Day #41: Milka...

chocolate rules. I love this one with the peices of hazelnuts in it. It's so good and if I could I would share it with all of you... But as you can see there are, uhm...were only two pieces left when I took this photo and now they're all gone! Yup I ate te last two pieces all by myself! LOL

Sorry about that... but I have to tell you I didn't ate this whole bar by myself. LOL I've had for a week and shared it with my colleagues. Brought it back home this weekend and well I needed a little comfort food! I bruised my enckle when I was about to go change for softball practice. It kind of hurt and started swelling so I stayed home for practice. I cooled it and also this chocolate made me feel a little better! LOL

Yup!! I've been tagged!!

* Link back to the blog (s) that tagged me: Biancka, Debra & Gail, so here we go!!!

** I'm supposed to list six interesting things about me....but I can tell you this is going to be hard! LOL

1. I once broke my little finger, wel actually my little brother did... but he's always been in denial!! LOL Since a couple of months when I'm waking up, my little finger had crossed way over to my middle finger and I guess it stayed there for the night! LOL. Pretty weird huh, yeah guess I am a little weird! :)

2. I always need to have a glass of milk with every meal I eat. I just loooove milk and wouldn't wanna live without it!

3. I had a car accident with one of the cars from my dad's garage one day after I got my drivers license!!! Yeah I know, but it wasn't my fault! Some car behind me speeded and couldn't stop before this nasty curve and well I saw him coming closer and just got scared...so I turned my wheel and ran into this pole along the side of the road. I called Abdel (we were just dating for 3 days) and he totally laughed at me!! Although not sure if this whole little story in interesting! hihi

4.  I speak several languages: Dutch of course, English, German & French...although those are a little rusty by now!! Arabic, but hard to have a conversation with someone who speaks it, cause they always talk waaay too fast! Then I also know a little berber, wich a dialect for arabic, my inlaws speak! >>>

(Ok Karen, sorry I stole this from you! LOL, running out of inspiration here!)

5. I love butterflies in every way. Of course the real ones, but it's hard to catch them when they always fly away when I get near. But also love fake ones! My toilet is filled with plastic, plaster and all other kinds of fabrics butterflies. Everyone always loves my lavatory! :)

(are we there yet?? LOL)

6. Ttwo of my cousins and I (and I think my GM has it too), all have the same birthmark. It's right above our bottoms... we discovered this like a year ago and just thought it is kind of funny! :) (Just couldn't think of anything else right now)

Now I need to tag 6 other people:

1. Tracy
2. JanMary
3. Teresa
4. Sonja
5. Kimberley
6. Domad
   

See you all tomorrow...or maybe thursday, depends on the time I get home tomorrow, but will be late I think! xox

Day #39 & 40: lots of photos!

Yup missed posting a day and got a little behind schedule! Cause I've got yesterday's and today's photo to show and well haven't started my week 6 page yet, but will do that tomorrow for sure!

It's been one busy day yesterday, first I went to the zoo with our niece nephew and my SIL. It was fun, but the weatjher was a little cold and greyish!  It was this safari zoo were you could take the car and drive close by to some of the animals. There was also a normal zoo part there... The animals we saw there I love most are zebra's. Just love those beautiful patterned stripes and they way they move... So here's my day #39 photo for the day!

We came home late last night after diner with my uncle and aunt and just got home too... It's now 22.00 and just didn't feel like processing any of my photos, cause my throat kind of hurts and I'm just too tired. I only added my mark to the photos. But I do want to show you a few more of the zoo photos. So remember they all came out of my camera just a few minutes ago!   So there they are: najima, Appie's sister, Imane & Aatik! :)   :)

Now on to today's photo: Day #40: After work we had a refresher course for first aid. We have this twice a year and it's so helpful... But this morning when I went to work I totally forgot it was today...so was kind of bummed I had to stay at work till 21.00 instead of till 17.00. But I managed, but totally exhausted right now! We refreshed the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on these baby, infant and kids dolls. here's my sweet colleague Marjolein precticing on one of the baby's...They call her Anne...

