Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Ólafur Vilhelm Named

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[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

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[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.

Work-trip to Canada in October 2015

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[Photos from 10 to 17 October 2015, posted on 6 April 2016. Nostalgia-time!]

I returned to Canada for a week-long work-trip in October, a loooong loooong time ago. As before, I flew with my colleagues to Edmonton, to work in a factory close by. (31 images total)

Saturday 10 October 2016

Selfie, as we wait to board a bus to the plane at Keflavik.

An Autumn Day at Home

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[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

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[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

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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

Super-Short-Notice Work-Trip to Denmark

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[Photos from 15-18 September 2015, online on 24 November 2015-ish. Joy!]

On Monday I was asked if I could travel to Denmark the day after for a four-day work trip (very Icelandic planning!). The job was a relatively simple one, daytime-hours only, so it turned into a wonderful me-time trip.

Yes, I’d just returned to work after a five week long summer vacation, but the vacation apparently only lowered my stress levels, but didn’t replenish much energy. I blame the constant chorus of mommy-mommy-mommy!

So, after I’d gotten over my initial nerves over the job at hand, I had a lovely couple of late afternoons, and evenings, where I could wander around in peace, do some shopping, eat dinners in silence, and read a book I’d been putting off reading for a month. Did I tell the world I’m an introvert already? (54 images total)

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Me walking along the terminal at Keflavik airport.

Daily life, Lots of Bjarki and Emma

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[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.

Tour de Marel Fundraising and Family Festival

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[Photos from 11 September 2015, began online posting process on 22 November 2015. Harhardeehar!]

At some point in the not too distant past, Marel began hosting a fundraising/family day in the fall. This effort is called Tour de Marel, and the current theme is raising money for an SOS children’s village on the Ivory Coast. The timing for fundraising for a fairly regular charity was a bit unfortunate, because this was right about the time where the media was awash with (the first wave of) images of death from the massive migration over the Mediterranean Ocean.

Still, the fundraising happened, and went pretty well. For no real discernible reason, except that it sounds cool, it was again decided to “collect km” to travel to the village in question. The km could be collected by either running or biking a mapped circuit. I decided to bike, and made it almost the entire 17 km before I managed to bust my tire, meaning that was the end of my biking exploits.

The route took me into the back-country a bit, and it was beautiful. Later in the day, the whole family showed up to do fun stuff. (16 images total)

Hrefna (me!) biking a 17 km circle for Tour de Marel.

Life Trundles on as September Begins

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[Photos from 1 to 10 September 2015, posted online 18 November 2015. The stubbornness is strong in this one.]

Just a collection of random snapshots from the first ten days of September as life returned to “normal”. (10 images total)

Tuesday 1 September 2015

Emma and her future husband, walking together around the daycare sandbox at pickup time.