meet sweater girl! - for some reason, jillian is very attached to this sweater. one night she cried during her bath and i realized that this sweater was laying on the floor in the bathroom. later she insisted on wearing it to bed and then again the next morning after i took off her PJ's.
sweater girl helped me carve this pumpkin in helen's class - somehow i was able to carve this pumpkin with about 5 toddlers on my lap and another 5 or so looking over my shoulders - so much fun!
sweater girl took of her sweater to do some grocery shopping!
sweater girl drives her cart carefully through the grocery store WITHOUT any help from mom - no really she insisted on NO HELP from mom :)
sweater girl is environmentally conscious and super efficient too - she brings her own shopping bag and carefully bags the items while shopping
sweater girl returns her shopping cart and even knows to get her "deposit" coin back from the cart (without any help from mom)
sweater girl turns into wonder woman!
sweater girl helps at her brother's soccer game on saturday carrying their extra clothes
Helen catches the first snowflakes of the season on her tongue
watching the first snowfall from inside
sisters snuggling
helen staying busy
family picnic in kalamazoo, michigan
jayden makes the sturgis swim team!
graham makes the team too! 
nothing says jet lag like opening up Einstein bagels at 5am in Evanston, IL.... we've been up for almost 2 hours already!
alice millar chapel in evanston - where we got married 10 years ago
10 years ago - i never would have guessed we would have 4 beautiful children sitting in front of this chapel :)
i think the final luggage count was 17 pieces! finally landed in the USA!
nothing more entertaining to a 20 month old than a pair of sunglasses and a windowshade on a 9 hour flight
our last supper in Amsterdam - Hard Rock Cafe - 10pm at night!
yes- i'm tired! but it was my idea to eat here
saying goodbye to our car!
saying goodbye to our gardener :(
helen and miss sara (her teacher)
all of our suitacases hidden in the bathroom so they didn't accidentally get loaded on the moving truck
jillian naps in her room for the last time in Holland :( still can't believe she was just a few weeks old when we arrived
eating lunch on the kitchen counter - because her highchair was packed!
jayden shows me his work during an open house at school
graham working on a math problem in Holland
i've been trying to think of how i would describe the way i've been feeling since leaving Holland.... remember that show Quantum Leap? - that pretty much sums it up :) i'm somewhere in between where i came from and where i'm going :) ....... 
