Happy birthday Martin

Martin turned three yesturday!!!

Time goes so fast and it is really hard to imagine that already 3 years have past since my little boy was born!

And he really turned into a real boy because he loves everything that moves like car, tractors, you name it!!!

That's why he was in heaven all day because of all great presents that he got!!!

But what is a birthday without a birthday cake!!! So mommy went to back Martin this cake in the shape of a castle! The kids did a great job decorating it after the cake was done!

Now that the house and the cake was decorated we had an other special treat. My brother, Martins uncle, who happened to have his birthday on the same day as Martin, was on a business trip in Switzerland and had time to give us a visit! So in the picture below you can see the two birthday boys who are blowing out the candles!

So it was a perfect day and luckly for martin the birthday fun will continue this sunday when we will celebrate his birthday with his Swiss family!!! What a lucky little gusy :)

Happy New Year Everybody

Hi everybody,

Happy New Year!!!! I noticed that is has been a while since I posted something.Well we have been taking it easy over the holidays and enjoyed our family. This year we had and still have lot's of snow. So you can imagine that the kids are having the time of their life!

Today, on the last day of Mellie vacation I took the kids up the mountain behind our house to go sledding! It was a beautiful day today and with the sun and the snow I this happy vacation feeling :) Melanie was totally in sledding and wanted to go all by herself. Martin wasn't in the mood and just wanted to dig in the snow!

I have a little catching up to do;)

It has been a while since I have updated my bog so I have a lot to share.
Lately we have had new snow everyday. So I can only say that the snow dominated our lives at the moment. The last few days Martin and I will go to the store with him sitting on a sled and he loves it so much that when we get to the store he tells me that he wants to stay outside on the sled. Now because he is only two I don't think that is a good idea but once in the store he does find some advantages of comming in with mommy ;)
Melanie is snow crazy as well and lays, rolls and play in the snow for as long as she can.



In this picture below Melanie just came out of Kindergarten and was pulling her brother up the hill when the rope slipped out of her hands. But don't worry I was behind Martin and the sled only went backwards a little slowly. I just love this picture of the kids in the bg and Mellie's look on her face.

Sinterklaas is back in spain so it's time to get our home ready for christmas. The kids were so excited about that , so after mom had put all the lights in the tree they did the whole tree decorating themselves. I must say for a 5 and 2 year old they didn't do a bad job.

Here is Melanie after she was finished decorating.

I think our Sinterklaas has the best legs, but he is also very nice and the kids love our little yearly trip to see the old man.

Then last but not least in the last weekend of november I visited my friends and family in Holland. That was really great to see everyone and have lot's of laughs and catching ups! The only pitty was that I was looking forward to making some great pictures of Amsterdam but somehow I didn't get it right. But that will be my big excuse to go again soon ;)

Baking our Christmas ornaments :)

The days are getting shorter and the weather outside cold and rainy. I was stuck with a little flu and was wondering what we could to inside that would make us all happy! Now I happened to remember making breaddough decorations with my mom when I was young. So I went on the internet, found the recipe and got everything ready. With christmas comming around soon I thought it would be fun making christmasdecorations together.

The kids were really good. We were in the kitchen making and baking from 10 in the morning until three thirty in the afternoon. For the first part of that day we started very serious, but after a while things did get silly a little.

I was really happy that this bread is not for consumption :) But although it got wild a little in the end, we did end up with some cute results! In the pictures below you can see some of the stuff we made.

Our camper trip to the Bodensee

Our trip to the Bodensee started early in the morning! Both kids were really supriced that we woke them up when it was still dark but realised right away that we would go on a adventure!
After a couple of hours we arrived in Konstanz at the Bodensee. But because our end destination was on the otherside of this lake we took the ferry.

Our destination for that day was the model expo. Where they have everything from small planes to trains. You can see almost all men with big smiles on their faces and big plastic bags in their hands. Also Martin couldn't take his eyes of all the trucks, cars and trains.

Outside was a little steamtrain where kids could sit on, they both liked that!

The next day we spend a relaxing morning on the lakeside and later that day went to this very cute little zoo.

The kids did like feeding all the animals! Well..., Mellie gave the pop-corn to the animals, Martin had a hard time doing just that. Not because he was afraid of the animals but because he wanted to eat it himself.
But the best of the Zoo for Martin were these little cars. He couldn't get enough of it. Mellie was also a very good and fast driver.

Last week we had our first snow!

Our first snow for this winter! I have no idea how the kids knew but this morning they were already awake at 6 and wanted to look outside to see if the sun was up. Although it was still dark they saw the snow right away and even asked if he could go outside. I told him he needed to wait untill it wasn't dark outside anymore :) When later that day he did get to go outside, he didn't want to come inside anymore. A good thing that kids do get hungry after a while.

School photo's are in!

On the day that the photographer came to Melanie's school, she wanted to look her best. Mellie knew exactly what she wanted to ware and how she wanted her hair. I think that on that day she had put every hairclick she had in her hair. At first I thought she looked a little silly but I do like how the pictures came out :)