Floortje 11

Our little girl is 11!

Together with opa and oma we celebrated this special day by going bowling and having pizza at Grimaldi's

Meisjes Rademaker Calendar 2017

 

Color Therapy

A Dutch photographer called Else Kramer gives online photography courses.  I stumbled upon her website a while ago and she keeps her followers up to date with regular emails and social media posts.  This November she initiated a 10 day color therapy 'course'.  Every day the 'theme' was a different color take pictures of and if you so wished you could share them on a FB page.  

I loved doing this! The results of my ten days can be found below (actually 11 as there was a purple bonus day in December)

Color Run

Monarch Butterflies

A few years ago I posted about a movie we saw about Monarch butterflies at the science museum (here). 

The whole life cycle of these amazing animals in very special and this year we finally got around to buying milkweed.  Milkweed is the only plant the Monarch will lay their eggs on and the only plant the caterpillars will eat to grow big.  

It has been an amazing process to watch!  All the way from the eggs to the tiny caterpillars and then seeing them get big by totally ravaging the milkweed.  Some we helped a bit by protecting them in our butterfly tent and feeding them until they went into their cocoon.   The cocoon itself it beautiful too, green with a little gold rim.  One evening while having dinner we saw one of the caterpillars transform itself into the cocoon. It all happens in a few minutes.  We have also seen the butterflies comes out of the cocoon.  This is slightly slower and they need some hours to dry after they emerge.

So special to witness this!

Sandcastle in Galveston

After learning how to build a sandcastle during Memorial Day weekend in South Padre Island we decided to put our newly acquired skills into practice again.  We spent Labor Day weekend in Galveston on the beach and you can see the result of our labor below.

At the end of the day we took a well deserved rest (and beer) and watched as the sea retook the castle.

Summer Want to Do List 2016

Some of the things we had planned for the summer.  Accomplished quite a lot of them!