Lovely day for midsummer

Friday was such an amazing day to celebrate midsummer! We all met up at Camilla's apartment and then went to Bromma Kyrka together where we knew there were going to be some traditional midsummer celebrations. The sun was shining and we found a lovely place in the grass for a picnic. Camilla and Ellinor were responsible for the food and had brought loads of goodies like bread, cheeses, ham, Swedish "skagenröra", herring, melon, strawberries, olives, biscuits etc and to top it off - the most gorgeous caramel cake!!

Needless to say I was stuffed when we walked out of there, just to go to our apartment where we were going to have a BBQ a couple of hours later. We enjoyed more yummy food in the evening and I had been responsible for baking a midsummer cake. Found a great recipe on the web and it turned out pretty well I must say. It was made of a brownie base with daim and then some strawberry mousse on top, topped with some more fresh strawberries ;)

We all had a lovely time together, thanks to everyone for making it happen!

Cake no 1 - caramel cake

Cake no 2-  my midsummer cake :)

Happy Midsummer!

Today is Midsummer's Eve and I woke up this morning greeted by beautiful weather and sunshine :) We're currently getting ready for a nice day with family and friends. The plan is to take part in some Midsummer celebrations at Bromma Kyrka while having a picnic with loads of nice food and a caramel pie for dessert! Later on we're gonna have a barbeque at our place, it looks like the weather is going to be lovely all day - at least here in Stockholm. I've been responsible for the dessert for tonight and started preparing a Midsummer cake already last night. I've never made it before but I think it will be yummie and it includes strawberries of course! What would Midsummer be like without strawberries, hey!?

I hope you'll all have a lovely day, Happy Midsummer everyone!

Dessert

My baby was responsible for serving our dessert today - yum! :)

Helene's Krog

Tonight myself, F, my brother and my parents went to Helene's Krog together for dinner. It was a Christmas present from my parents and my brother and my dad had their birthdays during the week so we thought it'd be a good time to go this weekend. I've never had a bad meal in there and I really like the place. F had never been there but I think he enjoyed it as much as the rest of us did. I'm still full, it was the "little" dessert that topped it off ;)

Earlier on we went to Kista Galleria and now we're just chilling at home. Tomorrow we'll hopefully go to Bromma Golf to play some golf with Marcus & Maria and to check out Lena completing her beginners course ;) It's supposed to be rainy but I hope the rain will be limited so that we can go out there on the golf course and have some fun! I bought some golf clubs during the week that I want to try out as well :)

Bowling and golf

Last night my darling had arranged for a night out and I didn't know what he was up to. We went into town in the evening and ended up at Marions Gastro Diner where we had a game of bowling and then dinner afterwards. We haven't been out and about for a while so I really appreciated it. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed drinks and a very nice dinner. I wasn't that good at the bowling, but really enjoyed it anyway. It was a good workout, he he ;)

Today Maria and I had decided to go to Bromma Golf together to practise a bit and to give the theory test a go. I have been studying the golf rules in the past while in order to be prepared but I was still a bit nervous about it. I thought it was only gonna be multiple answer questions but there were actually ten free text questions and when I first saw them I was a bit shocked. But both myself and Maria did very well and our instructor who corrected the tests said that we almost got a 100% test result. Needless to say we're happy about passing the test! :)

We enjoyed a lovely lunch at the golf restaurant before we left for Bromma Blocks. We hardly ever go shopping together anymore and were looking forward to that, but we didn't really find anything. Maria bought a top though and I bought a cardigan but I guess it's better to keep our money instead ;)

Now I'm at home while my baby is at the cinema with a friend. I've been watching the football match between Holland and Denmark and fair play to Denmark for winning!

Me and my bump

Woke up this morning after a long good night's sleep. Had promised my darling to make a nice breakfast so I got up and started preparing for some waffles. They were served with a lot of nice fruit like kiwis, strawberries, mango, grapes and banana and also jam and cream. With that we had tea and coffee and we watched the film Hamilton with Michael Persbrandt.

I feel so sorry for all of the runners today that are out there running Stockholm Marathon. I had wanted to go into town to watch them but with the weather like this, I'd rather stay at home. I'm thinking about Lina and Hilton who I cheered for last year, they'll do brilliantly! In a minute I'm gonna have a shower and then we're gonna head to the recycling station in Bromma. I'm gonna go by my apartment to clean out the kitchen as well, F and I are just gonna keep the nice stuff.

Thought I'd show you a picture of me and my little bump, it's slowly starting to show now. On Monday I'm in week 20 so I'm halfway there :) In the last couple of days I've started feeling the movements in my stomach a bit better than previously. It feels like a little butterfly is living in there ;) It's so exciting, it's mostly in the evenings I can feel it but even throughout the day and it's tickling :)