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Party food

We celebrated Michel's birthday today. Very nice day with friends and family.

Saturday

A bit of a slow day today, which was very welcome after all the running around that we did lately. One thing we had to do was quite a bit of shopping.

Usually, I try to do all the shopping alone, but today it worked too. Giving Linus a comic book to read was an excellent trick (we bought it later, we are good like that).

Also, we have a new friend. I guess you never know what your daughter drags home, right?!

8!

This morning, on his way to school... we weren't allowed to sing for him and he didn't want to have his picture taken, but he is unmistakably the birthday boy! He is remarkable in every way <3

We celebrated his birthday yesterday. We had a great garden party, the weather was fantastic!

And these were the treats for his class mates.

Now I have to go and do more celebrating :)

Homely snaps

We're all back to our normal routine. While I mourn the end of summer -although the weather is still really nice- I do find enjoyment in our daily activities at home, school and work.

Some of yesterday's snaps:

Tomato soup (it was good!)

Kneading

A little break with my girls. They look adorably ridiculous sunning themselves!

The final result. That should be enough for this week!

First day of school

Sadly normality has returned.

Summer days

We are in full summer vacation relaxation mode here.

Therefore the blog is quiet, but I keep posting on Flickr or Twitter, where you can also find my Instagram photos (Yes, I have a new phone toy ;)).

See you soon!

Back with cake

I'm back!

I had a little Typepad trouble, but it's all fixed now :)

Let me get back into the groove by showing you the fantastic princess cake that Michel made for Amber's birthday! It turned out so well and it tasted great too. Plus Amber really liked it... win win win :)

Weekend

Amber had her musical performance on Saturday. It was amazing to see her on stage, I'm sure I was literally beaming with pride.

Today we all took it easy. It was so cold I nearly put on the heating. We enjoyed ourselves with board & iPad games.

And I started a new crochet project, which needs to be finished by the end of the week. Busy week ahead anyway with Amber's birthday marathon, some deadlines and the usual work & children stuff.

An egg!

Big day today: we discovered the first egg!

The clever girl moved both fake eggs into one nest; so cozy!

Luckily we were all home to celebrate this happy occassion.

Who dunnit and will there be another egg tomorrow?

Having chickens is fun!

Welcoming the girls

The girls have arrived! Yes, we finally have our chickens! We went to pick them up on Friday and they have settled well now in their new place.

And having chickens is so much fun already... thankfully it is exactly what we imagined. The children love them and Simon especially seems to be a natural with them.

They are about 16-18 weeks old now, so still quite young. However, we may find the first egg in the upcoming weeks... so exciting!

We had our first escape on the first night already. We have a naughty chicken on our hands! Her adventure ended well and we all tucked them in for the night.

I keep going outside just to look at them and that's exactly what I'm going to do now :)