This past Saturday we went up to Mike's aunt and uncle's cottage on Bass lake, we did a little tubing, skiing, knee boarding, fishing etc. Here's Carter's first tube ride, it was so exciting that he fell asleep! Allyssa, Mari, Mike and Brian going for a wild ride, Mike is the only one who fell off -- TWICE! =)
Feeding the fish...
Mike, Mari and Matt fishing, they claim they had good luck, but we didn't see any of their fish, supposedly they "threw them all back" -- likely story! =)

More summer fun

A few weekends ago we went rafting with a big group of people down the Muskegon River, here's the boys getting the tubes ready to float. Here's the whole group of us!
After rafting we ate supper and hung out for a while...then sat around the fire. (*note you may recognize these pictures, I stole them from Kelly's blog b/c I didn't have my camera with me*)

Here's some more pictures of our summer events...a few races for Mike De Jonge #70. The first 2 pictures were from Hudsonville, the next was at Berlin where the car finally died! Mike was pretty happy about that because he didn't like this car very much, but guess what?! -- now that means we get to look for another one! exciting huh!? Then we had yet another birthday party for me at my parents- if you haven't noticed July is not just my birthDAY, it's my birthMONTH =) Oh, then of course the next picture is Carter, he's growing so fast, isn't he cute though?

So, some of you may be wondering why it's been 5 weeks since I've updated our blog, or maybe you're just thinking that we don't have a life...well here's some of the things we've been up to this summer: First Mike has been working on finishing the deck...check out the cable railing he put up, cool huh!? Then there's my birthday, I am now officially a quarter of a century old! That is a picture of the cake that Mike bought me. He gave me a nice jewelery box--can you believe it was completely empty!??. Next there's updated pictures of the Macie and Jedd, they have become best friends, as you can see Jedd even lets Macie eat with him! Then it's my birthday party again with Mike's side- more cake and more presents!

Gina's wedding

Here's a few pictures from Gina and Matt's wedding from last week Friday!

HCHS Graduation

Last week Thursday my brother graduated from Holland Christian. Then on Saturday we celebrated at his open house with a pig roast ,yum! Congratulations little bro!

New Kitten =)

Here's my new little kitten! Her name is Macie, she's so cute! I only had to fight for a few days to convice Mike that we NEEDED a cat around! So as you can imagine, Mike is thrilled to have her staying in our garage! He mocks her and makes threats towards her, but actually he's a pretty big softy and he likes her as much as I do. When he thinks I'm not watching he's always talking to her and petting her and playing with her when we're outside! Don't you think she needs a little friend!??