Sunday, March 31, 2024

March 2024

 Random March Memories from my phone :) 
One big thing that happened in March is Clay started school. 

















This one makes me laugh because Lucy carried both of these tubes of yogurts up the steep stairs, where there's a will there's a way! 











Saturday, March 9, 2024

March- Tennis Academy

 

March 5th- 9th 2024: Due to an expiring drivers license which could no longer be renewed online and cheap Aer Lingus flights to SF, made for a quick trip home that spawned a multi-day tennis galore. Now lovingly known as 'The Academy', consisted of 2-a-day multi-hour tennis sessions in the morning and afternoon, capped off by a volleyball session at night for 3 days in a row. Time in between sessions were spent nursing various ailments and sore body parts with the preferred recovery devices while watching Indian Wells matches. If you've ever seen Space Jam, the scene of the Looney Toon bench squad nursing their injuries after getting physically accosted by the Monstars, that was us. Epic times with the tennis lads. 




The living Campo Volleyball legends of Dave and John. 


Friday, March 1, 2024

Chadderdons + Grandma Time!

March 1-4, 2024: We arrived back to Amsterdam the same day my Grandma, Curtis, Courtney, and Drake arrived. They have been traveling the past 6 weeks around Europe and closed the trip with some time at our house in Amsterdam. It was fun to see them when the trip started and fun to hear all the adventures at the end. I especially loved I got a few more days with my Grandma, she is the best!! I wish I took more pictures of these days and makes me sad I don't have one with the whole crew but we had a good time. They explored the city during the day,  and we would all play card games and chat and eat in the evening.

 One of the highlights was doing an art class with my grandma one evening. It ended up just being me and her in the class and was so fun, she is a much better artist than me and watercolor is the hardest medium. It was fun though,  I took her in my bakfiets bike which still makes me laugh and smile thinking about the memory of riding through Amsterdam with my grandma on the bike chatting about life. It was the best having her around, she is so sweet and thoughtful and she even babysat all the kids so me and Riley could go out to eat. I wish she could stay for weeks and explore Europe more with her. It was such a precious time and was the perfect thing to see all of them to get over jet lag fast. 

Also, something really cool she game me her spiral Book of Mormon she made! It was a labor of love. It has became one of my most beloved things just thinking of the process and time she put into it. She cut each page out and sanded them to make smooth and put spiral on it herself with journaling pages intermixed. It really is so cool and she wrote a note inside to me. I just love it and her and these days together.