All family has left and we try to keep the Christmas spirit high

Step 7 of my recap: Mormor and mortar left to go back to Sweden. Farmor stayed a few more days but has gone back to Miami, too. We have done some more school work and finished both coops for the semester. 

I probably have more “sleepy” pictures than I can count. This is Gabriel and Noah :-)

Watching this year’s Swedish Advent Calendar for the first time. As you can see, they are really into it! 


This guy fell on his face when he tried to skate board. Luckily he was sitting in his knees and was not standing up. 


Big happening, Marlee finally got braces!!! He got he braces on but he will also get an expander in January. Hopefully it is not as painful to get the expander as the braces!




Marlee and morfar put up the Christmas lights a while ago and I have made the boys’ gift advent calendar but the dis pretty much the only Christmas preparations we have done in our house. I just don’t know how to have enough time to do all the things we want and need to do. The gift calendar includes a lot of reading while opening the gifts so we do get some Christmas stories and luckily we have had some Christmas experiences in other places as well. 


Christmas festival at the church where we have our cc coop. Here the boys are decorating cookies. 


Lucia festival in Sanford! 


David loves animals and he gets to excited every time he sees Lizzy, but she is always very quick to run away and he never gets to pet her. Until the other night when he was laying in our bed and Lizzy came over to him to sniff him ❤️


I have told you about our tadpoles before and we thought the story was over and that the last one had died. Gabriel was going to clean out the bucket to use it for lizards instead and emptied out the water. Then on the concrete was our tadpole. Humongous!! We quickly scooped it up and put new water in the bucket. Hoping it would not die of shock!

Christmas “fika” with Noah’s class from the cc coop. All the bigger kids were outside playing and David and his friend were chilling inside with the parents :-)

Soup for dinner. Even though David spilled most of it it was no problem. He just got it out of the bib 😂


Our neighbors have chickens and after the hurricane took some out fence David can enjoy them even more :-)