Wedding Weekend

Our friend's Dave and Alyx had their wedding this past weekend (June 13th) which Alec and I had the privilege to be involved with! Alec was Dave's bestman, while I was Alyx's personal attendant. It was a very busy day getting everything set for the 4pm wedding, but it was so much fun. The wedding went great, with no problems at all. It was held at Trinity Luthern Church in Grand Rapids, and then the reception following was at the Pinnacle center in Hudsonville. It was so much fun! Alec's best man speech went great, everyone loved it, and we had a fun time dancing the night away!

There was the most amazing candy bar you have ever seen, TONS of candy!!!

A Roofing Weekend!

We bought this house knowing the roof needed to be re-done badly.  And so we asked a few of the DeLange family members to help us out.  We had a house full of 10 people total, with five of them who worked on the roof.  And us girls and the kids helped pick up shingles off the ground.  

People involved:

- Rob and Anne (Alec's sister and husband) and their 2 boys Colin and Gage

- Derek (brother)

- Jordan (brother)

- Mike (family friend)

- Lauren (sister)

- Alec and I

They got the whole thing done between saturday and sunday, it was amazing!  We are just beyond thankful for having such an amazing family that is willing to drive all the way here and spend their weekend working endlessly on our house.  God has truly blessed us!!  

I thought we were doing really great with minimal injuries (even though I did print out directions to the nearest hospital........just in case).  But then sunday night after we drove around downtown showing Anne and Rob and the boys around, I was walking up the sidewalk to the house and stepped on a nail.  It went right through my shoe into my foot, and of course it was an old nasty nail from the old roof.  So we checked my immunization records and saw my last tetanus shot was in 1998, and they are only good for 10yrs.  BOO! But after some deliberation I decided I would be fine, and didn't want to go in.  

Overall though the weekend went amazingly well, and we are so excited that the roof is done and we don't have to think about it anymore!  

Lots going on!

I have been SO behind on posting!  We have been very very busy though.  It seems we have something going on almost every weekend between now and then end of the summer.  So here is a brief update of what we have been up too recently.  I keep forgetting to take pictures of the rooms in our house that are kind of sorta finished, I will try and do that very soon!

Memorial Weekend:  We were just simply excited to have a long weekend, Derek (Alec's brother) came to help us around the house with some painting.  It was great to have another set of hands!!  They got a lot done.    

Putting together the guest bedroom since the paint is finally finished in there! 

Painting the 3rd bedroom, which we are using as an office/scrapbooking room.

Last Weekend: We traveled to Grand Rapids for a bachelor and bachelorette party for our friends Dave and Alyx.  They are getting married June 13th.  Alec is the best man and so he organized the bachelor party (paintball, stretch escalade limo, grilling at Dave's river house).  The girls went and got pedicures/manicures in the morning, then we went and bottled our own wine, and then went to McFaddens (restaurant/bar downtown GR)  in the evening.  Both parties had a GREAT time.  

Getting our pedicures 

At the winery

The whole group ready to go out to McFaddens

Ready to party!

So then sunday morning we woke up and left for Dearborn for Allyson's (my sister) graduation party.  We were a bit tired after all the driving and lack of sleep, but it was an awesome weekend!

This coming weekend:  We are having some of Alec's family come to our house to help us re-roof the house.  It needs a new roof so badly, we plan to tear off the old shingles and then put up all the new ones!  So hopefully all goes as planned with that.  On saturday I will be the gone for the beginning of the day for registration at Mt Mary, where I will get my schedule for the fall semester!!! 

Well I will post again hopefully real soon with some updated house pictures!