Sinterklaas

First of: our computer resurrected. Well, sort of. We had to buy a new hard drive, but that was still cheaper then buying a whole new computer. A friend of Leland was good enough to fix the whole thing. He had to take the entire computer apart, but in the end, it is now up and running again. Yeah!

As every year, we celebrated Sinterklaas day in the beginning of December. Sinterklaas (saint Nicolas) is a cousin of Santa we tell the kids and he comes on December fifth or sixth (depending if you are in Belgium or in the Netherlands)
Since Sinterklaas is a total separate holiday from Christmas, there is no Christmas tree yet and no tree to put the presents under. Usually some bags of presents just 'magically' turn up outside the front door in the traditional Sinterklaas bags.

We celebrated this year's Sinterklaas with Oma and Opa and of course the boys got spoiled again. Little did they know that Sinterklaas got some help from people in the ward.


Monty got a much needed bike helmet.

One of the great presents they got was a little table hockey/billiards/football game.
It's great fun, but they get frustrated because Daddy plays to well. (he probably should let them win sometimes...)