American in Norway

When I was little...our summer vacations were about 3 months long & we spent pretty much EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. at the swimming pool.... We loved it.. thats what we did... (I don't remember being bored...) Sometimes if we were LUCKY, one of our parents would drive us down to ASTROWORLD for the day... & some summers we would make the 17 hour trek to my grandfather's HOG FARM in Ill... & catch the 4th of July parade... (in a town of maybe 900 people it was always a BIG deal....) BOY are summers now, WAAAAAY different than I remembered..... Last night Dane got a call from his godfather who wanted to know if he wanted to go sailing for the next few days... After 2 weeks of CRAPTASTIC weather.... (seriously...rain,rain & more rain & hi ghs in the 50's) The sun FINALLY popped out & they were headed to sea...did he want to go.... OH YEA!.... SO I packed little Thursten Howell up & sent him to sea for a few days of swimming, sun, seafood.... What a summer t...

What a super great AWESOME day... all of the " NICE" mommies will be happy to know I played nice all. day. long. Something about nice weather in Norway...brings a everyone out.. I know I have moaned A LOT about how reserved Norwegians are... - hard to take for us outgoing Americans over here.... But the weather was nice, the neighbors were out & Eva & I felt like being a little social.... We took some of the leftover cake over to the neighbors & ended up sitting out for hours on their veranda.... As the sun moved so did we... we all went over to eac h others house /veranda...(following the sun...) had a sneak peak at each others houses..FINALLY (cause I am nosey like that...) The neighbors kids ended up being over here most of the afternoon & I had the chance to snap some pictures of this little SUGAR CLUMP... Could you not just EAT HER UP? Oh my GOODNESS:... She really is THIS CUTE! I think Eva was in shock that I was taking pictures of someone else. Re...