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 ;-)