Back from vacation

We just got back from Fripp after spending a week with our friends, the Jones' from England. Tim and Gary swam together for many years on the National Team in Great Britain and have remained friends since. Jo and I get along great, and our kids had a blast together. Their kids, Isabel (7) and Evan (3) are so adorable and have the cutest accent. Unfortunately the weather wasn't the greatest, but we had fun just hanging out together. Tonight the kids dressed up for Halloween and went trick or treatin' on Fripp. This was the first time for Isabel and Evan as Halloween is not as big over in the U.K. I will add some photos later.
This upcoming weekend is Homecoming at Georgia and we are looking forward to seeing old friends and reminisence a bit.
Cheers

More Christening pictures

Emmie was so cute in her Christening dress. Unfortunatley she was too big for the gown that has been passed down in the family. Here she is chewing on her doll she got as a present from Saga and Viggo. Emmie has 4 teeth up top and 4 on the bottom. It hurts when she gets hold of you!
We just got back from gymnastics. It was Hayden's first time and he liked it a lot. His favorite thing was to crawl through the tunnel and pretend the monsters were coming!
I'm excited that people are actually reading our blog. It's a great way just to write down some events and show pictures of the kids. It's not as fun to show pictures of ourselves as it is just depressing to notice the gray hair and love handles..

Hayden in front of one of the fishing boats at the harbour in Ramlösa

Fishing

One of my mother's and brother's favorite things to do is to go out deep sea fishing, and this time Hayden was able to go with them. The boat leaves from a small harbor in Helsingborg and goes out on the water between Sweden and Denmark (Öresund). Hayden was excited all week about the trip, however when he was woken up at 6am on Saturday he wasn't too thrilled. Once out on the boat, Hayden helped everybody reel in herring, macrel, and cod which we grilled that evening. Yummi.
Here is a picture of Hayden in front of one of the fishing boats. Apparently I will have to download that picture later as it's not working again.

So the picture downloading is finally working. Here is a picture from the Christening at the church in Perstorp. Emmie was very well behaved and didn't cry until the end, when we wanted to take all the family pictures.

Viggo and Hayden after running endless laps around my parents' house

So I'm back. Emmie is crawling like crazy now and has also figured out how to stand up. What happened to my sweet little baby who would stay in one place.
It was great to be back in Sweden and being able to catch up with friends and family. I got to spend some time with my oldest friend Elisabeth (she is not old, very young like myself, but we have known eachother since kindergarden). She has two kids and her boy Viggo is Hayden's age. We were excited to let them play together to see if they got along despite their language barrier. However, as long as you are able to run, scream, fight, box and play airplanes, it doesn't matter. They had a blast together.

The Christening went well. Our neighbors, Alan and Beverly are Emmie's Godparents together with my sister-in law Jenny. Beverly had slipped down our basement steps prior to heading to the airport, so her entire vacation was spent on crutches, poor thing.

I've lived in the South now for 17 years, and one great thing about the South is that it's OK to say something bad about somebody. You just add "Bless her heart" and you are OK. I just added that comment because I said poor thing about Beverly, it made me think about it. Although a real Southerner would have said "poor thang"!

So I'm trying to add some photos from the actual Christening but it's not going so well. Things to learn. It's time to pick up the little guy from pre-school.

Inspired by other friends and family that have created their own blog, I decided to give it a try. New to blogging, it will be a lot of trial and error which I already discoverd when I wrote my first entry and then it disappeared. Hmm, not a good start.
We just returned from a 2 week trip to Sweden. We went to visit friends and family, but most importantly to have Emmie Christened. She was Christened in the same church I was 37 years ago, and Hayden 4 years ago. It's a pretty little church from the 12th century. Talking about Emmie, she is just waking up so I will have to continue later.