germany part 2

during our stay in germany we also spent time with my brother and his family. our nieces are so cute and fun and matilda was laughing so much with them! :)

(these are not the best photos as we shot with the light from the background, duh..)

i love my family.

germany - part 1

germany was so much fun. it was a needed getaway with my little family and for the most part we had wonderful weather. 

mikael attended a huge wood fair called ligna which is every other year. we also attended last time.

waiting for the boat from denmark to germany. matilda was soo calm, happy and curious during the travels. she didn't sleep so much but we had a fun time on the back row.

i love seeing mikael so passionate and happy about his work. it's not just his job, he is really great at what he does and loves it.

matilda was a star, kept waiving and smiling at people :) in hinesight i should have put something more girly on her as *everybody* thought she was a boy..

sleeping..

they showcased designs from students who had won prices. 

stunningly beautiful work, right?

looking at these photos i miss germany again. now my parents are back home again from their trip and it would be great to spend more time with them. (we stayed at their place by ourselves, it felt a little bit like if we lived there :)) 

but, i still have some german chocolate to keep me company until we are back in germany. but if i know myself right, it will not be there for long.

goal day 20/52

finally you say, right? ;) well, so do i!

not a best shot of me, but taken last saturday after a long day during a bbq

big news first! i am "pre-pregnancy-weight"! :) i still don't fit in all my skirts though. but other moms tell me it's because my body has changed which i also see but mostly it is because i have to lose more on my belly and hips.

// eating a little candy only on friday evening: well, i am going to skip this one as i am using my week points on the weekend to indulge in candy/ice cream.
// going out for a power walk 3 times a week: didn't go so well last week, i was so busy after we came home from germany. but we went out for a pw once.

// keeping my diet: yes!!
// weight loss:
monday, week 8/52: 76 kilos
friday, week 9/52: 75,6 kilos
friday, week 10/52: 74,8 kilos
friday, week 11/52: 75,2 kilos
friday, week 12/52: 75,4 kilos 

friday, week 16/52: 74,4 kilos

monday, week 20/52: 73,3 kilos

my only goal for next monday is that i weigh 72 something.. 

but seriously, i am so happy i started with weight watchers!

pappa is best

matilda's first word was 'pappa' and you can really see that there is a special bond between these two. how could it not? she looks just like him and he is so good to he.

here is a little video i made today after her nap. she says 'pappa' all day long and when i tell her that pappa is coming home she turns her head to the door and gets excited. i love it. 

pappa is best from senja lindahl on Vimeo.


ps. i have decided to push the goal day to monday as that is also my weight watchers weigh in day. so, see you on monday. :)

happy weekend!

my first 5 k

to be honest, i have always been quite lazy when it comes to exercising. i did join a gym in frankfurt and went quite regularly but since i married mikael, my marathon runner, i have also learned to enjoy long walks and started to run myself.

every year in the beginning of may you are able to register for a 5 k for women in 17 different cities all around sweden, called "vårruset" (a direct translation is "spring intoxication" :)). i also signed up the year before last but was sent to dubai for work.

my goal was to run the whole 5 k but i started to train too late and then i got sick. i did run 3,5 k though and powerwalked the rest and that is about the most i have run in my life at once. it might not seem much to some, but for me this is big. :) i even felt like i wanted to run the next day!

we were 6 gals from my ward who participated and it was a lot of fun. plus, the weather was amazing! i have always loved being a spectator at mikaels races, but taking part in a little one myself was inspiring.

 so proud and a little nervous :)

  i made it!

