We made it to Sweden!!

We finally made it to Sweden!! It was very crazy trying to get ready to get here, we weren't sure when we would be leaving exactly so on Wednesday morning we got the OK to get our flights for the next morning. I started packing right away and Billy came home early from work and we packed, had to get oil changes in the cars, clean the house, get keys to our friends, and give away all of our groceries (she got some good food--we owe them for watching our house for us!).

Our flight left at 10 am Thursday morning and we flew to Chicago, had a four hour lay over, then we were off to Sweden on an 8 1/2 hour flight. The flight actually wasn't too bad, and the kids did great for the most part. The airline we flew on (SAS) was awesome--they had lots of very nice flight attendants, and even good food! The flight landed at 8:00 am in Stockholm, which was 1:00 am Dallas time. Kenslee didn't want to sleep for most of the flight, so of course Billy and I didn't sleep much either. Kenslee finally crashed about 1 1/2 hours before landing--I have never seen her so tired! Since it was morning by the time we landed, it was almost like we had missed a whole night.

Staying entertained at the airport
Kens with her luggage

Looking at the airplane that we got to spend 8 long hours on.
We survived!! Kens finally decided to fall asleep the last hour of the flight. We landed in Stockholm at 8 am but it was like 1 am to us. It was a long next couple of days.
Walking around the neighborhood of our first apartment. We will be moving to another apartment on the 22nd that is closer to downtown.

Here is the church building for the area we live in now, about a 15 minute walk away.


Some houses on the way to the church

Getting bundled up to go walk around the town
"little bubba"
Kens calls Cade little bubba, it is so cute the way she says it. They love each other so much. Cade laughs at Kenslee constantly.
I knew it would be cold here, but I wasn't really planning on snow. We decided to go and play in the snow, Kens was so excited. There is a little play place right outside of our apartment.
Our apartment is right behind the kids on the 3rd floor.
Kens made "frosty the snowman". She was very sad the next day because frosty melted.
Watching us play in the snow, he can't wait to run around, he gets so excited watching Kens.

We're not quite sure what this sign says, but thought that it was pretty funny.

Our big boy. We decided to give him some rice cereal this past week because he was really eying our food while we would eat. He loves it.
Hanging out at the apartment
Playing with Daddy
Cade is always hidden in all of the pictures so this is to show that he is there too.
Djurgarden
On our way to the Junibacken museum
At the Junibacken Museum. It is a museum that brings to life the children's books byAstrid Lindgren (who wrote Pippi Longstocking). We got an annual pass because Kens liked it so much (and because it is cheaper if we wanted to go back again).

This was really funny--they were doing a sing-along at the Junibacken museum (in Swedish, of course). Kens wasn't sure what to do because she couldn't understand what they were singing. We do know they sang the itsy bitsy spider, so we could do the hand actions to that.
Singing time

Pippi Longstocking's horse
Pippi's house

Before we left we were able to go with our friends to the Dallas Children's museum. The kids had a great time.
This was Kenslees favorite part...milking the cow. She was actually really good at it!






The crew...we already miss ya'll so much!
After we got home, I was doing some things around the house and I walked by Cade and he had Kenslee's crown on, he was so happy about it. Kens said he was the king so he needed a crown.