Merry Christmas

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Big Hugs,
Ruby and Britt

Crafty Monkeys challenge: Snow/Snowflakes

Sinterklaas left for Spain, we've played with all our fabulous new toys, so now it's time for a little bit of crafting again.

We both entered the challenge Snow/snowflakes on the Crafty Monkeys Challenge.

Because we don't have a lot of christmas craftingsupplies mum let us pick a few things from her stuff.

This is what we both made.

BRITT

RUBY

We hope you like our christmas card and christmas snowflake (does look a lot like the one mum made, doesn't it :0)

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Today is the big day : Sinterklaas in having his birthday

Today is the big day: Sinterklaas is celebrating his birthday tonight.

We hope we will be getting some great presents.

If you click on the link below you will hear the song of this years sinterklaas adventure that was broadcasted on tv.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWbnnMyVBzA

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

sinterklaas party

More than a week ago the biggest friend of children (just in Holland) Sinterklaas and his helpers Black Pieten, arrived in Holland.

We are very happy that he is here, becuase that means a lot of nice events and presents.

Last Saturday Sinterklaas was coming to dad's work, and here are some pictures of the party.

Below the pictures you'll find the story about Sinterklaas and his helpers.

Sinterklaas is a very old man. Nobody knows how old. He lives in Spain together with his helpers; Zwarte (black) Piet. There a lot of them. Sinterklaas loves children and a long time ago he dicided that every year on December 5th he celebrates his birthday with all kids in Holland.
In Spain he lives in a very big house. He has to, because the whole year through he is buying presents for all children in Holland.
Half November he gets on his boat together with all the pieten, his white horse Americo and a lot of presents.
the children send him letters with the presents they want to have. He writes down everything about the children in a big book together eith the presents they want to have.(only the nice will get presents so everybody has to behave the whole year).
When he arrives at the end of November there are a lot of children waiting and singing for him.

From that day every on child can put his/her shoe at the chimney at least once.
They put in a nice drawing, some water and a apple or carrot for the horse. At night when everybody's sleeping Black Piet will come and put in a small present and some chocolate.

And than on the big day december 5th, all kids are very excited, because at night there will be lots of presents for those who have been sweet.
They announce themselfs by banging on the door or windows, really hard. And when you go to the doar there a big bags filled with lots of presents.
The lucky kids will have a visite from Sinterklaas or Black Piet. It's a mystery how they enter the house, but they wil bang on the door and start throwing with candy.
They will help unpack the presents and then will leave to visite other kids.
The kids can play with their new toys for a little while and than it's time for bed.
the next day Sinterklaas and his pieten are leaving to Spain again and do the kids have to wait a year before he returns to Holland again.

That's the story about our Sinterklaas. Sounds a bit like Santa, but they only know him in Holland.

Thank you for stopping by,

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Belated Haloween gift

Take a look what arrived this morning by mail.

Some jummy chocolate and two beautifull haloween cards from our friends Zoe and Danni.

Mail came in early this morning. Before 8 am just when we were having breakfast.

Mum didn't think it was a good idea to eat our chocolate right away, so we had to wait untill we came back from school.

Thank you very much for the candy, cards and great gift :) Zoe and Danni, we love it.

Big hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Our visit to the anniversary concert of K3

Last Monday with went to the anniversary concert of K3 together with our mum, our niece Dane and aunt Saskia.

And wauw, what a great concert. They were singing all of our favorite songs. We did sing and dance all the time, and at the end we were able to shake hands with all of them.

take a look at the photo's mum did take.

if you click on the titles you will hear some of the songs (it's all in Dutch, but you stil can enjoy the music).

Kusjesdag - Kisses day

Trouwen - Get married

Alle kleuren - All colours of the rainbow

Kuma He- Kuma He

Ya Ya Yippee

Thanks for watching,

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

A card for the Crafty Monkeys challenge

Over at Crafty Monkeys the theme is: Travel

For this card we've got some beautifull papers from our mum.

We even got some great buttons, flowersand brads from mum.

Here are our cards.

BRITT

RUBY

Thanks for watching,

Big hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Britt at her swimminglesson

Don't I look cool in my swimmingsuit???

I'm taking swimminglessons for about 3 months now, and I really love it.

With this suit I can't drawn and I had to jump in the big pool the first lesson.

They use really great words for every move we have to make.

When we have to swim on our back they yell: frog - plane - pencill.

Those words tell me how I have to move my legs.

Right now I only have floaters on my back and pretty soon I have so swim with my clothes on.

I also have to learn how to dive and swim through a whole at 9 meters from the start.

I'm half way right now, but with floaters in my suit it's isn't easy to stay under water.

Take a look at the pictures mum took of me at one of my swimminglessons.

