Ballet Show!

Beautiful ballerinas showed how much they have progressed this semester. Amma and afi took these great pictures for all to enjoy! Nice work Sandra and Silja!

Reykir - part III

Eiríkur came home today ... not that he was expelled from school camp... The weather forecast for the next 24 hours is very bad and it was decided to come back early. The only compenstation for him is that he gets tomorrow off school :)

The trip was great and I will proably get the stories from him over the next few weeks! The first one was that he and the other boys in his class were used as a "hairmodels" which explained the funny hairdo !!

Reykir, cont...

According to an e-mail from Eirikur's teacher everything is going well at Reykir! I can't wait to hear all the stories on Friday!

Reykir

Eiríkur went with his school to Reykir in Hrútafjörður for 5 days - he left the house very excited yesterday morning and will be back on Friday. I miss him like mad but Sandra seems quite pleased to have some time with me on her own!

So far so good..

Nice dinner with friends last night - ending with Askur and Breki spending the night...

Nice Sunday breakfast with Anna Þóra - who rang the door bell on a Sunday morning for a quick cup of tea and a great chat, brilliant :)

Dinner planned with my parents, and Anna and family... looks to be a greatend to a good weekend!

Sweet summer...

More pick from the summer - these were taken as the kids return from our meeting of the clan at Jökuldalur this summer :) Thx to my parents for taking all these nice shots!

Last summer...

Sandra went to a riding school with her cousin Silja. I just received some great photos from her final show there and felt I needed to share them! Sandra is ill at the moment, fever and a sore throat. Poor little thing.

Beowulf the Movie

Yes... Went to the pre-view.. watched Beowulf with the extremely silly 3-D glasses on - along with a large group of friends... Gosh we looked stupid but it was well worth it!

The birthday boy

Great party - we had so much fun :)

Happy Happy B'day Axel!

"Hann á afmæli í dag
hann á afmæli í dag
Hann á afmæli hann Axel
hann á afmæli í dag!"

Átta ára í dag - til lukku elsku frændi!!!!

The Three B's

Belfast, Berlin and Baltimore!

Just came back from the third city break this year - this time it was a long weekend on Baltimore with mamma, Anna and her daughter Sigrún Eir and of course my dearest Rebekka! We did some shoppin and a lot of chatting and laughing... We are all looking forward to next year's trip to the US!

All the good things today...

- I found a great person to be my instructor for my MA thesis on bilangualism

- Eiríkur's dyslexia results are very positive as he has sooooo many strengths to work with in the future

- My kids are happy and healthy!

- I saw an interesting movie - the life of Edith Piaf (La Vie en Rose), food for thought that one... thx for the tickets Sissa!

- Lovely letter from Miguel and Raquel in Spain

Yes.. another good day :)

How time flies....

Thursday was Atlantik night at Hótel Borg - with fabulous food, lots of good wine and smiling people :)

Friday was a dinner party night at my house... Stefán made chicken curry for the grown-ups, I made lasagne for all the kids and Halli and Ella made the desert (lovely "bounty" cake with ice cream and hot chocolate sauce). Yummy. The funniest thing the evening was the trick played on Stefán - well this is the price you pay when you doze off on the sofa hehe!

Saturday was spent walking and swimmming - then a lovely dinner at Vesturberg, great leg of lamb!

Lazy Daisy Sunday will be spent walking in town with Sandra, Silja, Sissa and Kristján. Now another exciting week begins!

KHI and Halibut Heads...

I sooo enjoyed going to KHI (The Teacher's Training College) this morning to talk about the International School and I got a lot of good feedback from the students there. Also knew quite a few of them which was great fun :)

Also enjoyed eating halibut heads (TRUE!) at Bjössi's house tonight. Kids had a nice spagetti (with no eyes) made by Bjössi and played an Eye Toy game with Jenny and Axel. Eyes seemed to have been the theme tonight!

Pictures from the summer

Just felt like sharing some pictures I just got sent from friends, one is from the walk over Fimmvörðuháls and two from the days we spent in Vik.

A Cozy Day

Nice day at work...

Made pancakes for my kids in the afternoon with help from Sandra my shining star...

Meat Soup with friends in the evening...

Tomorrow is another day...

Grandchildren in Breiðholt!

Axel, Sandra, Silja, Sigrún, Eiríkur, Oihan, Ibai, Rebekka


The grandchildren together in Vesturberg - brilliant photo by grandpa :)

Movies, Plays and Brazilian Beans

Friday night was spent at Monica's eating brazilian food - loved the beans and the fried bananas! Thank you Monica and latino friends :)

Left the party early to see the movie This is England, pretty good but not my favorite Green Light movie so far.

Loved, however, the play at the Student Theatre (Stúdentaleikhúsið) on Saturday night - nice and fresh.

Lazy Sunday - Súfistinn for a brunch, Sunday drive in Hafnarfjörður, book-store browse and a late night walk with Birta at Seltjarnarnes in the wind! This is what Sundays are all about...

Many nice things in store for the next weeks :) Watch this space for more news!

Magic!

Eiríkur went with Stefán and sons plus Kristján to see the magic show in Hafnarfjörður last night. He had a super time and wants to practise some of the tricks he learnt at his school in Jakarta and perhaps join the Association of Icelandic Magicians in the future!