[Written 8 January 2014. This is the last of the yuletide-catch-up posts! Yay!]
This Christmas Day, our not-so-little-at-all-anymore Anna turned 10 years old. (40 images total)
Before we went to bed on Christmas Eve, we put the remainder of the kids’ presents under the tree.
Anna Sólrún turned TEN YEARS OLD today!! As usual we went to Finnur’s parents for their big Christmas Day feast/whist playing, and ended by singing for Anna as she blew out her candles (for the third time this birthday season). I don’t have the energy to put all the images up online yet, so hereRead more
[Written 5 January 2014]
This Christmas Eve, we were invited to Finnur’s parents’ house for dinner, and opening presents.
First though we had to survive the day itself, which we did by letting the kids watch TV all day. 🙂 (43 images total)
Well, hello there Ms. Mostly Tidy Living Room!
We made it! Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas/Happy Solstice/Gleðileg jól/Gleðilega hátíð!!Read more
[Written 5 January 2014.]
Paradoxically, our Day-Before-Christmas is really 23 December, because our Christmas is on Christmas Eve. I guess somebody got the translation wrong? (10 images total)
Adda and Halli stopped by for brunch. Emma charmed.
Time is flyyyyyying as usual, and Emma’s all of a sudden 10 months old!! (6 images total)
This is Emma, at 10 months and 5 days old.
We again decided to host Anna’s class birthday party at a local ice skating rink (see 8th and 9th year skating parties).
This time we joined forces with another family, who’s girl also has a December birthday. This again worked out really well, in part because we (the two moms) both remembered to bring stuff the other had forgotten! So yes, I’m totally sold on this double-birthday concept! 🙂
Thankfully, Finnur’s parents could babysit Emma, so I only had Anna and Bjarki with me at the skating rink, and let me tell you, keeping track of two is easy! 😉
We arrived pretty late in the day (4 pm) and they’d already refreshed the ice so it was nice and smooth. The only downside was that they closed at 6 pm, so the skating ended pretty abruptly. (11 images total and two videos)
The other mom lighting her daughter’s candles. Festive skating going on in the background.
Jóhanna (my brother Nökkvi’s wife) and I, decided to co-host a birthday party for our girls who have birthdays in December.
This turned out brilliantly, a) because they live in student housing and therefore have access to a big party room, and b) it meant less food prep for both of us. In attendance were relatives on my mother’s side, as well as Jóhanna’s family.
Still, we were both up until late in the night the night before, decorating cakes. Here’s my effort: (29 images total)
Yet another chocolate birthday cake. This time I opted for something smaller to write the letters with than the colorful smarties. This was both good and bad: The letters fit better, but they took a lot longer to make. Bedime: 2 am.
We try to have granny Ásdís over every week for dinner. And this time I got a few pics of her and Emma. 🙂 (4 images total)
Sitting in the kitchen.
Bjarki spent the night at his grandparents’ house, and they shuttled him to this year’s gymnastics advent meet. (Here is the blog entry from last year’s advent meet.)
Us girls met Bjarki there, and watched him being put through the ropes, so to speak. He did pretty well, considering he’s nothing but hands and legs! 🙂 (14 images total, 1 video link)
The start of the meet. There were fewer groups this year – four girl groups and two boy groups. I saw on Facebook that they were expecting 650 kids over the weekend, meaning they must have split the groups down into lots of slots. The hall was certainly more peaceful than last year!