Ok, we're off to the snow!! We'll be in sunny Austria from tomorrow and you can find us in this bottom appartment on the left... See you all next week!

Christmas Layouts

Just something to share with you today! Deanna, if you read this I am so happy my package arrived safe and sound at your place... Enjoy!!! Here's the Christmas Concert last Sunday ... and Milan posing with his hat... he can't put a proper smile on the camera but he's so cute when he smiles :)

Last post: my LO for today

Okay okay my last post for today, have to work tomorrow so cannot sit here forever!





Just wanted to show you my latest LO, made with the 3S Bobbies' Best Kit:

Sweet dreams everyone..sleep tight!

The Christmas Concert yesterday... Can you tell who is the small boy in the white shirt? Yes, he was in church with his music-for-toddlers class and had to perform, just like the older students. They did two songs about winter and christmas.

Added: quotes

Hi!

I just added the quote of the day... on the left bottom... LOVE to use quotes for my LOs ... so it's just for inspiration!

Countdown to Christmas

This is our tree... we chose a smaller size this year since we will not be enjoying the tree much around Christmas time. But still I am very happy with it... my favourite this year... The Christmasornaments with the Christmas lyrics on them! Here's one in more detail:

So I am jingling all the way, lol!

No really, I am feeling good (knowing I can escape from Christmas Stress this year and see some snow)...

If we don't speak to you in person we'd love to wish you all

a Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy

2007!!

40 cm sneeuw boven op de berg, verder he-le-maal niks. Nog 9 dagen en we vertrekken naar Oostenrijk, ben zo benieuwd hoe de vakantie gaat worden. Eerst leek het allemaal redelijk voorspelbaar. De hele dag in skipak, en lekker op het terrasje in het zonnetje. Winterbanden gehuurd tegen een behoorlijke prijs... allemaal nodig op wintersport. Maar zo als het er nu naar uitziet wordt het een wandel/spelletjes/autoritjes vakantie! Ik hoop nog steeds op een witte kerst hoor, desnoods op de top van de berg!

Wintersport: nog 3 weken en dan is het zover... maar nog geen sneeuw??

Hoe vind je onze Pietjes? Ze waren helemaal klaar voor Het Grote Feest van Sinterklaas in Ahoy! Ze vonden het geweldig... het is natuurlijk ook leuk om je Jetix helden (vooral de Pieten) in het echt te zien. En dan natuurlijk Sinterklaas...

Toevallig vandaag hoorden we dat we vrijkaartjes hebben gewonnen voor de Jamin Pietenparty... dus a.s. zondag gaan we het nog eens dunnetjes overdoen!

Oké dan ... 2 scraps nog ff showen... omdat ik vanavond zo in de scrapping-mood ben!

Many of the people who know us will perhaps not even recognize the boy on this LO... Oh perhaps by his name? Little boys are growing up and this one certainly did the past year.... 12 mored days until his 15th birthday!! His birthdaywish... This little toy (I wish I had one myself)... and he preferred it with a pink skin. ;)

Goed, na twee maandjes thuis omdat ik even 'door het ijs zakte' zoals de bedrijfsarts zei... ga ik het weer proberen. Werken! Ik heb er wel zin in om weer even wat meer te zijn dan alleen mama maar ik ga het wel rustig aan doen. Dit wil ik echt niet nog een keer! Hopelijk kan ik begin volgend jaar zeggen dat ik weer helemaal terug ben!

Om m'n laatste dagen te vullen ben ik vandaag weer aan het scrappen geslagen. Ik kon deze week steeds geen inspiratie vinden om te beginnen maar omdat zowel Camille als Sherry leuke kits hadden moest ik mijn CT-taken maar weer even gaan vervullen. Heerlijk...als er toch zoiets bestond als een betaalde baan om te scrappen!


Deze LO is gemaakt met de kit Walk in the Garden van Sherry Ferguson (Elemental Scraps)



Milan als leeuwtje, zo kwam hij laatst thuis van zijn laatste dagje Ieniemienies. In oktober was hij op woensdagen op de Ieniemienie groep omdat de administratie een foutje had gemaakt. Maar hij vond het er heerlijk... de oude groep van z'n grote broer. Gelukkig mocht hij vandaag zelfs een middagje bij de naschoolse opvang... nu voelt hij zich echt groot!

Marco bedankt! Marco bedankt! Wow, het was super afgelopen zondag en ik wilde hier toch een paar herinneringen kwijt... filmpje!

