Soccer Season

From Aug-Nov we have a community soccer league here in Jakarta. Kids play for countries in a non competitive league. Anyone can play.
Ayla is playing for the first time and she loves it. She is the only girl in her team Netherlands but she can surely hold her own. Noah plays in the U9 league for Spain. For Noah this league is actually a bit boring because they mix players of all levels together. Some kids in his team are absolute beginners and playing with them can be pretty challenging.....

All good things must come to an end.....

We are back in Jakarta. All good things must come to an end...Right?

We've had a really good summer, so we can't complain at all.

Here are some of the last summer photos from our week in Holland with Richard and Pauline and their boys Joost and Stijn. Good times !

The boys were able to make their own pizzas

Daily triple bath routine....

Me and my buddy Richard

Reunited with Ayla....So happy to have my baby back!

Kids posing in front of really cool painting at Havana Club

Beach Soccer

The last ice creams of the holiday......

ProCamp

Noah and I left for the US a week earlier than Sue and Ayla, because Noah was doing a soccer camp in Holland with Richard and Pauline's 2 boys.
The camp was very well organized and well coached. There were about 70 kids and 8 coaches to run the whole thing. The kids were divided into 3 different age groups and there was also a group of just keepers.
Every day the kids trained from 10-12 and from 2-4. In between there was a 2 hour break for lunch and videos and games.

Noah loved it and did really well amongst all the Dutch boys. He even won a trophy for most skilled player in his age group and won 3rd place in a penalty shoot out competition. Very exciting!

Last days in the US

We are actually back in Jakarta already but I still need to update the blog about the last 2 weeks of our summer break.
Here are some photos of our last days in the US. Noah and I left 5 days earlier because of a soccer camp the he had to attend in Holland.
Special thanks to Kathy and Jim for their hospitality and for putting up with us... :-) You guys are the best!

Celebrating Holidays

For the past few years we have been celebrating 'missed' holidays in the US with Sue's family during the summer.
This year we did an egg hunt, we had a thanksgiving dinner and we celebrated the kid's birthdays.
Needles to say that the kids love the celebrations....who wouldn't want to celebrate their birthday twice?

Flying Kids

When we went out for dinner a few days ago Kathy took these 2 cool pictures of Noah and Ayla 'flying high'.......

@ the Lake

We were invited by our friends Kristan and Uwe from Jakarta to spend a few days at their lake house in Meredith, New Hampshire.....which is only 1.5 hrs away from where we are in Derry.
The house is located right on the lake....with a nice little dock and they have a nice boat and a canoe.....the perfect summer house. No wonder they love going there every summer! We all had a blast! Maybe we should look into buying a little lake house somewhere too.....??
Thanks to Kristan, Uwe, Will and Raymond (Kristan's brother) for their hospitality!

ManU @ NE Revolution

Last night Noah and I saw Manchester United toy with MLS team NE Revolution.
The match was played at the Gillette Stadium, which is a really nice stadium and normally home of the Patriots. It was a pretty easy win for ManU (4-1)and it was cool to see all the stars in action.....like: Rooney, Nani, Berbatov, Young, Giggs, etc....

Southwick Zoo

On Sundayday we went to the Southwick zoo with the 2 babies and Ayla and Noah. This is a small family ran zoo in Massachusets. Weather was perfect and the kids had a great time.