quick update

god, it's been SO long since my last update...:-O

first we had our visitors from india, then my dad, then most of tilda's family popping in!

so, there are lots of pics to put up and news to relate...first, some pics!

well, i managed to give myself a good burn not too long back. i was making a lovely chantrelle sauce and when i was pouring it over to a canteen some of it ran down the sleeve of my chef's jacket and by the time i sat down the pot and stripped it off it had done it's damage already.
it's been about 3 months or so now and though it's faded a lot...still very visible. :-( my perfect body marred! almost feel like freddy kruger! lol

lost some weight recently, thanks to cindy crawford workout tape from the 90s (shame)and our old dance mat that we had purchased for the kids (less shame). here i am demonstrating how much i've lost by putting on a pair of tilda's jeans! lol


only thing was that there wasn't enough room for my "underneefies"! (both shame and male pride battling here)

















finally warmed up after a cold winter so i took the girls fishing. here they are patiently awaiting me to pull sharks out of our lake. lol

started taking the kids to work with me during the summer...tried taking both at once but the wrecked havoc and i vowed to only have one kid at a time. :-D
erin was bored one day while i was busy so i got out the old bartenders uniform from when we used to have a pub decades ago and let her try it on...she the stood next to the cash register the rest of the day and was our host...greeting guests and taking orders!
could YOU resist anything this little face asked of you???

















one afternoon we went to erin's school here in the village to assist in spring clean-up. me and tild chose the cushy job of re-oiling all the wooden swings, see-saws and monkeybars and such. here's how tired and possibly high tild was after we'd painted a forest of wood...







another day we went to leksand's medievil market. SO much fun with all the merchants there in costume and selling handicrafts and demostrating how things were made way back when. poeple actually got put in stockade if their attire was too out of time or were caught using mobile phones or...gasp!...laptops! anyway, we stopped at a both with spices(ofcourse) and saw this lovely spice mix. to get the joke, i have to explain something. you know the hannibal lector movie "silence of the lambs"? in sweden they translated the name of the movie to "när lammen tysnar" "when the lambs be silent" so this spice is meant to be used on lamb and they named it "när lammen kryddas""when the lamb is spiced"...hmmm...hilarious in swedish anyway...*grumbles*


vera showing off her cute strawberry coin purse...almost as cute as her hello kitty hat which is ALMOST as cute as vera herself. lol





dad finally came and was good enough to bring me what i long for(besides a cold dr pepper)...a cowboy hat!



a very cute and very strangly dressed teenybopper we noticed at the bus stop. she was being harrassed by a very drunk old perv so i went up to her and asked if she'd let me take a pic of her because erin and vera thought she was SOOOOO beautiful! the stubborn old perv hung around anyway but atleast i broke his train of evil thoughts...:-P


a very blurry but VERY stunning tilda in my favorite color on her....RED! *kiss*



another beautiful pic of my wife(it's SO hard to take a bad pic of her...you have to catch her eating or asleep to get a pic that doesn't show off some aspect of her lovliness) plus you gotta love the retro 80s get-up...fabbo!




little lady erin...highheels and stockings! *faint*







vera still likes to be a little cutey pie and at this point daddy is very happy with that! lol

that's all for now i guess...will try to put up more soooooooooon. lol