It's always a good thing to have this refreshing course twice a year, cause well you probably know what to do when you REALLY need it, but after a long day of work I always have to think just a little harder, but we all did fine! :)

Will leave lots of loving in the morning on my day off, but gotta go get some sleep..didn't have a lot os sleep this weekend and sooo tired! Oh yeah I've been tagged by Biancka & Gail and will play for sure tomorrow!! Hugs!

Day #38: NON processed!!

Really I'm not kidding and din't do anything to this photo. The sky really looked like that @ 18.00 PM this afternoon. I had no idea for a photo, but when I was driving to the grocery store with my SIL we spotted this and just had to take it! :)

Didn't brought my tripod so put my camera on the car and just that as a steady underground...used a long shuttertime for this! :) Hope you like it...

Tomorrow we're going to the zoo with our niece and nephew...then go bowling with my parents, my brother, his GF, my aunt, uncle and little cousin and then having diner together...I really need some time of and just do fun things. Going to be hard to just pick one photo! :) See you then! xo

Oh have one more little goodie I have to share....

Yoohoo, I'm now part of the A5D site creative team..also know as the creative genius'. Isn't that awsome?? I'm still so honored and so fun to see a couple of formiliar faces there, Hi Sarah! :)

Day #37: Used a lot...

Of these tissues this past week. Today was the funeral and it was very emotional, hard and still so unreal! I'm still full with unbelieve, such a young man took out of this little boy's life. There are still sooo many questions unanswered and wonder if we ever find/hear those. I hope we can all give this big loss a place in our hearts! Rest in peace Dennis!

Now I'm just going to relax, clear my mind and just watch TV, Popstars is on... xox

Day #36: Oh the smell of these...

Yeah they're blooming in full glory... my hyacinths that is! :)

They are beautiful and the smell they produce is truly incredible! I love coming home from work...when entering my living room this lovely flower aroma comes my way. Mmmm they bring a little smile to my face these days!

Day #35: Berries

Yeah I'm a day late... I know! :) But yesterday was a long day and didn't came home untill 11.45 last night. After work I went over to have diner with my parents and had an appointment after that. One of my moms' colleagues is getting married on June 27th, well they still needed a photographer. So my mom told them that I did my first wedding in June last year. So I went over there... They're hiring me!!! Yoohoo, I'm so excited and so were they after they had seen my photobook...I'm so happy with this! :)

Yesterday I had no clue what my photo was going to be about...So during our break I went for a walk around the block with one of my colleagues, needed to clear my head anyway. Just around the corner of the daycare I found these berries...some covered with still a little snow. Yeah we had snow yesterday...so pretty and just didn't wanted to take a dull scenery photo and took this...

 

I wanted to do the tag thing, but just can't think of anything right now... My head is with someone else right now. I'll tell you a little bit about what's up and why I had a rough/sad  couple of days. We know the ins & outs, but won't go into any specific details... Cause it's all kind of shocking! Monday morning when driving to work my colleague called me and told something happened with the dad of one of 'our' kids. Last Saturday he (35 yrs. old) got killed with bad intensions by someone else!!! Last saturday before we went to diner, my colleagues and I watched the news and saw this thing had happened, we all three said...'what is wrong with the world today'. Without knowing it was the dad of one of our kids! We're all so sad and try to do everything we can for this little boy (turning 4 in March) and his mom, but it's not easy! Working with 12 kids around all day and having these feelings is so hard!! We saw this man like three times a week and now he's gone... We all can't understand it and it's so unreal... I so wonder what is in someone else's head when committing such a crime?? Lately you see many awful things happening, but now it's so close to 'home'. Like I said it's just so unreal & unfair!!! The funeral is tomorrow and it's going to be hard and emotional. We're all just trying to stay strong for the family... :(

Day #34: This is Max!

