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I spoke with my family not too long ago and my little girl Matthildur has strated to laugh.
Her brother Brynjar was doing some crazy dancing when she started to laugh at him. Now, she’s only 3 months old, but it was the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time. In 2 weeks I´ll be with them all again and I’ll experience it first hand…. I can’t wait.

Well, I find myself once again in Canada…. Vancouver to be exact.
It looks like we’ll be moving out here for a while, and I’m here on my own looking for the right place to live with my family.
I’ve seen quite a few places but still haven’t found the perfect one yet. I guess there’s no rush as I’ll be here for at least 3 more weeks.
Like always it’s hard to be away from the family, especially with a 3 months old girl back home, but I miss them all.
The good about being here is seeing old friends again. Rui is still with Frantic at the Vancouver office and David is still at The Embassy. I’ve met up with them both and I hope to see more of them before I leave again to Iceland.

My wife is a hero staying at home with both of our kids. I don’t know how she does it, but somehow she holds the fort at home and waits for the lone soldier to come back. I can’t wait.

I quietly updated my showreel only a few days before my wedding.
I had received some of my shots from Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D and I decided to put them in as I’m currently on the lookout for my next project.
I’m talking with several companies scattered across the world…. two in Vancouver, two in London and one in Denmark.
Things are still just on the talk stage, but be sure that I’ll give updates on how it goes.

Here’s a link to my updated showreel.

Today is my birthday.
Today also happens to be the premiere of Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D here in Iceland.
The Icelandic production company that oversaw filming here in Iceland is True North and I happen to know a few good people over there since I worked on Flags of Our Fathers, and some I know since I worked at Storm.
Anyways, the good people over there managed to get me tickets to the premiere, since it is my birthday and I happened to work on this movie.

Who knew I’d have a kid and get married before actually seeing this movie.

So tonight I’ll be at the premiere where Anita Briem will be attending. She is the lead actress and also happens to be Icelandic.Go Iceland!!

P.s. I’m 32 today.

Wish me luck!!

My bachelor party was yesterday. And yes, by yesterday, I really mean yesterday.
It started off as every Saturday does, I wake up with Brynjar and give him breakfast, he gets to watch a little tv and then Magga and the little one wake up. Then we go to the bakery to indulge a little. I had just taken the first bite when my friends burst in yelling SURPRISE!

We first headed out to the shooting range where we were divided into two teams. We shot at some clay pigeons with a shotgun and sadly my team lost but we were one man short on the other team.
After we’d killed those clay pigeons some heavy drinking started as we headed towards the bowling alley.
There I embarrassed myself by having the worst bowling game ever!
Then I was driven to a recording studio where I had to sing Tragedy by the Bee Gees. Of course I did that with style and like the guys said, the joke was on them.
Then I was driven to a local mall where I was wearing a toaster outfit. They gave me a phone and I had to do everything they told me to do. That was ok as I was pretty drunk at that time.
After that we headed towards downtown where I had to change clothes in a phonebooth before having dinner at a Mexican restaurant.
Then some more drinking took place, but I bailed out at about 11 pm as I had eaten way too much at that restaurant and I was pretty drunk too. I think the other guys continued with the drinking after I had left.

I had a really great time with the boys. Thanks guys.

My little girl is getting bigger by the minute and it’s hard to believe that she’s one month old already!
We’re going to have her christening on September 6th. And yes as the title indicates we decided to take the plunge and get married since we’ll already be in a church and have a priest in front of us.

It was decided only last week, so we’re very busy making plans, trying out clothes, deciding on wine, etc. There are only less than 3 weeks to go and a lot of stuff that needs to be done. It’s a very good thing that we’re both on our summer holidays so we do have the time to do everything.

Well, can’t talk…. got more planing to do.

Tuesday July 15th at 6:16 pm a little girl decided to join our little family.
The birth only took 2 hours and both the mom and the little girl are fine.

Obviously I’m very happy and Brynjar, our son, is extremely happy. It was so great to see his reaction when he first met his baby sister.

She weighted 4650 grams and is 52 centimeters long.

And without more delay, here are pictures…

Well, the new baby hasn’t shown itself yet so we’re set to go to the hospital tomorrow morning at 8:30 am to get things going.
Brynjar was very big when he showed up….. so big that his mother had trouble bringing him to this world. So to avoid another cut on her tummy she opted for a triggered birth at the 40 week point.

So hopefully by this time tomorrow I’ll be the father of two.

Check back to see how it goes.