Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Anna 14 Years Old/Yule Day #1 & #2

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[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!

Yule 2017

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[Photos taken on 24 December 2017, posted on 29 July 2018. Finnur’s 44 years old today, it’s 22C/72F outside, and cloudy right now (!!!), and I’m at Norðurbakkinn cafe.]

The Big Yule Day finally arrived! Finnur as usual took care of all things kitchen related, while I took care of the gift-side of things. Anna helped with tidying up, and uh, it was a pretty fine day overall. (21 images total)

Kiddos in front of the tree right before dinner started (and they’d gotten permission to open one present each, on condition they posed for a photo!).

Gleðilegt allt!! Happy Everything!!

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[Photo from November 2017, posted online 26 December 2017. Wondering if I should keep blogging…]

Dear whomever still visits this page. We wish you a happy everything! Here is this year’s card, in two languages (scroll down for English) 🙂

Gleðilegt allt!!

December 2017 – The Run-Up to Christmas

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[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 Worktrip #1 to Freezing Canada

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[Photos taken on 26 November – 05 December 2017, posted on 17 July 2018. This post is being written at the OZO coffee stop in Longmont, Colorado, USA!]

In late November I went on the first of what would be three work-trips in a short span of time to a certain facility in Canada , where we were running experiments. Thankfully, for the first trip, there was still a direct flight to Edmonton, but I would not be so lucky with the next two trips. Oh well. It meant I got to visit Vancouver and Toronto, albeit briefly. (41 images total)

Sunday 26 November 2017

Yours truly sitting by the departure “gate”. The airport is now under so much construction that we ended up walking up through some maintenance stairwell to get to the actual gate!

November 2017 – Snow, Sledding, and Friends

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[Photos taken on 03 – 25 November 2017, posted on 15 July 2018. This post is being written at the Javastop in Longmont, Colorado, USA!]

November, November…! A wall got painted in a complicated way, we visited friends, there was snow, sledding, and coffee house trips. Bjarki competed in group-gymnastics, and we happily attended a Thanksgiving feast with other ex-Californians! (70 images total)

Friday 03 November 2017

Once Emma got a pink wall in her room, Bjarki requested a blue one in his room. I went to get some samples (many weeks prior to this), and painted three large swaths of them on his wall. He couldn’t decide between the the colors, instead deciding that he wanted all of them, in large stripes!! This Friday I finally got going, using a slim wooden stick, 1/6 of the wall length, and a pencil, to make guidelines.

Winter Break Trip to the UK – Part 2 of 2

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[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

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[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.

Daily Life of October 2017

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[Photos taken on 01 – 24 October 2017, posted ~~3 June~~ 14 June 2018. ~~Summer’s nowhere in sight~~. It’s warm-ish out there but the sun keeps hiding behind clouds. Also, we’ve bought a summer house.]

October passed, here are snapshots. Mostly it was just daily life as usual, with trips to the farm animal park, a trampoline park, a swimming pool, a coffee house or two, Ingress the GPS game posted a challenge, autumn came for real, so did the northern lights, and my workplace hosted a party.

Finnur spent the last week of October was spent in the UK, and the rest of us joined him for a few days over winter school break, which will be covered in a separate post. (75 images total)

Sunday 01 October 2017

Emma out in the wet backyard.

September 2017

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[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.