Ethan & Hudson's Kallhäll posse

We thought you'd enjoy a few mug shots of Ethan & Hudson's posse out here in Kallhäll... you know, get to know the bandits that our crazy fun-loving kids hang out with.

So, meet...

...Kieran

...Hayden (Kieran's brother)

...Stella

...Karl (Stella's brother)

...Elve (Alli's brother... photo of Alli's gone missing though)

...and here's Ethan & Hudson as well of course!

Two is the magic number

The long awaited ’pappa-days’ are finally here! Only one working day left and then I am off for two whole months! Two. Months.

Two months of holidays. Two months of relaxation and family-hang out-time. Two months of recharging batteries after an intense year filled to the brim with new this and new that. Two months of lovey-dovey time. Two months of watching our kids grow up. Two months of not having to commute to work through crazy weather. Two months of not thinking about work and clients and if deals are likely to come through or not. Two months of dancing and baking. Two months of sleeping in *yeah, not very likely*. Two months of snow castles and snow fights. Two months of games and silliness. Two months of actually making it through a movie. Two months of tag-teaming it… you get the picture!

Nobody puts baby in the corner!

This always makes me smile!

A Royal visit to our playground

Seems there’s always something exciting going on in our neck of the woods, isn’t it? Well, today’s big excitement was a visit from our esteemed Crown Princess Victoria and her hubby Prince Daniel who visited our big playground here in Kallhäll. Supposedly a tour of Järfälla (our municipality) was Järfälla’s wedding gift to the newlyweds and they decided to cash in now, over a year after the wedding. How could they ever delay on redeeming such an amazing gift?! ;) (Read: “Really Järfälla, really?!”)

Kieran and Ethan were waiting patiently...

...and so were a million ducks

...the Royal couple checked out our royally awesome slide

Victoria did her thing, waving to the people

Closely watched by a bodyguard

Ethan and his BFF Kieran wrestling

Sneak preview of something really awesome...

Today Huddy had, through the workings of his social butterfly mom, the opportunity to go for a baby photo shoot at Hayley's. Hayley is a very talented photographer who is, believe it or not, snapping super-awesome photos like these just as a hobby and not as a profession! Anyway, the girls and our little lad had a great time and from what we hear, the rest of the photos are just as awesome or even more awesome. Awesome.

A bit of this, a bit of that

Date night!

Last night all the waiting and anticipation was finally over. Last night was Roxette-night, VIP style!

The initial plan was to go and grab a nice bite to eat and have a drink before the concert. Instead; we ended up grabbing a quick hotdog from a hotdog cart on our way to the arena, after which we proceeded up to the VIP lounge for a glass of wine to then finally hit up a private celebrity event where we scored free drinks whilst eyeing up the Foreign Minister of Sweden and other random TV personalities! And the concert hadn’t even started yet! ;) Yep, that’s how we roll!

The concert itself was absolutely amazing and Roxette belted out hit after hit after hit… and they’ve still got it after all these years! I think they played pretty much every huge hit they’ve ever had and that’s what people are expecting as well of course. Take a moment to check out the video clip at the bottom of this posting and listen to Marie perform 'It Must Have Been Love'. Stunning!

All in all a great night and it is also really nice to be able to go out just the two of us, knowing that the kids are in good hands.

'It Must Have Been Love'

Halloween @ work

Lord almighty, today was an interesting day at work to say the least! Reason being that today was the annual Halloween dress-up day and this year it had been decided that the theme would be ‘wingmen’ and everyone got assigned a character and a partner. It was all very hush-hush and no one was allowed to tell anyone who they were dressing up as.

My character was ‘Ronny’ from a Swedish cult comedy show from the 90’s called 'Byhåla' and our HR girl Clara got to be my wingman as ‘Ragge’.

It was definitely interesting that people almost forgot that they looked completely ridiculous and watch them just get on with everyday work, attend meetings in the office etc. Clara even had 3 face-to-face interviews with candidates today and it was even more interesting to see her in action and watch these poor unknowing candidates facial expressions and reactions when they were being questioned and scrutinised by a girl dressed as a guy with thick sideburns!

Britney & Christina were there

Fred & Wilma were there

The pimp and his ho were there taking care of business

Pee and Poo also made it to the party

The mouse and his cheese were there of course

Little Red Ridinghood showed up without Grandma as Grandma had to go on a business trip to Norway. So instead, LRR spent the day playing his/her flute, posing for the camera, offering the other guests at the party a sip of his/her bottle of 'The world's smokiest whiskey'... and peeing on the floor!

The ho

Christina

Team meeting

My wingman(woman) Clara

Ronny & Ragge

Yours truly

The original Ronny & Ragge from the Swedish cult show 'Byhåla' from the 90's

Ethan's first school photo

Our awesome little buddy

Our blog's 3rd birthday!

Well what do you know! Yesterday, the 1st of November marked this blog's 3 year birthday! We've had a lot of fun keeping you, our friends and family up to date on our various trips, outings and adventures and for us, the blog is also a great way to keep track of how our wonderful little boys have developed and continue to develop through photos and videos. We hope you've enjoyed reading about it and following us as much as we have enjoyed living it! ;)

Here's this blog's first ever entry on November 1st 2008:

http://harrisonhelin.blogspot.com/2008/11/time-for-some-blogging-cpr.html

Soon...