Back to Reality

Hey Al,

I hope you guys are doing good back in the real world. I can't believe that we were in Paris just last weekend! That seems so crazy....I had so much fun with you guys while we were over there. Stockholm is definitely one of the most beautiful places I've been to and one of the cleanest! I wish 'ol B'ham was more like that:) I think since I posted like 258 7 albums on Facebook of the trip, I'll just put a few pictures of the highlights/favorite spots, people that make me laugh, in no particular order.

This was super scary really entertaining. Sorry about your hair, Al.

Vik, Sweden is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

Your hair turned out pretty good, if I do say so my self.

I loved being their with my husband:)

The Wedding Party was a definitely favorite time of the trip....Loved every minute of it-even the 47 toasts throughout the night.

This was hilarious...do have paranoid dreams that a bunch of men will line up to kiss you if Bjorn goes to the bathroom in public? haha.

Glad Austin enjoyed the boat tour of Copenhagen!

Meet Marley...the 180 lbs Great Dane I found on the streets of Copenhagen...they are all the same....just want you to rub their rear-ends and they are slap happy.

I'm really glad you guys could come to Paris!

Wait, I think I saw this couple pictured in a Swedish model magazine?...haha. You guys could pass for it...

How many pounds of food do you think we ate all together....wow.

He makes me laugh:)

Haha! ("ugly face" impersonations)

Can you see the Eiffel Tower? I shot this from my plane window as we were taking off last Sunday.

Now back to reality..... Going to work on Tuesday was a little weird. It's hard getting back to an office setting after roaming the streets of Europe for two weeks. Talk about a change of scenery. May I also add that I about had a heat stroke getting off the plane in Atlanta. It was about 95 degrees Sunday afternoon, and it's been close to 100 everyday this week. Quite an adjustment, so don't hate the cool weather over there...at least your husband doesn't sweat every time he breathes!

We were very much looking forward to a weekend at home after all the travel, and for the most part it's been pretty enjoyable. Friday we went out to run some errands after work. We've been wanting one of those plastic baby pools to just sit in the front yard and soak in on a hot day....I apparently was a little too excited about going to get one because I forgot that I wasn't parked in my normal spot in the driveway, and backed right into the front right side of Sam's car! Oh...the frustration! All I heard was "crunch!" Sam: "WHOWWW...THAT'S MY CAR!!!" Fortunately, it didn't break the front light, and it only dented the side in a little bit, and chipped some paint off. My car only took minor paint damage. But what's the big deal when money just grows on trees, you know?

I have to brag on the hubs though...he didn't yell at me one time after this, even though he had good reason to. He did, however, mention several times that I might want to consider driving school. We did eventually make it to the store to get a pool.

I couldn't stop laughing as he carried this thing out to the car. I don't know how, but he squeezed it in their, and we enjoyed a splash on Saturday. Hope your week is good!

Love you,

Whiggle

graduation weekend

Allie! Can you believe it's finally the day to get on a plane and come see you guys?!? It's crazy that it's finally here. I woke up this morning about 5:45, not my normal wake up time, but I could barely sleep because I'm so excited! I'm not bringing my lap top on the trip, so I wanted to put up some pictures of our weekend in Atlanta seeing the Brown Family for Eileen's graduation. We had a great time!

Granddad, Mrs. Nancy (in the chair), and Tiffany, Lynette's sister.

Mark and Parker! He's so big now, Al...it's crazy how fast he's grown. And big news, we're going to have a new nephew or niece in January! Melissa and Jon are pregnant again!

Sam and Jon goofing around.

Parker was a little restless at the graduation ceremony.

Eileen getting her Diploma!

Remind me not to wear these sunglasses again.

Yay! She's graduated!

After a long nap Saturday afternoon, Mark blessed us all with a delicious masterpiece of juicy steak and baby back ribs.....


yum..... needlesstosay, I didn't hear many words come out of Sam's mouth at dinner time.

Can't wait to see you tomorrow!

Love you,

Whit

need a laugh?

