Sunday, December 31, 2023

2023 Year in Review

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2023!!! What a great year with lots of memories and growth. This is the month by month highlights!!!

January:
Clay turned 3 years old!! He's so sweet and cute and we love him.


February:
Lots of festivities and an epic trip to Portugal to get us through the dark, gloomy winter months in Amsterdam. 





March: 
Riley turned 31! Visited Mallorca, Spain! 




April:
Celbrated Easter with tulip viewing and special visits from Wood Family and Natalie and TJ! 





May
Luke turned 6! Grandma and Grandpa Stevenson visited. Riley and I snuck away for a nigh and visited Texel Island and Riley did the French Open with his parents and Colby Dalton.




June
Disney Paris with the Daltons. We also celebrated a 2 years mark living in Amsterdam and no intention to  move anytime soon. 


July
The highlight of July was our trip to Scotland! We loved road tripping the country-- Alyssa has been anticipating this trip since we moved to Amsterdam and it did not disappoint. 

August
We started the month with Lucy turned 1 years old! We also had a fun visit by Avery and Meg and ended the month with a epic trip to Switzerland with Nana and Papa Moncur. 



September 
In September we got to meet Nelson!! He was a few months shy of two years old. Alyssa spent some good time with them going to Brugge and Italian dolomites. 




October 
The highlight of October was our roadtrip in Croatia! We had the best time exploring the country and and getting in some swimming in the Adriatic Sea before winter officially arrives. 



November 
We welcomed the Christmas season in London! It was great seeing the Christmas lights, doing a market, and getting in a couple shows. 



December
The festivities continued with a little weekend in Gent, Belgium. Alyssa enjoyed a little solo trip to Paris this month and we had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas in Amsterdam! We love calling this place home. 




Kissing 2023 goodbye. 

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Back to December

Dec 2023: Forever catching up on the blog. . .  I was going through it and saw I never blogged Christmas and that is an essential and favorite time of the year for the family. So back to December! This month is so magical. I hate the cold and the dark that the winter here brings, but having the holidays and little kids just warm the soul. 

 It is funny to think our kids will have memories of Sinterklaas who comes for two weeks leaving little things in the shoes and then at December 5th drops a bag of goodies by the door. It really has been exciting for everyone to wake up and see what is in their shoes and just starts the day off and gets you in the holiday mood! We did lots of festive things this December, including a Christmas market in Gent,  and had a great Christmas with the kids! One happy memory and new tradition we started was seeing the lights of Amsterdam together (but in the morning). We woke up early-ish and biked under all the city lights. It is dark for a few hours in the morning, and Amsterdam is dead quite (without the noise and party scene of night) . . . so we all bundled up and biked the city and got hot chocolate at a bakery. It was really pretty and really fun.  I love seeing a city wake up and the lights are so pretty strung over the canal homes. It was a great Christmas and Santa spoiled us, even knew to fill up Luke's stalking with hot sauces. The boys got a really cool new track and remote car and Lucy got a stroller for her doll she still is obsessed with. 





























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