Lots of stuff going on!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I miss this day so much from our stay in the US. We had so much fun at Tom´s and Gail´s farm as well our first Thanksgiving day we had at Marcus Haug´s house.

We´ll don´t have any turkey here today like we did last year. You know that we don´t celebrate this day here in Iceland, but I and Ágúst really are into it! This year we simply don´t have the time to have everyone over for a turkey like we would have love to do.

Lots of things have happened last weeks.

Sigurjón Óli almos lost a chunk of his little finger. It´s growing well and it seems like the finger will be almost normal again.

I was driving home from the town 2 days ago in snow and dark and suddenly the car flew out of the road! The boys where with me in the car as well as the 12 years old daughter of our good neighbors. No one got hurt, thank the Lord! but we´re still shocked. We needed to rent a big truck to tow the car to the road again. I´m glad the car didn´t flip over!!!!!

It´s winter here in the North East already......or at least today and the day I had the car accident. The snow comes and goes. Saturday we´re gonna decorate everything. My fall decorations look like pretty out of season when the snow is glittering outside :o)

Can´t wait for the advent, we wait for Dec.24th for Christmas to arrive.......love it!!!!!

Ágúst is going to Switzerland next week for a week. He´ll attend a Christian Leadership conference along with some other icelandic leaders. Pray for him to come home rested and energized!!!! Sigurjón Óli will go with him to the south to stay with gandmas and grandpas while Ágúst is in Swiss and life will be easier for me as we have our sweet friends babysit MM and GD while I´m working.

I have a Christmas request..........I desperately need Christmas M&M, both regular and the peanut one, just to get a little bit of America in my house. You could mark it as a gift when you send it and I´d send you Icelandic candy instead as a Thank you!!!!!!!!

Love you all!!!!!!

Kolbrún

Sickness

We are still sick here. Ágúst is worse now then yesterday with higher fever, back pain and headake(?). Margrét is better, never got really sick and is going to school on Monday after 1 1/2 week at home. Sigurjón Óli went yesterday to a lumonia test............I never remember how to write this word so I just write it as I hear it!, and he has not this word thing sickness but needs his oh boy how can I describe that?............uuuuuhh.......this thing that you breath in to make your lungs feel better. Hopefully someone is getting a good laugh out of this:o) There has never been as much sickness around in the schools here before as now. 3 kids from SÓ´s Preschool went for a test and the all have the piglet siglet sciglet riglet flue :o( so it´s likely that SÓ has it too as well as Ágúst. Guðbergur Davíð has started to cough like MM and SÓ but no fever. I took 1 day being kinda sick but otherwise I´m fresh like an apple :o) YYYYYYHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

Pray for this to be over, our budget does not need Ágúst to be sick anymore!!!!

HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sickness

Yes, the flue has entered our lifes here in the "middle of nowhere". Ágúst, Margrét and Sigurjón Óli are all sick. I´m fine, need to take care of the others. They are not too sick though but kinda lazy, not going to school or work, delaing with headeck(?) (Kristi help!) fever´n stuff.

We had a great time in the US. Even if the reason for the trip was a sad thing it was very good to be at the funeral, meet Don´s children and our dear Margret, his wife.

The kids are so happy about the stuff I brought them. It was great to feel that even if it´s over a year we where there last time the friendship has become deeper with so many of our friends. It is thrilling to have all these good friends there and my dear Anna Lísa frænka who is not only my precious friend but cousin too. It was so strange though suddenly to be there.........which has been in my dreams for a year. I felt strongly though that I don´t wanna life in the US, like I have been wanting to on and off last winter, but would love to be able to be there once a year or at least every other year. It was good to feel that we have a life now here in Iceland and a home to come back to. When we lived in the US we where only "moving back home" but our "life" was still in the US. It´s also fun and kinda strange to jump into an previous life, like we had never left. Can´t explain it. But now I gotta get goin........preparing the flute classes for today. Smoooch to everyone!

Coming to Minnesota!

Yes, we´re coming to MN this coming Wednesday for a funeral. Our dear friend Don Messerer passed away last week and we want to be at his funeral. He lived across the hall, where we lived, and he and his wife Margrete where like our grandparents. We love them dearly!

We look forward to meet all of our friends and to stay in the aptm building where we lived. We feel like we´re coming home :o) It´s warmer in MN now then here in ICE so it will be great to have a little longer summer by coming to MN. I look forward to meet my MOP´s friends and to go to Mother´s Fellowship! Just wanted to let you know.

Candy "store"!

So. In the middle of this summer Ágúst found out that he has this nicest relative (his grandma and her father are siblings) living in a VERY small town about 1 - 1 1/2 hours driving away from our house. We visited her in July and had so good time with her and her husband. I got the best fish balls (like meat balls) at her house, ever! The kids played with little puppies and we enjoyed the nature which includes hight mountains and the Atlantic ocean. On our way home we stopped by a little "booth" I guess you´d call it, where we could buy (candy machine) some chocolade!!! It´s in the middle of nowhere and here are some pictures.


Margrét, Sigurjón Óli and Steinunn (my sister´s daughter) excited about checking this out!


Sigurjón Óli excited about almost having a chockolade!


And here comes chockolade daddy like mafia guy with bunches of chocolades :o)


We went to the small town last summer just because we had never been there before (there are some small towns around we still haven´t been to but look forward to go visit) and had this amazing adventure..........For the first we almost ran out of gas because the only gas pump in town didn´t accept Ágúst´s debet card so he needed to make some phonecalls to his bank and it´samazing that he could get this fixed on Sunday! Then we where hungry and wen´t to a small (of course small) stone shop that sold some goodies...BUT the goodies where finished for the day! I lost my word!!!! What a poopy place I thought (that´s what we call small towns we don´t like:) We wish that we´d know Ágúst´s relative at that time!

If you remember me talking aobut the icelandic guy who was one of the 4 last people in the american Supernowa show, he was born and raised(?) in this poopy town ;o)

I´m so very scary happy about starting working again! Yesterday was my 3rd day of work and I was so happy when I came home that It hought about if the chockolade bar I had, included something more than just chockolade! But next time I´ll tell you more about my job!!!!!!! Until then, hugs and kiesses!

Hi again you faithful friends of mine!

Before I start blogging again I wanna make sure that you know how much I love you and miss you!
If you´ve forgot how we look like I start with pics of us that where just taken last weekend.

I and David talking with my american cousin´s mom who is visiting here in Ice.
The pic.is taken where Ágúst was raised(?) and born. The house in the back is a typical house where people in Iceland live in..............NOT!!!!! This is the house which was used for storing potatoes when Ágúst was a kid and this house also stored all of our stuff when we lived in the US :o)


Margrét María "is growing in height and beauty" like our dear and most favorite principal, Mr Taylor from North Heights Christian Acad. said so nicely in a letter to her the other day :o)


John/Sigurjón Óli is soooo handsome!


My sweet Ágúst and my little pumpkin who have such a kissable lips!

Hiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!

Is anyone still visiting here?..........................I´m starting blogging again!!!!!!!!! Please let me know if you see this!