walter swims

he is concentrating very hard...you can tell by the look on his face

halloween

halloween on the island is, well, challenged. decorations and tirck-or-treating are hard to come by, but we certainly made the best of it this year. we had a mini-halloween party on jost for the children over the weekend with trick-or0treating in the cabins, a spiderweb game and a rousing round of ghost in the graveyard. then on halloween, we founf a neighborhood (of six townhouses) that was doing t or t0ing...with about 75 children!!! then we walked up havers hill where a smaller invite-only group t or t-ed...we pretty muched crashed that group, but we were welcomed in the end!


quincy as a pokemon trainer!

matt and jerry play risk

actually, the whole family (+ simon) played risk. but of course, no one could resist the darling jerry and he was invited into the game. stella's pups are just four weeks old now.

shannon's 30th birthday

hooray! made it to 30! we celebrated with a weekend camping on jost. an intimate group for friday and saturday, and a larger crowd arrived for brunch on sunday...id say a great time was had by all!


matt plays the bass at Ivan's



enjoying dinner on friday night...what is justine looking for?


how can it be sarong when it feels sa-right?


late night munchies? well, we can help! for a small fee the best midnight snack around!


the party departs on sunday afternoon...


but we stay one more day...jed finds a HUGE hermit crab!


walter joined us for the festivities on jost van dyke, here he waves goodbye!

jed's superstar day!

Jed had a superstar day and needed to bring some of his favorite or special things for a presentation at school. he brought many components to his many favorite costumes, monkey, gnome-y, starwars movie, stormtroopers, his they might be giants foam finger, and much more!

stella has puppies!

time for a contest!

so here is our chance! the chance to plug in dialog for the new transformer movie coming out in july...i was thinking of conjuring up the dick cheney classic with "go truck yourself" ...enter you best at www.transformersmovie.com/

matt's summer in london and wales

here are some hightlights..hopefully he will come and add comments later...

the guys' playdate

this is a playdate organized for the "gang" from the montessori school. all the boys went their separate ways, but we are making an effort to keep them all buddies. Levi (now homeschooled), Jed & James (new private school) and Duante (at a public school). if you look closely you can see max in the background playing golf...he is quite posh, after all!

weekend update

the weekend kicked off by dropping our kids with a babysitter so matt and i could enjoy an evening with our friends on town.
lthough i appear to have someone pinching me, i was actually having a good time with justine. (please note dan's absence... opted for a quiet dinner with her husband...gosh!)






matt and richard enjoy a drink (or two) at the dove. if you look closely you can see that richard is recovering from a black eye. the black eye was the result of a party foul last weekend committed by my husband. in a hottub crowded with 8 grown people, matthew thought we would demonstrate one of his gifts by throwing is body headfirst into the tub in an attempt to perform a handstand. the outcome? one blackeye, bottles of wine and gin and tonics and rum punches in the tub and a de-pantsing. thankfully, no photos resulted.




saturday dad and the kids went windsurfing, and then a bbq at the hudds. much more civilized than the previous evening...but just as fun. an early evening, since the kids were with us....and the party seemed to be picking up as we left.

the girls

todays photo features quincy with girlfriends freya, neive, alex and saskia

hollow men karaoke for the deaf...brilliant!

be sure to turn off the background music (see the player at the top of the right column? yeah, press pause on that) BEFORE you watch this most outstanding video

kindergarten cooking show

Okay, lets see if we can keep this newsletter up and running! to start off today's news Matt went to Jed's classroom for the career month. He made the children bananas foster, with the intention of pouring rum on it and lighting it on fire...few things impress kindergartners like alcohol and open flame. but, alas, in matthew's attempt to tone down the hard liquor consumption for the youngsters, the fire would not light. (and therefore the rum did not "burn off" hopefully the kids got a good nap that afternoon!)

surf camp video

so this video is already a bit old...being from july, but i really wanted to share it...the image is't so great but that is quincy on the kayak (note she is facing the wrong way!) and then jed windsurfing...enjoy!