Cold and beautiful weather!

It has been several windy and chili days lately but today we got a blear blue sky at least! I have tried to update the blog from my phone since it is easier when I just do short posts but it has not worked very good. The upload normally fails about 5-10 times before it actually uploads and the post is online, which is quite annoying. Now I am finally using my computer again and here is what we have done the past two days...

It has been several windy and chili days and yesterday was no exception - gray and rainy. We stayed inside most of the day and had a Swedish "Christmas tree plundering" (just google it :-) and we "danced out the Christmas" (I love direct translation!!) which is all according to Swedish tradition. Some of the activities that the plundering involves is dancing around the Christmas tree, doing "the Rocket", take off all the ornaments (leave one), through out the tree, have a fish pond (where the kids catch a candy bag) and play some games such as "hide the key". Now you know all about it! Next year we will invite our Swedish friends around here :-)



Gabriel has found his feet, only for grabbing so far

Our Christmas tree, so beautiful we kept it until February!

Doing "the Rocket" with mormor

Today we finally had a clear wonderfully blue sky!! Still windy, still cold, but so refreshing and beautiful! We ended up walking home from pre school on the beach (it was their first day since mormor and morfar came since they have been sick). It was cold but still nice and I had brought some snacks as bribes :-) Marlee and Noah did very good and made it all the way home.

 

Gabriel all wrapped up!

Such blue sky!!!

It was cold!

Noah got a little tired for a sec and needed to be carried

But was soon happy again!

Well at home again we had some lunch outside in the sun. It was so nice!!! We stayed out most of the afternoon and did some garden work and other fixing outside. I found a turtle in the bushes and we were all amazed about what they look like when they are hiding in their shell. You cannot even the where the openings are! I am glad that mr Turtle dared to come out again after our inspection!

Gabriel enjoyed being outside too!

Gabriel, mormor and morfar

Hiding turtle