2005

Greetings from Belgium!

 

 

 

 
 

Nail Art Show in Brussels

Theme "Spring"

Marie took 2nd prize (should have gotten 1st!)

 

Prof. Nicolas

 

    Make a wish and...

 Marie's Birthday

Imagipark   Ma première promenade

My first walk

 

  At the Circus

Bouglione Circus

 

Bob the Builder (at 'Le Pass' in Jemappes)

WOW! A new Pizza Hut in Mons!  We're not joking.  This is very exciting stuff for Mons.  They even have free drink refills (but not for Chimay)

Cute puppy abuse is already starting...

The Fairy Bath Prince(ss)
Coal miners

 

 

Chocolate Sundae at McDonalds

Snoring sisters (they really do snore!)

They play like little warriors and then they crash.

The upside down puppy is Bertha.

We prefer Crumble's food!

 

Sisters had too much fun. (New Years Eve)

Mr. New Year's jumping on the sofa

 

 

New Year's Eve

Bon Anniversaire

 

 

 

Physical evidence that Santa came to our house

 

Dirty Dog - Crumble was bathed minutes after this photo was taken.  

  Return to Disneyland Paris

 

 

Meme/Nounou Headquarters

Top floor - on the left...

 

As always, batteries not included - St. Nicolas Day

 

  Hey, I'm not high on sugar

 

Old coal mining elevator signal chart - Complicated to say the least!

 

After all these years, Grizou

still prefers toilet water...

Friday and we're done with school!

Wow, St. Nicolas ate the cookies and his donkey ate the carrots!
Relooking

 

Working at Pierre-Olivier's

Special Halloween & 20th Anniversary of his store.

Relooking
Marlon 'Alexine' Brando Jr.

 

We've got our pumpkins!

 

 

New hairdoo/Painting windows...

Saturday morning (10:30) Sirault Playgroup with 'Tang!'

 
     

Therapist 'Tang' (Anne) at Sirrault Playgroup

 

Vauxhall

 

Dans l'eau

Drowning Pool

Broken Castle - Ruins

Chauteau d'Havré

 

  Hot summer days

Humid and not much A/C in Belgium

 

 

Old roadside prayer pitstop

Marie - Country Line Dancing

Club Denver

Latest addition to the family - Crumble

 

The dandylion kid

 

Nicolas got an 'owie' and had been crying

 

Gare Midi - Brussels

Early in the morning - taking the train to the seaside

 

 

Seaside Sidewalk - Curb your dog please

Too much fun at the beach

11:00am and still sleeping...

 

 

  The North Sea  - England is on the other side

 

 

 

 

Tired boy.

Nicolas - hot, tired and ready to go take a nap

    

Last summer, we pushed.   

This summer, Nicolas peddles himself...

 

 

2004 - Yesterday

 

2005 - Today

 

  Don't touch or you might get a big owie!

 

Hey!  You can't pick those flowers!
Walk this way - Ruelle (alley)
 

Bievenue à chez nous

Don't let the cat out!

Nicolas' first time in Brussels!

 

C'est moi à Bruxelles

Photo taken by Alexine

I gotta have that cake!

Third Birthday

 

Nicolas and friend Jololie (Marjorie)

Careful, I bite...

Chimay Belgium

 

 

Old Brussels

 

Old Brussels

Vacation at the Beach - Place on the right is where we get our daily breakfast - Pistolet's: little bullets of fresh bread (A Belgian thing)

 

 

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Green Acres (St. Denis)

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Ducasse 2005

Beer, fist-fights, loud techno music...

Let the festivities begin!

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Hewlett-Packard Brussels

(aka the Stress Factory)

 

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Brussels

Photo taken by Dan Legault - Toronto Canada

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Grand Place - Mons

Quiet Sunday morning

 

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Wheeee!

Luge ride at Mont St. Aubert

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Mont St. Aubert

Near Tournai

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Mont St. Aubert

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Rabbit Stew 

(the part we didn't eat)

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Péruwelz

 

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Enjoying a beer after some heavy work in the garden

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Nicolas' favorite waffle place (Le Paysan)

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Morgan and Alexine

Morgan is Alexine's best friend

 

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Playgroup in Sirault

Anne (lady in corner) is one of Nicolas' therapists

 

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Cafe - Lille, France

Nicolas and Daddy had lunch here

 

 

 

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Nicolas on antique tricycle

riding outside for first time

 

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Chapel where Marie and Robert got married eight years ago!

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Daddy takes Nicolas to Saturday morning playgroup in little village of Sirault

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I am the Frog Boy

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Nicolas at therapy with friend Isaline

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Eating a gickey (ice cream) on a nice spring day

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Waffle is bigger than Nicolas

Santo's Palace - Famous Coffee/Waffle cafe at the Seaside

Koksjide Belgium

 

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Nicolas' First Day of School!

Same school as Sissy

 

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Nicolas at school.

He is very nervous.

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Bruno & Nanou Wedding Receptio

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Bruno & Nanou Wedding Reception

Typical low-budget Belgian Wedding

 

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Lunch at the Seaside

Nounou's studio apartment

 

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Buzz Lightyear and Snow White

First time at Disneyland

 

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Alexine (and Nicolas) driving their 

Euro-Disney race car.

 

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Disneyworld - Paris

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Buzz taking a break from saving the

 galaxy to have dinner.

 

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Close encounter with Dingo (Goofy)

Nicolas is quite intimidated

 

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Péruwelz, Belgium

Water from the source

 

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Military Museum - Mons

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Wired on coffee

Grand Place Mons

 

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Easter

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Easter 2005

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Four Generations

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Alexine returns from school trip.

Her first time away from home (4 days!)

 

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Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy

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The house we nearly bought

Beloeil Castle

 

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A sad souvenir of WWII

Entrance to Hitler's prison in Mons during the war.  Now cemented over. 

 

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Mr. French Fry

 

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 Nicolas, Alexine and Mons Monkey

Nicolas is eating his customary fresh waffle on a very cold day.  Can someone turn up the heat, please?

 

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Alexine standing next to 'Le Ropieur'

 

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Bon Voyage

 

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Statue of Gille with basket of bloody oranges

Alexine is ready to help throw them!

 

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Don't eat the yellow snow

 

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Enghien

near  Pepe's home

 

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Nicolas' first time on a train!

Going to Tournai 

 

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Daddy & Nicolas heading back to Mons

 

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Playing in snow for the first time

Binche Belgium

 

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rue Raoul Godfroid

Looking towards the center 

The Beffroi in the distance

 

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Alexine and friends go on school field trip

She took a train from Mons to Brussels!

Place Léopold" - at Mons train station

 

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What happened to my little girl!

Seems like just yesterday I was changing her diapers

 

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Building near our home 

damaged by WWI gunfire

 

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Frite Night

Good frites and beer!

 

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Snowy day

Photo taken from top floor of our house

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Parc Paradis

Maubeuge France

Note the partially iced-over lake

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Christian Rock

Pierce Band (from Memphis) at the IBC

an American Church in Jurbise