Mom's Visit

We are having such a great time with my mom here. The kids are loving having someone to play with all day long. Saga sleeps with her every night out in the cabin. She even asks if it time to go to bed, which is VERY unusual for her. Today we went swimming and yesterday we went and had lunch at Axel's Grandma's house. Tomorrow we are going into town for a little shopping. The snow is falling and everything is exactly like it's suppose to be around Christmas. Calm and cozy with a fire going. I'm lucky to have such a wonderful helpful mother that enjoys my family and me. We sure love having her here.

Took a little trip on the snowmobile.

Saga took a little trip behind the dogs on the sled, FUN!

Our tree after grandma had her way with it.  When she showed up it had about 8 ornaments on it and some lights, now it's lovely.

Sixten waiting his turn for the snowmobile.  He loves to ride on it.

Winter Wonderland

It's interesting how the weather is so very important to our lives. While we lived in Bellingham Axel would often comment on the lack of seasons and how he missed the intensity of winter/summer. I never understood what he meant, it gets cold in Bellingham and hot in the summer. It makes sense now. Life is driven but the weather, it's so important to us. Makes us connected to nature and life. I love it! The snow has finally fallen and not lightly. We get to play and everything is so much lighter outside. BEAUTIFUL!

My first attempt at baking cinnamon rolls, tasted pretty good!

The kids playing outside and building a snowman.

We were going to do this experiment I saw on someone else's blog.  Milk, food coloring, and soap.  The colors were supposed dance around.

It all went so fast, looked pretty for a few seconds then it was just light blue.  Nobody was very impressed.

Dancing Lucia

Hello there!  Seems like I have two weeks worth of pictures to post.  Last Sunday was Saga'a dance show.  Every Sat. morning we drive to town (30 minutes) so Saga can dance for an hour.  Her show was great and the whole family came to watch.  Below is Fanny and Saga before the show began.  I think they have matching smiles.

The star took time to pose with her parents as well.

Giving me wave before they began.

After the show Saga was nice enough to give her brother a lick or two from her lollipop.  He wanted more and more.  It was pretty cute, her sharing with him.  We all stood around them and watched.

Sixten is in that phase where he likes to put on things (mostly clothes).  He came to me the other day and wanted to have the beaver skin wrapped around him. 

Saga likes to play school (wonder where she got that from?) Here she is practicing her numbers. 

Clothes switch

Today we had our Santa Lucia party in our village.  It's really not celebrated until the 13th of Dec. but we had it today for a variety of reasons.  Anyway, here is my little Lucia and my little Santa. 

Saga and her friend Elin getting ready to walk out into the crowd singing their song.

The kids listening to the priest talking about Jesus.  Sixten didn't want to be down there.

Here he is in my lap.  My sweet boy!

All Gone

I took it upon myself to cut Sixten's hair.  Not sure why I think I can cut hair because I can't.  It was never intended to be so short but now I can say he looks like a little boy. 

Before

I think he looks like a totally different little guy.  He actually looks a lot like Axel's Uncle Ola when he was a little boy.  At least from the picture I've seen at his grandma's house.

Moments

I love walking in on moments like these.  What a lucky mom I am to have such fun adventurous loving babes.  Makes me smile.

Halloween Catch Up

Elin stayed the night and we carved pumpkins.

My kids love to play horsey.  They will jump on the back of anyone that kneels down.  Axel is a favorite horse, much to his dismay.

Our lovely spice cake Halloween House.  Saga had full control of the making of our house.  She did a fine job.

Without Internet

We haven't had internet access for a whole week now.  I will do an update as soon as we get it all figured out.  Happy Halloween