Blog anniversary & our summer holidays so far

Although I was planning to slow down blogging a little these days, I wanted to announce my 2nd blog anniversary today! I can’t believe I am blogging since 2009, July the 31st !!

And I want to thank all of my readers, followers and blog colleagues, for supporting me to go on with my blog and for all the nice comments on my posts!

Without all of you there would be no BELGIAN PEARLS blog at all !

So thank you so much!!  I hope to bring you more of inspiring blogposts in future!

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As you know already we enjoy our summer holidays these days and I promised myself to spend not that much time on my computer because I really need to relax and to have some quality time with my family. We are not traveling, we hope to enjoy spending some time in our garden and inviting friends and family.

But today I wanted to post some pictures of the things that kept us busy during this first week of our holidays.

Jan’s daughter Nele, her husband Tom and the children Alexa and Tristan joined us for a couple of days. We were looking forward to their visit!

 

The family (and the half of their household!) arriving at our home.

 

A drink on our time together.

 

Alexa was proud to offer Jan the drawing she had made for pappie and mammie (= Jan & me).

 

Alexa & me.

 

Preparing the meal.

 

The weather wasn’t that nice the passed days, but fortunately it wasn’t raining so Tristan and Alexa were able to cycle !

 

 

In the afternoon we went to my mum’s house, where there is a swing in the garden.

Jan and Anthony installing the swing for the children.

 

So Jan had to push his grandchild of course.

 

Anthony tried to teach his godchild Alexa how to use the scooter.

 

Aren't they just cute ?!

 

The other day we went for a walk in our neighbourhood and had lunch in an idyllic situated restaurant 'De Zwalmmolen’.

 

 

In the afternoon we all went to the manege ‘De Paardebloem’ where Nele and me wanted to practice horse riding.

Tom and Tristan walking along the horse stables.

 

This is me on the back of Mango.

 

Alexa is watching her mum.

 

Nele and Mango.

 

Jan is encouraging his daughter.

 

 

A future horse rider?

 

Alexa and me, Ralph and a friend !

 

I hope you enjoyed this holiday post.

 

Talk to you soon!

xx

Holidays

This is the first page of my brand new blog! Finally...

I have to give away that I am pretty excited starting up this blog.


I would like to thank my 13-years old son for assisting me doing this (for me not so easy) job.

Please, I'll ask you my apologies for my incorrect writing English sometimes...

I promise to do the best I can to express me in English ( my native language is Dutch).



Because of my summer holidays break, I would like to write you about the things that keep me busy for this days.


My family and I do not go abroad this summer, right now we are enjoying our house and the beautiful region we're living in!


So in the mean time, I like to invite friends and family for a drink or a meal.
That envolves a good table decoration, don't you think?

So I would love to share with you some pictures of my table decoration...

Did you notice the grape vine-leaf decoration?



Well, I'm proud to say that we have our own grape-vine in our garden.
After a few years in a small basin, we planted him 2 years ago against the wall of our oranjerie, and look at him now! Gorgeous, isn't it?!






There are a lot of bunches of grapes. So I hope that we can eat them within 2 months. I will tell you!


Second thing I love to do in summer holidays is to go to a summer party!

A few weeks ago, we went to a party at my sisters and had a wonderful day.
Again, I share with you some pictures! Enjoy!

As we moved into our new home 2 years ago, we want to start the garden landscaping for now.

My husband started this holiday to built an oak construction, so that we can barbecueing even if the weather is not that good. Belgian weather is not that famous, you know!

So this are the things that keep me and my family busy for the last few weeks

Hope you enjoyed ,

Greet