… so I can do what I want to! 🙂 Which in the case of this website was to correct all the posting dates of posts posted this fall and winter to be on the date of occurrence, and not the date of writing. This means posts that are currently below this post are inRead more
[This happened on 12 February 2015, and is being blogged the same day!]
Our little munchkin, Emma Ósk, turned two years old today! She began the day by sleeping to 8 am, after having a hard time falling asleep the night before, due to a gleeful need to pull all sorts of tricks in her crib. This included wiggling out of her night-onesie, and jumping around in her crib wearing only a diaper while calling for a new one. Good times!
Since Emma’s still so small, we decided to host as small a family birthday party as we could possibly get away with, after work, on her actual birthday. She hopefully has many years of bigger parties to come, but this was the right sized crowd for her right now. (It’s really weird to have a party on a Thursday. Now that the party is over, I keep thinking it must be a Saturday or a Sunday!)
Anyway, on to the photos! (19 images total)
Chocolate cake, assembled the evening before.
[Photo from Saturday 07 February 2015, put online 10 February 2015. Speedy!] I’m finally about recovered from a week-long work-trip to Ireland at the end of January, so I’ve started to fantasize about giving myself time to blog again. In the meantime, have an animated gif of Emma on the rocking horse on our localRead more
[Photos and blog entry from Sunday 01 February 2015. Enjoy!]
Hey, it’s February!! How’d that happen?!?!
We were expecting afternoon visitors, but they had to cancel, so instead I took the big kids to the library (+ quick FFF stop at the photography museum showroom), coffee house, and Nökkvi’s library, before taking Emma outside, and then ending up making a ton of snowmen, because the snow was perfect! (30 images total)
Winter Wonderland!
[Photos taken between 00:01 and 00:20 on 03 January 2015. Blogged shortly thereafter. As in, within the hour!]
Aurora photos started popping up on Facebook, so I decided to check conditions, and found a clear sky, and active lights bouncing here and there. Stayed out for about 20 minutes, or until my fingers were about to fall off. Gloves? Who needs gloves where there are green lights in the sky?!?! (5 images total)
These photos span three minutes of real time.
[Photos and blog from 02 January 2015. New year, yeah baby!]
I saw a post on Facebook earlier tonight that there were northern lights out. Since the tripod was on hand, I decided to go outside and try taking my first photos of the lights in the sky.
Sadly, it was rather cloudy over our part of town, but I still got a few shots, before the lights moved on. (3 images total)
Up the street.
[Photo from 31 December, blogged into the future on 31 December 2014!!]
Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 (5 images total)
Tripods are awesome!
[Happened and blogged on 31 December 2014.] This is shaping up to be an unusual New Year’s Eve, particularly for me (Hrefna) and Emma. Emma has been unwell all day, with a temperature of 39.0°C/102.2°F, and unhappily teething. Therefore, she’s not fit for a party. Since the other two kiddos are fighting fit, Finnur took them toRead more
[This happened earlier tonight, on 28 December 2014. Try not to faint.]
We attended a dinner party earlier this evening. When we left the party, we found, much to our surprise, that our car had slid, yes, SLID, almost all the way onto an adjacent car.
Yes, we’d parked it on a slight sideways incline, sans studded tires, on top of a thick sheet of bumpy ice. Little did we suspect that the wind and ice and gravity would conspire to push the car until it hit actual ground, which thankfully coincided with the side-mirror all but touching (maybe touching?) the other car.
Our hosts helped us track the owner of the other car down, and he successfully managed to back his car out of the tight spot, veeeeery sloooooowly, without incident. Phew! (4 images total)
Manly men checking out the near-collision situation.
[Photos from 26 December, written up on 30 December 2014. Just for kicks.]
The big kids have been overdosing on computer time over the holidays, so every now and then we make them go outside, often much to their consternation. Just to be super evil we make them take Emma out too, but she usually only lasts for some 10 minutes (or until her hands get cold or she looses her footing).
Here is an example of the beginning of an outing. (3 images total)
Anna throwing snow at Bjarki. I guess one needs to find some fun in the misery of being outside in the cold.