Maria 8 months!! And lawn care

Marlee and Alex went to India soon after we got back from Madison and were gone for about 10 days. I will tell you more bout their trip in the next post. While they were gone we did our normal things with school and friends.

Look at all those teeth!!!

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Eight month March 31!!! Not so amused to be 8 month!

Bubbles walk

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David forgot his Peach (bunny) at coop and was happily reunited when we went back to get him. 

David and Nara

Doing yard work, getting some of the weeds out and planting some grass seeds. We just wanted to see if they would grow and they did so we need to get some more. The big problem is to keep the boys off the grass… The boys did a great job pulling weeds. 

Yes, someone’s dirty sock!

Soccer practice for Maria :-)

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Silly brother!!

The doggie bags needed to be rolled back up. Of course we need the drill for that!!!! 

Marlee 15!! 🥹😱🥳🚗 And Madison

School work goes on like normal and we are enjoying gorgeous weather!! Sometimes the boys gets a little too distracted with enjoying the weather and forget their school work! 

The weekend after Idaho we went to Madison, FL, to take care of our property there. It was badly hot during the hurricanes last season and we have not had w chance to go out there earlier. It was mainly fixing the roof on the big shed and burning branches. Despite a lot of work the boys had plenty of time to enjoy all the “big boy toys” :-) Gabriel even found a pet (lizard) that came back to Ormond with us. Sadly, it escaped the cage here and probably live free and happy now :-)

The weather was absolutely gorgeous!!

All the cousins 

Noah helping 

Last but not least, we had a birthday child!! Marlee turned 15 when we were in Madison. He now has his drivers learners permit! 😱 We all went to the local Mexican restaurant that we really like and they surprised him with a cake in his face and singing :-) It is really hard to believe that he is so old!!!

Minnesota and Idaho

So Alex and I (and Maria) left for Minnesota and Idaho. Alex spoke at two events and we combined that with a getaway. We have gone the two previous years as well and it is a nice tradition now :-) Farmor made it possible by watching the boys at home. 

It was my first time in Minnesota so I got to cross that put on the list!

Because he had two speeches it was busier this year than last but we still got some time in the hot tub and a fancy dinner on two-man-hand (and Maria) :-) We also met a lot of nice people as always!

Since we didn’t have so many kids to take pictures of this will be with Maria only. 😆

We had to get up really really early to leave so Maria got to travel in her PJs.  

In our hotel room in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. View over the lake. 

At the conference in coeur d’Alene. Maria wearing the traditional Swedish hat that is from mormor when she was a baby. 

Yep, I’m crawling now, you better watch out!

First boat ride and Astro Skate

So much fun is going on and the days get very busy. While we are getting our school work done we have also been to the skate park, Marlee has gone surfing, we took the boat out for the first time this year and first time for Maria. The other day we also went roller skating with one of our co-ops. So much fun! When I’m writing this Alex and I (and Maria) are on our yearly get away to Idaho. This year we also made a quick stop in a Minnesota, a state I had never been to. :-) 

Before posting new pictures I want to post a picture that I posted last time, except this time I merged two pictures to get Maria’s face in it as well. The two right rectangles are one picture and the left two is another picture.

She did so good in her (David’s old) life vest. 

A very cold Rafael after surfing behind the boat. The water is not really warm yet. However, for a Swede it’s not so bad. 

This picture cracks me up!!😂

Rafael

Marlee

Gabriel

Noah was on the boat ride as well but somehow didn’t appear in front of the camera. He didn’t want to surf behind the boat. During the boat trip we also went to explore an island but I left the phone on the boat so no pictures do that. 

Gabriel created a little photo shoot and took pictures of his sister 💙💕 He is so creative and artistic!

Astro skate with coop. David dis not want to skate but he was happy just hanging out. We did go for a walk (David on a bike) outside for a while to enjoy the beautiful weather and let David have some fun. 

Flower we found during our walk. 

Maria is so popular everywhere we go!

Leaving the boys with farmor and heading out of town! I had less than three hours of sleep so I might look a little tired :-D