Sunday, July 17, 2011

Bellies


Anna came to visit and we both showed off our preggo bellies. I am so happy for them. They are expecting a boy in Nov and we expecting sometime around Christmas.

V comes to Sweden

Our friend Valerie came in the beginning of June to visit us. We walked around town and in Copenhagen and took a car tour around Skåne. It was a lovely time. More visitors please :)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Long time no hear!!!

Yes, we are still here! We just have not had time (read: been lazy) to post anything. This will change now and I will start with adding an announcement. Baby Goble nr 2 is on it way! Due in December!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Back to running

Sandra is trying to lose the preggo weigtht and get back to running. Can't hide behind "just had a baby" forever. Well today she ran a 10 k and lived. She had not done that distance since Sep 08. Katti and Sandra at the finish!

Monday, May 3, 2010

What happened? well...

I have not blogged for a long time now.. I missed a whole month. Being busy can be one excuse, but being lazy is probably a more honest excuse. Well lots of fun stuff happened during this time so I will update with some photos.

- Matt turned 30 years old. I guess we can call him a grown up now. We celebrated by having dinner with Friends at Friday's and of course they came out singing for him.

- William figured out how to sit by himself, drink from a bottle and go from sitting to 'crawling'.. he is not officially a crawler yet.. more like a squiggly worm who is trying to move forward but mostly pushes himself in backwards instead.. This he finds really frustrating. His parents however loves the new progress since this really makes things a little easier now when he is starting to be able to do stuff on his own. More supervision needed, but you do not always have to constantly carry him around.

- 2 trip to the US.. yep not just one during this month but 2 trips. Sandra and William travelled alone there in end of March, since she had to go to an INS interview. She passed the Citizen test. The second time to Chicago we all travelled together and we went to Chicago to hang out with friends, celebrate Matt and Sara's birthday and for Sandra to get sworn in. It was great seeing our friends again and they really make traveling back and hanging out so much fun and actually easy with William

- Trip to Stockholm. We had a to go to the American Embassy to report William's birth. We visited with our friends when we were up there. We had a mamma date with Caroline and cute little Vera. We also had some coffee with my friend Sara and her 3 week old Elsa. That weekend we had dinner over at Paula and Andres' house. Leila was also there with her son Adrian. It was so good to be together again the three of us, but the group has really increased now with husbands and babies.

- Sandra and William are not dual. Yep, both Americanos and Swedish. The two passports make me feel a little bit like an undercover agent..

- William graduate from baby swim.

- My parents sold their house in Tungelsta (outside Stockholm) and moved to Hockhult in Småland outside Hultsfred. We were up there to stay in my childhood home for one last weekend and then we also helped with some unpacking at the new farm that they bought. We already have our eyes on the small house on the yard that we are going to turn into our summer house this summer.. A lot of work needs to be done to it, but it will also be an awesome project.


William in the stroller while hanging out in Chicago with just mommy for a couple of days. We did a lot of shopping. The trip was really nice and we were worried about traveling without daddy, but we have some amazing friends that made the trip so much easier. We did miss Matt on the trip though...













Our summer house in Småland.. There is a lot of work that is needed for us to be able to live in it, but that is our summer project.







Hanging out with the mama group in Chicago during a really warm and nice day in April.















Niclas and Autum













Birthday party for Sara and Matt.
Happy 30th, kids!!!
















I am an American now!






















William at 'Daddy Day Care' when they are visiting my office at NTDB in Chicago

Monday, March 15, 2010

Trip to Paradise

My mom and dad took me to Thailand for two weeks vacation. We were there to visit my cousin who studies and my buddy, Lyon. Mom also had one of her childhood friends meeting up with us there. The weather was so wonderful, 30+ C and sunny everyday. A big different from the winter wonderland in Sweden that we left. We went to day trips around the island (Koh Lanta) where we stayed. Went to Phi Phi islands on a day trip and then we spent a few days of shopping in Bangkok. Lots of good Thai food, beach- and pool-time and warm wonderful weather. It was so easy to travel there with a baby, everyone is so kind and babies were welcome everywhere.. ok, the traffic wasn't that safe. No car seats whatsoever.



Sunday, February 21, 2010

Babysim


William started babysim last week. It looks like he can swim better than his dad already..