It was really important for me to celebrate Linnea with a reception, just as we did for Lucas - the Swedish way. We did it the day before her Graduation, and invited our friends to join in. Auntie Nikkie was more than happy to help out with the preparations, cooking is her love language!
I had been inspired by Peta's 40th grazing table, and wanted to do something similar so I send Pia to buy a lot of charcuterie in Sweden (much cheaper there), and Lucas brought it all down here for us. It took the whole family to help set it all up!
The girls:
The grazing table turned out absolutely amazing! There was so much food, such a spread! All the hams and sausages from Sweden, home made dips, hummus and paté; crackers and cheese, fresh and dried fruit and berries, blinis with salmon, chocolates, nuts and sweets, and much more.
The boys:
It was so lovely that Lucas was able to come down for the weekend, to celebrate Linnea. It meant a lot to her, and to us of course.
Decorations across the whole apartment!
We had a slideshow running on the TV with lots of photos from all her school years, and I had also made two timelines, one with all her first days of school, one with her school photos:
The red velvet cake we had ordered was book-themed, suited our little book-worm well!
Linnea got some really lovely gifts, most of them were gift cards to Kinokuniya (the book store), very much keeping on brand for Linnea, ha ha! She also got a cutlery set, cool cash, and a kit with a book, a first aid-kit and a bottle opener in a canvas bag - "something interesting, something useful and something fun".
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