Hi

Christmas here again, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year, thanks for all the wishes and thoughts this summer.

This year has been busy as always, Maríanna got her Confirmation and her retainers, my accident in June, me and Svanur finally looking forward to living together without an additional person living in our home.

I am still working as an administrator at a computer company in Selfoss and I’m driving around working in different schools.  I also work as a teacher one day a week which is good and there for I don’t have to drive as much around.

This photo was taken because of Maríanna’s Confirmation and the first family photo taken.

Again I wish you all a Merry Christmas

Love and kisses to you all

Ella Jóna

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I have been waiting for the last 15 years, the house for Svanur’s brother is arriving today and soon he will be moving to his own house.  It surtainly pays to be patient. I can do what ever I want to on my own home, yesssssss.

Well my neck is healing fine and I am geting stronger every day.  My mom and dad moved back to their home and went on their sommerholliday.  I will start working again in middle of August but I hope I will be strong enough to do that.  Then I still have to take my summervacation but I will probably do that in the wintertime, maybe I would even be able to visit Florida if the currency changes for the better.

Enough for now I will put some photos into my Picasaweb later today.

http://picasaweb.google.com/elitraus/Husaflutningur

Love Ella Jóna

I was just starting my summer vacation  when the accident happened, on my second day, I now get a sick lease and then have to take my summervacation later.

Well moms have to do all kind of things here in Tungufell like riding horses and gather sheep to and from the mountains like I was taking the sheep to the mountains when this happened.

Maríanna and Einar has been working alot for me and doing things around the house.  I am not in any pain, the operation went well and I feel more in pain where the doctors took the spare part of a small bone from my hipbone to put in between the two vertebras that broke, now they have to heal together.

I am trying to do like the doctor says, sleep, eat, rest, and let others take care of my. But it is soo hard.  I am glad though that the weather has been good and my kids made me a bed outsite on the porch so I can walk between beds.  I have a neck brace i have to wear when I walk around but can sleep without it.  I also have to work on the muscles in the neck so that they don’t just become to weak.

Of course this was a big shock for all of us and a reminder of that we are not eternal.  Now when the building of the other house is almost finished and me and Svanur can at last start to live together like a normal family this day kind of became a starting day for something new.  Now we just have to do all the things that have been waiting for the last 15 years.

I will keep you posted and maybe get someone to take some pictures of me wearing that rediculus neck brace.

Hi there, long time no hear

Well I just had to write today because yesterday Maríanna had her confirmation.  It was að beutyful day in our little church here in Tungufell, and after the ceremony we went to the historical place Skálholt to enjoy the rest of the day with family and friends.  My brother from Switcherland took a trip to Iceland to spend the day with us, and is using the trip to visit Iceland some more.  I really missed my brother Gonni who is recently moved to Idaho USA.

We were all wearing our national costume and you can look at some pictures from the day here http://picasaweb.google.com/elitraus/MariannaFerming

Would love to here from you.

Love Ella Jóna

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Here in Iceland we are having a black and white Christmas but Sunday we had all white earth and a nice Christmas snow, but yesterday the rain came and took it all away.

I took the days around Christmas off so I am home for whole 2 weeks, there is plenty to chatch up so I belive I will be writing more on my blog shortly.

Love Ella Jona.

Well I have my day of at work but I work 90% and do have every other friday off.  That is very nice to bee able to do something else than work all days.  Einar Trausti just came home from school and Maríanna is in music class learning musicology (got it from the dictionary), I am writing this and looking outsice the window at the glacer Langjökull, as the picture shows.

Everything is gray the wether, the earth, the mood in the community (well that’s rather black), many people is in big financial trouble after the breakdown.  Some of my friends have lost their job, and some have lost their savings, but we just have to look at the bright side we didn’t loose the healt or each other.  Icelanders are fighters and rather optimistic so I think we will get through this like everything else.  Now it is cool to be a teacher or a nurce at the hospital but 3 months ago it was rather lame.  People goes back to the basics in stead of living like a king.

I am now a member of Facebook and that is a whole world of old friends, I meet some old friends from Niles, Michigan there and old school friends from Laugarvatn.  Meet you there

More sometimes later.

Love Ella Jona

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Hi everyone

Well in spite of what you have heard in the news, we are all fine here in Tungufell.  We are not broke, I still have my job and we didn’t loose any money on the big bankruptcy here in Iceland.  All the banks exept one is now in the ownerchip of the government.  Oh well little Iceland was trying to bee sooo big!!

We still had to change some plans because of the situation, but we were supposed to be flying out to Germany tomorrow with the company I work with, but the trip was postponed .  We are going in end of March instead. 

Maríanna is growing up and is having her confirmation in end of May.  The ceremony is going to be here in the little church in Tungufell but I still don’t know where the rest is going to be.

Einar Trausti is getting 10 years old in December, whow things happend fast.

Well I don’t have more time now I write more later.

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Hi everyone

Well summer has arrived in Iceland and is even erlier than usual if anything.  We have had a good spring and the lambs came as usual and now they are all gone to the mountains to grow bigger before fall.  Everything is as usual here in Tungufell.  I have been working alot at school and the last few months has been busy.  As you maybe remember I have been a computer administrator at the computer system in our school and our community.  Now in August I will start a whole new job in Selfoss as an computer administrator in a big company that serves all the communities in Southern Iceland.  That includes schools, hospitals and goverment buildings.  Whell my english came in handy as usual but I am having no trouble reading instructions and learning about the new technology in computers.  I am very exited to start this job but one of the administrators working at the company hunted me into this work, so they came to me and asked me if I wanted to work for them.

Marianna is now almost 13 years old and is now working at a farm about 20 min driving from us.  She is babysitting for a friend of mine and is staying at her home.  Einar Trausti is almost 10 and is here in Tungufell working as a cowboy and feeding the lambs that has lost their mother.  The harvesting is about to start a week earlyer than usual but I am glad maybe we can go for a summer vacation this year.

I wish you all the best and please make a comment if you read this. Also look at the photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/elitraus

Love Ella Jona

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Hi everyone

Well now christmas is over and we are back to Iceland after staying on Tenerife over the holydays.  We had a really nice time, we drove around the island and up to El Teide the highest mountain on Spain.  We also just enjoyed time and went down to the beach and swimming in the ocean.  How nice could it bee??  My parents were also staying at the same hotel so we had a good time with them also.

Now we are having some snow, some people would say that this is the most snow that has been since late on the last century and that might be right.  Today school closed early because of the snow but there is a big snowstorm coming and we have around 50 cm (20 inces) of snow on the ground ready to blow all over the place.  As you know that have visited Iceland we don't have any trees to make the wind blow slower so we are expecting around 20 m/s (45 mph) of wind.

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