Triple Birthday Party

2018-12-20Birthday, Finnur's family, Hrefna's family, Us Standard

[Photos from 20-22 December 2018, posted online on 13 June 2019. It’s been crazy sunny lately, and not a drop of rain for 3 weeks. Weird.]

Like in previous years, we held a joint birthday party for the three cousins, Anna, Ylfa, and Iðunn. It was just a quiet family affair, as the big event of Christmas was looming right around the corner.

The following days were the calm before Yule-day. Sort of… (25-ish images total)

Thursday 20 December 2018

Anna’s cake, that she made from scratch, with zero help from the adults!
Jóhanna brought an adorable cake for her girls, as usual. 🙂
Emma by a picture that Jóhanna drew of her!
One of the birthday girls.
Great-grandma arrived with presents for all the great-grandkids!
Cuteness overload!
Gifts being examined.
Chatting while the pizzas were being picked up.
Brother Bear showed up, and got hugged to pieces.
Nephew and uncle.
Pizzas!
Time to sing!
Great teamwork!
Emma got to participate in the next lighting job.
I’m still in awe of the decorating job Anna did.
Singing in progress.
Keeping Bjarki from doing the honors. Then we ate cake and then the guest went home! 🙂

Friday 21 December 2018

Hairdo practice.
Rare mother-daughter selfie.
Mom and two grand-daughters.
Finnur took this photo of his parents with most of the younger grand-kids.

Saturday 22 December 2018

Saturday-morning ritual complete.
Decided to try a new location to hang out after gym.
They sell a lot of tempting stuff!
I came to the conclusion that this bakery was just too popular to really hang out in, in relative peace and quiet. Oh well, good try.
At home, Emma figured a skirt would be warm enough to be outside in.
Looks like we were cleaning the hot tub. It happens!