midsommars celebrations!

down to furulund we headed for the festivities.  we were late as per usual, but luckily jessica did not mind!  the lunch was crazy good with salmon pie and sill, and gravad lax, with much, much more...

 so we ate, and then there was swimming...

 and the dressing of the middsommars pole...

 the guys were of course very helpful...

 we were so busy eating all day that we had barely time to sing and dance around the midsommars pole, but the girls made sure it happened...

 rebecka and eijla were tied at the hip.  the two were almost never seen apart.  she even taught eijla to ride a bike!

 the four years olds were adorable, and crazy, running around like maniacs and making everyone laugh.

 the festivities went one well into the night, i think we finally ate dinner around 2230!  there was just so much good food, seemed like we never stopped eating!  but we all crashed, and most of us slept in, though there were a few early risers...thank you family annermalm for a wonderful midsommars.  though i must say it was certainly much like christmas, cuz christer disabled the alarm on our car, and all i can say now is i feel so very happy and so very free!  christer is my hero!  and i think rebecka is eijla's.

 after the annermalms we headed to farmor and farfars to pick up bonita.  they had a bunch of cherries growing on their tree, so zoe and i picked them.  zoe claimed she did not like cherries, and then proceeded to eat about a million of them!

eijla was a bit of a grumpy butt, stayed up way too late the night before.  but farfar is just a stubborn and managed to get some food in that grumpy mouth.

 then there was some farmor snuggles...

 which just made someone else jealous so there were even more farmor snuggles...

 and then we enjoyed a spectacular sunset for a good portion of the drive home.  ah, life IS beautiful.