Lots-of-Snow Day & Christmas Photo Attempt #2
[Photos from 1 December 2015, posted online 3 February 2016. It’s bad, I know!]
The weather forecast predicted so much snowfall on this day, that most adults who could work from home, did so, me included. So I said goodbye to the kids, and then had a lovely day working from home. It’s entirely possible that when I get back on my two feet, that I’ll try to institute a work-from-home day every month.
Once they got home, I put up the insta-photo-studio, manged to convince the kids to put nice clothes on, and then I took photos to use for a Christmas card. The card got made, but was never printed, and was only distributed online. Oh well, there’s always next year!
Bjarni came over for dinner, and then I took photos of the copious amount of snow covering the ground, after two days of snowfall.
Photos! (26 photos total)
Emma on her sled as I pulled her home from daycare that afternoon.
Christmas Photo Attempt #1
[Photos from Sunday 29 November 2015, posted online 21 March 2016. Happy 60th Birthday That Was Dad!]
December was almost upon me, and I still hadn’t finished taking Christmas Card Photos! Panic! PANIC!!!!
So, in a fit of insanity, I rustled up the it-sort-of-sometimes-works-but-not-really home-photo-studio, commandeered the kids into fancy clothes, and then made a total mess of taking photos.
It. Was. A. Disaster.
Everyone left the session unhappy, and I mentally kicked myself for all the mistakes I had made, up to and including the terrible background I’d chosen.
Thankfully, some friends had invited us for dinner, so we could take a bit of a breather from ourselves. Thank goodness for great friends!!!
But. Photos were still taken, and so here they are. Also includes a few non-photo-session ones. (17 images total)
How hard can it be to get a good photo of three kids? Pretty darn hard, it turns out!
Thanksgiving 2015
[Photos from 28 November 2015, posted online 21 March 2016. The thaw helps with blogging apparently…]
No sooner had Finnur left for California, when some of the ex-Californians got together to celebrate Thanksgiving! Oh, and it also SNOWED a ton overnight! (20 images total, HERE ARE ALL THE PHOTOS)
Very thankful ex-Californians about to eat a lot of great food.
Filling in the November 2015 Hole
[Photos from 1 to 26 (!!!) November 2015, posted online on 16 March 2016. This is what guilt looks like!]
This past autumn somehow, slowly but surely, crushed me.
By the time the kids were taken care of by 9 pm, I was totally done for, and blogging (which I enjoy, darnit!) rarely happened. Documenting our busy summer months took half of forever, so when I looked back over the year in January, I discovered I’d posted ZERO things from November. That hasn’t happened in years…
Since November (and the autumn in general) still taunts me, I’m going to try and give it a little love. I hope you bear with me! (42 images total)
Sunday 1 November 2015
Anna wearing a fun mask her grandparents bought on one of their recent travels.
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!
The Tail-End of October 2015
[Photos from 19 to 31 October 2015, posted online on 7 April 2016. The Icelandic political situation is depressing.]
Just photos from the tail end of October of last year. Bits, and bobs, as usual. (20 images total. Note the first version of this post only had 11, as it didn’t include Halloween.)
Monday 19 October 2015
A charging post was installed at my workplace, and I decided to finally test it out. It seems about as efficient as the one we’ve got in the garage at home.
An Autumn Day at Home
[Photos taken on 10 October 2015, put online on 11 October 2015. Current stuff!]
I realized with some surprise that I’d yet to take a single photo of the autumn colors. So right before heading off to Canada for a week, I got two of the kids to go outside and pose for photos.
Earlier in the morning I also took some photos during ‘computer time’, except the tablet Emma was going to watch was out of batteries, so she ended up painting, the poor thing. Yes, this post only has photos of the kids. My privilege. (24 images total)
Kids being unusually cooperative for two seconds. And yes, Emma’s begun to figure out how biking works, but she’s very slow still.
Airport, Dinner, Art (FFF-style), and Kids
[Photos from 01 to 05 October 2015, posted online 26 March 2016. Yup, that’s the wrong year.]
My digging into the photo-vaults continues. This time it’s October 2015.
This post has me driving my mom to the airport, us visiting friends for dinner, me going downtown to look at some art and hanging out at a new cafe, and the kids being cute. (27 images total)
Thursday 01 October 2015
Dropping mom off at the airport, as she goes to visit the Bournemouth-ers.
The State of Things – Fall 2015 Edition
I spent so much time trying to finish blogging most of July, that August seemingly never happened. Hoping to start fixing that soon. But, in the meantime, a quick status update, going from youngest to oldest. Emma, the rascal, has potty trained herself, and now goes without diapers except at night, or on long carRead more
Daily life, Lots of Bjarki and Emma
[Photos from 12-14 September 2015, posted online 23 November 2015. Procrastinating like crazy!]
More random photos from the phone. Snapshots of life being lived, I guess! (10 images total)
Saturday 12 September 2015
Bjarki playing with his cousin Ólafur.