Thanksgiving

 This year we spent Thanksgiving with Frederik, Marlies, Rob, Christel and all the kids at Texas Ranch Life.  A ranch about an hour away from Katy.

It was a great weekend!  We introduced them to geocaching, went for a walk in one of the State Parks, Thijs and Frederik biked, the kids rode horses and we ate and drank! Too much, but boy was it good!

Great weekend!

Color run

Ran the color run with Floortje this morning around the lake near our house. Like last year it was organized by Famke's school and despite the rain it was a lot of fun!

And this is a cool pic I 'stole' from the PTA FB page. If you look closely you can find me in there :)

Love how all the color in the air in captured!

 

Burgers with Sylvia

Sylvia is visiting us at the moment. Between school, sports and all the other regular activities (oh did I mention our house is also being painted at the moment) we are trying to show her a little of Texas as well. When we asked her what was still on her list she answered: 'I would like to have a really good burger somewhere'.

A quick Google search returned quite a few burger places in and around Houston and we settled on Bernie's Burger Bus. Good choice!

Bernie's Burger Bus is opening in Katy this weekend, might be dangerous......

 

Friends reunited

During a recent trip to the Middle East, Thijs was lucky enough to catch up with Klaas and Ingrid in Dubai.  Was a bit jealous when I received the pictures on my phone....

Poezeoma in Texas

Here some pictures that were taken during October/November when poezeoma came to visit.  

We went on a trip to the Buffalo Bayou where she experimented with her new selfie stick :) and had a very nice lunch afterwards at the Backstreet Cafe. Dinner at Grimaldi's is always part of the routine

Halloween

Yes, I know! Way behind on posting this year. Not sure if I can catch up again but I will try to show some improvement for the rest of the year.....

Halloween was on a Saturday night this year, nice! All week it was not looking too good weather wise but we were lucky! By trick-or-treat time it had dried up and the kids were able to do their rounds. Famke as Hermione from Harry Potter and Floortje as a bunny rabbit.

 

3 on 3 basketball

After having a great time during the basketball season last year Floortje decided to also compete in 3 on 3 this year.  This is (as you probably figured) 3 against 3 on a half court.  The fun part is that because they are fewer players you get the ball a lot more.  Floortje did really well and we were amazed at the progress she made when comparing it to last year.  Bring on the 5 on 5 season!