A Few Before and Afters

We have been working like crazy on the house since we bought it end of April. So much of what we have done has been just bringing the house back to normal condition, the previous owners took such poor care of the house. So here are a few before and after pictures, hopefully the longer we live there there were will be more pictures to come!

All the before shots are taken at the home inspection, so its not our stuff or furniture.

Laundry Room:

Master Bedroom:

3rd Bedroom/Office/Scrapbooking room:

Guest Bedroom:

We are having fun, even though it is alot of work! But so far it is going well. We hope to finish painting the outside trim and then move to painting the living room!

Summer Fun!

Our friends Aaron and Catherine came to visit us for the weekend! They live in Grand Rapids and also graduated from Calvin the same year we did. We had so much fun seeing them again, and were excited to show them around Milwaukee!

We started off the day on saturday by heading to Bayshore mall, which is a huge outdoor mall which is very cool. We then drove downtown and checked out the wisconsin side of the lake. We all concluded that the Michigan side was better......can't beat the beaches there. After that we headed to the zoo! We found out that you can buy beer and other alcoholic drinks at the zoo........thought that was kind of weird........only in milwaukee I guess.

On sunday we went and had lunch at a restaurant downtown right near the lake called Altera. It was really good, Alec and I have been wanting to try it for a long time and we all loved it! We love having our friends come and see us, and it is especially nice not to have to make the drive ourselves :)

DeKruyter Camping

Every summer my parents camp for a week or so on the west side of Michigan. This year they camped at Hoffmaster State Park in Muskegon. We were able to join them friday-monday! My grandparents camped as well on the site next to us in their motor home, and my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins were there starting on sunday. We had such a great time, and the weather was really great! We were able to beach it up numerous times and enjoyed some bike rides, campfires, games, and general DeKruyter madness :)

I made puppy chow, and they attacked it!

Alec's family actually was able to come out and join in the fun for a couple days. They were just a few sites down from us, so it worked out perfect!

We went putt-putt golfing at Craig's Cruisers friday night, and had so much fun! We all had a pretty good game (however we all admitted it was too easy of a course).

At Whippi Dip, the BEST ice cream place ever!!

We went to fireworks downtown Grandhaven, MI. We had to kill some time while we waited for them to start. I felt bad for the people sitting around us......one group actually picked up all their stuff and moved further away :)