The McGuires

It was such a wonderful Mother's Day! I feel so blessed to have such an amazing little family that I love so much. I am so grateful that I get to be a mom, I love being able to teach and watch my little ones grow every day. They made this Mother's day very special, thanks Babe and my two little kiddos, I love you!

(Mother's day in Sweden is in 3 weeks, so I am expecting another day of pampering! This is just a little side note for Billy.)

To my Mama...
I love you so much!! You amaze me everyday. I look up to you as a mother, friend and daughter of God. Thanks for everything that you do for us. You are the best Mom and Nana, we love you! We miss you so stinken' much!! xoxoxox

Diana...
Thanks for being such a great Mom, Mom-in-law, and Grandma. You raised such an amazing son, and I am so grateful for that. You don't get to see it very often, but he is a wonderful husband and father, I feel so lucky to have him. We love and miss you!

Hope everyone had a MAGNIFICENT Mother's day!

This is Kenslee showing off her new swimsuit. She loves it because it is like a dress. I did not tell her to pose like this, this was all her. She is such a girl!

Sorry for so many pictures on all of my posts, we just keep very busy!

Doing some artwork at the Kulturhuset

Pippi Longstocking
We have a season pass to Junibacken so we have been there a few times.

Billy took Kens to see Monsters vs. Aliens. The only English one they had was at 9 pm so they didn't get home until 11 pm. Kens had so much fun, she was a little loony when she got home, it was a late night for her. These are their 3D glasses. Kens says they make her look "stylish". I don't know how she could see out of hers.

Where's Cade?!

We love ICE CREAM!! If I had a picture for every time we got ice cream out here, you would be amazed. They have ice cream stands everywhere and we sure do love it.

First day of shorts, Wahoo!

Feeding the ducks, we do that a lot here. Kens wants all the ducks to get food so that they aren't hungry.

Miss-matched gloves. Both of the kids are missing one glove now, it is a good thing that it is warming up.

Taking a break from walking. Kens has her walking stick(that has to go everywhere with us) and her handful of flowers. She picks flowers any time we are out.

She fell down and hurt her knee. She wanted to show the birds her knee but got very sad because they kept running away.
Kens gave us a good laugh, as she was falling before she even hit the ground and started crying, she said "oh no, not again". She is getting use to falling and I think she gets sick of it. We could not stop laughing.

We toured the Royal Palace. You can't take picutres inside, but it was really neat.

I took the kids to the Aquirum, if you can call it that. I think that going to the Rainforest cafe is just about as exciting as this was. Kenslee was so excited and did have fun. We were only there for an hour and that was with a lot of looking at the toys and counting the fish. We will have to do a trip to Sea World when we get back home.

Kenslee has wanted to have a picnic. So we decided to do one inside because it isn't warm enough
outside yet.

Nordiska Museet

Skansen, the world's first open-air museum. This is such a fun place, we got season passes and we will make good use out of them.
You can't see it but there is a reindeer behind Kens eating.

Moose

Chasing a rooster and chickens

Mohawk
I think he needs a haircut soon!

So excited about her new goggles and floaty .

In his new swim hat

Just a cute picture

Thursday night we kept the kids up late so that we could go and celebrate with the Swedes. April 30th is Walpurgis Night, it is a celebration of springtime. They have a choir sing for a while and then they listen to some author give a speech. Then it is time to light the huge bonfire. The next day everything is dead, everything is closed and nobody is out. This weekend is known as the biggest weekend for drinking...bottoms up!

This is the huge pile of wood for the bonfire.

The choir singing behind us.

Sleeping through the celebration

It was huge!!

Yeah for springtime! It is still only in the 50's. I am starting to miss the warm weather in Texas right about now. It will be nice in a couple of months, maybe 65 degrees.

Since Billy didn't have to work on Friday we decided to head north to see a different city. We went up to Uppsala, it was a pretty little town. We went swimming the first day and then did some sight seeing the next. Fun times!!

Cade's first time swimming. He seemed to like it, he was mostly watching Kens go crazy.

You always need a big scoop of ice cream after a long day of swimming!

Worn out!! She fell asleep on our way to dinner and slept through most of it. We tried to wake her up so that she could eat, but she wasn't very interested. She just wanted sleep.