a glimpse of our lives: Our 2-month trip to Holland, April-May 2012

It's hard to believe we've been back from Holland over 2 months already. Time really does fly by and our summer has been a busy, but good one so far! I'll blog about the summer later. I wanted to post some pictures from our trip to Holland first. Maybe some of you have already seen some pictures on Facebook, maybe you don't have Facebook, either way, enjoy!

We arrived on April 2nd. It took Finn about a week to adjust. The older 2 did great.

Tys waving at pake with beppe

This was about the 3rd day we were there, the cousins got to play in the sandbox together, which was fun!

Rudi talking to my sister, Anyke.

We visited a dairy in my sisters town, that was fun!

The dairy farmers daughter, our nephew Ruben and niece Marije

Rudi with the boys

At my oldest sisters house

Marije

Eating lunch at home.

The boys enjoyed the fresh bakery bread and hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles)

Then we got to go to a fun vacation house, that was a present from my parents!

On the ferry, on the way to the museum

Fun museum for kids.

It was an outdoor museum, with traditional "old" Dutch houses and people in the traditional clothes.

Old traditional dining room

Tys and Nieko loved it.

Talking to the Dutch lady.

Picture time

Look up finn!

Our three treasures.

Eating some lunch and feeding the ducks

Tuckered out

Finn, our chocolate eater!

We visited an aquarium.

Went to the beach.

Finn was about 11 months here.

At the big sand dune.

Finn in our cute little vacation house

Finn on the beach

All 3 of them having a blast

Hungry after all that playing we ordered a pizza... We waited outside, because the boys were full of sand!

Alkmaar

Cheese market

Lots and lots of people!

Buying a souvenir for Rudi's mom

Eating breakfast (or lucnh, I can't remember :-))

This is what Tys does when I shop :-)

My mom and sister ate a salt herring...... We were taking a little break from shopping in Haarlem

At the Corrie Ten Boom museum.

The hiding place.

Doesn't my dad look adorable??

It was SOOO cold!!

Me, the boys, and my only Beppe (my dads mom)

Nieko playing with his cousin Niek!

Tys, Niek and Nieko!

Nieko, Finn and Tys!

Silly Finn with his chubby cheeks!

My mom being stylish

My sister dressed Finn in girls clothes! haha!

Anyke, me and Aly at the theather!

Me and Nieko going for a bike ride!

Jan Bert with my niece Roos and Marco with Finn (Both brothers-in-law)

Nieko and Tys at my sisters house

It was Sanne's (far left) Birthday!

Chocolate sprinkles for breakfast!

Janneke and me

Me, Margriet, Janneke & Elbrich

Beppe and the boys!

Cute display!

Rudi came back!!!!

So excited to see him again. Tys missed his dad SO much!!

Here we are in Spain! Rudi and I went and visited missionary friends in Spain for 5 days.

Main street in the town we stayed at

Alicante!

We went to this beautiful castle on top of a hill.

Gorgeous view (both Rudi and the town/ocean)

We enjoyed it very much

It was a beautiful day with nice warm weather. Holland had been pretty cold and rainy! So we were ready for some sun!

Bird

closer up

One last one of the view

Rudi's ginormous hamburger!!!!

Back in Holland! The weather had gotten beautiful over there!

Tys on the boat with pake!

Finn came too

And Rudi and Nieko too

Oh, and me too.

Sitting in front of my mom and dads house.

Finn turned one on May 25!!!

Such a BIG boy!

Having fun..

Party time!

My only sister in law (on my side of the family) Sietske!!!

A lot of people came to my hometown for a big bicycle race!

There was a lot of stuff going on. Nieko loved it as you can see... :-/

We went on the boat with all the sisters one afternoon, so fun!!

Nieko sleeping on the stairs...!

My brother and his wife live a few houses away from my parents. They have two boys, and a baby girl. The boys had such a blast playing together. Here they're having a water fight.. My brother got involved too..