worth replacing the hard drive do it will be gone for a little longer. However, I will give you the last updates now and pictures will come later. 

We enjoyed the company of Aunt Jackie and Uncle Doug for a few days. They also gave us the pleasure to spend time with their great grand children Seth and Silas. They are so sweet. I organized my first Easter egg hunt while they were here and we visited the beach, and Blue Springs :-) A lot of fun! I am really happy that they could stay for a few days this time!

So they all left yesterday and they house got quite again. Today was The Easter egg hunt and Easter lunch at Marlee's preschool. Alex could not come but me, Noah and Gabriel had a lot of fun helping out during the day and eating the yummy lunch. Well, the fun did not stop there... Later in the afternoon me and the boys met Curren and his mum and brother at the park. It was so nice to see them after such long time (we have not really seen any of our friends in ormond for six weeks)!! The kids had a lot of fun and so did me and Deborah. 

I hope to be back with some pictures soon!

Computer trouble

I apologize for the lack of updates but my computer is at the computer doctor. Unfortunately it won't be with us for too much longer due to a hard drive problem.  It's coming back home tomorrow so I can do another blog post with pictures :-)  

Easter cards...

Me and the boys made Easter cards today. First I felt pretty good about myself for doing them in time to send out. Then I realized that Easter is less than a week away! So much for doing it in time... Well, it was a very fun project and I hope people will enjoy them whenever they receive them :-)

Gabriel's first night in the crib

As you might know Gabriel has been sleeping in the stroller bassinet since he was born. It has worked so perfect - it is small and cozy, I can move it around the house (or outside too for that matter) and I can rock it if he wants that. We also bring it when we travel. However, he is growing and the stroller is starting to get a little worn out (the bassinet is not really flat anymore...) so I thought it was time to upgrade and he is now sleeping in the crib as it is the most natural thing in the world :-) It has been standing here waiting for him for for most six months :-)

Marlee just turned FIVE!!! and lots of other fun stuff!!

Before saying or writing anything else I must let you know that Marlee turned FIVE two days ago! I feel bad not announcing this earlier, it is a big thing!, but we just have not had the time. We have been too busy doing fun stuff, seen friends and tried to catch up with the normal life after having visitors and vacation for about 5-6 weeks. We have had so much fun, and I am so thankful for all the good times that we have had, and all the wonderful company!! Now we are trying to go back to a normal life again and we did that by starting with Spring break. Marlee had this week off from school as all other kids around here so off course all the fun continues... We have been to and Indian festival (or more correct Native American festival), seen several friends, enjoyed the beach, enjoyed an hotel pool since a friend stayed there and not for forget - Alex book arrived today and I think it looks really good!! Now, lets see what reading it is like! ;-)

Turtle at the festival

Marlee was so brave and went dancing with the Indians alone since I had to stay with the stroller...

Deep fried Oreos!!!

 

 

MARLEE's BIRTHDAY, MARCH 23!!!!
We celebrated with gifts in the morning and ice cream cake for breakfast :-) The birthday party will be later in April since all people are on Spring break now.

Beach for the birthday boy!

Marlee and Noah had fun with Lexi on the beach

Alex's book!!!!!

By the pool with Lexi :-)

Noah fell asleep :-*

Chilling in the front yard

One of those days?

I know it has been a while since you last heard from us. We ended our wonderful ski weekend in Colorado and went back to Miami. I am in love with Colorado!! Marlee did so good on the skis and Noah enjoyed sledding more :-) Buddy was a great chauffeur bringing us back and forth to the slopes and Kathy acted like a great hostess, making sure everyone was good.

When I look back on all the "bad" things that happened in the beginning of the vacation I have began to see it differently because what if
- they had not realized that the plane had something wrong
- my skis and Alex's snowboard had broken while we were skiing or in the lift instead of before
- the breaks of the car were bad and we had had problems when everyone was in the car and we were on the road, and not in a small parking lot...

 

On the way to the top!

 

 

Going down a double black

Napping on the plane on the way back to Miami

 

So we came back to Miami. I had a very nice day with the boys, swimming in the pool and buying shoes for Noah. Alex and Buddy were struggling with the Internet company all day since it did not work and Alex missed an important workday. In addition to this the AC did not work properly. 

 

Daily exercise

 

 

Now we are back in Ormond and a friend (Karin) from Sweden and her family has been visiting with us for two days. It has been so much fun! Her daughter (Elin) is only 5 days older than Noah. We had a few nice hours on the beach before the fog took over yesterday. All the children except Gabriel played ball and built sand castles with Elin's dad (Olof) so me and Karin could sit down (and take pictures).

 

<3 <3 <3 Gabriel is not as squeezed as it looks!

A well deserved bath in the kitchen sink :-)

This little dude is learning too quickly!!! Not crawling yet but he surely wants to...

My friend with her family :-)

 

 

So why the somewhat negative headline when everything seems great!? What do we have to complain about? Well, while having a great day the following things happened, too: my eye glasses broke in the morning which I temporarily fixed with some tape... the AC broke down (for the third or fourth time!!) at some point and the temperature in the house is rising... the door to the guest room got looked somehow and it can only be opened with a key, which we don't have... After trying to get the lock to open with a variety of different tools and things Alex finally had to break down the door which made part of the door frame break. On the bright side, the room needs to be painted and fixed anyways so after the small fire we had a while ago in there and with the broken door frame we might just get started sooner than later, which otherwise seem to be our cup of tea... (nothing I'm proud of)

Now we are on our way to Chick fil a to enjoy some good fast food! We are doing pretty good not worrying about broken things :-) I'm afraid it would be too overwhelming at this point, looking back on everything that have happened lately ;-)