Keukenhof Gardens, Holland

Major picture overload here. Everything we saw at Keukenhof Gardens was so amazing I had to put my camera into overdrive (or would have if it had such a feature). The one thing that I really, REALLY wish right now is that as you look at these pictures you could be blasted with the scent of flowers. As we rode our bikes through fields and fields of flowers with the wind blowing in our faces all I could think about was how I felt like I was in a floral shop. That's what the wind smelled like. It was amazing. And so so so so beautiful.


Chase stopping to smell the tulips.

These flowers don't even look real. So pretty.

Hallie found the baby goats at Keukenhof and wished to spend the rest of her day being the mother to these sweet little babies. We had to bribe her with ice cream to get her to leave.

While Hallie nurtured baby animals, Chase tormented chickens.

My kids have become resentful of the camera...you have NO IDEA what it took to get them hold still for one second to take this picture.



Here is the bribery for good behavior, but "good behavior" is all relative, right?

Little Chase story for you, we were walking along the designated walking paths and observing all the signs reminding us to please stay off the grass and away from the flowers. These people treat these flowers like they're the virgin Mary. To be treated with the utmost care and reverence. So we're walking along admiring the flowers when all of a sudden I hear gasps of horror from the people around me, it was like it all went into slow motion after that, I turned to see Chase take off running right through the middle of these purple flowers. I'm talking running through them like they're grass...trampling them under his feet. The look on the faces of the people around me was one of utter horror. He was like a bull in a china shop, destroying everything in his path. Matt took off like a bolt of lightning while my face turned as red as the tulips behind me. People shooks their heads in disgust at this wild, obviously poor parented, child and continued on their way. Whispering to eachother and shooting glances at this rude family as they went. It was mortifying, but we moved on.



Hallie wanted to take a picture, and this what she got of me. Pretty good for a 4 year old.

These are my fav flower shots. I think I'm going to have them printed on canvas and hang them somewhere cute in my house. I love them.



Hallie being pensive.



Oh man, these are good waffles. Come visit us and I'll take you to get some. You'll thank me. Maybe even hug me.

Good looking hubby.



After we went to the gardens we biked through the whole area surrounding them. I loved that even more than the gardens. It was so crazy to see people growing flowers like farmers grow corn. Rows and rows and rows of them. The smell was out of this world.

Yeah, we kiss and take pictures of it. It's how we roll.

So here's a fun fact about Matt. He loves to find short cuts. While driving, walking, biking, whatever we may be doing, he's trying to find a better way to get there. Sometimes these short cuts pay off. Sometimes he ends up with the kids bike trailer nearly falling in a stream and having to back track a half hour to get us out of this mess he's gotten us into.

Don't you just want to get a good book, and blankie, and lay in this field for the day?

I was dying laughing at this picture. She reminds me of a wild nature woman.



Shifty eyes.



The end of another very very good day.