Happy Birthday David 4 years old!! And Maria 6 months old.

We postponed David's birthday a little as it was the day we left for Colorado and in addition to getting ready for the trip we also had co-op that day. The day was simply too full and we wanted to have enough time to celebrate him. So after our day of skiing in beautiful sunny weather we went back to the house and celebrated him!

David at the carpet lift.

Time for gifts and cake!

More skiing!!

Not to forget. Maria was six months (already!!) January 31. 

Building his Lego set with uncle Troy. 

Beaver Creek, CO, and farmor here we come!

I don’t know what we did to deserve such wonderful vacations this winter. First Sweden and all the help and care we got from my family and now it was time to go to Colorado to spend time with Alex’s family skiing! 

Farmor had made sure we had all we needed for skiing/snowboarding. Alex’s brothers and the kids’ cousins came as well! 

The week started out with two bright sunny days!

Rafael and I

Uncle Cory and Gabriel

David

David and I

Alex and David

Marlee

Noah

Gabriel

Marlee

Alex, Gabriel and I

Marlee

Trying to get back to some routines before our next big adventure!

We were right back to reality when coming back to Sweden. Coop started within just a few days and we needed to get ready for that. I also needed to take the boys to the dentist for a well needed check up. It would be David’s first :-) And we needed to make sure we got some time with family and friends.

Maria with her traditional Swedish hat that ones was Mormor’s when she was a baby!

Gabriel and Noah in their PE class. Unfortunately they were treating the grass this day so they had to do it in the parking lot. 

Rafael in one of his classes. 

And Rafael in his other class, at the other co-op.

First visits to the dentist for this little guy!! He first showed some hesitation when his brothers got their check up but then took it like a pro when it was his turn.

Aunt Jackie and Aunt Cindy came to visit and they kids had fun playing a game Cindy got them. 

Maria in church :-)

Our next adventure is about to begin…

Last day in Sweden :-( and back in Ormond!

Our month long trip to Sweden had come to an end… it was time to leave. While the boys spent the day with mormor and morfar I went down town Stockholm with Maria to run some errands and get some last Swedish things. 

We also had an early celebration of David’s birthday! 

Maria got her first tooth!! I promise it is in there :-)

When leaving for the airport I realized I never bought David any shoes (remember he forgot to put shoes one when we left Florida!)!! We had borrowed the winter shoes from Aunt Linn while in Sweden and I simply had to “borrow” them for a while longer and bring them with us to Florida. 

We forgot to take a picture with mormor and morfar wt Arlanda before saying good bye. 

But I did take a picture of our fancy Italian dinner at Arlanda :-)

Arriving to Orlando, Florida. Can you believe that we manage to fit this all in our car including Alex and Marlee who came with a flight the same day!!!

Well back in Ormond it was time to explore the candy we had brought!