Herfstvakantie.... We zijn weer terug van vakantie... waar we geweest zijn?? In België! Net ver genoeg voor prachtig herfstweer, een mooie camping (en chalet)... de enige ADAC Superplatz van België. Dat zegt de kids alleen niks. Maar die willen gewoon terug naar Willie Brillie en Victor Vos! Ze hebben genoten! Ze waren druk in de vakantie hoor, het zwemparadijs, het speelparadijs, knutselen ('s ochtends), Die-da-doe-mee theater én minidisco (om half 8 's avonds), skelter huren, midgetgolfen, op het schip (en alle andere speeltuintjes) spelen... En dan zijn we óók nog een dagje naar Plopsa Indoor geweest... Een impressie... nou oké dan een paar (van de 325 fotootjes hieronder...):

We zijn ook naar Marco Borsato geweest, daarover later meer....

Hiep hiep hoera, Zara gaf gisteren haar eerste verjaardagsfeestje!! En ze loopt ook al twee weken!

Zara had her first birthdayparty yesterday. She's started to walk two weeks ago.... bright little girl!

Can't believe I haven't been working for 6 weeks... I feel like I haven't been on this world for a while. Last Friday the med told me it's normal that this process takes 6 to 13 (!!) weeks... so I am not there YET! But there are more days that I am feeling a bit better and perhaps we have now really escaped from the threatening burn-out! I sure hope I did!

The boys did keep me going, although it felt like sometimes it is a bit too much if one is beside my bed at 4.00 am and I don't fall asleep after that until 5.00 am... and then the other one wakes up at 5.30 am.... Oooohhh I hate kids that sleep until 8.00 in the morning ; )... Mine never do!!!!!

Don't you love this one??? Last fall when I visited Atlanta I had these fleeces on my shopping list. The boys wore them all fall, all spring and now after the summer they are wearing them AGAIN. Unfortunately we lost one the other day, it was left on the playground and gone....

Then I saw this one and had to have it.... I still can't understand why I can't order directly from the GAP website (when I can buy any book from Amazon.com ...). I asked friends in the States before to send me stuff from GAP and OshKosh but I didn't want to bother them again....

Lucky me I was going to go to England today ... but I couldn't go, the doctor advised me not to... so still no fleece. And there I found this exact fleece in a Dutch internet shop. It is directly imported from the US and of course more expensive but well... I just had to have it you know... my little boy will be so pleased!

Appeltaart met slagroom en pannenkoeken... het was afgelopen zondag heerlijk weer dus zijn we 's ochtends even naar het bos in Rhijnauwen gegaan... effe uitwaaien. Uiteindelijk zijn we natuurlijk langer op het terras blijven plakken. Maar het was in ieder geval een leuk uitje!

Ballorig today!!

We went to the indoor playground today. I promised because M. did so well the first week in school! They were really looking forward to a day in the playground so here are some pictures!

Is deze niet lief... tja zo kan het nog makkelijk als je 2,5 bent!

Ja en de week is zelfs al over de helft... Het is leuker dan bij de Ienies, maar die was ie intussen ook wel een beetje ontgroeid! Het is nog wel erg spannend voor hem, echt IEDERE dag naar school. Maar als je in de eerste drie dagen al 2x getrakteerd bent, tja ... dan is dat alleen maar VET COOL. Enneh Mauro wat doe je eigenlijk bij gym? Nou gewoon, een beetje sporten!

Mijn afgestudeerde peuter... afgelopen woensdag voor het laatst naar het kdv. Zelf was hij er wel blij mee, hij heeft het idee dat hij nooit meer iets hoeft! Hihi, hij weet natuurlijk niet dat er nog héél veel jaartjes school aan zitten te komen. Dat merkt hij vanaf maandag wel! De scrap is met de nieuwe August Megakit van Rakscraps.

Afgelopen zondag waren we heerlijk even naar het bos:

Mauro heeft er bramen geplukt. 's Avonds ging hij bij opa en oma slapen dus die kregen de bramen kado... Ze zien er op de foto lekkerder uit dan in het echt ... de bramenoogst was niet zo goed dit jaar. Eerst te heet en daarna te nat weer natuurlijk....

Na een rondje bos en hertjes zijn we naar de Pyramide van Austerlitz gegaan... tenminste de speeltuin.... Erg leuk!

Vandaag 2 nieuwe autostoeltjes gekocht voor M&M... en vanavond de straatbbq gehad... beetje verregend maar toch wel gezellig.

This is (well not actually this but sort of) what I see when I look out of the window... and also sort of expresses my mixed feelings... We have a whole weekend ahead of us and no obligations... love that. But it will also be the last time that the kids will spend their 'night with grandma'. Off course there will be many more sleep-overs but no official ones. 10 days from now Mauro will start school. I can't believe that my baby is already ready for school and it makes me emotional. The next time I bring him to daycare will be for his farewell-party.

This week I am an emotional instable mom... am I allowed to? Just this one week? I promise I will feel better next week... I hope... no I will, I promise! ;)

Got it got it !!! Yes... yesterday I walked into the Dixons store and there was my precious darling... my Sony Alpha! I had ordered it in another store but they didn't get their supply and now it was right there in front of me. It turned out it had been in this store for exactly 10 minutes before I walked in... can you believe this? It must be faith, and I couldn't resist.
Today I tried to take pictures at Myra's birthday and this one is from the 3 boys. Aren't they cute together... ?? The pictures are just soooooo beautiful!

