Anna’s Confirmation Photos
[Photos taken on 23 April 2017, posted online 06 July 2017. It’s wet out there!]
Right after Anna returned from the hairdressers, and before we hopped off to the confirmation ceremony, I took photos of Anna in our living room.
As it happened, the sun had a direct line of sight into one side of the living room, meaning light conditions were wonky, but it sure made the colors pop!
Furthermore, these photos have only been manipulated by me in Picasa (mostly contrast and lighting, and a lot of backdrop wrinkle removal), but it’ll have to do for now.
On to the photos! (15 images total)
Anna Sólrún, about to be confirmed!
Confirmation Day Preparations
[Photos taken 17 to 22 April 2017, posted online 5 July 2017. The summer holiday looms!]
The week after Easter Sunday was in large part spent preparing for the big (80 person) confirmation party we were about to host the following Sunday.
We tried to keep things fairly laid back, but there was a test-hairdo appointment, old photos to sort through and get printed, finalizing decorations, finalizing food matters, hiring a helper, sorting out flowers, actually setting up the room, etc., etc…
I’m pretty sure we spent more time organizing this party than we did organizing our own wedding! But it was (mostly) fun, and nobody quite freaked out. (25 images total)
Monday 17 April 2017
(Second Day of Easter = Public Holiday)
That Monday I took off to a new cafe in Hafnarfjörður to finish picking out old photos of Anna. I think that’s Bjarki sliding down a hill on the screen though!
Easter Sunday (aka Chocolate Day) 2017
[Photos taken on Easter Sunday 16 April 2017, posted online on 03 July 2017. At my favorite cafe!]
Yet another year, yet another Easter Sunday, also known as The Day of Chocolate.
Now, because I can, here are links to the Easter Posts/Photos from previous years:
- 2016 – Feast at Finnur’s parents’ house in Iceland (Finnur wins the whist tournament again!),
- 2015 – Feast at Finnur’s parents’ house in Iceland (Finnur wins the whist tournament!),
- 2014 – Feast at Finnur’s parents’ house in Iceland,
- 2013 – Feast at Finnur’s parent’s house in Iceland, and Emma gets her name ,
- 2012 – Feast at Finnur’s parent’s house in Iceland (Google photos),
- 2011 – Feast at Finnur’s parents’ house in Iceland (Google photos),
- 2010 – Feast in our duplex in Mountain View, with August and Sarah (Google photos),
- 2009 – Potluck in our duplex in Mountain View, with the families of Edda, Sigga, Soffía, and Sólveig,
- 2008 – Hidden Villa Easter egg hunt in the woods with Anna’s daycare group, then candy-feast in our Stanford apt.,
- 2007 is missing!,
- 2006 – In Hawaii with Guðrún and Snorri (aka Finnur’s crab feast!),
- 2005 – Hrefna and Anna in Iceland. We ate eggs with Hrefna’s brothers, then visited Finnur’s parents,
- 2004 – Anna’s first Easter feast, held in our Mountain View apartment, with Kerri, Augusto and Sarah,
- 2003 is missing!,
- 2002 – Feast at Gunnhildur and Jón’s í Los Angeles,
- 2001 – Feast in our Stanford high-rise apartment, with Kerri, Todd, Tally, Viola and Carlo.
Good times! And now for some photos from this year! (49 images total!)
The kiddos with their Easter eggs.
Walks, Visits, and a Rock Opera
[Photos taken 04 – 15 April 2017, posted online 01 July 2017. I sure hope the next update isn’t in August!]
The first half of April included Hrefna (me) taking lots of walks, Pétur and Fannar visiting, seeing a rock opera, visiting Finnur’s parents’ summer house, and going swimming, while trying not to freak out about organizing the upcoming confirmation party for Anna. (55 images total )
Tuesday 04 April 2017
Pétur and Fannar came over for dinner and a soak. Fannar turned out to have a small infection by one of his fingernails. so we tried to protect it with a plastic bag. Aaaalmost succeeded!
Baldur’s Confirmation
[Photos taken on 02 April 2017, posted online on 01 July 2017. Maybe.]
Baldur, the middle child of our good friends Guðrún and Snorri, got civilly confirmed on this rather rainy Sunday. I had agreed to serve as photographer, so his dad brought him over to our house for a 30 minute photo session in our living room, and then I shot photos at the party after the ceremony. (27 images total)
Mr. Baldur, about to be civilly confirmed.
Fundraising Choir and Dinner with Friends
[Photos from 01 April 2017, posted online 01 JULY 2017. Three months behind now. Is catching up even doable?!]
Bjarki’s been singing with the school choir this year, mostly because the practices happen to fall on school time, and one of his bests friends is in it too.
For the past three years the choir has joined with other choirs, conducted by the same conductor, to perform as one to fund a charity.
This year the charity concert was held in a church in the Grafarvogur suburb of Reykjavík, and it was very nice.
After the concert, Bjarki and I visited a new coffee house, and then we all drove to our friends Ragnar and Agnes where we ate dinner. (17 images and 1 video total)
Looking at the combined choir, and a small portion of the audience.
March 2017 in Snapshots
[Photos from 03 – 31 March 2017, posted online 07 June 2017. Took a detour into Ingress-land, and then went on a 10-day long work-trip.]
March was a rather scattershot month. Here’s what got photographed. (62 images total)
Friday 03 March 2017
Anna’s Orthodontic Adventure continues, and is apparently going well.
Hrefna’s 40th Birthday!
[Photos from 01 March 2017, posted online 8 May 2017. Tick, tock, tick, tock!]
I turned 40 years old the other day (ahemm, two months ago!). Let’s all pause to let that sink in.
I’d gone back and forth on the party/no party question and then the “what kind of party”, but as our schedule started lining up (the following weekend got completely filled up!), it became clear that a small gathering at home after work, with ‘bought ready food’ would be ‘it’.
I pat myself on the back for at least celebrating the day, as it was tempting (easier) not to. I’m pretty happy about the age upgrade though, and I expect to become very mature in the coming days/weeks/months/years. Any time now really. (16 images total)
Hrefna, 40 years old, and perhaps missing a few marbles.
The Great Snowpalooza of 2017
[Photos from 26 February – 1 March 2017, posted online 1 May 2017. Finnur and Anna are in Paris this long weekend, on her confirmation gift trip.]
This winter was a warm one. Even climate-change-y warm if you are inclined to believe scientists.
In fact, February was so warm that the news were full of photos of trees starting to bloom way too early, and birds preparing to lay eggs, also way too early…
Thankfully, a freak snow-dump turned winter back on, with style. Yup, we went to bed with almost no snow, and woke up to 50-60cm (almost 2 feet) of powder covering everything!
Happily, the snow-dump happened on a Sunday, so we had lots of time to clear the driveway, and saw neighbors out we’ve never seen before. 🙂 (42 images total)
Sunday 26 February 2017
The view out the window at 08:40 in the morning.
Me-Time, Sled-Time, Shop-Time
[Photos from 25 February 2017, posted online 17 April 2017. Sitting at the Cafe Norðurbakkinn for the first time. I think I’ll come here again.]
I started reading a “creativity” book, which inspired me to document a day with my big camera. Yes, the phone camera is fine, but the big one is better.
It was a Saturday, and I’ve taken to grabbing photo/blogging/me-time at lunchtime until Finnur heads off to his football-time. Once my solitary stay at a cafe downtown ended, I took Emma and then Bjarki out to play in the remains of the snow. We ended up at the local mall where we bought Ash Wednesday costumes (it’s our Halloween day). (39 images total)
Squinting into the sun by the Reykjavik harbor.