Happy Anniversary! 2 Years!

This week Richard and I celebrate our 2 year wedding anniversary! We were married on the 23rd lawfully and the 29th in the temple for time and all eternity.

I couldn't ask for a better husband! Happy Anniversary Richard, I love you!!!!

We went to Scheveningen (a popular beach here) on Saturday (the 23rd) and ate dinner at our favorite restaurant there.

Many many more years to come in our happily ever after :)

Happy Birthday Richard and Kilian!

Yesterday (Monday, April 25th) was Richard's 27th Birthday. On Sunday we had a little party with the family and on Monday we celebrated with friends at Kilian's house. Kilian's birthday will be tomorrow. The weather was awesome and we had a barbeque and lots of fun! The next celebration with friends is Koninginnedag this coming Saturday! All to AMSTERDAM!!! AND Spring break! YAY!

The birthday boys setting up the grill for the bbq.

Where there's fire there must be marshmellows being roasted... when done roasting... play 'chubby bunny'. I lost big time to Concetta and Jared because I couldn't stop laughting and when I smiled/laughed of course my cheeks couldn't hold much anymore haha! Jared won.

Me with my nephew Jip! He is so fun!

Richard loves his new kite! Thank's Ange, Mom and Amanda! Here's the collection up to date!

Happenings as of late..

We've done some fun things in the last month and we've also been pretty busy. On March 30th Siebe (my father-in-law) turned 70! We all went to Drenthe where Bert and Sylvia (Sister-in-law and her little fam.) live and celebrated Siebe's birthday there. It was fun! Siebe is in amazing shape for a 70 year old and works out (running and lifting weights) at least 3 days a week.

A good friend of ours, Kilian, got back from his mission in Russia and we are happy to have him home! A couple weeks after that we had the national (Netherlands and Antwerpen) church volleyball tournament. It was a long drive to get there, but it's always fun. I played a little and my arms were on fire! I always forget how much playing volleyball kills your forearms when you bump the ball everytime! Richard played with the guys from our ward and they had fun. They did pretty well for never having practiced haha!

About 2 weeks ago we went for a nice walk/hike in Kennemerduinen with Richard's parents and Bianca, Marcel and Jip. It was beautiful weather and we had a great time. Richard and I were the only ones who had been there before and the others were really impressed with how nice of a nature park it was. You don't get a lot of that in the Netherlands!

Last week I had finals and this week I started a new quarter at school. 8 more weeks and I am outta here!! I can't wait to spend the summer in the good old US of A!! Plus we got exciting news, my baby bro Trevor is getting married August 6th!! We are so excited to meet is fiancé Ali and to have her in the family!Siebe's Birthday party. Everyone ready to go for a walk.

The Hunebedden. These are ancient stone burial places (like stone hinge old 5000+ yrs.) If you wanna read more about it... www.hunebedden.nl/engels.htm

Here I am with my nephew Jesse laying under/in the Hunnebedden

Volleyball tournament.

Siebe, Richard, Marcel and Jip decided to climb this nice lookin' tree on our walk in Kennemerduinen.

I found a rainbow shaped tree and decided to climb over it.

To be continued...