August 1st and the new online edition of Scrapstreet Magazine is here... I have been published again...toot toot! Here is my Orange Friends layout in the category Friends and here you can find my dearest Duckie in the Orange section (although I am convinced it is more yellow ...). They also promised to publish the layout I made for the Digital Contest last month, I made the Tribute to Amsterdam. It's right at the bottom of the page! Wow, a triple publication!

Is Santa already on his way ... I have put this Sony Alpha on my wishlist! I was in the store today but it was already sold out and it has only just been released...

Yes, welcome back to Holland... and as you can see we're back again....
We changed our camping-clothes into our traditional Dutch costumes again, don't the boys look happy?
Actually we took a daily trip around the corner today.... we went to Volendam, the most touristy place in Holland and for the first time we tried to talk the boys into taking a traditional photograph! And with some bribery (icecream and kibbeling, their favorite fish, not at the same time with the icecream of course) they put on the clothes and the wooden shoes and posed for this photo!!

We are trying to get this printed on canvas to put it up in our living room!

Our trip to France was fantastic, we wished we were still there but unfortunately we had to go back to boiling hot Holland.... So we try to make a little vacation here, a trip to the swimming pool, the next day to the lake... one day the boys played with the hose at daycare. They are not complaining about the hot weather. Today we visited their grandparents and after that the short trip to Volendam to watch the boats and eat icecream... and take the photo of course... Can you imagine that people ask us if they are twins? They are 19 months apart!

My birthday boy... almost a week ago my boy turned 4! Can't believe he will be going to school after the summer. It was the last time for him to share treats with his Kindergarten friends so daddy made him a special soccerfield with candies on sticks (the soccer players). It turned out so well!

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...

5 more days and we're going to Bubbles Country... the Champagne Region in la douce France!
Can't wait ... even so impatient that we are going 2 days earlier than expected!

Can you believe this??? Me being digital discovery of the month? Well, it is true and it makes me so proud! I am in the July edition of Scrapstreet Digital Magazine, with four (!!) layouts!

Hope that people actually like what they see!

It was a weird match last night ....

Both teams finished the game with nine men after a game which equalled the World Cup record for bookings - 16 - and broke the record for red cards.

Anyway, our boys can come home... no World Cup this year... but we'll be back in 2008 in Austria/Switzerland!

Ja de postcodestraatprijs van 14,3 miljoen euro is gevallen op.....
Dream on... maar deze is toch ook een hoofdprijs? Kleine Milan afgelopen zaterdag op de braderie! Ze hebben deze leuke foto van hem gemaakt... kon hem later zo downloaden vanaf de postcodeloterij website! Maar we kregen er ook een mee!

Tonights show before bedtime.... they're singing a song and jumping right at me!

Just for fun... my horroscope (no... it's really more like horror!):

I am a Taurus.
(Also known as "Bull")
My Horroscope starts like this:
" Petty, annoying and a whiny pain in the neck, a Taurus loves to brown-nose and is often a snitch to boot. In life and work, always blows with the wind, and runs to answer to his supperiors' smallest whim. " (Read more Find yours)

Everybody watches Holland-Argentina!

I tried to watch the first bit but then got bored so I moved to the attic to turn on my computer... check my mail, msn with Petra and then I found this kit.... and Petra put this photo on the daycare msn space.... I just had to scrap it!

The kit is called Soul Search by Carrie Stephens.

I didn't ignore the rest of the match... no I turned on the radio but the result was 0-0... Now on to the 1/8 finals on Sunday (when we have Mauro's birthday party)... Holland-Portugal it is!

I updated my blog today! The links are gone so I have to update those as well later. I made a blog header... Milo aka Petra and I were making one each while chatting on msn so this was fun... you can see her blog here: Milo aka Petra's Blog

This morning the boys were still on the campsite with their grandparents so that gave me the time to do an early-morning scrapsession (7.00 am) and these Beautiful Boys are the result. Kit is by CottageArts and is called Summer Serenity.

Well, only a little over 2 weeks before we go camping ourselves... we're off to France in 3 weeks!

Countdown, 12 days to go!!

Yes it's Mauro's 4th birthday in 12 days, and I had to think about which birthday cake to get him. After an elephant cake and a Pipo de Clown cake last year I found something else on the web... a cake with his own print on it made by our 'everyday' store HEMA! Only 16,95!

So this is the LO I made (with thanks to Camille Diaz for the Summer Playground kit) for the cake. I uploaded it to the store and the cake will be ready for his birthday party!

Tonight Holland won the World Cup match (against Ivory Coast) with 2-1...so we're in the 1/8 Finals anyhow! Now we're on next Wednesday ... Holland - Argentine, this will be a tough one!