Jaylee's 2nd Birthday

Jaylee is now 2 - can you believe it? Its hard too... she is getting so big!

Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas, not only us but Severin, Lisa and Rowan came too, which was fantastic.

Vacation

We went away for a week to the Outer Banks in North Carolina, it was great to get away for the week and just kinda relax.



thanks to all the family for making it a great week :)

Kate is now 5!

 Kate's Birthday was a lot of fun!!!!!!! Happy Birthday sweetie!!!!!!!!

Halloween

May I present the best clown in town, a bear? and supersnap!

pumpkin picking 2012

 As our yearly tradition now is, we went pumpkin picking again, got the traditional photos in tunnel and went in the corn maze, it was a lot of fun!

Randoms

The swing/play set is already half up, the girls play on it for hours.
Thank you Poppop for playing with them

 The local wildlife...
Kate  decided to draw some sock monkeys, from memory too - I am really impressed. She has been doing really well with her school work, and slowly getting better at her letters too, as you can see she on the picture.

 June has been playing soccer and is doing really well.. .
A while ago I lost Anna, I realized she had been quiet for too long and then I could not find her, till I found her in our bed, she decided to go to for a nap it seems, And when she woke up she came out of the room with a big smile, she thought it was really funny.

The garden

 

This year I had my first real vegetable garden, and enjoyed it,

whoever would have thought that I would find it so much fun. 

 While Opa was here, he helped me a lot in the garden, I really enjoyed working together with him and I really appreciated the help - thanks Opa

 Some of the produce I managed to harvest, carrots, broccoli, watermelon, beans, peppers.

 I used a double set of gloves for these peppers, its all we have left. they are now dried and made into pepper flakes.

It was a good first time experiment, now I have a good idea what to grow next year, what works or not, when to sow the seeds and the fact that the soil needs a lot more fertilizer to help it grow, it was the poorest soil known to man... looking forward to it again next year.

Severin and Lisa's wedding

Last weekend Severin and Lisa got married, it was great to be a part of their wedding, a real blessing.
It was absolutly beautiful  location, perfect. And Lisa looked stunning.

Caleb was the best man and Kate was a flower girl, which she loved. All 3 girls danced most of the night with everyone as you can tell in the photos below. I know of some photos that were taken that turned out really well that I have yet to get, so I will add them as I get them. 





The weekend was pretty long for the girls so you can imagine the last photo was the scene most of the way home. :)


Here is a photo of just us at the wedding. 

Happy Bithday Caleb!

VBS 2012

Bed time

photos

Here are a few close up photos from the last post as I had not had a chance yet.

 the kids, the parents, the grandparents and the great grandparents

4 generations in front of the white house, it was great that Opa could get to see it in real life too. It was a fun day...

Groot Opa

 Groot Opa came for a visit, very cool that he came. We had a lot of fun and I know the girls really enjoyed getting to know him.
Here are a few photos of what we got up too...

Lisa's bridal shower

Audrey, June, Kate and myself got to go to New York for a weekend, that was back in June...
We got to go to Lisa's bridal shower, it was a lot of fun and for me a mini vacation, with only Kate for a few days.
Thanks to all for making it possible, and we are looking forward to the upcoming wedding. 

six flags fun.

We went to six flags with Oma, Opa and June, was once again a lot of fun and it will not be our last visit for the year.  I dont know if you can hear Anna but after we get wet and are around the front, I ask if she had a good time and she said no... too funny.

Anna & Oma's birthday

Anna turned 3 last week, and Oma also had her birthday the day after. It was great to be able to have Oma here to celebrate it together.

Here are the photos, when Anna is opening her last present, pay attention to what she says 'I not partner I Anna' - too cute!

Oma and Opa visit

Oma and Opa are here for a good 5 weeks, we are super happy to have them here, the girls are having heaps of fun with them... and as always they love the extra attention.

Six Flags

Caleb got season tickets to Six Flags - an amusement park not to far away.
So we went for the first time and the girls had a blast, I only have photos of the kids on their size rides, we also went with June on the big rides - wow it was fun and as everyone said the superman was the most exhilarating ride I have been on. We will be going more often this year!

Easter 2012

Better late then never right? well here are the Easter photos.

too cool...

Jonas Quinn

On the 29th of March my brother Erik and his wife Gloria had their second beautiful baby boy - Jonas Quinn. What a cutie! I'm super happy to be an aunt all over again and I can't wait to finally hug him... one day.
Both Mum and Son are doing well even with the little sleep :)



Chloe, Elijah and Jonas

you can go to their blog and see more photos if you like, the link is on the side, van der Gaag family...