Archive for : December, 2004

Wednesday December 29th 2004 Birthday Party! We celebrated Anna Sólrún’s 1st birthday (Dec 25th) today at my in-laws. We decided to host a “laid-back” party and invited around 20 grownups (just the very closest family and friends) along with their kids, and served them pizza (hence the “laid-back”), “pancakes” (actually crepes) and chocolate cake. ThereRead more

Monday December 27th 2004 And so the eating continues… We’ve had a very festive and foody Christmas, with fine food and parcels on Friday; a (Finnur’s) family gathering, more fine food and card games on Saturday; a (Hrefna’s) family gathering, fine cakes and drinks on Sunday. Today we then each saw our respective cousins andRead more

Föstudagur 24. desember 2004 Gleðileg jól!! 🙂 Já, þá eru jólin alveg að renna í garð. Hér í Álmholtinu eru allir á þúsund að undirbúa jólin, verið að pakka í pakka, elda mat, þrífa og uhh… blogga. Það skemmir ekki fyrir að úti er fínasti jólasnjór og að við erum ennþá í sykursjokki eftir konfektgerðinaRead more

Wednesday December 22nd 2004 Bad Timing I took Anna to meet up with four old schoolfriends and their children this afternoon. It was great seeing them all, one girl I hadn’t seen in about 5 years and I’d never seen her 3 year old daughter! The newest addition I hadn’t seen at all, and theRead more

Tuesday December 21st 2004 Gingerbread-day We spent today at my mother’s where we made gingerbread cookies like crazy people. My mother had bought some dough from a store (why make your own?!) so we spent the day flattening it out and cutting it with all sorts of different shapes. We actually had so much doughRead more

Saturday December 18th 2004 Sniffles I got a cold yesterday (Finnur claims to have one too, but I’m ignoring him so that I can wallow in my own self-pity.. 🙂 which has left me with a runny nose, sore throat and general head-discomfort. I guess it had to happen, but hopefully it’ll all be overRead more

Thursday December 16th 2004 A New Look! Ok, so if you’re looking at this page and the surrounding colors are still all PINK, then you’re missing out on the real thing. Since the website had grown to around 2600 pictures for the year 2004, and our software program was having breathing difficulties on our homeRead more

Wednesday December 15th 2004 Brrr… So finally, a weather update: When we arrived it was raining and just above freezing point. On Monday and Tuesday it dipped just below freezing point but for some reason it didn’t really get so slippery. But now… we have snow!! 🙂 And I think we’re now some 5 celciusRead more

Monday December 13th 2004 Christmas Lights and Road Contructions How about this for a slogon: “Iceland – The Land of Christmas Decorations and Badly Marked Road Constructions”? 🙂 Yes, there are Christmas decorations pretty much everywhere, making the gloomy light more cheerful. And we continually bump into new things in the road system, sometimes itsRead more

Sunday December 12th 2004 In Iceland! We just arrived at my in-laws in Iceland after a fabulous trip. Everything went very smoothly, Anna was on her best behaviour and slept on both planes much to our enjoyment! 🙂 She also provided entertainment during our 5 hour stop-over in Minneapolis! 🙂 I’m doing some initial sortingRead more