Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Changes is Status

2014-06-04Uncategorized Standard

[Written 13 June 2014]

While Finnur was in California, I operated mostly in ‘survival mode’ so few pictures were taken. “Luckily” for me, both weeks he was away only had three schooldays because of a religious holiday (ascension day, yippie!…) which was followed by a staff day the first week, and the second week saw the formal end of school.

I must have been unusually energetic this Wednesday, because a few pictures got taken, mostly of the changing status of things. (6 images total)

Emma discovered our Rummicub box, which was only missing one piece before her discovery. I believe the number of missing pieces has now increased substantially.

Emma discovered our Rummikub box, which was only missing one piece before her discovery. I believe the number of missing pieces has now increased substantially. (I put the pieces on the stand, she just tore them off. Like she does.)

Celebrating Graduations

2014-05-31Uncategorized Standard

[Written 13 June 2014]

We celebrated Pétur’s and Signý’s graduations with an american pancake feast, some hot-tubbing, and cakes! (4 images total)

Pancakes by Hrefna, and fruits cut by Jóhanna. Teamwork rulez!

Gymnastics Spring Show

2014-05-30Uncategorized Standard

[Written 03 June 2014]

Bjarki participated in one of the annual gymnastics spring shows this year. (Due to the number of participants, there were four shows!)

As it happened, Finnur’s brother’s kids were in the same show as Bjarki. I happened to meet his wife in line when the tickets went on sale, and she was kind enough to stand in line for almost an hour to buy tickets for all of us, and some of the grandparents. (The company has vowed to make ticket sales electronic next year.)

Having the grandparents there turned out to be enormously helpful because Emma was a squirming worm in my lap, but much calmer with her grandparents, so they held her for almost the entire hour-long show! (3 images total, 1 video)

The theme this year was “toys come to life”, and it was a really impressive show.

Walking Days

2014-05-28Uncategorized Standard

This past week, Emma starting walking more and more, and nowadays she’s hardly bothering to crawl at all. Her big thing has been carrying and pushing things around, such as small chairs and dolls half her size. It’s been adorable!! Here are a few walking-gifsRead more

Finnur Leaves for California

2014-05-25Uncategorized Standard

[Written 26 May 2014] Finnur’s twice-yearly trip to California is upon us. He left early Sunday morning, flying through Boston. He sent this little message back once he’d gotten through immigration and customs: They let me in through passport and customs control here in Boston. The experience with the former was a bit uncomfortable asRead more

20 Year Junior College Reunion

2014-05-24Uncategorized Standard

[Written 26 May 2014] Dang, we’re getting old! This past Saturday was Finnur’s 20 year graduation anniversary from the Reykjavík Junior Collage (Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, MR for short), and he attended a reunion to celebrate. His old pal and classmate, Ragnar, came to give him a lift, but I insisted on taking a few photosRead more

Books and Plants

2014-05-23Uncategorized Standard

[Written 26 May 2014]

Anna’s totally fallen for Japanese manga books, and we visit the library at least once a week to fetch new ones. Bjarki’s also pretty taken with them, so they make quite the reading team. Emma, of course, doesn’t want to be left out so she “reads” them too if given the chance. (10 images total)

The readers, with Bjarki somewhat patiently looking up.

Pétur’s Final Project and Bowling

2014-05-22Uncategorized Standard

[Written 24 May 2014]

The Multimedia School (Margmiðlunarskólinn) had its annual final-projects-show in a proper movie theater the other day, and among them was a project my brother Pétur did.

I juuuuust missed seeing it because I was busy shuttling the kids around, but I met up with the gang anyway, and we ended up going bowling! (3 images and 2 videos total)

Pétur, Signý, Bjarni, mom, and Nökkvi at the movie theater where all the projects were shown.

Bjarki’s Haircut

2014-05-21Uncategorized Standard

[Written 23 May 2014] I took Bjarki to the barber shop to get a haircut. He exited as TinTin, with a lollipop for a prize. Not bad! 🙂Read more

Family Gathering at Steig in the South of Iceland

2014-05-16Uncategorized Standard

[Written 23 May 2014]

This past weekend, we drove a little over two hours to a small farm/guesthouse called Steig in the south of Iceland.

We were there to meet up with descendants of three brothers, enjoy each other’s company, enjoy the view, enjoy good food, enjoy the animals, and yeah, just enjoy life.

One of the brothers was a farmer at Steig, and both Finnur and his dad spent time there working in their youth. The family still owns the farm, to which they’ve added a 16 room guesthouse.

The weather kept improving throughout the weekend. We drove there in intermittent pouring rain on Friday, Saturday saw lots of drizzle, and Sunday was gorgeous.

This page only has a subset of the photos. You can see all the SATURDAY and SUNDAY photos by clicking on the days. (72 images and 3 photospheres total)

Friday 16 May 2014

We left pretty late in the day, so we stopped in Selfoss (45 min drive) for dinner.