Thanks for watching,

Hugs Britt

Crafty Monkeys Challenge: Favorite Color

Over at Crafty Monkeys the challenge this time is to use your favorite color.

We both are totaly crazy about pink. Pink toys, pink schoolbags, pink clothes and even our toothpaste is pink.

Here's my (Britt) card.

As you can see I also love blue, but I chose those papers because there are pink flowers on it.

And here's my (Ruby) card.

I made a card for a boy. In these days boys also wear pink, and I have a male friend that loves pink, so why not a pink boycard.

Thanks for looking.

Big hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Wauw, we've got another great award

Hi everybody,

we received this fabulous award from our friend from England Zoe. Thank you very much Zoe, We really are happy with this great award.

There are no rules for this award so we can pas it on to everybody we like.

We would like to give this award to some great kids with blogs that rock:

Zoe (passing it back) - Sanne - Jessica and Kalen

Thanks for watching.

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

A drawing for Crafty Monkeys

The last few weeks Britt and I are more into drawing than into cardmaking.

I (Ruby) made this great drawing for my mum.

It's a parc with nice trees, a boy and a girls on their bikes,a pool, ducks and a turtle.

Over at Crafty Monkeys the theme is: PETS.

I think this drawing will do just great for this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Ruby

My (Ruby's) birthday party

Today I celebrated my birthday with my best friends from school.

We went to the bowlingcentre where my mum works. I got lots of great presents and had cake.

the best thing was Magic Bowling. Lots of loud music, disco lights, smoke and videoclips. I don't call it Magic Bowling but Disco bowling.

Take a look at the pictures mum and dad made and see how we enjoyed ourselfs.

Thanks for watching

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

A fabulous new award

We've received this great award from our good friend from England Zoe and from Sanne.

Thank you so much for this great award Zoe, you've made our day.

The rules for this JAVABLU award are:

1. the winner can put the logo on their blog.

2. link the person you received your award from.

3. nominate at least 5 other blogs.

4. before listing the nominees give a brief reason why you choose them.

5. put links of these blogs on yours.

6. leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.

We would love to pass this award to:

Zoe, Sanne, Kelsey and Lauren, because they all make great cards and we love to watch their blogs.

Thanks for watching

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Blogcandy over at Zoe's

Zoe is having a great candy on her blog, because she has reached over 2,000 hits.

Congrats to you Zoe. We bet a lot of those hits come from us because we love your blog.

Zoe also hosts a kids challengeblog called Craftymonkeys. Every two weeks she and Hannah post a challenge for kids till 16 years old. We hope to make a card this week for this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Big hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Happy Birthday Ruby

Today I'm celebrating my 6th birhtday.

My mum made 45 treatbags for school and all the kids loved them.

When I got home family and friends arrived to celebrate my birthday.

Take a look at the photo's of my birthdayparty.

On September 6th I will have a party for all my friends from school.

The treatbags mum made for school. They were filled with winegums, chocolate and some stickers.

This is at school.

Here the cake I got. A Winx-club cake.

Blowing the candles.

The presents I got. Little petshop play set
Stickeralbum, socks, butterflies.
A furry little pet shop turtlle.

A new Bratzbag for school.

A new doll.

My friends and niece.

From left to right: Dane, Ilayda, Marischa, Me and Britt.

My other niece Madou, my granddad and grandma (from mums side) and my aunt Saskia (my mums sister).

Saskia and Madou.

My other grandpa and my dad.

My other grandma

Have a great weekend,

We (Britt and I) are going to play with all my new presents.

Birthday cards and presents already

I (Ruby)have too wait another 7 nights before it's my birthday, but the first cards and presents already arrived.

This card was send to me by a very sweet lady from Romania, Mada. She entered my mum's candy a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you very much for this great card Mada, I love it.

The next package I did get came from England. Nikki, Zoe, Danni and Gary did send me (and there were also some small presents for Britt) all of these great things. Two birthday cards ( one from Zoe and one from Nikki), animalclips to hang all my birthdaycards, some candy ( sorry they are not on the picture we ate them already, and we really liked them), a great picture of Zoe and Danni, and A very soft Kitty which Zoe picked for me. Thank you for this great kitty, I love her very much.

And although it's my birthday coming up, Mada also had a great card for Britt. Thank you for this great card Mada, I love it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Big hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Another great award

We received this wunderfull new award from Zoe. Thank you so much for making our day!

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated.

Now we would like to give this wonderful award to:

Zoe

Jessica

Kalen

Sanne

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt

Pictures of our trip to Slagharen

Finally some pictures of our trip to the amusementpark. We stayed at Slagharen for 5 days and we had so much fun overthere. Right now we are trying to get mum and dad to plan a trip to Slagharen next year again.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Ruby and Britt