2012 Recap - The Boys

Was Patrik excited to have 3 of his oldest friends visit for a couple of weeks? Um, yes?!

Cypress, I think

Ulf, Johan and Magnus

We spent New Years on the Sunshine Coast with the Newsteads. Finally some nice weather!

In Gibsons

The 'cottage' at Tuwanek

Magnus and Ella

A winter paddle

A new years walk in the woods

We'll have to save this one for when they're older

William with the girls

Svärmorsdrömmarna

Off for a back country ski in Tetrahedron

Magnus

Across a lake

Patrik and Johan

Ulf

Anna was a great hostess, and really enjoyed having 3 playmates (and very good sports) in the house.

A farewell brunch at Havanas

At Havanas

Magnus and Anna

Ulf and Ella

2012 Recap - December Miscellaney

Ella got to borrow Anna's crown

Learning to sit

Those eyes!

Mamma's girl

Christina and Kjell came for a visit

The girls checking out the first snowfall of the year

Anna

Daddy's helper

Ella

2012 Recap - Christmas

Taken by Anna

The girls happy with their Christmas tree

A walk on Christmas Eve

A couple of cuties on Christmas Eve

I think Toby won this one

Ella with her first stocking

Christmas dinner

Family

The Johansson kids sing Away in a Manger

Toby is quite excited about farfar's gift to him

2012 Recap - Fall Miscellaney

Ella enjoying some tummy time

Sisters at the park

At the Leonard Cohen concert - fantastic!

Ella

Anna at Science World

Me and my girls

2012 Recap - Solweig and Bengt's Visit

Welcome to Vancouver!

The girls were so happy to see farmor and farfar

Solweig logged many miles walking the neighbourhood

And Anna logged a few too

Farmor had some fun new crafts to try

Bengt took care of the grill at our mid-renovation garage party

Most of the guys who had been working on the house were there

Happy Birthday to Bengt!

We celebrated at home with food, wine and conversation

Ella and the boys

Anna took farmor and farfar to 'her' park

And Ella charmed them both in no time

Besides taking care of the kids while we were away working on the house, Solweig and Bengt were put to work in other ways too

The girls traveled to Nanaimo where all 4 grandparents could take care of them

Farfar was a good sport and played princess with Anna

Solweig, Anna and I went bowling for a client event put on by our realtor Lisa

Lisa treated Anna to a pre-Halloween bag of goodies

Anna and daddy

Ella and Farmor

Patrik at the grill

Solweig and Anna at the pumpkin patch

At the pumpkin patch

Solweig and Anna found a good pumpkin to bring home

And Anna made a new friend

Later that day we carved the pumpkins

And Anna was very proud of them

Solweig, Anna and I went trick-or-treating around the neighbourhood, along with our neighbours and their kids

Anna was a princess for Halloween

We stopped at Mr. Jim's house first

Anna ended up with enough candy to last the whole year

We took a trip to the Vancouver Aquarium

Lunch at the aquarium

Father

and son