Kees and Dominic still not asleep! 

Kees with his cousins Dominic and Christopher chillin' in the golf cart... it's what you do when it's over 100 degrees outside... 

Kiersten (looking very serious about her driving here) and cousin Dominic in the golf cart... 

Momma fox in the barn... 

Kees, Christopher and cousin Bart (from Holland) at the ranch... and Bart almost looks like a Texan with that gun! 

It's cotton-pickin' time in our part of the world... these are cotton modules. After the cotton pickers harvest the cotton from the fields they drop their load into what's called the "module builder" which compresses the cotton into modules. The cotton modules are then dropped off in front of the gin, which then separates the cottonseed from the cotton fiber. That process is called "ginning", and it produces bales of cotton ready to be delivered to the various cloth manufacturers. Interesting stuff, huh? 

A typical sight in Corpus Christi... shrimpers and sailboats... 

I just like this shot... 

It's that time of year again... soccer time! Why do we always start the season with two balls, then mid-way thorough the season we have four or five balls, and then at the end of the season we're down to one? And why do kids' feet grow at twice the rate that their bodies do? Things that make you go "hmmmmmmm..." 

Kiersten's birthday... and what does she want to eat? SUSHI, her fav! 

Back home in the airport with some of our shopping bags (gotta love that duty-free shop in Schiphol) and the Tour de France signs we "liberated" from Paris ;-) 

Volendam, a traditional old Dutch fishing village. 

The kids in Madurodam, Holland in miniature... it was one of my favorite places to visit as a child and it still holds a special place in my heart. 

Yes... the sign on that fish store says "1342", not 1842. 

Nothing better than Cassis and Poffertjes on the square in Delft, Holland! 

In front of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. 

On the pier in Scheveningen, Holland, where my sister and I would play on the beach as children. The Dutch are so proud of how "warm" the water is there because of the gulf stream, and I always have to remind them that the gulf stream starts where we live and by the time it gets to Holland (to us) it's COLD! 

And what better way to finish a Dutch meal than with chokolade en vanille Vla?! When I was in college and my mother would go to Holland to visit my Oma (her mother), she'd freeze cartons of vla and bring them back for me! 

Good old Dutch meat, potatoes and vegetables... 

Playing on the street in Schiedam with Oom Coen's neighbor children...