SVERIGE

It's been a long and amazing summer. We had the best of times in Sweden and then in Oregon. Ella is a big girl now and misses her grandparents and all her cousins that she got to play with during the summer!
Here's Ella's diary from the summer.

Here we are, leving LAX. Dad carried me all the way to the plane and everyone told me how cute I am.

My cousin Klara and aunt Caroline came to meet us at the airport in Copenhagen. I got flowers in my hair, a bit strange I thought, so I'm a little sad here.

This is my super cute and nice cousin Klara at the airport!

She is always nice to me. Just one time she pinched me.

Here I am with mormor Bodil and my other cousin Joel. I'm still a bit shy and maybe a little jetlagged?

Here we are on a day trip to morfar Åkes forest in Slagesnäs

Cousin Klara always dresses in a cool style, as she says herself.

Daddy making a bonfire by the lake so we can grill some hotdogs

Here we are in Kattvik outside Båstad fishing for crabs

Dad caught the biggest crab!

Here we are in Stockholm! At Fredhällsbadet in the middle of the city! This is one of my moms favorite places to swim and she likes to ride her bike here!

I'm wearing my blue hat, that no longer fits me!

Here we are, having a fika, at my moms favorite cafe right around the corner from her apartment. Im sure she's having a slice of Princess Cake.

Here's dad overlooking beautiful Stockholm!

Here we are in Nacka Reservatet after a ride with subway from the city. We are on our way to meet our friends Anna, Oscar, Ingrid and Frank.

We had a picknick and swam in this lake.

This is my first hello to Ingrid. I think we will have lots of fun together in the future!

It's 4th of July! We are celebrating with a Princess Cake at Nybergs Cafe, then onto Södermalm to meet with Linda and Niklas and their boys Henry and Erik. And Anna, my mom's friend who lives in S.F. with her girls Viola and Lilly. What a party!

This is Henry trying to talk to me, but I only want to look at his feet.

Here I'm meeting my new friend Lilly for the first time. She is 7 months older than I.

Here's dad diving in from the dock in Äppelviken. We are visiting one of mom's best friends Malin and her husband Håkan.

Håkan hovers when he bbq:s. 

Malin and Håkan have a great house in Äppelviken and in December they will also have a baby boy!

Here I am sleeping on the boat out to the new museum Artipelag.

My mom loves to swim. She takes every opportunity. Me and dad like to watch.

This is my first time in a life jacket, and it's very tight in there! But I'm not scared. Just confused.

We are getting picked up with boat by my moms friend Anna. She and her husband Erik and their son Viktor live out in the archipelago in the summer. 

We got our own house and on the other side is their house and the sandy beach.

My mom says this is paradise.

I love my thighs!

Dad went fishing with Victor all the time. He really likes it!

The fish they caught we ate as a starter before dinner every night. So yummy!

Sun sets behind Stora Saxaren.

Here dad is going out to put nets in the water with Erik's dad and Viktor.

This is where mom and Anna goes swimming every morning. There's a sauna on the deck if you want to really warm up before cooling off in the water.

Here's dad, Viktor and Mats on their way out to pick up the fishing nets.

Anna gave me this super cute outfit and a Pippi-doll!

They got around 65 fishes!

This is Viktor with mud all over.

This is the biggest fish daddy caught. It was very tasty.

We went looking for blueberries and found some!

My first taste! I don't know what to think of it.

Dad took the opportunity to skate around a bit, it looked fun!

One of our nice dinners with just the water and the sunset surrounding us..

Anna made a cake for Coop!

And this is the amazing view from Mats and Irene's dining room, and we got lucky and got to eat there one night!

Too soon it was time to leave paradise island..

..and to say goodbye to Anna:-(

It was time to drive back south to Skåne and reunite with the cousins!

Cooper skated the ramp in Båstad and had a very enthusiastic fan crowd watching!

This is a big day for me-my baptism day! 

Fride is a great friend of mormor and morfars and also a great priest.

This was actually fun!

Klara help with everything and my godparents held me during the ceremony.

My serious look for this occasion. I'm wearing my moms baptism dress and a gold heart necklace I got today from my mormor! I look smashing!

This was the part my mom liked the best. Princess cake with my name on it!

Dad got to do some off-roading with morfar!

One night we walked down to the beach to make a bonfire and watch the sunset.

Of course we made s'mores too!

Here's dad on his way to the airport to fly back to California. 

We really missed him.

This is the first time sitting up in a stroller!

No big deal-of course I can do this!

We went to a park with lots of animals and fun stuff to look at

And here we are gathered for the weekly dance down by the beach with Barbro visiting!

Klara wants to become a ballet dancer when she grows up.

We had so much fun! 

Mom's friends came to visit and I got this cute hat!

This is Staffan and Sonja.

Joel, Sonja, Klara and Judith had their own dinner. Next year I'll join them!

It was so fun when I finally could look out from the stroller! 

I'm really curious and this way I can see what everyone is doing. 

This is how my moster likes to dive in!