Reint

When Zippy and I graduated from Sonoma State University, we headed off to Holland for a year to live with a Dutch family, take care of their kids, travel, and Zippy played amateur soccer there while getting his Dutch coaching credentials.  We haven't seen the family since our wedding which was almost 5 years ago.  Reint, the oldest boy(now 16), came out by himself, to visit, play soccer, and make the rounds with all of the old au paires for about 3 weeks.  He stayed with us for a few days and Grey loved to have him read to him.  I even had a couple of Dutch nursery rhyme books that Reint could read better than I could :)  On Saturday, we met up at Tanya's house, who was the au pair the year before us, and enjoyed all hanging out before taking Reint back to the airport.  Tanya's sister was there, too, and had been an au paire after us.  It was so nice to be able to spend time with him now that he has grown-he was about 8 when we were there.  He made me a little homesick though for Holland and now I want to go visit them and see the rest of the family!

Baby Anouk*Tanya*Me*Grey*Zippy*Reint* Fletcher* Cassie

It was so cute to see Reint playing with the kids.  We are hoping he decides to come over to go to an American University and will be an au paire for us!

Reint*Anouk*Fletcher*Grey

Notice Grey was pouting a little bit.  Grey really wanted to play on the tricycle that Fletcher was on and hewas okay with not being able to ride it until we got to picture time so they decided to ride tandem...I am not sure this is exactly what Grey wanted but it worked for awhile :)

After we dropped Reint off at the airport, we decided to go be tourists in the city.  Grey fell asleep as we were driving through so our original plans of sea lions and the piers didn't quite work out but he was awake as we started to cross the Golden Gate Bridge.  We headed up into the Marin Headlands to go check out the Point Bonita Lighthouse and see if we could see any marine animals.

 Kisses!!

"Mom, check out this cool stick!"

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