First Day of Summer, Nature, and Jigsaw
[Photos from 21-23 April , posted online 26 May 2016. Backtracking yet again…]
As always, I’m conflicted on whether to post old or new stuff, and tonight old stuff wins out. I find it remarkable how I manage to always lose the plot on this blogging thing!
Anyway! Here we have The First Day of Summer (which is a national holiday, always on a Thursday, go figure) which we marked by opening up, cleaning, and filling the hot tub for the first time this year (I think?). Meanwhile, gardening work commenced, and continued into the next day. Saturday saw us visiting good friends, and walking to a beach and back. We saw a spider weave her web, and I completed a stubborn jigsaw. (24 images total)
First Day of Summer – Thursday 21 April 2016
Emma posing just before going into the hot tub. She’s wearing Anna’s old swimsuit!
Easter Holiday Meetups with Friends in Spring + Surprise Winter
[Photos from Saturday 26 to 29 March 2016. Started writing post late 31 March 2016. Bye snow. ]
Easter is the only holiday to come with a guaranteed five-day-long continuous holiday. I wish Christmas-time came wrapped in a similar package.
Since I was still on crutches, we didn’t do much of anything, but we did manage to meet up with some friends, use our hot tub for the first time this year, and then scratch our heads as winter suddenly appeared again as we headed back to work on Tuesday morning. (9 images total)
Saturday 26 March 2016
A small part of the expansive view our friends have out of their kitchen windows.
Confirmation Party – The Arnar Version
[Photos from 24 March 2016, posted online 25 March. Progress?]
Today we attended the confirmation party of Arnar, the son of some friends of ours. It was a lovely party, and we had a great time. (Meanwhile, my brother Bjarni was competing in men’s physique, and he won his category! Yay for him!!!)
Usually I end up being a photographer at events like these, but since I can’t really walk about, I decided against taking my big camera. Alas, because apparently I can’t help myself, I still ended up snapping photos on my phone. (15 images total)
The newly confirmed boy with his mom and dad. His two younger brothers were patiently waiting on the side, while I snapped this on their camera.
A Weekend of Dinners
[Photos from Friday 18 to 20 March 2016, posted online 22 March 2016. Stuffed to the gills!]
Three nights of dinner engagements make for a busy but a fun weekend!
Friday I went to celebrate the 40th birthday of a friend of mine, Saturday we visited Solla and Gunni, and then on Sunday we visited Guðrún and Snorri.
This coincided with spring arriving suddenly, so out of nowhere I was desperate to start tidying up and cleaning now that all the dust mites are screaming for attention. With a bum leg not much got done, but at least the Christmas Cards got taken down from the wall in the hall and album-ed, Finnur attacked the garage, and quite a few death traps got removed. 🙂 (15 images total)
Friday 18 March 2016
The birthday girl!
Dinner with Ragnar, Agnes and their Munchkins
[Photos from Sunday 06 March 2016, posted online 10 March 2016. It hasn’t even been a whole week!]
Ragnar and Agnes (or Agnar and Ragnes, as I usually miscall them, oh brain!) are old friends of Finnur’s. They’re good fun to be around, but live psychologically far away, so we never used to meet up with them much. (They live only 30 minutes away by car, but it involves driving across barren land towards Keflavik airport, making the trip feel much longer.)
Then, during a stroke of genius, we started planning our next meeting before the current one ended, some 6 weeks in the future. Of course, rescheduling happens, but once it’s on the calendar, chances are we’ll actually meet up sooner rather than never.
As it happened, it was Agnes’ birthday (!!!), but they still came over, and we all had a lovely time.
Some photos from my corner on the couch follow… (11 images total)
Agnes, the birthday babe, with her second born.
The End of January … From the Couch
[Photos from 28-31 January 2016, posted online 4 February. Lots of snow coming down, with wind. Oh fun!]
Since I’m stuck on the couch, this blog is stuck on the couch. Deal with it.
Yes, here follow more photos taken from my corner on the couch. It mostly just the kids, but we did entertain Saturday dinner guests, which was nice. The biggest news was probably Anna winning a bronze medal in Shot Put (kúluvarp) in her age group, during her first track and field meet ever. (15 images total)
Thursday 28 January 2016
Bjarki, hunched over a screen of some kind.
New Years Party
[Photos from 2 January 2016, posted on 3 January 2016. Newsflash!]
It’s become an annual tradition in one of my sewing clubs that one member hosts a fancy sit-down dinner for all members and their spouses. This year it was finally our turn, and that meant a lot of head-scratching as to how we were going to fit 15 people into our relatively small living space.
But, it all worked out somehow, and a great time was had by all! It is entirely possible the last guests departed around 4 am… (Photos added 24 January, now there are 6 photos total)
Dinner about to begin!
Ice Skating With Adda and Kids
[Photos from 29 December 2015, posted 25 January 2016. Grass still visible under hail from this morning. Blue-ish skies.]
Adda called during the holiday and asked if we were up for some ice skating. I said yes, and we met up, and had a good time! (9 images total)
Daycare was open for three days between Christmas and New Year’s, and we took Emma there every day, because we’re lazy. That said, she generally arrived very late, around 11 am, after spending the morning frolicking in front of the computer, watching her favorite shows. This photo was taken at 11:11 as I was returning from dropping Emma off at daycare.
December Without Finnur
[Photos from 02-13 December 2015, posted on 7 February 2016. Still on the couch.]
Finnur was in California, visiting his work mother-ship, from 27 November to 14 December. That span covers three weekends. Ayayay!
I’m collecting the photos I took during the first half of December here. I was hunkered down in survival mode, but still stuff happened. Crazy! (41 images total)
Thursday 3 December 2015
Emma loves mixing colors, and painting.
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.