Dinners, Wicked Weather, and Pandemic
[Photos taken on 03-11 February, posted on 8 September 2018. It’s getting a bit chilly out there.]
Snapshots from the run-up to Emma’s 5th birthday. There were dinner parties galore, some board-game playing, and crazy weather. How very February! (15 images total)
Saturday 03 February 2018
Pretty clouds as we made our way to Hafnarfjörður. I vaguely recall us going to the swimming pool there.
People Gatherings as 2018 Began
[Photos taken on 01 January 2018 – 08 January 2018, posted on 07 August 2018. Sitting at Súfistinn, after tidying up the garage today.]
The first eight days of January 2018 included no fewer than four food-included get-together-s with friends and family galore! (22 images total)
Monday 01 January 2018
Photo of the smog still sitting on top of Reykjavik (that grayness by the bottom of the mountain) after the massive fireworks the evening before. Yes, I ventured to the only open coffee house I knew of to work on photos. I thought it was a good way to start the new year!
Anna 14 Years Old/Yule Day #1 & #2
[Photos taken on 25-26 December 2017, posted on 30 July 2018 from Nauthóll. The view is gorgeous, with the clouds rolling by, sun shining on the sea, and chatter all around. Finnur keeps building the wall in our backyard…]
This years Yule-tide celebrations didn’t stray much from the regular formula. On Christmas Day #1 we headed to Finnur’s parents’ place for a feast and social whist, bringing desserts to sing Happy Birthday to Anna over, while on Christmas Day #2 we got invited to my uncle’s for a small get-together with even more good food! (37 images total)
Much food was eaten, many words were spoken, games were played, and general well-being remained high.
Monday 25 December 2017
Anna, formally 14 years old, by the cheesecake she made herself, from scratch!
December 2017 – The Run-Up to Christmas
[Photos taken on 07 December – 23 December 2017, posted on 28 July 2018. This post is being written at Kaffi Laugalækur while looking at Mount Esja, on an overcast day. Yesterday was lovely though. Finnur’s rebuilding a wall in our backyard.]
December is always a stressful month, with all the yule-tide preparations etc, and the jetlag didn’t help matters.
Highlights were Bjarki’s guitar recital, yule-celebrations at work and school, birthday celebrations large and small, gift-buying, hosting a sewing club, the annual yule-tide photo-shoot, and ginger-bread and twisted doughnut making the night before Yule! Phew! (77 images total and 1 video).
Thursday 07 December 2017
Bjarki playing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer at the yule-recital.
Winter Break Trip to the UK – Part 2 of 2
[Photos taken on 29 – 30 October 2017, posted on 30 June 2018. The weather is demoralizing.]
For our two remaining days in the UK, Finnur took the kids to a trampoline park (my Achilles tendon wasn’t up to the task) while I went shopping. Then we had a good time at the local playground. This page contains quite a few animated gifs which might need a while to load. (36 images total)
Sunday 29 October 2017
Cute photo of the siblings on the playground close to where (grand)dad lives.
Winter Break Trip to the UK – Part 1 of 2
[Photos taken on 26 – 28 October 2017, posted on 19 29 June 2018. It’s been a VERY cloudy June so far, and Finnur’s just landed in arrived back from Russia to attend where he attended two World Cup games.]
We used the opportunity of a two-day long winter break to skip on over to the UK to stay with my dad and Shirley for a few days. Finnur had set out the weekend before, and used that week to work at the Google office in London.
On the first whole day we visited the local ski center and tried the toboggan run, and on the second I took the big kids up to London to see family! (63 images total)
Thursday 26 October 2018
The kids by the departure gate in Keflavik.
September 2017
[Photos taken on 13 – 30 September 2017, posted 27 May 2018. It’s muggy out there. May’s been record-breaking wet.]
I had barely returned from my work-trip to Northern-Ireland when Finnur took off for Japan and California for work. Here are photos from life which still went on, somehow. (71 images total)
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Me in downtown Reykjavik, at 18:51. The days had started to get shorter. I vaguely remember being downtown to eat dinner with some work-related visitors from abroad.
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.
Bjarki’s 10th Birthday Celebration
[Photos taken on 02 July 2017, posted online on 17 October 2017. The days are getting noticeably shorter.]
We’ve come a long way from the Night of Extreme Drama, some 10 years ago. Yes, that means, Bjarki’s now 10 years old!
To celebrate, we held a customary birthday bash for family and friends. Just to see how it would go, we sourced almost all the food at Costco, which went fairly well.
On to the photos (18 images total)!
The birthday cake. We got it at Costco, and Anna added the personal touch.
The Groundhog Days of June 2017
[Photos taken on 06 June 2017 to 01 July 2017, posted online on 14 October 2017. Fall colors everywhere!]
In retrospect, we spent June in large part waiting for July to begin, with its summer vacation. To pass the time, the big kids went to horse camp, while Emma continued on in daycare, and the adults kept showing up for work.
Aside from meeting friends and family, and Finnur breaking his collar bone, it was all a bit Groundhog Day-y! (111 images total!!!!)
Tuesday 06 June 2017
The hot tub being put to good use, as we said farewell to my brother Pétur, and his son Fannar, who were about to move to the UK to rejoin Signý. The get-together also nearly coincided with my brother Bjarni’s birthday.