Smørbrød Party 2014

We decided to start up our Smørbrød Tradition here in Helena. {Check out our past documented parties from 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009.}
As a brief explanation- if you aren't brave enough to check out all the past info about it. LOL--
Smørbrød is pronounced Smurd-a-bra. The word smørbrød in Norwegian means "buttered bread" or aka the Scandinavian open face sandwich. Every year growing up, my Bestemor (Norwegian for grandmother) had a Smørbrød party around Christmastime. A couple years prior to my documenting phase of our lives, we started our own Smørbrød Party in Fargo. It's a tradition that our family loves & wanted to share with our new Helena friends!

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We always have tons of Scandinavian food and desserts. There's open-faced sandwiches of every kind. . We made ones with crab salad, chicken salad, goat cheese, tomatoes and egg, ham, turkey, chicken, Munster cheese, Gouda cheese and pepper-jack cheese. We love trying all the different breads. We had wheat, white, pumpernickel, a couple different ryes, and a fancy red & green white bread.
For dessert I, of course, made Krumkaker. We love it! I made small batch of Berlinikranser. {Both of which were done with the help of Brett at 2 am the night before. We are CRAZY!}  The kids helped make brownies and we found some rosettes at the last grocery store we checked. It turns out that Helena is not very strong in it's Scandinavian roots. LOL
We also always have hot chocolate with home-made whip cream. Yum! Last year, we bought a family sized hot choco maker. It is so fabulous! And let me tell you- we get sooooo many compliments on our hot cocoa even though it's the generic kind made with water from Walmart. There's just something about it heated & frothed from a dispenser that makes it FABULOUSO!

FESTIVITIES {TALENT SHOW}

Along with the food, we have added a few of our own traditions to the evening's festivities. Tonight was a night of some amazing talents. LOL
Brett made a set of pipe chimes several years ago. We love pulling them out with a group of friends and trying out our musical abilities. ;) We rocked it! I think?
The little ones even put on a concert of their own with our "Elf" microphones. They were quite the hoot.
We had a budding model in our midst which wouldn't get off the bench until I took a million pictures of her. Cute baby!
And there was even a little hula-hooping going on in the cold backyard. Talent galore, my friends!

AND... it's not a Seamons Party if you don't get a few shots of the families. Oh how I love pictures of people! Thanks guys for joining us! We love you all! Until next year...