New Years Eve 2008

It's New Years Eve and we're about to go out to see the fireworks display. The girls looked really pretty in their dresses - as can be seen. Happy New Year everyone (anyone?)! Here are more pictures from tonight.

Pells' Knitting

I've just created a new blog for my knitting and crochet stuff, what I've made and what I'd like to make. It's called Pells' Knitting.

Best Christmas ever!

I think last night was the best Christmas Eve I've ever had. It was quiet, calm, happy and it was our own. The girls and I dressed up in our national dresses and Bob put on his piggy tie and we had dinner together around six, a leg of lamb (courtesy of Kristín Lára) with sauce, rice and veggies, then fruit and ice cream and after that we opened our gifts - all but one. We let the girls leave their biggest parcel until this morning, it's a Thomas the tank engine train and road track, a huge thing that covers half of the living room floor - almost! We put it together this morning and they've been playing with it most of the day. We also got Sólveig Lilja a little camera and she's been playing with that a lot, taking pictures of very poor quality! But she's happy. The rest of the day, what was left over after we put the track together, we've spent looking for and downloading drivers and software for that camera!

The girls stayed up until around nine o'clock last night. After we'd put them into bed, we watched Batman, the Dark Knight. Or I did, Bob slept through it! It's quite a good film, darker than the first one, but Heath Ledger is absolutely brilliant in that film! He's without a doubt the star of that film and does deserve the academy award for it. What a shame, that guy is no longer alive.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all, wherever you are!

The girls and the Christmas tree

Bob and the girls put up the Christmas tree the other day and decorated it while I was at work! It's quite nice, and the girls wanted to have their picture taken by it. Here's that picture, taken this morning.

The Yuletide lads

A few of them have arrived already, today it was Askasleikir's turn. I put in entries for all of them two years ago, here. Then I didn't have pictures of all of them, well, I didn't and I don't have them all but I have two more now then I had then.

The moon

I took this picture of the moon when I came home from work today. Pretty cool, isn't it?

My Christmas present

Bob has been working on my Christmas present and I quite like it. This is it.

Missing the girls

We took the girls to the farm yesterday and left them there, since we were going to this company Christmas do last night. And we miss our girlies :'( But we or one of us will go and pick them up later on, Bob is doing his paper round right now and I'm studying.

This Christmas do was a waste of time as I think we both knew it was going to be, not long after 9 o'clock we were both almost falling asleep! We were home between 10 and half past 10, both exhausted! But we thought that we should go, we don't often go to company things.

But it'll be good to get the girls back home. And I bet they'll be happy with the gifts we got them yesterday :)

Christmas decorations

The window is Píla's place (or one of them). It took her a couple of days to accept the crap that I put there but now she's OK with it as you can see.

Skirt finished - knitting that is

I finished the knitting part of the skirt last night and my dear husband gave it a ten out of ten :) And I have to say that even now, before I hide all the ends and wash it and get it all ready, it looks pretty good :) Now I'm taking a knitting pause until after the exam, which is on Wednesday. After that I can do the vest and Heiða's other vest and the wrist warmers for the girls and whatnot. Cool!