We have not been good at updating this blog during the summer so we have to do a short recap here. It was a wonderful summer with lots of sun, weekend trips, visitors and walks to the doggie beach. Since baby Goble is arriving in September we did not really take any vacation this summer but tried to make the best out of the weekends. We did go Camping one weekend in Hästveda and it really isn't like camping in the US. It is more like setting your tent up in an open field and then the next tent is like 4 meters away.. not much for outdoors-y-ness. Miss the US camping with separated camp lots and fire pits.. but next summer we are going to look for better camp sites and maybe then.. This was Oliver's first camping trip and I even if it was confusing to him at first, I think he loved that he got to be so snuggled up to us all the time. Then Paula, Andres and their daughter Bea came to visit us. We had a great relaxing weekend and our guests spoiled us with cooking almost every night. I loved it, they need to come visit more. The weather, however, was crappy so when we drove to the beach we had to flee back to the car after 5 min due to rain. I am not surprised since of course one of the few times that Paula will go touristing in her own country the weather decides to be crappy. Then we went to Kolmården to go on a safari and watch my dad do some Jeep driving. He got a gift card for jeep driving for his 60th birthday present and he seemed to love it. In August our friends Tracy and Greg came to visit from France. They are currently also ex-pats that moved from Minneapolis to live and work in France for 2 years. They just arrived in July so we tried to make the weekend as american as possible, serving coors light, eating at burger places, taking them to a Swedish country band concert etc. It was such a great time and I hope they come to visit soon again. We have already planned to drive down there with dog and baby in the spring.. we'll see how well that will work.
The Goble family is eagerly awaiting the arrival of baby, especially Sandra who is tired of being huge as a whale with the energy level of a 90 year old. We have decided on a name and I think you can see it from the photo above. The nice art work is by my niece Paula and her friend Sara and I love it. They are so creative, however, I would probably not use the map for navigation since we did cut some corners on accuracy in order to leave room for artistic integrity.
We have not been good at updating this blog during the summer so we have to do a short recap here. It was a wonderful summer with lots of sun, weekend trips, visitors and walks to the doggie beach. Since baby Goble is arriving in September we did not really take any vacation this summer but tried to make the best out of the weekends. We did go Camping one weekend in Hästveda and it really isn't like camping in the US. It is more like setting your tent up in an open field and then the next tent is like 4 meters away.. not much for outdoors-y-ness. Miss the US camping with separated camp lots and fire pits.. but next summer we are going to look for better camp sites and maybe then.. This was Oliver's first camping trip and I even if it was confusing to him at first, I think he loved that he got to be so snuggled up to us all the time. Then Paula, Andres and their daughter Bea came to visit us. We had a great relaxing weekend and our guests spoiled us with cooking almost every night. I loved it, they need to come visit more. The weather, however, was crappy so when we drove to the beach we had to flee back to the car after 5 min due to rain. I am not surprised since of course one of the few times that Paula will go touristing in her own country the weather decides to be crappy. Then we went to Kolmården to go on a safari and watch my dad do some Jeep driving. He got a gift card for jeep driving for his 60th birthday present and he seemed to love it. In August our friends Tracy and Greg came to visit from France. They are currently also ex-pats that moved from Minneapolis to live and work in France for 2 years. They just arrived in July so we tried to make the weekend as american as possible, serving coors light, eating at burger places, taking them to a Swedish country band concert etc. It was such a great time and I hope they come to visit soon again. We have already planned to drive down there with dog and baby in the spring.. we'll see how well that will work.
We finally got to have our first Ultra sound in week 19. It was such an amazing experience.. Even if I definitely can feel that I am pregnant it was so amazing to get to see what has in there :). It was really the reassurance that I wanted. We were so happy to find out that it was a little happy boy, not two of them in there.. like some people were guessing. I know I am large but it is only one baby!. Everything looked normal, 2 arms, 2 legs, 5 toes and fingers on each etc.. I also cannot really hide it anymore, since I am starting to have a pretty obvious baby bump. No more skinny pants, hello to maternity pants! I posted a photo of me when I am in week 22.
We got some visitors in May.. Sofia, Martin and Viktor came to visit for a day and we walked around Malmö. Linda and Jenny also came and visited for a weekend and we went to Tivoli, walked around copenhagen, went to the wrong bar and hand a good time. I unfortunately forgot my camera during the weekend.
