We finished Thanksgiving and actually the Fall season with a dinner at Grandma Rhonda's. I forgot to take pictures of the food this time as well, but here are a few from today. The kids had a fun day playing together with all the cousins.
I had to take some pictures of Jamie...She had a new sweater on with a cat...and when it got warmer (+16 °C) I took her jacket of and she walked forever looking at her belly...hehe..so cute!
Natalie had a short week in school so we had 3 days extra this weekend. Thanksgiving is a big family holiday over here so almost all stores, construction business, manufacturers etc. Give their workers an extra day off.
On Tuesday Natalie's class had a nice thanksgiving breakfast together with all kids in Kindergarten. They made their own indian/pilgrim costumes and learned some song associated with this holiday. On the afternoon they also performed on the stage when the younger kids at school had their Thanksgiving concert. So cute and talented children!
The Thursday we started with a nice breakfast at Cracker Barrel. They have good homemade food, maybe not the healthiest but anyway... Later this afternoon, we went to Grandpa Emmet for a traditional dinner. We had turkey, green beans, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy and homemade bread, pumpkin cake and mini apple pies for desserts. Emmet had cooked a good dinner! I can say we were stuffed afterwards...
This weekend we are also going to have a dinner at Grandma Rhonda's. I'll write more about that later. All in all Thanksgiving is a nice tradition with a whole lot of food...just like Christmas!
Speaking about Christmas. ..finally it's time to get ready for this holiday season! Its like a secret rule of not decorate or do anything Christmasy until after Thanksgiving. If you have been loaded with Christmas music and decor from all the stores that started loooong time ago it almost feels like a relief...
Songs like this...
The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels - MTV Unpl…: http://youtu.be/y-HamRO4nC8
Blake Shelton - She Talks To Angels (Stripped): http://youtu.be/fp7NZNW48ig
I'm looking for my absolute favorite version of this song but I don't remember who made the cover... Annika and Daniel you have to help me... It's on one of Daniels old and amazing cd.s....
Dad was gone deer hunting, so the girls took a little road trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. We visited Oklahoma Aquarium and ate at Cracker Barrel before it was time to hit the road again. We live very close to the state line so most of the 1 h 45 min drive was in OK. Not that it look different but anyway... I always try to drive longer distances when Jamie's supposed to sleep and back home when it's bedtime. It makes it less stressful when you go on your own. The aquarium was ok, not so big so we didn't need more than a couple of hours or so to have seen and touched all you could handle. The girls were fascinated with all the creatures! Natalie liked the jellyfish best... The place had a lot to wish for when it came to the food they offered but we planned to eat dinner afterwards so it wasn't a big deal. We had a good afternoon there and after a chicken dinner with tons of broccoli for Jamie we head back home.
I don't know what it is that makes some music feel more intense or make a deeper impact now. I'm not sure if it is that it's easier to relate to the lyrics or to feel the atmosphere in the environment they were wrote in now when I've been here for a while...I guess swedish texts get you deeper when you are a Swede..
Or I don't know.. Maybe it's just the fact that when both girls are asleep in the backseat, it's dark outside, you are driving alone down the interstate in the middle of USA listening to the classic rock station The Eagle, you just can't help it....
We have a nice "daily mama" (dagmamma...) that lives just up one hill from our house. We dont have Jamie there so much just a few hours sometimes so she gets used to being apart from us when its time to work. It' s a middle aged woman and there are only two other kids at her house. Since daycares are extremely expensive here compared with the swedish ones, ( from 165 usd/week and up...) and we already pay quite alot for Natalie, we are happy that our neighbor happened to be a good babysitter!
I took some pictures on our walk to Laura earlier today...
It's good that we don't have to walk so far. It always takes a while. Today Jamie tried to feed some young cows with raisins...
We got enough snow for playing a little bit... Jamie wanted to build a snowman but it was to cold snow for that!
Today our lovely daughter had birthday! It's so strange that she's been in our lives for 2 years... It feels like we have had her forever and at the same time like she just came in to our lives as a little baby...
We had a small celebration at home and Grandma Rhonda, Bob, Aunt Emily, Cousin Izzy, Blake and Hailey came over. Grandma Rena was gonna come, but since we all of a sudden had a lot of ( well..for Missouri right now...) snow the roads weren't so good. We had a good day and Jamie she played around alot. We did miss our family in Sweden but you were all with us in our hearts!
Here are the pictures I manage to take that weren't blurry.
Jamie we love you to the moon and back♡♡♡...
Here's our week in pictures...It's been a nice week full of happenings. We haven't been to crazy about the celebration, just enough to experience what is a must over Halloween. It's been a fun and memorable week!
