MattiPappa's 60th Anniversary

Jenni's father Matti (aka MattiPappa) turned 60 this summer, and he arranged a party accordingly. All his siblings and their families (i.e. Jenni's aunts, uncles and cousins) were invited to Matti's and Raija's summer house in Lohja. It was a very nice and warm day, and we had a lots of fun and made good memories.

Right after we arrived, we toasted MattiPappa:



The arrival of guests (and another toast):


Giving the presents (Jani and me gave him a forest worker's safety outfit):

He also got six spruce saplings and a pear tree:

He also got a traditionally designed pushcart which some decades ago were very common in the Finnish countryside. Back then, they were used for carrying milk cans (and probably lots of other stuff, too). The globalisation has obviously affected these as well: despite its traditional Finnish design this new pushcart was made in South Korea!


A birthday pose:

MattiPappa, uncles Timo and Antti and aunt Eija (unfortunately, the youngest of these five siblings, Kaisa, didn't make it to the party and is therefore missing from the picture):


Matti and Raija had organised all kind of activities for the day, including a quiz and a tossing game called "Mölkky".

Jenni filling in the quiz form:

Meanwhile, Lina was blowing bubbles:

The award ceremony:

Playing mölkky:


The audience:

Lina was playing her own mölkky:

Jani and Lina chillin' in the sun:


Starting the bbq:

Lina having a cup of milk:

Family portrait:

Lina drawing with Raija:


Lina was amazingly energetic during the whole day. We left home around 1 am, and Lina was still up and going. She insisted on taking a pile of papers home with her. She's a huge fan of numbers, and each of these papers had a number written on it (they had been used for the check points in the quiz).



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