Showing posts with label Midsommar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Midsommar. Show all posts

Jul 18, 2012

Midsommar (Mid-Summer)

We celebrated Midsommar at our place this year. Midsommar is celebrated on the fourth Friday in the month of  June. We had planned to go to Limhamn, a neighboring suburb, to see the traditional celebration but in typical Swedish tradition it rained and we stayed in doors. Everyone came over to our place around 3pm instead of the original 11am, due to the above mentioned rain. It was the Månsson/Yeo (Melwin and crew) family, Svensson family and Rosenquist family...which summed us up to 8 adults and 6 kids in our 3 bedroom place. Needless to say, it was fun. We barbecued chicken, shish-kebabs, corn on the cob, and asparagus and we had potatoe salad and green salad. And for dessert I made a meringue cake with a lemon curd and raspberry filling, it was DE-LISH and gobbled up in no time. 

Thought this picture was hilarious of Mattias and Maria. Maria being her silly self but beautiful in her homemade Midsommar head dress with fresh flowers and Mattias's expression was great!  


Dan with his Liv's pink bow. Liv and her father look so much alike, it's crazy. I believe there is a pic of Liv at the bottom. Fyi, she's our goddaughter.  


Henrik and Enya cuddling.  


 Enzo and Melwin plahying on the Ipad. One of Melwin's favorite things to do. It's quite funny...he is usually always the one playing and Enzo watching...this by choice on both their parts. Enzo likes  being the spectator.



The cake...YUM!!


 As the weather cleared up we went outside to play in our "backyard". The kids parents sure needed to run free and feel the open space. 


Mattias doing helicopter or airplane with Melwin!  


Melwin's dad, Mattias, tossing Enzo up.  


Liv.

Jun 21, 2008

Midsommar 2008

Midsommar is a traditional Swedish holiday; it includes hanging with good friends and eating good food (eg pickled herring, boiled new potatoes and schnaps), a delicatess you learn to enjoy. Sometimes you can partake in doing the very traditional things such as dancing around the "midsommarstång" which we have yet to do as a family. We always look forward to this holiday since it's a good opportunity to spend time with good friends and play board games and kubb(a swedish outdoors game)! Unfortunately it tends to rain every midsommar so every bit of sunshine we get on that day we tend to use to our advantage and be outdoors eating and/or having a picnic.
Enzo all ready for a fun-filled day... he looks a bit suspicious, don't you think?

Had to take advantage of having friends around to take a family shot of us.
The girls...
The boys...