Filling in the November 2015 Hole

Anna wearing a fun mask her grandparents bought on one of their recent travels.

Calm times in with the grandparents.

Emma showing off her hand-paint-job.

Weirdly cool.

I think I was taking the trash out, when I noticed the northern lights were going crazy. I snapped this with my phone (I’ve upped the brightness a bit), and then went back inside, where it was warm!

We were invited to a 40th birthday party, so we used the babysitting opportunity and also went out to dinner.

We went to Restó, which had great food, and we exited very full!

We didn’t know many people at the party besides the birthday boy, but we had a good time nonetheless. A high-point was his friends carrying in a huuuuge present, which turned out to be a wrapped up wooden frame, with gifts hanging from the rafters!

We attended a double-birthday party in Finnur’s family.

Double selfie!

That’s a LOT of colors!

Our kids being calm as usual!

Steinunn’s little one is getting so big!

Emma coming back for thirds…

Sofa creatures, or “Two brothers, their parents, and a redhead”.

Trying a different hair style for a few minutes at work.  I didn’t quite have enough hair to pull it off, so away it went.  Maybe later!

Some of my coworkers, enjoying coffee at the fancy coffee stop on the ground floor.

The employee association at Marel offered tickets to a hit theater showing of Robin Hood (the acrobatic/feminist edition) at a steep discount. I jumped at the opportunity, and invited a friend of Anna’s along. (The show was recommended for 10 year olds and up, so Bjarki will have to see it in a few years.) The national theater is housed in that gray building behind them.

Inside the auditorium.

The whole play was performed using this backdrop, which was in part a huge slide, a castle with a drawbridge, a forest, and a few other things. They made really great use of all the volume!

Munching and drinking during the intermission. The play was super fun, and the girls where super happy!

Our friends from California, Úlfar and Lotta, stayed in Iceland this whole autumn, and we finally managed to gather them, along with Guðrún and Snorri, for a brunch at our house. Gathering three busy families in one spot is no easy feat!

Cute kiddos!  Shame the flash flashed so hard!

As we were tidying up for our visitors, we found this note from Anna: “I don’t like tidying up, and Emma was hiding in my closet.”

In the afternoon, we went to yet another birthday party! There are a lot of them in November!

Living room view, before everybody got cake…

Bjarki taking my photo as I finish writing down his nightly reading-out-loud-for-school.

Fast-forwarding to the next weekend, we again had some friends over. Finnur made seafood soup for dinner, and I was sent out on an emergency run to acquire coconut milk, which Finnur had forgotten to buy. Who knew there were so many brands available in the organic section!?!

I sadly took almost no photos at all. This one was taken mostly as a place-marker that’d we’d actually met up with Solla and Gunni, because it can take weeks to catch up with them!

Their happy guy!

The living room at 9 am on a Sunday morning: Dark outside, and two kids watching brain-killing stuff on the computers. The oldest kiddo was probably still asleep at that point.

A double selfie!

I escaped out of the house for a bit, and went shopping. At the bookstore I got a huge flashback to my youth from this lego-set. Oh, I spent sooooo many hours building spacecrafts from bricks like those!

Because there aren’t enough weekends, we had friends over for the second night in a row.  This time it was Ragnar and Agnes and their fun kiddos.

The other end of the table.

The adorable ones.

Oh, yeah!

At a birthday party for my boss, who’d just turned 40 years old. All decade birthdays get this special treatment, which is really nice. 🙂

A doodle from a meeting at work, where I had no input to give, but needed to stay alert.

Picking Emma up from daycare. I was attempting to take a photo of her fancy hairdo, but she was too far away.

There she is. 🙂

Bjarki outside, celebrating the first of the snow, at 8 pm in the evening.  It’s now 16 March 2016, and finally, the last of ice-banks on the street outside our house have melted away.  It almost felt like spring today!