Island Land (Öland)

Hi everyone!
Well we're back from our camping vacation on Öland and the laundry is caught up and the camper cleaned out.
We hade a great week even if the weather wasn't the greatest. Great food and great company! We got at least two real warm, half days, at the sea.

Andrew had the most fun and participated in there sportsweek that they had and he was busy all the time. Gabriel had the luck of having a little playground close to our camper and he headed off quite a bit too. Leia and Noah had the whole tent full of toys and did pretty good too. Between toys Noah watched Rory, nonstop! By the end of the week we all went around singing on the Rory song!

How about some pics?
On our way to the beach for the first time








Some pics in the tent






Leia<3


Katarina and Andrew


Ice Cream! Mmmm



RORY!!


Fredrik came down on Thursday evening and stayed the weekend and then drove the camper home. Lucky enough we had a great day in the sun on Saturday. Here's Gabriel burried in the sand



So first insert! Loads more to show and tell. Among other things wait until you see the beautiful generous package that was waiting for Marley and Rosie when we came home!

Half of the story...

Guess what I picked up today? A new little baby boy !! We were looking for a long coated baby girl, black and tan. What came home is a short coated, adorable, black and tan, beautiful litte boy. He's my up and coming champion! Him and I had a talk about it. Plus he promised not to mark inside when he gets bigger.
Wanna se some pics?

Here we just got home and after a pee I let the other babies out, charge!!


Mommy saved him


Just a little nap


Sniffing out the new territory


I have more pics but I'll show those later. We're all just adoring him right now, he's so calm and a little scared so I'm keeping him close.
We're thinking of calling him Marley , what do you guys think about that?

Now we're still on the search for the perfect little girlfriend for him so if you know of any beauties, let us know!

You know how

sometimes you have something very exciting so close you almost have it planned in your head? You start making future plans before anything is sealed so to speak?
Well that happend to me this week, kind of double even. I'm quite sad about it to be honest with you. I'm sure my time will come, that's not it. Just sad about alot of things I've learned this past week or two and to be honest with you I would have been better off not knowing.

Anyways, heads up.....Something exciting is still going to happen. Just not how I had hoped. New hope will light up and I'll be on track again. I just have to let the other stuff vent out a little more first.

I have a secret

and I'm not saying a word yet.
The weather has been amazing so me and the boys have parked ourselves outside. No appointments, no dates if they didn't come to us and just enjoyed the hot weather. Well now it's cold and raining and I'm afraid it might stay this way for the rest of the summer!
Anyways, I have had some super happenings despite this. Friday night at 3am I got a call from Jeanette that it was time for the smooth coated collies to come and I rushed over. I got to witness the birth of several beautiful puppies!! Next week it's time to visit a chihuahua kennel and watch a birth. So exciting!
Alot happening despite the rain and I can't hardly pull myself away from my mail. I'll let you know when I know.

Let me see if I can find some pics!
Fredrik and Kyle are building a deck around the pool for us and I'm a little anti since it isn't how I wanted it to be. Since these pics were taken they've come alot longer so I need to take some more!






So there, gotta go. F just called and needs my help. Always when Noah is sleeping!!

Guess What!??!

The forecast is calling for a HEAT WAVE!!!

The pool's ready and so am I! Bring it on!

Weather dep

I can't blog right now, I'm sooo low! I hate Sweden sometimes. Ever since Mothers Day when we had great weather it's been cold and rainy here. I can't take another bad summer, that would make 3 in a row and that's too much for me. I read on other blogs about sun and nice weather and I don't get why we don't have some of it.
I just spent the whole weekend at a dog show, in the pouring rain. Terrible!
Sure, the sun's shining today, but you know why? Just to say fuck you Swedes! Midsummer holiday is this weekend and the forecast is calling for guess what?? RAIN!!!

One thing after another!

