Beach babes

 

Beach weekend

A few weekends again, a colleague of Thijs was so very nice to let us use her beach house in Galveston for the weekend. Thijs' mum came with us and we had a wonderful time. On Saturday the weather was just gorgeous and we made the most of it!

This was the view towards the Gulf Of Mexico.

A fun picture in th late afternoon sun.

On Saturday we went for a walk in a nearby nature reserve, found a geocache, visited Galveston State Park, had a nice outside lunch and spent the afternoon on the beach. Thijs taught the girls how to fly a kit, and took Floortje for a swim.

On Sunday the weather was not as nice but we still got a good walk on the beach.

Such a great weekend, seems like we were away for ages!

 

Daily drive

Just some things that I come across on my daily drive through Katy and surroundings...

Thijs the Terminator

Yesterday while enjoying the beautiful weather and inspecting the (finally) weed-free state of our garden, I noticed a wasp nest in one of our trees.

With a little help from Google we found out these were 'Texas red wasps' and as you probably know by now, anything 'Texas' is big (and in this case also aggressive)! Needless to say, the wasps had to go.

Thijs got a bottle of spray and waited till dusk as the can stated the wasps would be more 'peaceful'.....

As Thijs reacts quite severely to insects bites he was not going to take any chances!

When I checked the status of the nest this morning, it seems that it is Thijs 1, wasps 0!

 

Halloween food

My mum always told me never to play with my food, but this was just too much fun!

 

Halloween cupcakes

With Poezeoma in town for Halloween, something had to be baked. Mummy cupcakes it was. Fun!

 

Genes

Toothbrushes ordered by descending age from left to right....

The famous detective tv shows and best-seller thriller books teach you that DNA can be obtained from toothbrushes and other personal items.

In this 'family case' however there is no need to 'test' the brushes. A visual inspection will tell you without a doubt that the dad and youngest daughter are related!

Could do a post similar to this one about sleeping positions and duvet location....

(Yes, Floortje now has a new toothbrush)