Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve + Day is complete without this Dutch tradition: appelflappen/appelbeignets and oliebollen!

And of course fireworks...

I love his facial expressions!

 

Raclette party grill...or 'gourmetten' as we call it in Holland!

 Always room for more of these...

And back to homeschooling after the holidays (we just did English + Math for a couple of weeks, now we're back to doing everything). Of course it's much more fun with a chickie watching!

 

 The end of a fun girls' day out for my friend Rachel's birthday!

At work with Daddy

 

 Pretty sky!

 Getting some homeschool help from these guys...

 Trying to outrun the truck!

 Collecting rocks

 

 Trying to get a normal picture...

 

 Well finally, a fairly normal one!

 After almost 8 years in Texas, I finally ordered my first cowboy boots!

White Christmas 2012

On Christmas Eve, Gabriel got to open 1 present!

Can you tell he was excited?!

 Happy kid!!!

Now I have 3 Lego motorcycles! (He got this set a few days before this.)

 

 Some more presents on Christmas morning...

On Christmas Day we drove down to Arlington to see the family.

  More Christmas presents!

It snowed all afternoon and evening and it took us about 3.5 hours to drive back home (instead of 2)! The next morning we got to play in it :)

 The roads were icy, but we were fine in our 4-wheel-drive truck. We even got to save a few others who slid off the road.

 
 

 

 

 A favorite gift...Jenga!

  My Christmas present...a new Bible and Bible cover! Doing a 1-year Bible reading plan in 2013.