Let me introduce Max... He's Antoinette's little boy and he's such a cutie! he also goes to our daycare, but I don't see him that often since he comes on Tuesday & Thursday and normally I only work all the other days...But the upcoming weeks I'm working four days a week and have the honor to watch this little guy :)I told her this morning, that Max was going to be my photo for today, but I can tell you it's not easy to photograph this little guy. Of course his mom is always in his face with her camera..LOL, Just kidding hun! :) But he always try to turn his head the other side when wanting to take a photo...but this time I tricked him into it! :)

Oh yeah I talked Antoinette into starting prject 365 too and she's doing great so far. Make sure to check her blog, cause she recently did her first wedding shoot! :) On Thursday she's coming over to process the photos since it's her first time and also maybe pip her bloggy a bit! :)

Oh yeah I've been tagged, but my brain is kind of empty. Had a rough/sad couple of days, but don't want to go into any details. Will try to play along on Thursday!!

Day #33: Lucky charms

Yup my car wears some and not driving my own car without them. I collected these over the years...

First I got the little dream catcher wich we bought in spain during a vacation in 2005. Then I bought this moroccan slipper during our vacation in Morocco in 2006, everyone over there wears them and they are soooo comfy, I think I have 5 pairs! LOL. Then in the shoe there are two things... first a 1 dollar note, wich I kept in my pocket all the time during our vacation there last summer and second there's a nut from a date in there. We had a moroccan wedding in August and it brings luck keeping the nut from the date you ate during any moroccan party... So if you ever see such a thing hanging from the rear-view mirror of a car... It's me!! LOL

Day #32: Sheep

Last night I also got a gift from one of my colleagues Lista... She wanted to give me money for the photoshoots I had with her and Anouk. I did an pregnancy shoot with her and her DH and a babyshoot when Anouk was born. Well I didn't wanted money so she asked what I did wanted... So I told her I had been looking for this sheep fleece, to put newborns on during a shoot. And that's what she gave me last night. It's so cute and fuzzy and well I'm so happy with it. Here it is... Although this photo doesn't do it quit justice...it's way cuter!! :) It's like almost 2 meters long and 1 meter width...

Day #31: A fancy diner!

Girls we've had a lovely, fancy diner tonight!!! Lista, Mieke (my colleagues) and I went to this beautiful restaurant/castle in Montfoort and had an awsome five course diner. We got this diner as a goodbye gift from one of the kids Roos from dayacer & her parents. Let me tell you something about the sweet little 4 year old Roos....

Roos was born with the Apert syndrome. (You can check the site to see what the syndrome is like, cause it might difficult for me to explain). In her short life she has had like 10 operations... When she was born her older brother came to our group at daycare and as you can imagine we were all kind of shocked when we heard the news. When we first met her, we all didn't know what to expect and how her life & body would develop. Her mom wanted her to grow up with the 'normal' kids and since we didn't have to give her meds or needed extra special care we took her into our group. In the first years she needed to be attached to a special machine when she went to sleep. That machine checked the oxygen level in her blood, to make sure she got enough air. When she got older she developed like a normal kid... It did took her a little longer to start crawling, walking and talking, but all turned out great.

Now-a-days and well has always been, Roos is an extremely happy child and she's just the sweetest!! As you can imagine this little girl will always have a special place in our hearts. When she turned 4 in July and had to go to school, her parents were so thankful to us for taken her into our group and well just for taking care of her and just let her be a normal kid, that they gave us this awsome gift. It was so fancy with a five course diner and they had planned something extra special. All three of us got this beautiful glass Rose (Cause Roos is how you spell the name of the flower over here in the Netherlands). It also had a sweet card wich said: They thanked us for the special years Roos had with us at daycare, but a diner is not lasting forever. When it's gone, it's gone and so they gave us this flower that would last forever...isn't that sweet??? I think so and the thought behind is just lovely!

We had an awsome time, we laughed, talked for hours, the diner was amazing & exclusive and well the company was just good!! So before I'm going to show you my photo for Day #31...here's our 3rd course meal....Here we had fillet of beef on a bed of carrots, haricot verts & mashed patatoes, surrounded by this yummy gravy!

Now on to today's photo... Yup that me and my colleagues. From left to right: Lista, Mieke & me holding the rose in our mouth, LOL. I'm going to print this photo or myabe even scrap it and will give this to them as a little thank you gift! :)So now it's 0.55 AM over here and well had a couple glasses of wine. I think I'm going to bed now...or maybe I'll quickly finish my monthly summary page for January, but first off to leave some lovin around! :)