Josh, our very talented craftsman at work, showed me this video today, and I about laughed myself to tears. Thought it was perfect since we all love dogs, and Rudy tries his hardest to speak English. haha.

love,

Whit

p.s. let me know if you find that lost post. It's probably floating out in space somewhere. haha

Mother's day Recap

Hey Al! Hope you are having a great week....can't believe we're going to be over there in less than a week...I'm freaking out so excited. Well, since i'm super busy right now, I thought i'd just unload some pictures for you and let them do the talking. Here's a quick recap, last week our small group forewent our normal Thursday night dinner/study time and went to a local donation center for the storm victims. It was great to be apart of that.

This is our friend Casey....she is super prego and due in a few weeks:) First couple in our small

group to have a baby:)

Then, we had a crazy wonderful weekend full of family and Mom's fury babies. (Sadie & Rudy)

Everybody got in on Friday and we went to dinner, and then Saturday we cooked out and had a make-shift dinner on the carport patio. I love impromptu things like that:)

Sadie the Guard Dog.

Then on Sunday we went over to visit some of our good friends, The Swaffords, who just had their first baby back in October. He's super cute, but spits up every 10 seconds now and then so they decided to keep the clothes off of him. Brilliant.

Ok. that's all I have for now! Have to go to the grocery story to get dinner ready for small group tomorrow night!

Love you!

Whit

my new yellow friend

allie!!! just wanted to say: 8 days woman! So freaking excited I could scream, but i'm not. Just wanted you to know that we missed you over the weekend and I'll get some pictures up soon! For this week though, here's my new friend:

I've got a lot to do to get ready for next week...but I'm so pumped about it! More pictures to come from the crazy relaxing weekend with Mom and the siblings.

Love you! Whit

15 days.

Your house looks like it's coming along pretty well...excluding the little Chinese drywall issue:) But seriously, it looks good from the pictures, and it was nice of Sam's family to help out. Definitely send me more pics as you get it all set up!

So...after a nice long Easter weekend full of sun and warmth we're back in Stockholm and guess what? I woke up this morning to the very unwelcome sight of snowfall outside. It's May 3rd. I mean, enough is enough, and for me the cold was too much back in February. It better warm up here, and fast, or I might never recover from the shock of this winter.

Sorry, but I have to vent a little. But I got a sunburn during Easter and it's snowing today. It's a little confusing.

Anyway... Easter, or "Påsk" in Swedish, was pretty perfect in Malmö and Kivik. In addition to the time we spent lying or sitting in the sun, it was also the weekend of babies. Or just friends kids in general. Here's how it started...

We met with Jacob and Malin, and met Viggo(3) and Vera(1)

Viggo asleep

Malin and Vera

And Bjorn helped Jacob put together a new trampoline.

Viggo and Jacob

The next day we went to see Martin, Nadja, Liam(4), and Emil(almost 1). Martin is Swedish and Nadja is German, and I met them for the first time in 2008 when we visited them in Germany for a few days. Then Liam was about 1 year old. Now he's a Swedish and German speaking 4 year old, which is pretty impressive.

Nadja and Emil

Martin, Ola, Bjorn

Liam is already taking steps toward becoming trilingual by letting Oya and I teach him the names of colors in English. I also took the opportunity to teach him one other very important thing...

WAR EAGLE :)

Next we met with Peter and Oskar. Oskar is a nearly 30 lb 10 month old, and seriously cute.

And one where he's smiling...

To wrap it all up, we finally met 9 day old Ludvig, or "Ludde". Compared to Oskar, he looked impossibly small, but he was so sweet.






You'll get to meet all the parents at the wedding party...minus the kids though:)

Speaking of the wedding party, I did manage to take some pictures in Kivik...

Here's a view from the place where we'll have the wedding party

Bjorn and I at the area we'll have the Friday night BBQ

Nice view from the BBQ spot too

And just to give you an idea, here's one of the outside of the house where you'll stay in Kivik

We also took a nice walk along the water in Malmö and there is a famous building near where his mom lives called "The Turning Torso", since it literally looks like a body that is turning. Since you like design related things, I thought I would take a few pictures for you.





From Malmö's shore you can also see the Øresund Bridge, which connects Sweden and Denmark. Might be hard to see in this picture, but I promise it's there in the distance...



It's really hard to believe that in not so long you'll be at these places! 15 days until I see yall, Whit. It's crazy.

Can't wait:)

Love you,
Allie