After everything calmed down after last weekends wedding, this weekends musts started rolling!
Today is my friends 35th birthday party so Gabriel, Noah, Rosie and I are going. We need to pick up a last gift before we head over there.
Saturday and Sunday is the big dog show I've been looking forward to but sadly the weather forecast is calling for some pretty bad weather. I got lucky and my friend gave me a raincoat, I bought rain pants and I have loads to pack! Rosie needs a bath and her claws cut. I am even trying to catch up on laundry and ironing and cleaning. Beatuiful Emma is staying over two nights this weekend, so she didn't have to miss the dog show. Super lucky is that Emma and her mother have a show tent! Woohoo! At least we don't have to sitt out in the rain under umbrellas, thank god!
Since the weather here is terrible, of course! (I seriously can't take one more summer of 10 nice days and 4 moths of cold wind and rain) I'll show some pics I took two weekends ago when we had absolutely perfect weather and got to take a premier swim in the pool. Probably the only time we'll get to use it this year.

(Don't mind the mess, we're planting flowers, getting the pool sorted and trying to get our deck built!)


My little fish



Leia and Noah got there own pool


But Noah doesn't accept being "little" too well

I had more

to show you all last week but you know what the standard excuse is so I'll skip to wedding day!
As most of you know Fredriks sister got married Saturday and it was a beautiful wedding! Gabriel was in the wedding and got the honour of throwing rose pedals down the isle and then holding the brides buquét as she said her vowes.

I haven't asked if it's ok so I wont show any pics of anyone but my family, sorry about that because Anna was truely beautiful!

Two good looking boys


Cute couple


My boys



My boys plus man


This last pic is adorable but I'm so sad, I wanted a pic of us all together. We don't have any recent pics at all. Thought I'd have it blown up and hang it on the wall but it's blurry, buuuuuhuuuu.

First things first

Since I'm so far behind I have loads to show and tell.

Let me start with the dog show we were at a couple of weeks ago!

It was a fun day and Jakes breeders were there which is extra fun. Jake was the absolute show dog and he did better than ever! I am so proud of him!
First he won over the other boys, after that he won over the winning bitch and made it thru to the group finals(if you don't know dog shows it's way to involved to explain all of this now but if you're intrested just ask). Well inte the group ring there were about 15 dogs he competed against! First the judge picked out 5 to continue on, that she liked best and then we had to walk for her again. At first she had placed Jake as nr 1 but then switched us to nr 3 but wow!! Jake, BIG-3! What a man!






Rosie didn't have as much competition but even she did great! She made it thru to the group finals and placed BIG-4! This show was real fun because all the group winners got presents!

Peek-A-Boo

Hi there! Bet you've been wondering where we are!?! Well little Noah has the chicken pox and my word, I've never seen anything like it! He definately has it worse than the other three got it. I'm thinking the heat wave this pass weekend helped make it worse. He's had it rough the poor guy.

His head is full of them and his private parts. His whole bottom, penis and groin area is just covered! Hundreds of them! His face got quite a few too but his legs and belly aren't too bad considering. He has them down in his ears and even in his mouth!






About half of them have finally started to dry so hopefully he'll be better soon! It took 4-5 days to break out and I've never experienced that, usually just takes a couple of days.

Impossible but true

Just when I though I had oiled the last of our outdoor furniture we found another sett in the garage that I'm going to put on our balcony. You know what that means? Today I'm sanding and oiling! Again!
Moving sand piles, vacuuming the pool, chasing Noah and whatever, I love summer!



Rosies half sister had two baby girls the other day, black and tan, ooohhhhhhh<3<3

Heading back outside! see you all later xoxoxoxxo

Braces, shows and shopping

Saturdays show went GREAT!!! I had a coffee disaster on my camera but I'll try and get it all sorted so I can let you know how it went and show some pics soon!

