Christmas 2017 spent at home at Lilldalsvägen 22. A fun day with presents and Hannah and Emma came round for a full Christmas dinner with turkey and all the trimmings.
25 December 2017
09 December 2017
Christmas gingerbread house production 2017
Time to start our gingerbread house said Neela. Well Nicholas was into helping too, and with a little help from Dad, we made a plan. The house was designed by Neela. It was then just to cut up the stencils, roll out the dough, cut, bake and stick together, Easy!
29 October 2017
Quince jelly 2017
This was the result from 5 quinces. Cooked to quince jelly and filled in 3 jars. The kids love it on bread and that makes it all worth while, not that its difficult. I like it too!
Preparing for Halloween
Neela and Nicholas try to help with the pumpkin carving, with some success and a little help from Dad. End result, not bad.
14 October 2017
Neela’s 7 year birthday party
Neela turns seven and had quite a fun party, with only girls this year.
28 September 2017
Autumn mushrooms
Nicholas was the only one who wanted to join me on walk in the woods behind the house in search of mushrooms. We found quite a few "höstkantarell", a popular Swedish type I know well. Lots of very pretty ones you can't eat too. Those were not picked, only photographed.
23 September 2017
Liams team win 4:3
The team won 4:3 in one of their matches today and this made a big impact on Liam's confidence
in his goalkeeper position.
in his goalkeeper position.
02 September 2017
Hannah and Marcus wedding in Visby
The happy couple in the church in Visby. It was a great day and a big success with the little children who dressed up for the occasion and loved every minute of it.
This is the hotel where we all stayed. The reception party was also here after the wedding.
17 August 2017
25 July 2017
18 July 2017
2nd week in Italy
For our second week we moved to a new cottage in Castelfiorentino, not far from Florence. Another very nice location in the hills and part of a vinyard with castle and all. We took day trips in our rental car to Florence and San Gimignano. The cottage had access to a shared pool just accross the small lane through the farm. This is where Nicholas learnt to swim on his own with arm floats.
This was the view from the front of the cottage out over the viyards of Tuscany, lovely!
04 July 2017
1st week in Tuscany, Italy
Our 1st week in Tuscany was in a cottage just outside a small village called Pietraiva. The place was great and had fantastic pool in the garden. Shared by just a few other appartments on the farm, we had it almost to our selves most days. Great day trips to Siena and other mountin villages.
