Swedish Midsummer Party!

When I was younger I often organised parties for friends at my parents place and also in the small apartment I lived in in the city for many years. The last big party was probably when I turned 30 and Stina and I had a joint birthday party with lots of people and lots of fun. Anyway, I am not much of a party freak anymore but this year Adam and I decided to have some friends over for a Midsummer party. We started at 3pm with some finger food on the veranda at the back of our house. The weather was absolutley perfect!!

Sigrid and her Vina who is a cutie!

Per and Meja who just turned 1 the other week.

Zara and Lykke who also stayed over at our place.

After some snacks children and parents played soccer at the back of our house. Great fun!

I love Isak's hairstyle!

The boys having an early dinner by themselves. The rest of us waited until the little ones had gone to bed.

Relaxing for a few minutes in between playing and running.

We finally made up our mind and decided to eat at the front where we had some evening sun. It worked really well to just move the big table to the front and we all just fit.

The kids had ice cream and strawberries inside when we started eating our dinner.

Potatoe bake, potatoes sallad, melon sallad, mixed grill (beef fillet, chicken, and pork fillet) was parts of the yummy dinner that we had.

Cheers!

Zara had made an amazing strawberry cake! there was some left overs that we had for breakfast this morning.

The kids didn't make too much of a mess when we left them having ice cream by themselves.

Overall the day went really well I think and the children seemed to have great fun. As always Liam and Elvin played together and Jakob and Finn played together but sometimes we found them doing something together the 4 of them (even though I think it was mainly Finn and Jakob wanting to hang out with the big boys).

Zara and the family had a sleep over at our place but everyone else went home around 10-10.30 I think it was.

After that we had some very tired boys on the couch just before bedtime. I was cleaning up in the kitchen and could hear Jakob saying to Finn, don't go to sleep!!! and to Micke, can you read it just one more time!

Adam fell asleep with Jakob around 11pm and Zara, Micke and I stayed up a bit longer talking and eating lollies.

Isak slept from about 7.30 to nearly 4am, a new record! I am so happy he slept through all the noise in the evening, I thought he would wake up a few times since his bed is sort of in the middle of all the action.