2014 in pictures

The year started in chaos, so some reading by Opa gave us time to unpack more boxes.

Reading

By the end of January the snow showed up. We got some new help shovelling the snow off the driveway.

Snow

It wasn’t too cold, so an igloo could be built. (The door is wide so that Johannes or Susanna would fit through it too).

Snow house

One just has to build snowmen too.

Snowmen

By the end of February Johannes and most of Susanna’s family went to Zambia for the wedding of Susanna’s brother and sister in law. Susanna and our daughter couldn’t make it due to the fact that it isn’t recommended for pregnant women to go to malaria infested areas.

Wedding in Zambia

After the wedding there was some time to see some sights. First the Victoria falls.

Victorial falls

Then a safari tour, where the mandatory zebras showed their backs.

Zebras

In Livingston (the Zambian town by the Victoria falls) there is a railway museum. Here a sadly non-functioning beauty. Most engines were stripped of vital parts, but they looked nice from the distance with new paint.

Livingston railway museum

But not all engines were in the same bad state. There is a touristic train going to the falls and to get it ready for the night’s tour it passed through the museum.

Shunting in Livingston

A short visit was also made at the railway station where these bright cars stood waiting for the evenings departure towards Kafue. We didn’t take the train due to long traveling times and low comfort.

Zambian train

We (the guests from Sweden and the bride’s parents and some few more relatives) had hired a minibus and used these excellent roads. Okay this was the best stretch, but in all the roads were not too bad, and traffic was light except for Lusaka and its closest surroundings.

Zambian road

One of the high-rises in Lusaka, on the main road Cairo Road.

Lusaka

Back in Sweden we could enjoy these beautiful sunsets from our balcony.

Sunset

With spring projects arrive. This was the first project.

Digging

But projects are not completed in a day.

Full moon

After a few weeks the sandbox for the kids was ready, with great help from Oma and Opa.

Sandbox

Our garden in springtime, cherry trees blooming and the grass in its’ greenest hue.

House in spring

Our surroundings are nice in spring too. This is the road down to the café/bnb/old farm.

Nils Johans vaeg

Our daughter and Johannes made a few excursions by themselves as Susanna needed some time to sort out some things. Here we visited a farm during the release of the lambs.

Sheep and lambs

The rhododendron was blooming.

Rhododendron

The farmer harvested the grass on the fields around our house.

Tracktor

On the 7th of June our family was extended with our son. What a great joy!

Our son

All of us were able to stay one night at the hospital, the rest of the nights our daughter and Johannes stayed at home.

At the hospital

Midsummer we celebrated with family, here our daughter’s great grandmother draws with her.

Great grandmother

With all the things going on being a new four-headed family we had to give mother and son a break, this time we went to an air show in Eslöv.

Esloev airshow

Later in the summer we went to the zoo, there is a really nice one in Höör, www.skanesdjurpark.se/, where our daughter could ride the pony.

Pony riding

Some flowers along the road to the farm

Small flower

Not all days were super busy, there was time for some relaxation in the garden.

Lazy summer day

Then our daughter turned three. We had a great party with the relatives.

Birthday child

In October Johannes went to Istanbul with his work, he just couldn’t resist taking a picture of the historic tram.

Istambul tram

The hotel was in the old town, close to the Blue Mosque

Blue mosque

To the other side the harbour with all the ships waiting was visible. We had some work too and a good tour for the new Bosporus tunnel project.

Istambul harbour

Back home colours were changing.

Morning light

Some mornings the fog made the landscape like in a farytale.

Foggy evening

Johannes parents came a few times to visit, always finding things to do, here they are on a walk with our daughter.

On a walk

Christmastime came, this year with a home grown Christmas tree.

Christmas

After one of our walks our daughter and Johannes took a shortcut over the field, this is our house from the backside.

Our back

This bird and many more enjoyed the last days of the year in the apple tree. (We had a bird feeder there during the winter).

Bird in appletree