Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Mini-Birthday and Summer House

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[Written 7 July 2013]

Because the weather forecast looked so un-outside-able for Bjarki’s birthday, we decided to limit his formal birthday party to ‘family’ for space reasons and have some of our friends over later.

‘Later’ turned out to be the next day, when the Hollas and the Guðrúns came over for lunch and some hot tubbing, before we jumped in the car later that afternoon to meet the Addas at the Laugarvatn summer house for an overnight stay. Click here for all the photos from the weekend.

Bjarki very happy to be getting MOAR PRESENTS!!

Clever Features on Google Plus

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Google Plus is getting scary clever. I uploaded the pictures from Bjarki’s 6th birthday to Google Plus (for backup), and the photo-site AUTOMATICALLY made an animated gif of Bjarki blowing out his candles:

Bjarki blowing out his candles. Animation made by Google Plus. Without me asking. But I appreciate it! 🙂

Bjarki’s 6th Birthday!!

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Bjarki turned 6 years old today!! Oh my!! 🙂 Click here to read this whole post – there are a lot of pictures!

One standard chocolate cake, check!

He woke me up at 06:30, we went downstairs to eat breakfast, and then I collapsed back into bed, forbidding him to open any presents until after 7 am. There was little rest to be had though because of course Emma had awoken by then…

Shortly after 7 am we woke Anna and Finnur up and let Bjarki open his first presents:

Bjarki's first present: a snorkel set complete with fins.

Bjarki’s first present of the day: a snorkel set complete with fins from his sisters.

Yummy Toes and Looking Around

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Emma’s rapidly expanding her bag of tricks.

Monday 24 June 2013

Toes are yummy!

Birthdaying and Hot-Tubbing

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We’ve had a fairly busy day. We began by celebrating the fourth birthday of cousin Eyrún Hulda around lunchtime, and when we returned home we had visitors.

Mmmm… Birthday Party food! 🙂

I Smell Milk

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We invited ourselves to dinner at Adda and Halli’s on Saturday, and as usual, the cats came to say Hi to Emma. She was much less interested in them than they in her!

Emma being checked out by a cat.

Semi-Sunny Days

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After nothing but rain, more rain, and then – surprise! – more rain, we’ve had two days of SUN! Well, mostly sun. There have been clouds, and a chilly breeze, but SUN!

Look at that BLUE SKY! Oh, and some people walked by Álafoss, probably trying to get healthy. Notice all the t-shirts!

Grabby Hands

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Emma’s been working hard on her hand/eye coordination. She’s getting pretty good at grabbing things, although she’s still a bit flail-y.

I grab, therefore I am.

Independence Day

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Iceland’s Independence Day was on a Monday this year, and the weather wasn’t quite sure if it was raining, or windy, or sorta ok. We spent the first part of the day at home, with the big kids mostly on the computer (they’ve discovered we now have Netflix on the TV…) while I napped with Emma here and there.

Shortly after 3 pm we finally made it out the door, and headed to our town’s Independence Day Celebration. We got a parking space not too far away, and walked over to Rútstún.

Looking over the festival area.

The National Museum

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The big kids spent the night at Adda and Halli’s, and loooved it. I looooved not having to deal with them this morning, because Emma went to sleep super late, I went to bed even later, Emma woke up way too many times, and then was wide awake by 7 am. To add insult to sleep-deprived injury, she then only took a short nap around 9 am, waking me up from my slumber at some horrendous sleep-cycle point, which left me more tired than before the nap.

Boohoo.

Anyway. I ate lunch (and dark chocolate) and then went and picked the kids up at 1 pm. We then drove to the National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafnið) where we met up with Guðrún and Bragi and strolled around. It’s one of those museums I’ve driven past a thousand times, I’ve visited the cafe there a few times, but not actually entered since I was a wee girl. (Entering costs money.)

The museum was surprisingly beautiful, and had a lot of interesting things. I’ll have to visit someday without the kids to really get a good look at it though!

Bjarki trying on some serious battle gear in the kiddie room.