Merry Christmas!A special Christmas slideshow for you and your family depicting our year. The Helgason-Einarsdóttir-Jóhannsdóttir family

Short overview of 2012 (Eva and Inga)

ConfirmationThis year our lovely Kolbrún was confirmed. She is now a hardcore Christian like the rest of us. She was confirmed in our small church in Reyðarfjörður and the service was interesting as everything in our family is but it was none the less lovely.

Kolbrun’s Confirmation

3rd place

Eva placed third in this years Glíma (Icelandic wrestling) competition which was held in Ísasfjörður. Here you can see her standing next to the champian as well as the first lady of Iceland. On the far left is Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson who was reelected as president this year.

Fastest in the country

Kolbrún competed for the first time in Skólahreysti, an Icelandic competition were the schools of the country compete in strength and agility. Although her team placed 5th in the competition for east Iceland and were not able to make it to the finale it was completely the boys faults as Kolbrún had the fastest female time in the country and her teammate Arna had the most points in her category.

Hotdog

This is a picture of Kolbrún in a hotdog suit for öskudag, the Icelandic equivalent of Halloween. Not much more can be said about this picture.

Diving!

Guðrún María went to Thailand this summer and got her diving license. She now frolics with fish, whales, sharks and mermaids in her spare time.

Abu Dhabi

María also went to Abu Dhabi were she fully immersed herself into the culture and now has a husband who is a devout Muslim.

MaríaLover of animals

Hiking

This picture was taken in Dalatanga. This was one of many hiking trips. Among the trips was a week long hiking adventure in the west fjords this summer.

National Costume

This year Eva is on her 2nd year of menntaskóla. At her school is a tradition where for one day, all of the students on their 2nd year, wear the Icelandic national costume. They then travel around Reykjavík singing and dancing.

Madeira

Kolbrún and Ella decided to take a trip to Madeira in Portugal with Ella´s mom, leaving the rest of the family on the ice block in the Atlantic ocean to freeze their butts off.

Hunting

Jói went hunting as he does every year with Dögg. Together they brought home 16 ptarmigan. Next year he will have two dogs to take hunting because….

New Mom

Dögg became a mom this year and brought into the world 7 new puppies.

Everybody loved the puppies

Except Eva,

she tried to eat them.

They grew

And grew until they were ready to become a part of a new family.

We are keeping one, whose name is Max and can be seen on the right.

Snow for Christmas

This is a picture of our house, Christmas Eve

We wish you a merry Christmas

And a happy New Year.