Yesterday Andrew had his top layer of braces put on. He's so cute! Next time they'll put the bottom layer on as well. I took a few pics with my cell phone but I forgot how to move the pics over to my pc without having to get a cable and I'm too tired to try. I'll just wait for F to help me when he gets home or tomorrow maybe.

Otherwise it's planting, painting, pool filling and garage projects taking my time as usual but to be honest I love it! Noah and I are outside all day everyday if the weather is nice. Days like today thought I just catch up on the laundry.

Today I got a perfect tip from my sister and after just a few minutes of google I found it! We were thinking of keeping Noah in a lifejacket all summer but this might just be exactly what we need

I found them at this website
http://www.poolfixaren.se/Pool-larm/Child-Guard/

Pretty expensive but worth every cent and I'm going to order one. This is the first site in Sweden that I found so I'm going to have a look around first.

Home owner

One thing is for sure, there's always something that needs to be done.
I was going to do a few inserts and show pics but if I'm honest I'm just too worn out. Dog show tomorrow and I'm going to bed.
Noah and I keep busy during the days, gardening, painting, oiling, cleaning and everyting else that needs to be done outside.
One things for sure, if it doesn't stop blowing outside soon I'm probably going to have a breakdown, a very serious one. I hate the damnd wind!!!! It's crazy here and has been the past couple of years!!

We did get the honour of babysitting little Leia this week, she's such a sweetie. Both her and Noah were sick so they were easy easy. Even if her fever had me worried she was just a joy.

Noah and Leia, Noah giving his "smile" face


Noah has never wanted a passy, but when Leia comes, he always wants hers!


Noah hard at work outside, could be dangerous out there so best to wear a hardhat. (Don't mind the mess, we're painting the garage and everything is outside until it's done)


So there, time for bed! Be back tomorrow, wish us luck!

Two sides of the coin

As a mother of both teenagers and small children things swing differently all the time!

Yesterday Kyle finally got his longly awaited drivers permitt and satt here waiting all evening for Fredrik to come home(he worked late) so they could take his first real drive on the open road. Scarry I know!
Anyways when F came home I was up putting the smaller boys to bed. When they got home I asked if they thought to take pictures. Of course they didn't!!! I said to Kyle, you know this is just as important to me as your first steps were.

Today I'm taking pictures and you all will pretend it's the first time he drove away, deal?

Be back a little later, I have alot to show but Noah and I are heading out to paint on our house!

Have a wonderful dayä!

List

Feet:
Filed
Lotioned
Nails Painted

Hands:
Peeled
Clear polish on

Body:
Bathed
Scrubbed
Shaved
Lotioned (legs with self tanning)

Face:
Eyebrows plucked
Peeled
Washed
Creamed

All of this just because I'm going to the spa tomorrow!! Isn't most of this what I should have done at the spa? Well first time in a bikini this year and all this was hugely needed before I could go out the door! I'm actually getting a deep clean facial tomorrow, can't wait!
Alot more to come since it's the bachelorette party!

Thank you...

for all your kind words! They are truely appreciated.

Around here we are busy busy busy. Hubby and I spent the whole weekend outside with Gabriel and Noah(the older boys were at there dads house). Oiling my teak furniture and painting in the garage. We're using every spare moment to work out there because I'm so tired of the garage! I want to start building our deck on the two sides of the pool! That's our next big project.

We grilled all weekend long and just had a great few days
BBQ Masters


This Friday is the big day for my sister in law and I have the cutest pair of shoes, what the heck am I going to wear with them? I could do with something new but I don't know if I have the energy, going to take a look in my closet first.

Look here what came! My kennel name may now be used!


Last but not least: it is serious work having a bitch in heat! Right now Rosies in high heat so Jake is a little high strung. Actually surprised at how well it's going it's just alot of work keeping them apart. Tomorrow Fredriks taking Jake with him to work so he can get a day off...the little horndog!
He loves the spring anyways...he rolls around like this alot in the grass. Isn't he the cutest thing you ever saw?


Good night friends, xoxoxoxo