Svenska brollopsfesten i bilder

En helt underbart trevlig dag som inte slutade forren efter midnatt vilket ar ovanligt hos oss nu for tiden ha ha. Helt underbart vader pa Hven!


Vi at lunch pa Turist Garden pa Ven - nyfangad rodspatta - kan verkligen rekommenderas!


James och Jess (J's bror och hans tjej, och sa skar vi "brollopstartan")


Mina kusiner spelade - jadrans duktiga killar. Och tva sota kusiner!


Mingel och min och Js mormodrar, sa kul att de traffades fast de inte kunde prata med varandra ha ha (min mormor kan valdigt lite engelska, men sa ar hon ocksa 82!)

Min mamma med Ebbisen och lite mer mingel.

(clicka pa bilderna sa blir de storre)

Axels 1 ars kalas

Vi hade 1 ars kalas for Axel forra helgen, vadret va underbart och vi hade en harlig eftermiddag med vara vanner : )

(Click on the photos to make them bigger)

long time and all that..

It's been a while since I last updated my blog, I just haven't had the energy, the time or wanted to. I really liked it before so I hope to start writing a bit more in the future. So what's happened in my life recently? Quite a lot : )

Well - we got married which was absolutely lovely, had a great day and 2 wonderful week in the big house we rented on Ven with my family coming to visit and the family party, Ax starting to craw properly and not just eeling.

Job situation - I got a job!!! yayyye It's a 3 months temporary contract but I hope I can turn it into permanent before Christmas. It's a job working for a Sexual Health, Alcohol and drug advice service at the universities here in Brighton. I used to volunteer there when I was at Uni so to be able to work there and get a salary is like a dream come true : ) I start on Tuesday and I'm so so excited!

Nursery - Axel got a space at a nursery in the area where we hope to move soon (as soon as we find a place!!) which is about 10min walk from where we live now so pretty close in the mean time. He is having his 3rd settling in session today and they haven't called me yet so I think it's going well. He really seems to like it so that's promising. He will have to be there for the 4 days when I'm at work so it's important that he likes it there, I would have liked to have worked for only 3 days but you can't be too picky in this climate and I already got it down from 5 to 4 days a week. It's crazy how expensive nurseries are here in England - we pay £40 PER DAY, and that is not even considered that much, I know some couples who pay over £50 per day!!

House situation - We love to move as soon as we can as this flat is driving us crazy, it's too small and no storage place what so ever! we really need an attic to store all Ax old toys etc. Unfortunately there isn't much out there at the moment - it's a busy time for students in Brighton so the good houses goes quickly and one estate agent told me that there isn't many properties out there in general cos the buy to let market is really low at the moment and many landlords have sold their properties. We would have loved to buy a place but they cost over £200,000 (for a very small 2 bed house) and as you will need at least 30% deposit to be able to get a reasonable good mortgage.. well we don't have 60k at the moment (or ever ha ha). That's about 800 000 sek. So stupid!! Oh well, we will just continue saving until the market changes and then buy, soon hopefully...

I'm thinking about starting to write in Swedish instead, I think most of my (few but still) readers are Swedish so it would be more natural that way, shout if you don't agree!

Holiday photos

We went to Ven for 2 weeks for our honeymoon/Sweden summer holiday. I'm not from Ven but we always go for a day every summer but to be able to rent a beautiful big house for 2 weeks was just magic. We had a great family party with lunch on the veranda of the local restaurant and then we walked to our rented house and had alternative wedding cakes, music and presentations, bbq (in the evening) and drinks. The weather was great so we could all sit outside in our garden (which was lucky as you can't always count on nice weather in Sweden). All in all, just fantastic!

Feels a bit weird being back, I have started to look for work and we have to move from our little flat before we go crazy, but I need to get a job first... aarrrrgggg oh well, just get to crack on!

Wedding photos..

Here are some wedding photos, we had a fantastic day and our holiday was just amazing, so hard to be back in the real world again ha ha.

I'm now married!!!

(the photo is taken in the register office just after we signed the book)

I should be getting the proper photos on Thursday, then I will put up many more of them!

We had a fantastic day - the first of two and we look forward like crazy to the Swedish family "do". I'm so tired today but will write much more about the wedding another day!

Saturday night...

The wedding is getting closer and closer, not even 2 weeks to go!!! We have written a long list of things that needs to be done before the English ceremony and party and the Swedish holiday and family party. The wedding dress is beautiful and ready, my lovely future mother in law have made it and I'm really happy with the result. I got the pink shoes and they are comfy, we got the rings, the hairdresser is booked etc etc, and still the list seems to never end.. But a lot on the list is things for us to do in the flat and not so much the wedding. I can see why a lot of couples wait to have babies until they are married, so much to plan but when you have a baby there is so much else to plan and do as well.
Ax is growing and developing so quickly is crazy, he can now go from sitting to lying on his tummy eeling backwards really fast pulling and tasting everything in his tracks. He is trying to lift his bum up so he might be figuring out how to proper crawl soon. We lowered the cot today as he can now pull himself up holding on to the bars, and suddenly he looks so so little again, bless him. So much has happened in the last couple of weeks, he can clap his hands and wave, he laugh loud and launches forwards like he wants to hug you. He gets really angry when you take something away from him and he loves to eat the same fruit that I eat, apples, melon and bananas, not in small pieces but in good finger food pieces, or even better, eating an apple as it is with my help holding it for him. The front teeth is coming now I think, but he is in good spirit so far, hope it wont hurt too much.