My August

August went by in two seconds. Lovely month with two trips to Sweden. One longer in the beginning and a shorter weekend one in the end. The first trip was really special because David's family came - his parents, sister, sister's partner and son. We also had amazing weather the whole week. Over 30 degrees every day which is unheard of for that long in summer time. But the best thing of all is that we were all gathered in Stockholm - my family and D's family - for our wedding. Me and D got married in the City Hall in Stockholm on August 2nd. That date is a decade after we first met in Dublin.

After the wedding we all went to Häringe slott which is an old manor house turned hotel. We had the wedding reception there with our families - we were ten people in total. We then stayed at the hotel for 2 nights enjoying the pool, sea, floating sauna, canoes and tennis courts around there. We had an amazing time together.

July is here

We are now in the first week of July! I can't believe how quickly summer came.

We have already had a week of holidays in June, when we went to Mallorca and myself and D went on a 3 day romantic getaway to the lovely island of Formentera. I was really  nervous about leaving our little K behind - not for his sake but for mine. I had never spent a single night away from him. I almost cried when I kissed him goodbye, but after a few hours I was fine. Me and D had a lovely time in Formentera with the pristine beaches and the amazing food. We ate fish every day! Meanwhile, K was having a ball with his aunties going to the beach and the swimming pool. He loved it. He even learned to dive with his head under the water and just kept saying "mas! mas!"(="more! more!") in Spanish. A little dolphin is what he turned into :-)

Now we are in the month  of July and hoping for better weather so we can go to the parks and play with K. Fingers x-ed we get some proper good weather soon!

Summer in Sweden

The yearly BBQ!!!
Grill master Daddy

Responsible for the rice!!!

Lovely dinner guests

D with 2 beautiful chicas - J and H!!!

Well of course we arranged a quiz about the Englund family!

The winners were H and J, with happy runners up in the background

Me and daddy on our way to Djurgården

Terminator D goes canoeing

Woohoo! We suck at this!!

Freshly picked blueberries for the sponge cake - You bet your a** it was yummy!

That's right - we found them yummy mushrooms in the Swedish forest!!

In Nyköping city... our summer residence (cosy house) is located 20 min by car from there

How come my parents completely kicked mine and my brother's ar**s in boule?

Summer has begun

What's the most summery thing you can do? Put flowers up your nose!!!!

Oh so sweet!!! Summer is definitely here in the sense that I can start enjoying it doing something else than studying for the CFA. Yay! My tan is non existent which is why I have had to seek help in self tanning cremes lately, but now - I'm going to work on a REAL tan. No too much, just the kind of tan that will get focus off my study pimples and make me look less like a dead person.

To kick start summer, as I have mentioned earlier, M and V will come to London town to salute the Queen and to visit us, of course. First things on our to do list:



1. Shopping


2. Have some Earl Grey tea & biscuits with the Queen


3. Dance till we can't dance no more - in a cool night club


4. Chill out in a nice park

Now folks, how does that sound? SWEET!!!