Ilona comes to visit

Ilona comes to visit

Well, my sister could not have picked a worst time to come and visit weather-wise, the end of March had [...]

May 14, 2012     1 Comment
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At the Winter Garden

At the Winter Garden

Ok, so this is by no means new material but I got a request to post some of these garden [...]

May 13, 2012     1 Comment
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Happy Birthday Mira!

Happy Birthday Mira!

So here it is, the big day, Mira is s one year old toddler. To celebrate this big event, we [...]

Mar 20, 2012     3 Comments
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Last 4 months in video

Last 4 months in video

Okay, here are a bunch of videos from the last four months. It’s amazing how much progress babies can have [...]

Mar 1, 2012     5 Comments
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Finland, the Winter Wonderland

Finland, the Winter Wonderland

Well, hopefully winter will be over soon, I’m getting a bit sick of it but I’m pretty sure it’ll stick [...]

Feb 22, 2012     9 Comments
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Fish!

Fish!

This post is all about fish. If you know me you know I’m a bit fanatic about fish, so when [...]

Jan 23, 2012     8 Comments
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Life in the Autumn pt. 2

Life in the Autumn pt. 2

Ok, I know I know, it’s January now and autumn ended a few weeks ago, but here’s my chance to [...]

Jan 14, 2012     5 Comments
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Stockholm

Stockholm

So we went on the “booze cruize”! This is what the return trip to Stockholm with about 8 hours on [...]

Dec 30, 2011     4 Comments
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We are growing up

We are growing up

Another update! This time just a collection of up-to-date images of what Mirka is up to.   In other news: [...]

Dec 13, 2011     9 Comments
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Another Mira vid

Another Mira vid

A short write up will follow soon! Here’s Mirka being herself.

Nov 30, 2011     6 Comments
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Life in the Autumn pt.1

Life in the Autumn pt.1

Well, we have been a bit lazy with the updates on this blog lately so here is a post to [...]

Nov 18, 2011     7 Comments
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Living with an 8 month old

Living with an 8 month old

I know we haven’t updated the blog in a little more than a while. I suppose this is because we’ve [...]

Nov 6, 2011     9 Comments
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Instead of a castle, we found a wooden town

Instead of a castle, we found a wooden town

One day a couple of weeks ago we had the idea of taking the dogs for a romp in some [...]

Oct 10, 2011     7 Comments
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Mushrooms everywhere

Mushrooms everywhere

Finland in autumn is a hunter-gatherer’s heaven. Long and dark winters, owing to the country’s address in the high parallels, [...]

Sep 28, 2011     14 Comments
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Teletubbies, animals, babies and friends

Teletubbies, animals, babies and friends

This post is about the last couple of days. Fall has finally started—air is getting cooler, leaves are turning and [...]

Sep 24, 2011     14 Comments
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Seurasaari, the Finnish time machine

Seurasaari, the Finnish time machine

A few weeks ago, one fine morning after our typical drill of—get-up, shower, feed Mira, feed self, feed dogs, walk [...]

Sep 21, 2011     16 Comments
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Happy 1/2 year Mira!

Happy 1/2 year Mira!

Yesterday was booboo’s 6 month “anniversary”! We dressed her in her finest and snapped some pics. Thanks babushka for the [...]

Sep 17, 2011     12 Comments
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In Porvoo

In Porvoo

Another place we went to visit while Dennis was still here was the town of Porvoo, about 50 km east [...]

Sep 17, 2011     6 Comments
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Mira videos

Mira videos

In this post I want to share some of the videos we’ve taken of Mira, I find that for showing [...]

Sep 13, 2011     14 Comments
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Broccoli Tree

Broccoli Tree

Here’s the Broccoli Tree to clarify to those folks who’ve never seen one; It really looks like a bunch of [...]

Sep 12, 2011     7 Comments
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Regular day

Regular day

This will look very familiar to Dennis. For everybody else: this is what a typical “lets go downtown” day looks [...]

Sep 12, 2011     17 Comments
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Tallinn, you’re so beautiful

Tallinn, you’re so beautiful

So since Dennis was here so he could now dogsit our and Otis and Luna got along with my dad’s [...]

Sep 10, 2011     7 Comments
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Family re-united

Family re-united

In this post I’d like to continue where I left off, still in the first week of our Finland experience. [...]

Aug 31, 2011     5 Comments
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Long and Short of it

Long and Short of it

Kati finally convinced me to contribute to the blog. As I’m sure you all know already, I’m not nearly as [...]

Aug 30, 2011     10 Comments
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First few days

First few days

The next few days after arriving we stayed at cousin Tanja’s place and started sorting out legalities, running errands and [...]

Aug 25, 2011     10 Comments
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Epic send-off

Epic send-off

First of all, I want to thank you all for your help, patience, friendship and enthusiasm that you all have [...]

Aug 19, 2011     11 Comments
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