Time To Get Inspired

I'm just starting a new book that arrived at my doorstep yesterday. It's called "the dirty life" and I'm hoping it will inspire and create hope for the future.

Memorial Day Weekend

My past week in pictures

Three cellphone talking little ladies. How cute are they??

Running errands with the little one in her cool sun hat.

Just me.

I had "fika" with my Swedish friends Maria. I had a delicious cupcake and the tiniest little diet coke bottle.

Went for a hike.

This is usually what happens when I try to take a picture.

Had Mexican food. Yum!

Started a new book. A very good one. I'm almost done as of now.

I have the best little friends on the planet!

New Wall

I have yet to post any pictures from our newly renovated part of our house. We use to have a little porch that you could access from our living room through sliding glass doors but we found we never spent anytime out there. In the spring it is just too much pollen and in the summertime too warm. There were never any air circulating in there so we decided to take away the sliding glass doors and make a big opening and enclose the patio with some big windows. We also took down another wall so you can access our new room from the dining room as well. I absolutely LOVE the new space! Now we're slowly starting to furnish it and this weekend I put up a new "photo wall". I picked out a bunch of photos that I liked and put them up in the shape of a heart. Most of the photos are somewhat older when I tend to no longer develop my pictures but just put them on my computer. But we'll change them out as time goes by and when we develop more recent pictures.

I love each and everyone up there!

American Mothers Day

An Italian mothers day that is. Today we celebrated my mother in law with an Italian fiesta! Me and Christian (read Christian) made fresh pasta and ravioli and the rest of the family teamed up and made three different kinds of pasta. It can be hard sometimes to get the whole family on board and organized but in the end it turned out great.

the table was set with a bit of an Italian rustic theme... ;)

 

 And I also want to give a shout out to my WONDERFUL mother today. I know it's not the Swedish mother's day until the end of May, but what mother doesn't deserve to be mentioned twice? 

Sunday night, new week ahead. Let's go!

New Week

A new week. I'm starting it with cartoons on the iPad with the little one. Two more days and my hubby will be home. Can't wait!

Love of My Life. And Burgers.

My hubby has been out traveling WAY too much lately and he's leaving again tomorrow for a few days. Buu. Tonight though, we accidentally got to spend some quality time with each other. I say accidentally because we were suppose to meet up with my Swedish friend Maria and a bunch of other people for her graduation dinner at a restaurant in a part of town called Decatur. But as time were ticking away as we sat there waiting for her and the rest of the group, I realized her e-mail said Sunday night. Ooupps! We decided to stay anyways and had a great time with great tasting food! Much needed hubby time! 

we figured out I had been to 17 states and Christian to 39...

Red wine spritzers are amaaazing! the only way I like to drink that red wine...

the food was delicious!