Open-Yule-Presents Day

2019-12-24Christmas, Us Standard

[Photos taken 24 December 2019, posted online 20 June 2020. Funny to look back to the dark winter now as the daylight never really leaves.]

The mad post-renovation-tidying continued while Finnur magic-ed a festive yule-meal in the kitchen. After eating a delicious meal, we opened all the presents. A good time was had by all! (25-ish images)

Tuesday 24 December 2019

This year’s holiday “card”.
I began the day like many others at a cafe.
Back at home, Emma did a good job tidying up her art-corner.
Tree up and fully stocked with presents!
I spent the majority of the day digging the front room out from under the piles of garage stuff that had been thrown in there when the bathroom renovations began and the contractors needed space the the garage to store their stuff, and also to lay down the new pipes. As Emma’s patience wore thin (“When will we open the presents?!?!”) I dragged her out for a bit of sledding shortly before 5 pm.
Big enough to drag the sled up the steep hill/sound barrier by the end of the street!
Action shot from a different hill/sound barrier.
Heading home after being outside for all of 15 minutes…
Beautiful!
Half an hour before dinner was set to begin, I claimed victory over the front room! I didn’t take a before photo, just imagine piles and piles and piles of stuff covering the whole room!
Siblings, at varying stages of impatience, in front of the tree.
Using the big camera.
Here be fancy dinner, finally!
Finnur doing the cutting.
Emma, still exercising her patience muscles.
Bjarki, looking forward to good food.
Daughter and father.
Emma well protected.
Mother and son.
I’ve yet to master insta-shots of food.
Finnur opted for a tried and trusted dessert: ice cream. Bjarki approved!
With that, present opening could commence. Emma got an electronic animal!
Opening well under way judging by the amount of paper already in the big bag.
We managed to mostly adhere to the “only one present being opened at a time” rule, but I long ago gave up formally documenting who gave what, so we thank everybody for their kind gifts!!
Finnur transported this colorful unicorn outfit all the way from the US, and I was very happy that it was a big hit, because she’d outgrown her old gorilla one. After all the presents had been opened, it was time for bed and a bit of R&R for the old folks. Happy Everything!