More baby pictures.

Here are some more pictures of luke and his first week here with us.

Our little gangster.

The apple of our eye.

Wow that is pretty (the blue camera).

With a clean bill of health, we could go home.

Getting ready to head out into the winter, about 28 degrees F.

Marjolein's first baby suit, 30 years later and still being used.

And this morning he needed a little TLC, which he obviously got.

 

And here is ben and his mini me.

This is luke's third bath ever! And he was enjoying it until....

He had to share the bath tub with Ben's man paws.

And this is weird bacause he usally loves it when I put my hands on him.

Like here, its like I am a baby whisperer.

Such cute little hands, they look a little bit like his dad's.

And here is Petra our midwife, she will be here to help us until friday and then another will be here until sunday.

Luke Reed Brown

Well her he is, Luke Reed Brown. He is 3030 gram (6.7 lbs.) and 48 cm (18.9 in.) long. The nurse said that its porbably good that he came now because he would have been a big kid had it lasted any longer. But he is health he got a 9 on the APGAR so that is good. The only thing that we are seeing is that he is tired and has a little touble drinking milk, they say that this is normal and that he will definatly grow out of it. He was doing so good in fact that they didn't even take him to neonatal. This was his first bath and he loved it!. And for all you neesayers out there he has hair...ha....thats right. It s not alot but he definatly has some super blond hair on his head.

And here is Marjolein and him.

And here we are together.

 and here is a link to a video of him at about 30 minutes old, I think he is a thinking baby.

                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58pzlOqdf1g

 

Enjoy, we love you all and I will try to keep you all up to date when I can.

 

loves,

Marjolein, Ben and Luke

the french alps!!!!! part 1

This is a portion of our trip to the french alps, I included a link abopve that lets you see the fotos on facebook...hopefully. And all the links below should be to videos on youtube.  Enjoy.

So I have been trying to keep this thing up to date but as you can see I am a little behind. This post will be about our trip to the french alps.  I will every so often have a link to you tube so that you all can watch a few select videos from out time there. For instance

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObm5Zzobcc

is a video of one of our favorite runs there. And this next video

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUPu8IzygIA

 is from the top of the middle valley at this ski resort. The elevation there at the lift was around 10,000 feet. From the lift here you can get a great view of Mont Blanc. Here is a link to the video from that side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdBeRITdMHQ

On one of the other days we wanted to try a different run and this run turned out to be a black diamond for a portion of it. It was one of the steeper runs that we did there, and we all knopw how marjolein feels about high places.... ;) But she did it and I was proud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdahwKbXudo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of7vS7qtb48

Dangerous work.

Awhile ago in Huizen we were doing a post-sanitation check up at the location, and as it turns out the contractor didn't cross all his T's.

While taking some soil samples I came across a weird colored ground, it's official name is Berlin Blue and it is a form of cyanide. So I ended up finding a 1 1/2 foot thick layer of this stuff and according to our expert it can be quite deadly.

So naturally I needed to take a sample and while I was at it a nice photo.

ENJOY.

2009 in a flash (part 1)

Well its been awhile, so I thought that I would do a quick update and throw a few pics in from 2009.

Abby and Cody get married.

Family comes to Holland and.....

We get married!!!!!

Honeymoon in Mexico.

We get back and buy a new car, Ford Mondeo.

There will be a lot more but I need to get all the photos organized on the computer, that may take me some time. So for now this is a little bit of 2009 in a flash.