Ólafur Vilhelm Named
[Photos from 18 October 2015, posted online 21 October 2015. Time is on fast-forward!]
The same day as I returned from a week-long work trip to Canada, Steinunn and Einar hosted a naming-party for their second child.
Their older child, Þórarinn Víkingur, was named after his granddad on his mom’s side, so it didn’t come as a huge surprise that the new guy was named after his granddad on his dad’s side. The party was a great success with fantastic food, and a celebratory mood all around! (15 images total)
A cake with a name on it!
Ríkey & Co visit and Finnur’s 40th (+363 days) Birthday Bash
[Photos from 27 July 2015, put online 08 September 2015. Yet another storm hitting.]
Monday was a busy day. My cousin Ríkey and her gang came for a day-long visit, which included american pancakes, and hot tubbing, of course.
In the evening, we handed the kids over to my brother Bjarni, while we took Finnur’s immediate family out for dinner to celebrate his 40th birthday, two days before he would turn 41 years old. Better late than never?! (16 images total)
Pancakes about to be gobbled up. Palli was a little late to join us, and Bjarki was too hungry to be photographed! Also, we TOTALLY failed at photographing the cousins playing. Tsk, tsk!
New Year’s Sushi
Steinunn and Einar are sushi-masters. We somehow convinced them to come over to our place to practice their magic on New Years Day. It was yummy!! 🙂
Busy bees in the kitchen.
New Year’s Eve
We spent the last day of the year 2011 in pretty standard fashion. We began by attending The Annual Dinner With Finnur’s Family (and a couple of their friends) at the lovely adobe of Finnur’s uncle and his wife. After eating far too much, and playing with fireworks, we hightailed it to Hrefna’s family where we hiked up to the hill shortly before midnight (also an annual tradition) and attempted to see the crazy amount of fireworks being fired up at the new year.
Finnur's family and friends at the annual family new year's eve dinner.