Weekend with great weather

So this weekend the summer arrived in Malmö. It was sunny and nice both days. We did go to the beach Saturday with some friends of Matt to bbq and hang out. It was a bit to windy for my taste so it got really chilly. Sunday the weather was even better and we went to dog class with Oliver. Yes, we have enrolled him in the basic class for adult dogs now. Not sure I like it as much since the dogs are bigger and there are some of them there that seem out of control. But I guess that made us look really good and Oliver like one of the calmest dogs there.. which might not be true. It was so sunny and great and I think I actually got a bit of a tan. The rest of the day we just ran some errands and did some spring cleaning. Matt was even washing the windows as I am blogging. I am spoiled sometimes.

Oliver graduates from Puppy class

So we have been taking a 8 week long puppy class and last Sunday he graduates from puppy class. Ok, all the dogs graduated but it was still a lot of fun and we learned a lot. I think it was fun for all of us. I especially liked the 'fika' break that we had in the park each class.

Tracy's wedding and the rest of our US trip in April

Matt and I traveled back to the US for to visit friends and family. We squeezed in a wedding and a birthday party so it was a fun filled trip. Once we landed in Chicago we got our rental car and drove up to our friends Jodie and Josh's place in Rockford where we stayed the night. The next day it was off to Minneapolis for Tracy and Greg's wedding. It was such a beautiful wedding ceremony with both tears and laughter as the vows were given. The party afterwards were French inspired but considering that the couple is moving there for 2 years so it was really fitting.

After the wedding weekend we headed to Iowa to visit Phil's place and then off to Cedar Rapids for a coupl

e of days with Matt's sister and nephews. We also took the flooding tour of CR which I cannot believe the destruction in some areas.









After that we headed to Chicago for some time with friends and the birthday party. I even made it in to my work and had lunch with my Swedish girl friends so it kind of felt a bit like I have never left since I was doing the things I usually do. Well, except that the group of girls has not expanded with 4 small adorable additions from when I left. It has really been a baby boom since October. We went to Cafe Iberico to have lunch all 8 girls and four babies. It was great to see the little ones and also one more addition which I did not get to see when I was there in January. The restaurant was unfortuatly invaded by a huge high school class so it got really load and crazy. I really thought we would be the loud and crazy with that many strollers and babies but we weren't :).



The last 4 years Matt has celebrated his birthday together with Sara and they always do some crazy bar crawl thing.. This year it was a birthday bar crawl to 8 or maybe 9 bars.. don't remember.. but at each game there was a competition with various bar games; pool, shuffle board, air hockey, darts etc. It was a fun filled night that ended with super giant burritos with Anna and Gregg. Then it was back home again. I really had the best time and miss everyone already.

Victors 1 year birthday!

So I am posting this about a month too late. I have no excuse more than been busy.. or maybe lazy. On March 28th we went to Hässlås and visited my Friend Sofia and here family to celebrate her son's 1 year birthday. It was great seeing them and her family since I basically grew up with them. It was also fun to see how well Oliver got along with the children at this party.

I was a bit worried how he would react to kids. He seemed to have grown e

specially fond of the birthday boy Victor.. he is of course a charming young man but I also think it was the fact that he kept on sneaking food down to Oliver from his plate :). Sofia was a great hostess with lots of food and fancy decorations.

Tjejhelg med Linda i Mars

Min första tjejkompis från Stockholm kom på besök och jag försökte charma henne med uteserveringar i snöyran på lilla torgoch turistig dag inne i Köpenhamn. Det var jättekul att ha Linda på besök och gästrummet är ledigt när som helst nästa gång du kommer. Vi hade även en väldigt tjejig lördag med melodifestival och massor av godis och glass.

Familjen

Oj, nu har jag inte bloggat på länge. Men tyvärr fick vi hemska nyheter i februari och min mamma har blivit diagnoserad med cancer. Hon har metastaser på tarmar och livmoder och kommer att få börja med cellgifter. Jag har försökt stödja så mycket jag kan men man känner sig lite hjälplös ibland. I mars så kom mamma och pappa ner till Malmö och hälsade på så jag passar på att sätta in lite foton från den helgen. Min söta systerdotter som är höggravid kom även förbi på frukost :)