Look what I found!

While looking for a picture I found these! A movie google made for me for Christmas, that I just found now, and something else. Great present. I love the movie.

those pesky santa's

eve online  helps us to understand the problems with these santas

Stefán at camp

Stefán is coming home from camp today, but his camp was in the news yesterday. If you watch close you can see my middle boy, such a sunshine!
http://www.visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=VTVFD119060-2BA0-4A96-9788-E677E29EBEF1

Stefáns big moment

When he meet the mayor of Reykjanesbær fopr being in the top 10% in Iceland, in Math. We were proud parents before, but now we glow. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ha4m3qc5eftp8hf/MVI_1799.AVI

USN Housing: Iceland, a.k.a. HOME!

No longer militery housing, I live here now, as a student.
Seriously fun to watch this old add of my neighbourhood.

The other side of White Christmas - Iceland 2011 lheinars Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe Loading...

not mine, but shows the snow
best part is we got a couple of couchsurfers from Australia who had never seen snow before!

Stefán and Einar

Stefán is begging for a camera with sound, but for now they just have to deal with mine, the silent type.

motion sickness - by Kasper

In case coming to see me was not enough reason come to Iceland

Skattur

I should that the Icelandic tax authorities for being so awesome in making everything so easy.
One thing that always made me crazy in Canada was the fact that taxs were complected stuff, and unless you were a single person with no dependents, write offs or investments, you needed to pay someone to do your taxes. In fact to even file yourself online costs money.
In Iceland, everyone files online and it's free.

At Skattur.is you just type in you kennitalla, password (in your Internet banking), and your in, and they already know everything about you! All you really need to do is look it over and give it the OK. Done.

Taxes are due in on March 23, but I suspect that this year, like every other, we will apply online for an extension to get a few more days to look it over. Because even though I am telling you about my taxes now, I know I will forget until as soon as I publish this post and will not remember until Wednesday when they are due.

Only super silly thing is that despite sending everything in on March 23, or 29th if you get the extension,and it takes until August 1 to find out if you get money back or you owe money(and you need to pay now!).

Nobody knows anything until the first.

As you can imagine, July is a rather antsy month waiting to see if you are rich, or bankrupt.


side note: This song was ridiculously popular in Iceland, back in the day, because skatt means tax - so here is the taxman.





another note: I know I never fit the videos properly in my blog, Im just that lazy.

Mr. T

Angela, a couchsurfing friend from the United States, sent me this great surprise:

 

And what is this? You might ask, well, its a Mr. T tampon holder. Seriously, his head lifts up so you can hide them in his legs. To quote my dear friend:

Both Functional and Fashionable

Thanks again Angela.

And some parting words of wisdom from our hero:

Peeing in the shower

To save water:

Sword fighting

Here is Davíð teaching the boys the skills they will need in life,

and it is always fun and games until someone gets hit in the eye - and it happens every time.

But this is also a favorite pass time when you live in a place where it is not practical to go outside for days at a time.

A Day to Ride

Yesterday, Saturday was a big day and one reason for that was that Stefán learned to ride his bike with out the helper wheels.

Now he really is getting old.

Theses are so videos of Davíð helping-teaching.

My camera gets worse everyday.

The Candles

Surmjólk

This reminds me of Surmjólk. I think the stuff is grosser then gross - sour milk, the name says it all. But some people eat it with cereal or just in a bowl with a lot of rown sugar.
It looks like someone thinks its great.

Saturday Dancing

A Dance teacher came through town for the weekend offering dance lessons to everyone. Stefán loves dancing so here are a few small videos.
Sorry my camera is getting a little old and doesn't work like it used to but look for the little blond in the Spiderman sweater.

Rósa Sleeping

Davíð made a video of our dog falling asleep.

By Kasper

Here is a little somthing by Kasper while hanging out in the tent.

Endagered Gnomes

Good thing we do not use these pesky chemicals in Iceland, in fact, we rarely even cut our grass. Long live the bugs and weeds!



I could give these gnomes something to be scared of !