August Becomes September
[Photos taken on 20 August – 5 September 2017, posted 10 May 2018. The erratic May snow/hail/wind weather lasted for a whole week, but now we’re back to spring. Yay!]
August brought with it birthday parties, the start of the school year, lovely calm weather, walks, and football (soccer)! Life went on, and started settling down into the schedule that would extend through the winter. (55 images total)
Sunday 20 August 2017
The weather played nice, while Anna and I played Pokemon Go… Some raid or other brought us to a church in Garðabær! Then we had to wait for others to arrive.
Later that day we went to a birthday party. Bjarki was in serious need of food!
Hildur blowing out her candle.
Arnar blowing out his candle. Their birthdays are a week apart.
The crowd cheers and then the eating began!
That evening I kept going through the pile of old stuff. Found this school project by Anna, about Astrid Lindgren and Pippy. I found it adorable enough to photograph all of it. This was made during her first year in Iceland.
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Photos of a construction project related to that project.
And a lovely comment from Anna’s teacher.
Afterwards, Emma insisted she still fit a jumper that Holla knitted for her when she was a new born. Yeah…
By 9:30 pm I’d driven to a nearby lake, for a walk.
This is pretty much in our backyard.
On the opposite side.
I remember limping quite unhappily that evening, due to my very swollen left Achilles tendon.
Cars whizz by this lake at all hours of the day.
Oh, and Finnur attempted to buy toilet paper at CostCo that day, but it was sold out!
Monday 21 August 2017
We finally remembered to check the strawberry plants, and found one that was mostly ready!
August evenings are the best. The kids can stay out until 10 pm and play. Doesn’t happen every night, but once in a while for sure.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! YAY!!!
Thursday 24 August 2017
Every now and then, the Marel staff association brings in cool things, like this mobile ice-cream dispensary!
Only four flavors though, to cut down on the indecision!
Friday 25 August 2017
The real news on this photo is the H&M sign behind Emma. Yup, H&M finally arrived in Iceland (after many years away) this past fall.
Saturday 26 August 2017
Emma was left to her own devices for a few minutes, and when Finnur went to check on her, this is what he found…
But dad… It was an accident.
The clean-up took a while!
Sunday 27 August 2017
I vaguely recall going out towards Álftanes on some Ingress-GPS-game-related business.
Our blue lightning.
Proof it was me!
Bjarki took about 300 photos of himself with my phone that night. Here’s one!
Monday 28 August 2017
My laptop kept slowly dying.
Tuesday 29 August 2017
The sign-in-and-out screen at my job. If you forget the little metallic thing to id you, you’re left with taking a photo of the thing to remember when you showed up. Ancient time registration tech at Marel is a recurring inside joke.
A quick visit to a computer store confirmed that laptops cost twice as much in Iceland as in the US. Thus I decided to wait until Finnur’s next US visit to upgrade.
This was also the time where ads with my brother’s face were EVERYWHERE. EVERYWHERE!!!
Wednesday 30 August 2017
One of the nice features in the new space at work is a “library room”, with a nice chair and footstool. As I’ve participated in choosing a buying a few of the books, finally, my life long ambition to be a librarian has come to pass (a bit).
Friday 1 September 2017
Refueling with Anna before running errands at the local mall.
Saturday 2 September 2017
Cheerful dinner guests! Always a treat! 🙂
Sunday 3 September 2017
Celebrating Nökkvi’s 30th birthday!!!
Candle blowing like a pro!
The other side of the table.
The kids did an excellent decorating job!
Chatting/reading time.
A part of our “present” was Finnur replacing the very old faucet in the kitchen.
Nökkvi chillin’ under Jóhanna’s artwork.
Monday 4 September 2017
I now try to keep this in mind as much as possible. From “Search Inside Yourself.”
Emma defying gravity.
Tuesday 5 September 2017
Ukrainian supporters walking to the national stadium. A football game for a place at the World Cup was about to commence.
Finnur was at the game, which Iceland won!
Singing supporters! Iceland won this game, and two games later, the team had secured a spot at the World Cup for the first time ever!
