Pictures by the lake

Brian was messing around one day after church in March and decided to try to take some fun pictures of us by the lake. Here they are.

Kaitlyn's Basketball games!

Kaitlyn is playing basketball and she loves it. Or at least she loves the practices. She doesn't like the games very much because there team always loses sometime like 9-70. It is really discouraging for there team. The other teams are really good and very agressive but for these little girls they are not the agressive type and just do not do well against these other teams.

But they still have fun running around and trying to figure out where the ball is and we have fun laughing while we watch the whole thing.

Sometimes we even chear when the other team scores because well you feel like you want to cheer and the other team really is good :-)

Heart Attacted.

Some one in the ward Heart-Attacked us! It was great to find the hearts and the cookies. Thanks to who ever did it!

All of our neighbors were curious to know about this strage custome. The Dutch don't seem to do things like this. It was fun to tell them about the fun little things we do.

A day for hiking.

On a cold Febuary day we were tired of being in the house and so we decided to go out hiking. We went to the Dunes of the Wassenaar beach and found a nice trail and hiked around it. Everything looked so dead it reminded me of being at home and hiking in Arizona except for the occational pool of water here and there :-).

The girls loved hiking around and up and down all over the dunes. I think the only difference between this place and home is well any places this cool at home would have people riding motorcycles and ATC's all over it. Here all we had were quite peaceful hikers.

It was nice to get out.

London Trip

I have been working on this blog entry for about 2 months now. So on February 15-17 Brian and I went to London by ourselfs and left our kids with his mom who was here visiting. We had a wonderful time!

The first day we went to Kingston Palace and walked through the gardens there that turned out to be about a 3 mile walk. But it was so pretty and so enjoyable. We took so many pictures of the garden and One picture of the palace. It is where Princess Diana lived.

The next day we went to Buckingham palace and I was amazed at how everything was Gold leafed. The statues, the gates, everything. It was very pretty. Then we saw parlement squar that just reminded me of a Mary Poppins for some reason. Next we saw Big Ben which I thought was amazing and then last was Westminster abby. I was very disappointed that we couldn't take pictures inside Westminster. It was very Amazing. Every king and queen of England has a grand tumb inside. There was so much history to learn about. That evening we went to Ripplies Believe-it or not and then went to go see a Shakespear play at the theater. We saw the Taming of the Shrew of course.

The last day we went to the tower of London and went to see London Bridge. It was really neat seeing the Tower of London. It was the Castle of the Kings and Queens back in the 1200's or so but now it is a great museum. However, there were people living in the outside wall of the Castel. I thought that was interesting.

I put all of the Many pictures together into a movie.





We brought home gifts for the girls. For Kaitlyn a Crystal making kit from Ripplies Believe-it or Not. For Brianna a princess figure from the Buckingham palace. and for Brooke a King Henery the VIII bear from the Tower of London. They loved there gifts.