Fall: a good time to visit Thingvellir, as Tomas and Andrea did yesterday and took this nice picture.

This weekend, on Saturday morning at 0:06 Asthildur and Kiddi became proud parents of a gorgeous little princess, as a baby girl is always called in Iceland before she gets a name. We did not have to wait very long though and on Sunday at a family gathering we were put out of our misery: Helga Maria, and the vote of the Icelandic jury was unanimous: douze points (for those who do not watch the Eurovision song contest: 12 points)

The construction work is going fine. I have to say though that at this point it is quite coarse: we are working with big material, big hammers, etc. The children liked scraping the cement off the wood and removing the nails. It is a big step to see the panels being removed and the actual walls and where the windows will come and it gives us a very good idea of how things will look like one day.
Next week we hope the steel beam will get here, and we will have time to clean up a bit around the building site inside and outside. We hope that within the next two weeks, the roof will be removed and another one been put on top. EEhhh....at least, that's how it is scheduled on Jon's schedule. But a picture says a thousand words so I have put quite a few of what we have been up to the last couple weeks. As usual, it starts with the newest one right after this one. I am always trying to remember to do it the other way around, but I always forget once I get started.