Green is the new black

Some instagram pictures from the picnic we had after the relay race yesterday. The weather did turn out great, so it was very nice evening. The run went alright as well! 

God morning! This morning I woke up to the rain pouring down outside our windows. We’re entering a running competition (a relay race) tonight, with a planned picnic afterwards. Oh, I cross my fingers that the weather will be better tonight, the forecast sais so at least. 

This weekend we’ve been quite busy, but with a lot of fun stuff. We’ve gone swimming twice, the girls have participated in a bicycle race and, the thing I’m perhaps most pleased about: we’ve been cycling a lot around town to these different events. I really like it that we, using our chariot carrier and a kids seat behind my bike, now can transport the entire family without the need for neither a car nor public transportation. Of course, I have nothing against public transportation, but using bicycles just feels much more flexible. I predict that this summer we’ll use our bikes a lot! 

Tada! The new living room table. After having searched all over for the perfect table (including having decided upon both a black loop stand table from Hay and the white Ikea Norden table at different occasions) we decided to go for a really cheap and flexible solution. Two Melltorp tables put together. And we can make them into one long table as well, when we’re having guests over. I still think black would be nicer but we could always paint it…

I couldn’t resist getting one of those Råskog kitchen carts as well - don’t know what to use it for really, but I just think they’re really cool. Thinking of Ellis we’ll probably have to start out with storing toys in it. Eowyn and Ellis helped out putting it together, as you can see. :)

Today we’ve done some much needed spring cleaning around here. We’ve also planted some spring flowers. And we’ve made plans both for our little summer cabin and for our balcony. We need a new balcony floor and we’ve decided upon Bergo floor tiles. I think it will look nice and be much more practical than our existing wooden floor (which can’t be lifted easily so we can’t clean underneath it nor pick up things that we’ve dropped through the tiles). 

Oh, and Ester dressed up as Santa for Easter. In case you were wondering. 

Going through photos. This is Ellis, in november, almost 5 months old. He grows so fast. 

Having a nine month old baby crawling around the house can sometimes result in a need for reshuffling. A table in front of the sofa isn’t really that practical, now is it? Much better to have a whole carpet full of free space. 

The last week have been really sunny and nice here in Gothenburg. So who cares if it’s still pretty damn cold, and that we are ill for what feels like the 11th time this looooong winter?.. Not me. Really. Happy Easter! 

We’re at home ill, spending our time sorting and organizing our books in the new bookcase today. To the tunes of Steget. With a little help from a superhero.

It’s really cold here, so we’ve spent most of the day inside, making dolls out of toilet paper rolls and moving our bookshelves around. Delivery of the new Billy shelves are due on Thursday, so now we’re preparing. We’ve moved two of the shelves into Ellis room. Turned out great! I’ll show you later, when the room isn’t such a mess.