Just in case Sonja wants to mess with the blog.

Me and my Jamie

Ha! Now that I know how to do this I'm going to fill this whole site up with pictures of myself!!!

Jamie's 1st Christmas

Thank you Narda!!! I finally have this blogging figured out!
Here are my boys on Christmas eve.

Jeroen's handwriting

Chris's dorm room 2005

We dropped Chris off at the MMA in August 2005. From L to R Brian 16, Paul 50, Chris 19, and Scott 15 sitting on bed.

Chris 20 on rowing team at the Maine Maritime Academy

Chris is in the white hat.

Laurence and Schillenpaard

This is Laurence and Sandra, they were inseperable for years. the year is 1973.

Hij zou vandaag 103 zijn geworden...

Famous Quotes

Geluk is een lange vent met een kort hempt
(Happiness is a tall guy in a short T shirt)
Gemma 1984

Beam me up Sylvia Scotty

Famous Quotes

"Iemand is door een peurbootje overreden en allebei zijn benen verbrand"
("someone is run over by a row boat and burned both his legs")
Pa, when there was the sound of sirens and the kids asked "What happened?"

Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag Paul

And many more........

famous quotes

"I move as little as possible"
Eef Stipdonk 1983: when asked, what he does to stay fit.

Making scary faces

Ben with Johnny and Amanda

Famous Quotes

"Waarom hebben die kinderen dan toch zoo'n harde koppen" Ma 1946-1970
Translate: "why do those kids have such hard heads"

Ma rubbing her hands after slapping one of us.

Famous Quotes

"What zal Willie nouw stinken" (Narda 1955)
(translate"Boy! That Willie will start to stink now"

As a three year old, the family's favorite, Narda could do no wrong,
Narda got to believe own angelic blamelessness and if she did something wrong, she believed the evil would show up in somebody else. That somebody else was always Willie. So one day, on the way to Meyendaal, on the back of Ma's bike, I heard Narda let fly of a big wet stinky fart and then she shrugged and said: "wat zal Willie nouw stinken"
(translate: "Boy! That Willie will start to stink now").

Wasn't there a picture around here somewhere of Sylvia giving me the finger?

Julian's the one with the orange hat!

 
 

Heeroom Arie van der Meer. Pa's cousin

Witte Pater: belonged to the order of Paters of Lavigerie dressed in Bedouin clothes, with red Fez. They were missionaries in North Africa.
He was much loved in Pa's family.
He visited on Narda's day of birth, which also was Ben's confirmation. He was instrumental getting funds for Ben to go to Seminary.
He returned to Uganda (land of notorious Idi Amin). He was shot to death in 1956.

Julian and Yonas on Thanksgiving

I had just finished a 10 day "Master Cleanse" (Didn't eat any solid food for 10 days...).

Willy: on the mend

Doing better every day. Will soon be able to cut his own cheese.

wie is wie, Lucia of Sylvia? Which one is the "evil one"?

Apparently people are having trouble telling us apart. Can you tell the difference? IS there a difference?

Willy's new squeeze toy. oh, and Sonja.

Aren't they cute??

Hey, Max!

Did you have your baby yet? Let's hear from you and have a picture!

Ben bought boat

I am sure that is one of Willie's cats

Folkfest 2004

That's what you'll look like if you hang out with Lucia and me long enough......

hier is de twin picture

allemaal een beetje anders, door wie is deze foto genomen?

op de eiffeltoren

Weet je nog wel?
I had my wallet stolen too that day.

Wie is dat?

Is dat Lucia? Nee hoor, it's her spawn, Colin. aged 17.

nog een fotootje

Here's a picture of the Scotts in Smerdiek (op visite by Ellie en Peter. Hartstikke leuk hoor)

So that's Aron (21) on the left, then Wayne, Natalie (16), and Sylvia.

pictures of cousins

Adam (19) is on the right and Aron (21) on the left.

I'd like to see some pictures of Paul's kids too. So Paul, get some pictures up, would you? I haven't seen any for a long time. Our kids are so close in age.

Okay... let's try a picture - this should be of Moi turning 50...

Keep your fingers crossed...

Ain't she pretty?

I'm not worthy... I'm not worthy...

In the background is brian (16) and his (then) girlfriend

Let's try another one.... See, it goes bonkers again. One picture per post, eh?

Okay guys! Paultje de Boskabouter is blogging.

If Oehoeboeroe, Eukalypta and Salomon only knew!


I was going to add some pictures but the page started acting funny, so I will try again later

Audoe

this picture was from Ma and she wrote on it "7 kleinkinderen".
Where was this taken, and who all is in the picture? I think that is Monica bottom row secone from right.

Memories

I deleted Ben's memories, I think we all read them, time for some new memories Ben!

Julian is 1

Here is a picture of Julian on his first birthday (August 10, 2005).

He seems to be dwarfed by his amazing cake.

He is really walking now... He always wants us to put him down.

Y.

Alle poppen moeten slapen

Thanks for sending us all the "Lillies" (Rebecca's name for her dolls) and the clothes Jobien.

Rebecca and me zijn er heel erg zoet mee geweest vandaag. Vraag maar aan Barbara.

Tante Sylvia

Here's sylvia just testing. This picture was taken on Ben's deck. He brings out the best in me. This is fun, but how do you leave a message for a specific person? Do all the entries get added until you're scrolling down forever to get the latest posting, or does this blogger archive its messages.

Ben Aug 2005

Ben sailing with his evil twin Larry

Who knows?

Who knows more about this picture? When was it taken and why and by whom?

Ben Aug 2005

Here I am in Desolation Sound Aug 2005.
I am trying to get used to this blogging.

I thought I'd try it out, here's Rebecca.

Trying

One night before Bernard's wedding and departure to Canada.

Sylvia is not yet born here, but in the picture all the same.

New

I think I just created this blog that we were all talking about. Now I just have to see how it all works.

Just bear with me.

Narda