Braekfast to go

Christmas

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:27:56 -0500

Christmas 2008

Lunch
Watching the Bee movie
Cozy on the couch
Mom and daughter
Mom and daughters
Smile
Beauty nap
Kusje voor papa
I really don't like transformers
I really don't like bionicles
Another laptop
Making his wife a xbox widow
presents for mama
Still a princess
Listening together
Another beauty nap?

2008

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:48:53 -0500

Pictures from 2008

December 5th

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:41:38 -0500

Celebrating Sinterklaas

Look what Sinterklaas dropped off..
Looks there was help from Opa and Oma
Rip it open...
Kaylee admiring her new doll (after Mariska first ran off with it)
Mariska with her new drawing board
More DVDs
Present for Mama
Kaylee checking out the other toys
Gift from mama and papa
Let me see.
Kaylee with her pinguin
Getting stronger...
Hey
The nativity set that the kids received from us
The nativity set that the kids received from us
After everything was done...

Kaylee

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:01:24 -0500

Kaylee

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11 weeks old
11 weeks old
11 weeks old
11 weeks old
11 weeks old
August 2008
August 2008
August 2008
August 2008
August 2008
August 2008

Wait till I can walk....
Fall 2008 - It's pumpkin time.

Looks like Kaylee is putting her christmas list together...
Is it real?
Dude, I am not impressed... ;)
And then she stood up...
Crawling, sitting and standing uip - All in 1 week

People

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:44:18 -0500

Yours truely at the cross country event.
The Nelly Furtago concert
Nice people those Uthans ;-) In the middle mr. Koo
If I ever considers a new career, I might be a good pick to be one of the hosts on the CBC. This picture was taken at the official studio of the CBC at the International Broadcasting Centre.
Me with one of the three mascotts: Now who do you want to cuddle? Okay, who else do you want to cuddle? ;-)
Mr. Koo, could you also do the dishes?
On a picture with Catherina LeMay Doan (500 meters speed skating). When I told Catherina that I was Dutch she looked surprised and asked me what I was doing there. When I was taking a picture of here with another friend she asked her if she was Dutch too. Not everybody can be blessed to be Dutch, Catherina ;-)
on a picture with mr. Koo and Jonathan Guilmette who won silver and gold that evening in short track (500 meters and 5000 meters relay). The last 2 pictures were taken at the Labatt Olympic Bash which was helt for the Canadian atheletes. Free drinks, free food, free entertainment from the Tragically Hip. My kind of party
Here is Jochem Uytehaage moving through the Holland house on a much slippery surface than ice.
It was the last picture on the roll and the negative was cut off. As a result the picture was not printed. Nevertheless, I need to have a proper print eventhough it would not be a good one. So they tried some magic and here it is. On the left the man that every Canadian should recognice: Don Cherry or Mr. Hockey. Forgive us for not looking great. The picture was taken at 5 AM at the Salt Lake City Airport.

Mariska

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:06:54 -0500

Pictures of Mariska for 2008

On the day before Kaylee's arrival
in bath
Helping grandma
Looks like I don't need to any vacuuming anymore ;)
Finally the weather is good enough for a walk
Spring is finally here...

Playing at the park
Swinging
Swinging...
Puppy
Catching up
Going up the hill

Still energy enough to help mama
Doing it myself
Mariska showing off her Euro 2008 look
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Running away from opa
Mariska showing her Euro 2008 look
Mariska showing her Euro 2008 look
You see that Mariska is already getting ready for another Dutch team embarrashment
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On the ferry with (honorary) Uncle Ian and Emma
With (honorary) Aunt Karen on the bench
The paparazzi is everywhere
More ring around the rosey...
Back on the ferry

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Mariska at the stringray exhibit at the Toronto Zoo

On a camel ride at the zoo
On a camel ride at the zoo
The mother instinct at work...
Waiting for Sinterklaas en Zwarte Piet
With Zwarte Piet
With Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet
With the old dude...

Wedding Party in the Netherlands

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:33:07 -0500

Kasteel Vaeshartelt (wwww.vaeshartelt.nl)
See, we can have dry weather on our wedding ;)

Our party room
The reception
The bonbonnieres
The Hub'n Bub'n (http://www.cobweb.nl/daansmit/hubbub.htm)
Und jetzt geht loss.

Three generations. Grandma - grand daughter - mom

Deanne: flown in all the way from Aberdeen, Scotland.
As if he does it every day....

You can see her thinking: "I am screwed"

As if she does it everyday

Proost - Cheers
"But I am wearing a corset!!!"

Dance dedicated to Catherine's grandparents for their 65th anniversary

Some line dancers not in line
Catherine is becoming a real professional doing this...
"Get in on my train..."

What are they looking at?
And you thought my dad only blows on garden hoses...

We had people from all over the world. Here is Paul who I met the University of Toronto. Originally from Salzburg, Austria, but now living in Germany.

Some people were kinda worried when they saw me on the pedistal.
"Vlieg met me naar de regenboog"
And that meant a couple of hernias for some people (of course only to the people who carried Richard :)

It's all over...for real.

Official wedding pictures

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:29:45 -0500

Halloween

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:21:22 -0500

Halloween

Before the storm....
5 minutes before we headed out Mariska didn't want to put on her suit
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Kaylee slept during most of the night so we didn't put a suit on immediately.
But on Sunday we did and took the pictures
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Mariska's 2nd birthday

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:52:24 -0400

Mariska's 2nd birthday

Everybody is playing Mario Karts
The birthday girl throwing a ball to the photographer
Matthew in his cocoon.
I believe Matthew is trying to tell me something
Kaylee with Rebecca
I guess she wanted to wear a special birthday hat. Well, she is a leo...
Food everywhere
The birthday cake with Elmo on top of it of course
mmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmm
Grandma with Kaylee
Presents!!!!
Presents!!!!
Something to help daddy?
Colouring...
She is already an expert