This little boy sure has a lot of energy. Here he is playing soccer, kicking the ball with his head and crawling FULL speed ahead. It sure is funny!!!

Laughter and fun!

We miss you!!!

This is just a shout out to our South African family to say that we miss you lots and lots and lots!!!
You're very special to us and wish we could pop around for a visit!!!

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

And some more...

A big basketball I won at a food festival in Skövde!

Rocky's birthday!

A field of gold....mushrooms!

And some more pics...

Yummy home-made sushi!

Our little Jew ;-)

Can you believe there was actually people under there?

Elias decided to take a nose dive out of his tub...so he eneded up with a swollen lip...but still with a big smile

Elias's first night in a tent!!! he loved it!

We went to Smulan's 30th birthday party...was so much fun!!!

Snapshots from August

Yummy blueberry and white chocolate pie!!

Happy Birthday ;-))

All smiles!

Hanging out with gammal mormor

An afternoon tea party

Hello's and goodbye's!

Visiting my morfar in Skillingaryd

Posing with wally

Digging out the mushroom infected outhouse!!!

Trying to feed himself!!!

The summer has flown by here in sweden. We've been having a great time though, living our little community lifestyle. It's been so much fun hanging out with Mickie, Rocky & Elisabeth, Mormor, Tomas, the Peter Jansson clan, Helena from Aussie...the list goes on... It's kind of been like 2 months in the Shire, despite the slightly cold summer weather. We've been trying to "live off the land"---so we've been out picking strawberries, blueberries, mushrooms...Manne and I have found our new favourite past-time....picking chantarell( Kantarell) mushrooms...some weeks we were even out 5 times! But the kantarell toast and pies have definately been worth it. And Elias has loved being outside going on different adventures! He sure is like his dad...keep him at home and inside too long and he can get really grumpy! ;-))

But now those two months have gone...slowly people have started going back to work and back to reality. Excitingly though, Manne has gotten a job at the agrigultural department where he works with EU grants. He's been there a week and so far so good!

And today it's just me and Elias hanging out again...Mickie has headed off back to the US of A! We're gonna miss her, but know that she's in good hands over there!

We have found an apartment...very nice, which I'm excited about! We should be moving in sometime in October...I'm looking forward to having a home again and being able to pack up all our stuff. But we have had a great time here though. we'll miss having farmor and farfar so close, but at least they'll only be an hour away!!

Elias is doing so well! He loves standing up and walking along the furniture...but his FAVOURITE thing is climbing the stairs...which he does SO well...gets all the way up by himself, we're just trying to teach him how to come down!

Life is good...we're grateful for all our blessings! And grateful to have you in our lives!!