[Photos taken on 11-12 July 2018, posted on 3 January 2019. Back to work yesterday]
For our summer vacation this year, we traveled to Colorado, to stay with our good friends Sarah and Augusto. They kindly housed us for two weeks, which was great! (25-ish images)
[Photos taken on 10 July 2018, posted on 31 December 2018. This is a day of waiting.]
We celebrated Bjarki’s 11 year old birthday with a party at home with family, and some friends. (15-ish images)
[Photos taken on 01-09 July 2018, posted on 31 December 2018. Snow lost the battle with rain and warmth.]
While we were catching our breaths after the madness that was June, Emma lost her first tooth, we celebrated by visiting the farm animal & family park, I hid at various cafes, the grass got moved, we summer-housed more, and hair got cut, as we mentally prepared ourselves for going on summer vacation for real! (40-ish images)
[Photos taken on 19-28 June 2018, posted on 30 December 2018. I’m liking this long holiday.]
When Iceland qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (of men’s soccer) held in Russia, Finnur was on the fence about going, but in the end he applied for tickets, and got tickets to two games: Iceland-Nigeria in Volgograd, and Iceland-Croatia in Rostov. Since we are all about sensible traveling, he flew via Sweden, staying overnight both ways.
While he was away, I held down the fort with Anna’s help, and even made it to the summer house. On the day Finnur returned, Bjarki turned 11 years old!
There are lots of photos here from Finnur, but I don’t really know the story behind them. (150-ish photos total. How did that happen?!)
[Photos taken on 09-17 June 2018, posted on 29 December 2018. We finally got a touch a frost, and an inkling of snow.]
We now own a summer house. It’s been a long time coming, with both of us following summer house listings for over a year. Yes, we’ve been quite happy with the summer house Finnur and his siblings inherited from their grandparents, but as all the kids have gotten bigger, space has gotten smaller, and fitting everyone in was getting increasingly difficult.
So, we bought a house. It’s in the west of Iceland, has three bedrooms, a potential for a fourth, and very unusually, it has a huge garage, or “recreational room with a large door”, as it’s formally known. We decided this would be a great room to have kids hang out in, and so far it’s worked out well. (65-ish images total)
[Photos taken on 01-08 June 2018, posted on 26 December 2018. We’ve had a lovely yule, albeit weirdly warm, with zero chance of snow.]
Sometime in May, we made an offer to buy a summer house, and much to our shock, it was accepted. The formal exchange was scheduled for 9 June, so until then I spent most after-work hours scouting various furniture and household stores. I hadn’t quite realized we’d essentially need to double all our stuff?!
In between there were Emma pick-ups, a gymnastics show, flowers got planted, others grew, Finnur kept working on the wall, school ended, and the sun shone quite a lot. (40-ish images)
[Photos taken on 20-31 May 2018, posted on 22 December 2018. First day of a 11 day long holiday!]
Towards the tail-end of May we got invited to a Christening, a graduation party, Emma kept practicing biking, we bought a summer house that needed furnishing, and life kept happening at lightning pace! (50-ish images!)
[Photos taken on 12-19 May 2018, posted on 16 December 2018. It’s wet and warm outside. Finnur’s in the USA, expected to return in a couple of days.]
In a fit of insanity/curiosity/too-much-sleep I decided to dig a large hole behind the sloping wall in our backyard, “to see what was behind it”. This ended with Finnur completely dismantling the whole wall, and rebuilding it, now with drainage, in the hopes that it won’t start leaning again any time soon. This project took the whole entire summer to complete!
Aside from that, live went on as usual! (20-ish photos total)
[Photos taken on 07-11 May 2018, posted on 03 December 2018. Trying to do small updates and not mega-posts.]
Biking to work, hair cuts, farm-animal park visit, celebration at daycare, and gymnasium opening. It was a busy five days in May!! (24-ish images total)
[Photos taken on 03-05 May 2018, posted on 02 December 2018. It is chilly but pretty with clear skies outside. Long time since any precipitation came down.]
A few photos of when winter was trying to hold on, but summer was’t really having it. (12 images total)
