And we're of to Sweden!

My moms oldest brother and his wife and my adorable cousins.

In their lovely mountain home with a view over the ocean.

This from the street just a little ways down hill from the house.

Cute Little sweetish looking farm house.

The house we lived in when I was little was painted the same red because my mom loves the little red sweetish wooden houses so much.

Susanne the beautiful.

All bundled up for the wonderful cold.

Little Cecilie having fun on the trampoline.

You just gotta love all the wood!

Little Cuteness!

More cuteness!

Now that is what I call baby proofing your coffee table.

And I miss this kind of bag of candy!
Bless you Scandinavia!

Sigrid. Queen of the house!

Hans Henrik cooking up a storm.

OK so I think he is actually doing the dishes but it just does not sound as rad.

Funny face!

banana time for the monkey.

Henrik took me to see his forest lands that come with a house and a lumberyard plus stables and other goodies.

This is a view from the front steps of the house. There is a nice sized are cleared for parking and working in between all the small buildings then there is another area cleared for backyard purposes the rest is just pine forest and wildlife.

the inside of the house is mostly empty because they do not use it much in the winter.

This is an old house. Everything is heated with a huge wood stove in the basement. This is the oven. Back in the day it was used to bake bread. I'm sure it still works fine but not the kitchen upstairs has modern appliances.

I love the skies casually stuck in the basement

Here is Henrik next to the oven again. The Big white block with pipes all over it is the mighty contraption.

The little oval door is the oven closed. The wood stove heats the water in the house as well. That is why we came. The water in the pipes inside the house has frozen and burst a pipe upstairs. So there was some cleaning to do. It heated up in the house nicely quite fast.

In the basement there was a big room full of wood for the stove as well.

The old hayloft in the barn is empty but the mighty orange lumber maker is enjoying the place of honor.

My uncle the lumberjack / social worker HA ha.

Henrik accidentally taking a picture of his many layers of clothes.

1. Camouflage jacket

2.Plaid fleece jacket.

3. green jacket.

4. mystery tan. barely sticking up on his neck.

Me in the stables. These once held horses.

Me and some hay!

Once the wood stove started going the snow started melting of the roof.

A quick walk from the house to the tree fort/hunting cabin. This little bridge went over a shallow creek

So much wild life here. The ground was covered in tracks. Here is a small sample! Deer, rabbit and Ida! There were also bird and fox tracks and who knows what else.

I promised my children that i would build a snowman and take a picture. Well it was not exactly snowman building snow but I did it!

The Mighty Snowman with his powerful straw arms declares his intentions to dominate the world!!!! MuHhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa......

I think we ran him over when we drove out of there but I'm not positive so watch out world.

And last but not least. I was quite impressed with their grocery store. Even though it in no way compares with HEB it had an amazing selection on the fresh produce and I tried mu first dragon fruit. Quite good. Slightly kiwi-ish.