See you again next year!

a day in copenhagen

a few years ago, through nienie's blog, i came across her sister-in-law elizabeth's blog and it became an instant favorite. we started to write emails after we both had a miscarriage about the same time and when i found out that she was coming to danmark with her parents, siblings and spouses we made plans to meet up.

lizzy is a sweetheart with so much class and posts delicious recipes and writes about her life in arizona (previously san diego) with her husband david and her two super cute boys william and 'fritz' (who is about 2 months older than matilda).

so, after months of planning on when and where - the day finally came saturday a week ago! mikael, matilda and i took the boat from helsingborg to helsingör and then the train to copenhagen where we met lizzy and her husband david at their hotel. to be honest i was a bit nervous but we started to talk right away and our happy matilda was a great ice breaker :) 

one of the first things we did was to exchange candy :) we brought a bag of swedish lösgodis and lizzy brought peanut butter and candy from trader joe´s. we ate most of it so fast that i didn't take a photo :) so delicious! 

but, off we went to enjoy copenhagen with the most beautiful spring weather for some sightseeing. 

first off was "the church of our lady" where the statue of Jesus Christ and his 12 apostles from the danish artist bertel thorvaldsen is located. i have been in copenhagen a few times but never visited this church and it was beautiful.

'i felt you and i knew you loved me'. 

(this still touches me very much)

 matilda was very fond of lizzy right away (and her necklace :))

then we found the most perfect toy store called karrusella in the center with super cute toys and clothes. i also saw super cute red shoes for matilda but didn't buy them. to my delight i found out right now that they are sold on karrusella's internet store! :)

 then we continued to nyhavn, an area i really love. it's so bright and right at the water.

seriously, it was so great hanging out with lizzy and david. us girls just walked around and talked about everything, napping, birth stories, relationships, blogging, etc. it felt very natural. the boys talked about construction and other guy stuff ;)

they met up with their family at 6.30 so we went back to the hotel where we fed matilda and continued to the train station. i even got to meet "grandmary", lizzy's mom. she was so graceful and nice :)

 oh my matilda, she was such a good sport and was her happy self the whole day.

then! almost at home, mikael saw them first: moose crossing the road! i have never seen them so close by - so huge! exciting :) 
 then he turned around so that we could see them even closer.

what a great day. i came home and felt inspired and happy.

thank you lizzy and david for taking the time to meet up :)

walpurgis festivities

hello! 

it feels like weeks since i was able to post last.. 

we were in germany last week and i had all intentions of posting every day but my parent's internet didn't work and as they are in the us right now on vacation they weren't able to fix it. 

but mikael was happy as he had me all for himself and didn't have to share me with the internet! ;) 

i was able to edit a ton of pictures so now i am able to post every day this week. also because i have so much to tell! 

let's start with walpurgis or valborg as the swedes call it. i have to admit that i have never celebrated it before although i have been living in sweden for 6 years now.. 

it was a beautiful day with sunshine all the way but with a cold wind at the beach. i feel so lucky to have the ocean only about 10 minutes away by car. 

 matilda super tired in her new travel stroller.

unfortunately i didn't catch the traditional dancing and singing as i had to feed matilda in the car..

so cold i had to grab a blanket from the car! 

oh, how i love sweden.

Renovation update

renovation is going a bit slow right now due to different reasons. the biggest being that mikael had a bad backpain for a long time and had to rest, then he had so much to do and couldn't take any time off.

but a few weeks ago he took a friday off and him and his apprentice ripped off the floor in the living room.

the floor still looks a little like this - mikael did sand it down so that matilda can safely crawl on it. 

we have to find a week where matilda and i are gone and mikael can take time off work so that he can replace the broken planks with new ones, sand it down and then we are going to put a laquer on it similar to the photo below. i think this will happen in the summer.

here is our little helper while i was cleaning out the books in the library/my office space. i put the little mouse hat on her so that the noise wouldn't be so loud for her. i did buy kids headphones for her now.

last week mikael put up dry wall in the hallway so that we can put up our new wallpaper. unfortunately a few hiccups occured and we haven't been able to finish it up. otherwise we would have been done already. however, you can see a little photo of how it can look like with our beautiful wallpaper on the photo below. :)

i can't wait for it all to be done :)

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