Summer days...

Our summer days are coming to an end. We've had a busy week. Monday and Tuesday I worked in my classroom all day getting it set up. Wednesday we went out to Courtney's to use the pool, my day to get some sun. Also my birthday so that's what I wanted to do. Jason and I went out to one of our favorite restaurants in Spring Lake, Old Boys Brew house. A beautiful evening for that. Today we had lunch with Jason and then tonight we went to the fair. Because of our wonderful friends the Arnold's Kylynn got a VIP bracelet and got to go on all the rides her little heart desired. I think her favorite was the Fun Slide. I wasn't to keen on the helicopters and I know I won't do that one again. I'm not a fan of spinning rides. We also looked at the animals, Kylynn liked the horsies and the bunnies. A fun night with the family, and some cute pictures. Tomorrow night Jason and I are headed to the White Caps, hopefully it doesn't rain. We're home for the weekend but we'll be prepping for the UP and me going back to work. Hope everyone enjoys their last week of summer!

We got some new chairs at Cabela's last weekend, Kylynn loves them!

Kylynn and Addisyn enjoying their play toy. Addi can now go in the swing, she loved it!Mommy, Addisyn, and Kylynn at Aunt Courtney's poolKylynn by the dairy cows, she's saying cheese but she doesn't like to look at the camera.

Kylynn is smiling, mommy is a little overwhelmed by this one!

A new VanDyke

Trevor and Katie are now married! We had a wonderful time in Naperville this weekend celebrating with the two of them. The Matre's were great hosts and we are happy to have Katie join our family. Kylynn made it down the isle, she was a hit! Along with the ringbearer of course. She danced the night away as well. She was just about asleep on Aunt Kari and the music came on and she was out on the dance floor till we left at midnight! I'm going to try to add a new slide show to show some of the photos but here's a video of Kylynn dancing, sorry about the sound, it's bad. I just wanted to show how cute she was with Jonathon.
One more week before I'm back to work:( I'm ready though! Hope everyone else is doing well and enjoying their summers. I can't believe my little brother is married! That is just crazy!

Our little singer

I'm going to try to add a video I took today of Kylynn singing her new favorite song, 'Jesus loves me'. But she only sings one line. She repeats, "Bible tells me so." Let's see if it works. She is so adorable singing it and she really gets into it.

Slacker Blogger...

So I've been slacking on the blogging thing lately. I have good reasons though! Last week I took a class through Grand Valley for 3 Graduate credits. It was a long week but well worth the credits. My mom was so wonderful and stayed with us to watch the girls for the week. It gave her some good bonding time with them and Kylynn loved having her 'guya' here. The weekend before Jason and I got away for the whole weekend with our small group, we had a blast, eatting, relaxing, playing games, and tubing down the river. Some very good times with our friends.

The girls: Andrea, Jayme, Erin, Kristen, and I Getting ready to go tubing down the river: The Vugteveen's, The Koetje's, The DeYoung's, The Arends', and the Kloostra's

Last night Jason and I went to his cousin Melissa's wedding. We had a great time without the kids, story of our life lately. You must think we're terrible parents but we have had lots of away time lately. That's okay, we're off to Uncle Trevor and Aunt Katie's wedding this weekend and we'll all be together 24/7. We're very excited and can't wait to see how Kylynn does. She is the flower girl. My bets are she'll do fine. She'll just follow Jonathan, ring bearer, down the isle. She loves big kids.

Jason, myself, Brian, and Lindsey at the wedding.

Today we enjoyed an old fashioned picnic with Jason's family. The whole gang was there and we had a new addition, Brandon brought a friend. It was great to meet her, I hope we will have more opportunities to get to know her better, she was very sweet.

Another cousin picture, poor Addisyn - Kylynn and Cambrey are cute though.

My girls, Addi and Kylynn. Kylynn has to be out of the CHEESE stage soon, hopefully!

No big plans for this week, just getting back into my classroom a few days and getting packed and ready for the wedding. We enjoyed our weekend home this past weekend, Jason go the house powerwashed and the deck, it looks great! It was our first weekend home since the beginning of June, it felt great!