Having fun in Holland!

We're having a great time!

Tys and Nieko are getting used to all the family members it seems.

Here are some fun pictures

My niece Sanne feeding Nieko

My sister Elbrich, holding Nieko

My oldest niece, Marije and oldest nephew, Mike

Tys got to go on his first bike ride! He wasn't to sure at first, but now he loves it!

Marije and Sanne (sisters)

Me and all my sisters and nieces and nephews!

The "2009-babies" with their moms!

Rixt ~ Teake ~ Niek ~ Sarah ~ Nieko

(the "2009-babies")

Nicky and Sanne (nieces)

Dirk and Tys are the same age!

We made it to Holland

We're in Holland!!!!

We arrived on Wednesday morning at 7 am. My family was waiting for us at the airport.
The flights went really well, Tys and Nieko both did great. I did not get much sleep, but that's ok. The boys didn't sleep much either, but now they're doing suprisingly well!

I've seen most of my family already! Today it's my nieces birthday, so we'll be seeing most of them at her birthday party too. Should be fun!

I'll post pictures as soon as I get a chance!

We're leaving for Holland! (or not.....)

Tys and Nieko and I are supposed to fly to Holland tomorrow!
For today all the flights to Europe are still canceled. We hope that our flight tomorrow is going to make it! If it is, it's going to be one of the first ones since the volcano.

I'm kind of packing today, hoping that we will go!

According to my family in Holland it sounds like the airlines are going to fly again, starting tomorrow morning 8 am (European time)! So we hope for the best!

The weather in Idaho has been beautiful, today it's supposed to be 80!

Tys and Nieko are doing great, Tys said his first sentence yesterday; "Haitie, I want koppie thee, please" (dad, I want a cup of tea please!)

Nieko is doing good, he's not crawling yet, although I think he really wants to.

Well, we will keep you posted and hopefully I'll write my next message from Friesland!

easter pictures

Nieko got 3 more teeth, this last week! He's not been complaining about them at all!
This morning I noticed 2 more teeth coming in. I love the big gap between his top teeth!

For Easter we went to pake and beppe's (Rudi's parents') house. Nieko got candy, and he loved it! He needed to have one in each hand, otherwise he would just cry!!!

Tys, Logan and Gideon playing together! They love playing at pake en beppe's house!

beppe hid eggs all over the house for the boys, they were so excited to find them, AND that they had candy inside of them! (a lot of sugar = a lot of rowdy kids!!!)

Nieko in the shopping bag!

Gideon playing peekaboo! So Cute!

Tys and Nieko had their first bath together! It went really well, they both loved it

Tys likes chocolate...

Little Levi on Easter Sunday. He's doing very good! And he's a sweet baby. (And CUTE!!)

Big Brother Logan!

This was minutes after Logan's brother was born. He just heard that mommy had the baby, and he was just smiling, and so happy! And he didn't even see the baby yet!

The Reece Family, what a beautiful family!

Little Levi weighed 7lbs 10 oz.

Lots of dark hair!

Logan was checking him out, he already loves his brother!

so sweet!

I got to hold him too, he was only 1 hour old here!

Praise the Lord for another healthy addition!

Planting trees and such

This little guy is Logan, he's about to be a big brother, any day now!

On Saturday we planted some trees and plants in our yard! It's looking great.

Nieko is 9 months, he weighs about 18lbs now. He's sitting up and rolling and everything, I think he's getting ready to crawl. He really wants to, but can't yet!

We put in a faucet, and while we were working on it, all the boys played together outside, they had such a good time!
Pretty soon we want to make a patio out of brick, and put in some grass!

Tulips

daffodils

byebye!!!