UK and Sweden - August 2011

Hello...


Will try to add a few updates to our blog while we are away...

Our flights to the UK went really well, Orla was a star! Didn't sleep much to Dubai (10.5h flight)...spent her time watching movies, eating, the odd visit to the very interesting toilet etc! She didn't last long from Dubai to London so got about 5hrs sleep in that 6.5h flight.

We arrived Friday night local time and Farmor & Farfar picked us up from Gatwick. Orla was awake late, I crashed before her!

Sat lunch and afternoon we spent at Fi & Gus together with Helen, Mog & Mark and all the kids. Said hello to Amy and family too!
In the evening we had a lovely dinner at the Woolleys...sadly Orla slept through the whole thing!

On Sun we had lunch and a sunny afternoon at the Gardiners with aunties Judi and Jill, uncle Tim, uncle David, Jo, Nicky, Nora and Howell, Mog plus 2 and us.

Monday my body gave in to a temperature and the start of a sore throat...had to canel Worthing visit (sorry Fia and Freya and Maria) - still managed to pop over to the Tiger in East Dean to say hi to Michele, Laurence, Henry, Jane, Terry, Hayley and all of their not so little ones. That was lovely too!

Tuesday I somehow walked through town to get a little bit of shopping done followed by lunch with Nicky and Tracy. Also squeezed in a visit to Mog & Mark's lovely new house!

Then we packed ready for our departure on Wed am from Gatwick to Gothenburg. Orla fell asleep just as we landed!
Was greeted by my parents and my aunt Ullbritt and uncle Anders!

Thursday am I got a dr's appointment when my throat infection was confirmed so I am now on 10 days of antibiotics. Worse than that are the giant cold sores that I have acquired with it all...shows it's all been a bit too much I guess. I hate them!!!

Thursday afternoon and evening was spent at Pernilla and Thomas' summer house (formerly Birgit's place) - it was a perfect day and evening, including a swim in lake Tolken followed by a bbq. We were lucky with the weather as today Friday it has been raining for most of the day. Perfect for resting and some waffles at Birgit's flat (I had never been there before).

Orla nodded off at 4.30pm...she hasn't surfaced...think I'll have an early night too! Slowly catching up on the phone with friends and hope to catch a few next week.

Right that's us for now!

Sean is ok after 1 week without his girls...! Give him a call if you are in Perth! There are still a few fishfingers left!

Winter in Perth...

It's been a while again...

Have uploaded a few photos of miss Orla today...need to get some more up there.

She is playing with her Pippi house, lego and stickle bricks as we speak!

This is herself when she decided to paint herself rather than the paper in front of her!

Not much to report...we are in our new office so it's all go, have spent a few weekends bringing in tables, kitchen things etc...today it was the server. Looking forward to the custom made furniture!

That's all for today!
Kram xxx

Holidays!!!

Well we are back from our holidays to Shark Bay and Monkey Mia via Dongara and Kalbarri.

We've had a lovely time and enjoyed our much overdue time off together.

I have uploaded 100's of photos to our web album and I will sort out captions for them and I will try my best to blog about it all as well.

We are pleased to have edged a bit further up the coast of WA as there is so much to see and it is stunning!

Talk soon,
Stina

Late May...

Ok it's been a while...not taken too many pics recently either...although I have one or two!

We have been busy as always with work and we have managed to catch up with a few friends...

Grainger and Alli came for dinner tonight and we also fitted in swimming, fika, haircuts and lunch with Colleen at Freo Art Centre.

Last weekend we had Linda and Steven plus Sam for afternoon tea and we caught up at Miss Maud's with Alex and Deep.

Looking forward to our holiday to Shark Bay...stopping at Dongara for a night on the way up and for 2 nights in Kalbarri on the way back plus 7 nights in Monkey Mia. Hoping for some nice weather, lots of relaxing and seeing some wildlife etc.

Before then we'll have a party for Orla's 3rd birthday (on June 3) and we have Simon coming over from the UK Monday night for a few days to help us get the new office ready! Exciting!

Very wet Friday with lots of much needed rain - potatoes are loving it! We still fitten in toddler bop, library and bakery...otherwise spent the day at home.

Time for bed now...

Beautiful autumn day!

May 1...

On the beach at Mullaloo this morning!

Orla got wet...and enjoyed the playground.

Hot choc, chai latte and vanilla milkshake at cafe to follow.

Also been busy clearing out Orla's wardrobe...got some winter clothes out, put some summer ones away and the things she has grown out of...filled another storage box...then we cleaned the car and turned her car seat around. All ready for our road trip up to Shark Bay! Exciting. We head off on June 5.

Back to work and dagis tomorrow...hoping to go to the cinema on Tuesday and my pilates start on Wednesday. Toddler bop kicks off on Friday (Orla will be in the 3-5 class!) and on Saturday we are swimming as well. Orla will be in a new "intermediate" class and Sean will have another training session (he is doing the Rotto swim next year with John J and co!).

Kram xxx

Going to bed...!

After a busy morning and a very long lunch time sleep we ended up with a late night inlcluding a long session putting all of Orla's soft toys to bed!

Miss O eventually got herself to bed after a read, a drink and a cuddle...

Then we had tea and watched Dr Who!

Well I only worked 1.5 days this week with our 2 bank holidays. On Thursday Erica, Jake and Sanna arrived and stayed the night. We had delivery pizza for dinner, IKEA visit on Fri am followed by lunch and swim.

Orla and I then went down to City Beach for a play with Catherine J and her friend Brierly and 2 kids Felicity (4) and Austen (2). We had a good play follwed by a short walk to Floreat beach where we had a yummy tea at the Kiosk. We ended our da
y at Charlie's house watching the wedding. A lovely day!

Saturday morning we went down to the Swan Valley and a "cuddly farm". Cute chickens, ducklings, lambs, goats and bunny rabbits. Train rides, playground and bouncy castle was all lots of fun. Orla then slept for 2hrs!