Merry Christmas from Pixel and Bailey!  We have one year to try to teach Pixel to sit still before next year’s Christmas photos!  Wish us luck, we’ll need it!

  Today we went shopping in the city center.  While walking along Westblaak we saw this tree full of shoes.  When I asked a local shop owner about it they said that one day someone bought a new pair of shoes in their shop and threw their old ones in the tree.  Then for whatever reason, other people started throwing …

I would not want to be this guy! Seriously… Christmas trees aren’t THAT expensive here that you have to steal one.  Perhaps he feels the same as I do, that the Dutch Christmas trees are not worth buying.  They are Charlie Brown Christmas Trees! They don’t even deserve to be called trees, they are Christmas Shrubs!  With their big fat …

This little girl took great joy in pounding her father with giant snowballs yesterday.  He was a really good sport about it, and I thought that was really cool, because he looked like he was freezing his arse off.  It was nice to see all my neighbours out, not just the children but the parents too.  It appears that in …

This video is so funny!  If you can overlook the fact that Jack has diff clothes and hair every time you see him.   Poor Jack, always on someone’s naughty list!

This is the totally wonky snowman that we made together with a few of our neighbours this afternoon.  There was more laughing and throwing of snow than there was actual building, but he’s unique and we love him.  The people in our building so rarely socialize, it was nice to just be outside chatting and laughing together. As usual, I …

Yesterday is snowed in the Netherlands and I woke up and squealed like a crazy person.  Thankfully I was home alone as it was one of the few days this month that my husband was called in to work.  I thought about going out to take photos but it was so dark and dreary that I decided not to.  This …

Last night my friend Laila and I went to the Old Luxor Theater in Rotterdam to see the Peking Acrobats.  We weren’t sure what to expect but it was a mixture of wonder, amazement, disappointment and absolute terror. Not my photo, we weren’t allowed to take any so I had to resort to looking for one on the internet.  Anyhow, …

Before Friday I had no idea that there was a Christmas Market at Kasteel Keukenhof, but thankfully DutchBitch not only told me about it but gave us her mother’s free pass to the grounds!  So not only did we get in for free, but I finally got to meet her after years of reading each other’s blogs and chatting on …

It’s finally Christmas in the Soldaat household!  It took me a little longer than normal but I finally got our tree up and decorations throughout the house.  I haven’t taken photos of it all yet but Here’s a little something to start out.  The tree is up! I love that we have gifts to put under the tree already.  My …

For the past few days I’ve been busy setting up our Christmas tree and getting other Christmas decorations organized around the house.  My friends make fun of me each year because it gets worse, and as each Christmas goes by, my house looks more and more like Santa’s workshop. No matter how bad I ever get though, I’ll never be …