torsdag, november 20, 2014

Check out our other blog instead for the latest news!

I know, I know, I hardly ever update this blog anymore. I guess most things get posted to Facebook instead.

But for my friends who don't have Facebook (AMBER!), go over and check our Adoption Blog for the latest news!

That is where we will be updating for the next 4 weeks or so:

http://burstingwithgod-news.blogspot.se/

fredag, augusti 29, 2014

söndag, december 08, 2013

Age 1, Age 6


torsdag, januari 10, 2013

Recent




tisdag, december 04, 2012

5 years old

So, my precious girl turned 5 today. I am not usually one to become particularly sentimental, but sometimes when it comes to my kids something sentimental kicks in. Esther is charming but challenging, exhilirating but exasperating, silly but sly, intelligent but intense, funny but frustrating, and she can make me both laugh and steam. Now that she is five it kind of feels like maybe a new chapter is starting. She isn't a toddler anymore, or a little kid. She is five. She can read a little bit, she can spell a little bit, she can use a laptop and a desktop, an iPad and an iPhone, and she now gets a weekly allowance (which she has learned to split 5 ways).

This weekend she had a Princess Party with her female classmates, who all came dressed up as princesses. They did Princess Crafts, had Princess Cupcakes, and took Princess Pictures. These are all things that I never would have done as a little girl, but I am learning pretty much every day that Esther and I are very very different from each other and that is not necessarily a bad thing! It sure is teaching me a lot. Sometimes I don't deal with it very well, but other times I am thankful for it.

Who knew parenting would be such a challenge! Sure, it depends on the kid to some extent, but I think in general it just is one of those things that God uses to slowly mold you more closely to His image!

This is Esther at her Princess Party.


This is Esther today, the day she turned 5.

This is baby Esther, my sweet precious girl, next to my 5 year-old sweet precious girl!

This is Sylvia's new thing





söndag, november 04, 2012

Chilly but cute


lördag, september 29, 2012

Growing girls


torsdag, september 13, 2012

My sweeeet-eeeee



söndag, augusti 12, 2012

Pappas tjej



My pretty girlios







When did my kids get so big and is that even allowed.







A momentous occasion

Sylvia is ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE CAMERA for these pictures! And SMILING! Simultaneously!







Goofy girl




fredag, augusti 03, 2012

Vacation in the USA - 2012

We spent one month in the USA. It was wonderful. We missed one entire month of nearly non-stop chilly rain in Sweden. Meanwhile in the USA we had mostly hot temperatures (some days set records), my dad got evacuated from wildfires while at a conference in Colorado Springs, something called a derecho struck while we were driving home from a restaurant (nearly hurricane force winds - knocked down trees everywhere and electricity almost everywhere). So, weather is crazy! You never know what you are going to get. But we are all glad that we missed the non-summer weather of Sweden.

But that's not all that was good about the US! We spent lots of time together as a family, went to the pool almost every single day. We spent lots of time with my parents. My mom did all kinds of craft-y things with the kids. And she made them all kinds of fancy stuff, like a Victorian dollhouse, princess dresses, quilts, and all kinds of stuff. My dad did all kinds of cool Grandpa stuff with them, like swimming in a water hole in the woods, finding crabs on the beach, teaching Esther to surf. Esther took 4 swimming lessons as soon as we got to the US, and between that and then being in the pool nearly every day for a month, by the final week she had gotten quite good in the water. If she had even more practice she would be a mermaid.

We spent one week at the beach in NC, in a wonderful beach house right on the shore. It had a pool, too. It was amazing to be able to stay in a place like that. Esther loved the ocean and the waves and didn't even mind getting knocked around a bit when trying to learn to ride the waves with a raft. On a rainy day we went to an aquarium and Esther liked the little alligator.

Niklas said it was the best vacation ever and that we should do it every summer! :-)

Photos from USA vacation 1