Early christmas tree

 

So today we decided to buy a new Christmas tree, as my dad killed our old one, because he said t was dead... ahay... We decided to do it so early as we are away next weekend and also with Christmas and if we wait any longer we dont have time to enjoy it. The result:

 

I think it is again a wonderful tree and it makes me happy to see it standing in our living room. I hope it will survice so it will be with us a couple of years.

Hallow's eve

 

So we had our Halloween party. Big success, all the guests did their best and we had a great time.

 

My Red velvet bloody brain cake was a hit and first to go... Didn't even get a bite of it.

Picture of the kids with some of our au pairs with their +1's:

 

We even had some zombie mice:

 



Maybe it is something to do every year, we shall see....

Preparations for Halloween

Today was my day off to do preparations for our Halloween party. So I baked and made and prepared and I still need a lot more things to be done before tmorrow night. But for now I am done.

Son #3 and I made the first pumpkin...

October 21st 2015

Today is the day the Future is about to become the Past...
OK, so the future is not exactely what we thought it would be, but we have some neat gadgets...

Shrimping

 

Hubbie didn't see Forrest Gump but he wanted to go shrimping so there we were, in Zeeland, the guys spent about a good hour in the water and this is what they caught...

 

I have to admit, they tasted great.

Blood Moon

Yes, we saw it. Got up this morning at 4.30 and went to check if there were clouds or fog, but there wasnt so here it is. We took a picture with our camera and I must saw the result is better than I expected..
Woke up the kids so they could see it also and they thought it was creepy and cold,so they went back to bed very quicly.
I am glad we set the alarm clock, because it was spectacular.

Autumn

Fantastic weather this morning, so we went to the park, looking for chestnuts. Most trees were not giving eny yet, but our favorite secret trees, had huge ones, these are the biggest in the last couple of years.

And who remembers Niels Holgersson... Well we saw one white goose between wild ones...

The boys brought their skateboards, so they practiced a bit and we walked. Nice morning out.

Indian Rock

 

The boys had a birthday party and went on a parcours in a park between the trees, sort of a survival trip at Indian Rock.

 

They had a great time and teh weather was cooperating, so great outdoor activity.

First day of school

After 9 weeks, here it is, first day of school. As you can see, the kids were OK with it.

Last day of summer holiday

Today we had the last day of summer holiday. We had pictures taken at rokkifotografie. We had a blast making them.
This afternoon we had a family appointment at the dentist and it is my belief that no cavities must be rewarded what age you are... so I had some beurre salé from cocorico in Brasschaat. The ice cream is delicious and probably one of the best in this area.

So this is it... Last day, tomorrow it is back to school.

Beach

 

Tonight we went to the beach, what a sunset. To be honest, I have never seen the air so clean, you could see all the way to Rotterdam and on the other side to Beverwijk.

Last week of summer holiday

 

So we send our last days of holiday with a visit to the make up store, getting some stuff to fake wounds, as you can see son#1 like sthem.

 

We visited the school to see in which classes the boys are in. And we got their books to wrap, so guess who did it?

But the boys made me a cake, and it was delicious, so it was worth it, wrapping all those books. Guess we are ready for the new school year.

Son #3

We celebrated son #3 birthday for family and friends. We had different cakes, and BBQ. Great time. He got great gifts, great day. A real birthday boy.

Port Zélande

Hubbie and the boys went a week to Port Zélande in The Netherlands to enjoy some time on the boat. They decided to visit me in Antwerp, so they took the boat over the Schelde to Antwerp.

 

After some tense moments, the sea going ships were bigger when you are in boat next to them.... But they made it and I visited them on the boat.

Tehn, back to Port Zélande, where the boys had a great tim on the tire behind a speed boat...

 

The Segway, although, son #1 lies now on the coach with a serious sprain of his ankle...

 

Swimming and snorkling...

 

Crab fishing...

 

 And great sunsets. They had a great time, so that is the most important.

 

 

Thanks to Deltawatersport 

A night at the museum - the result

When we visited the Mayer Van Den Bergh museum, there was a nineteenth century photobooth. So this is the result...
This museum is really worthwhile visiting. It is also home to the famous Dulle Griet a painting by Pieter Bruegel de Oude.

A night at the museum

 

Last night there 21 museums in Antwerp were open until 1.00 a.m.

We visited The Rubenshuis, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, City Hall, Silver museum and the MAS.

 

But as you can see, around 00.00 the boys were spent and we decided to go home, so this is us waiting for the bus...

Today we visited some family who own a boat shop and they asked the boys if they wanted to test the banana... Guess what they said...

 

But I guess  grandpa had an even better time than the boys... He tried his best to get them to fall off...

Great time, fun to see, and it was a great boat, guess we all had a great day...