Summer Vacation Begins/Bjarki’s 12th Birthday Party
[Photos from 10-12 July 2019, posted online 28 February 2020. Lots of snow falling lately, driving Anna to school in the mornings has been a bit adventurous.]
Emma finally truly graduated from daycare, as it shut down for its summer vacation. We were rather stuck-in-town though for the work-week because Anna kept working at horse-camp. Happily we finally managed to celebrate Bjarki’s 12th birthday, and even go out on a date night! (25-ish images)
Wednesday 10 July 2019
Team Building, Gymnastics Show & Graduation
[Photos from 29 May 2019 to 31 May 2019, posted online 24 November 2019. After a warm spell, we’re back to slightly freezing temps. Finnur heads back to Iceland from California today.]
My group at work has gone through a lot of managers in a short amount of time. As the third manager in four years took the reins (and Excel duty), it was, yet again, time for a bit of team-building. This time the fun-committee decided we should go fishing on a boat, and finish off with a darts competition!
The next day was a public holiday, with all three kids participating in the annual end-of-school-year gymnastics show. This year the theme was superheroes, and what they do is have all the different groups do a particular hero and then rotate them over five shows, so that everybody gets to participate.
The third busy day in a row, we (the adults) attended the graduation party of Finnur’s nephew from junior college. I took some photos of them out in the grassy field behind the church, and got my first insect bites of the season! (45-ish photos total)
Wednesday 29 May 2019
Art Corner, Summer House, & Eddie Izzard
[Photos taken 25 – 31 March 2019, posted online 08 September 2019. Finnur has landed safely in Japan.]
The remains of March were spent making an art-corner for Emma, gymming, going to the summer house, attending a birthday party, aaaand seeing Eddie Izzard perform live! (35-ish images total)
Monday 25 March 2019
Emma’s 6th Birthday Party
[Photos taken 10 March 2019, posted online 01 September 2019. The leaves are beginning to change colors, the sky is blue, and the wind is chilly.]
Poor Emma had been too sick with the flu around her birthday in February to hold a party, and then we went to Florida, so she didn’t get a birthday party until a month after her actual birthday!
She was mostly ok with it, but certainly asked often enough when it would be that there was no chance of forgetting it completely. (10 images total)
Sunday 10 March 2019
Soccer, Snow-Play & Icicles
[Photos taken on 14 – 30 January 2019, posted online 19 July 2019. I seem to be entering perimenopause: insomnia after sleeping for 20-40 minutes is my new nemesis. This is written on three hours of sleep.]
The latter half of January sported enough snow that the sleds got pulled out on a regular basis. Emma also decided that she’d like to start going to football practice, in part because all of her friends seemed to be going to one practice or another on Tuesday afternoons, so there was nobody to play with! Remarkably, Anna also started a new sport, “gymnastics for all”, which she thoroughly enjoyed.
The latter half of January also turned into the exciting icicle watch, as the snow slowly made its way off of our roof! (60-ish photos total)
Monday 14 January 2019
2019 Begins, Yule Ends & People (Un)Socialize
[Photos taken 01-13 January 2019, posted online 18 July 2019. Lovely weather today, warm by Icelandic standards. Happily there’s been enough rain lately that the plants have mostly recovered from the 6-week drought earlier this summer.]
January began with lots of people gatherings, but I was also pretty good about ungathering. We went back to work, the kids back to school, sport practices restarted, and the gingerbread house was demolished and devoured as Yule came to a close. (35-ish images total)
Tuesday 01 January 2019
New Year’s Eve 2018-2019
[Photos taken on 31 December 2018 – 01 January 2019, posted online 08 July 2019. As this is being written, we’re formally on summer holiday, yay!]
New Year’s Eve was a customary one, with us hanging out with Finnur’s family at their big party. (I just checked, and apparently I spent the day blogging about Bjarki’s 11 year old party, which is funny as we just celebrated his 12th yesterday!)
The evening was fun as always, and all talk of fireworks being a silly waste of money drowned in a shower of fireworks…! (45-ish images total)
Anna’s 15th Birthday / Christmas Day 2018
[Photos takend on 25 December 2018, posted online 24 December 2019. It rained last night, here’s hoping the burn grass feels better.]
Christmas Eve rolled into Christmas Day, and thus Anna’s 15th birthday!
It was a fairly typical 25 December. We made desserts to take to Finnur’s parents’ place and then Anna opened her presents. The party was well attended, the food was excellent as always, social whist was played, dessert was eaten, and Anna even got some more presents!
All in all, a very good day! (40-ish images total)
Triple Birthday Party
[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
Autumn Colors, Playing, & Halloween
[Photos taken on 14 – 31 October 2018, posted online 25 26 April 2019. Yesterday was Today is a public holiday as it’s the First Day of Summer.]
The latter half of October whizzed by, much like time in general these days.
I took photos of the autumn colors, the kids played, the bikes got studded tires in preparation for winter, Pokemon Go got played, the burnt building by work finally got some attention, I attended a women’s-protest downtown, we had waffles with Finnur’s family, visited house #2 with friends, and both kids attended Halloween parties!
Whew!! (65-ish images)
Sunday 14 October 2018
