Stan & Damae & Snow

Hello, we've moved to Norway and it's snowing. Spiket tires, engine warmers, snow shovels, step sledges, furry warm boots, skiis, Gospel, bass, mixed ability classes, learning the language, discovering local foods, hiking, going uphill lots, all quite exciting.

Stan & Damae & Norway

Hello All,
Stan and I have been cycling in Norway since 2005
(www.mistymornings.net if you're interested)
and fallen in love with the place. We are
even trying to move there in the near future.
(http://wearemovingtonorway.blogspot.com)
We'd like to move this summer. Wish us luck.

Cheers,
Damae

Updates from the Yonas - The Homeless Bum

Julian is the blurrey one here. You will notice he is pushing his brother around in the picture. A typical occurance.....



Here is Marcus posing for the camera... Why oh why are all my pictures blurrey?

Marieke is an active crawler now. Neither of our boys ever crawled, but she crawls like crazy.

She also does some basic cruising and loves to stand as they tend to around this age.

Bowser

This is Bowser. He is our new "Jug" (3/4 pug, 1/4 Jack Russell) puppy.

Bubbles

This is our cat named Blossom.

Who says she cannot have her own pet?

so we bought her a fish, named Bubbles.

Now she is fascinated with her fish. 

Marcus...

I have a son too, not just a daughter. See, here is a picture for proof.

He doesn't seem too happy though. He is leaning against my chest.

Marieke?

You may have heard that Julia and I had another Baby. On March 15/09. 8 lbs 2 oz.

Here is a picture of her. She is about 4 weeks old now.

























Well, now we have been thinking about the name. With apologies for any future confusion, we are going with Marieke. Max says it's cool with him.

Still looking for a middle name.

Y.

sylvia's pictures

check out this link to my picasa web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/fotootjesvanme/SylviaSPictures#

It has all my baby pictures and other early pictures of the Vandermeer family; some of them never made it to the disc Bernard distributed.

Theo update

This is Theodore Jacob at 4 and 6 months. These are some of oma's favorite pictures of him. Currently he is around 25 lbs and 28 inches. We are amazed at how fast and big he is growing. But he is happy and healthy and that is what is most important.

Julian turns 4 & Doing some flips

Picking blackberries in Abbotsford

Gezellig bij Barbara op de bank.

Welcome Theodore Jacob, born March 10 2008

Congratulations Jaap and Elaine with your beautiful son.

Check the link to the family foto album on the left.

Once you open the link, click on the picture to open the foto album. Keep checking, because I am in the proces of adding more albums to this link.

Nederland is MOOI

Isabelle voor het eerst op natuur-ijs

New Vandermeer: Dave and Marnie's baby

One new Vandermeer. Dave's e-mail is vanderdm@shaw.ca

Oma has brand new wheels!

Moooooooi he

You Tube Video's of Macus and Julian

Some of these may be a little bit fun...





and one of Marcus taken just a few days ago (Marcus is about 9 months now).

Drie mooie meiden in het Kikkerlandje

Lucia and Sylvia and Jobien went to Holland! It was very exiting. Here we are visiting with our cousin Arnold Spliethof (sitting beside Jobien) and his kids & grandkids.

Tell me, why did we all move to Canada anyway? Holland is such a nice little country with good possibilities and innovations. Silly Vandermeers! Bernard! It's all your fault, you twit!!! Please post your comments and tell my why we shouldn't all move back there.

sisters