Blueberries, McDonalds and Slab Pie OH MY!

This weekend Dirk and I went home (back to Holland) and took the kids blueberry picking. This is the 3rd year Dirk and I have brought Mackenzee blueberry picking and Logans 2nd year! They both seemed to have tons of fun! Dirk's Mom and brother Josh came along too!!!

Kenzee and Logan by the Gold Barn Sign!

Logan proud of the blueberries he picked!
Kenzee snacking on the blueberries she picked
Dirks mom picking blueberries! She's a pro!
Kenzee, Logan and Dirk having so much fun!


After blueberry picking we went to McDonald's to feed the kids lunch and so that they could play in the Play place!
Kenzee loved the slide at McDonald's
Logan being silly in the tunnel
My two favorite kids!
Little Miss Kenzee!

Made My mom a Sour Cherry Slab Pie with Lemon glaze for her birthday, She seemed to like it, so did everyone else who ate it!
This is what it looked like inside!
Made Dirk a blueberry slab pie today with the blueberries that we picked last weekend!

Click HERE for the recipe for slab pie! So yummy!!!

Salsa, Bubbles and Empty Basements

This update is for my sister who keeps bugging me because i haven't updated in two weeks!

We have been home the last two weekends for family functions at home at so i have a lot of pictures of what has been going on in our lives!







These are pictures of my mom making homemade salsa, its so yummy, I'm trying to convince here to enter us in the salsa making contest at the farmers market this year!






This is Mackenzee and Logan playing bubbles outside on 4th of July weekend!!



Annie I thought you would like this picture! Its you! LOL
This is my parents garage with everything that used to be in our basement, its crazy full!


These are pictures of what are basement looks like after the flood a couple of weeks ago. My dad and Eric had to take out all the carpet and they had fans in the house drying it for a week! My dad still has to pull out more drywall!

So there you go sister! An update! I promise i will try and do it more often!

Setting up House (well apartment)

Haven't updated in a while so i guess i will post on whats new in the life of Nichole and Dirk.

Dirk is working hard doing research everyday at Notre Dame, he likes it a lot and is making new friends. He is also working on setting up all of our electronics in our apartment and putting up all the pictures and art on the walls that i want!

I am still working on finding a job, My resume is out in the internet world and I'm hoping to find a job soon! We almost have the apartment completely together, we just need a couple more things and are apartment will feel like home!

Here are some new pics of whats going on in our lives right now!


This is the bookshelf that my parents bought us as a wedding gift, most of those books are Dirks. This one is in our bedroom!


This is the "Bookshelf" in our living room, Really we use it as a TV stand and to hold DVD's but its also one that my parents bought us!


This is Dirks desk area with wedding pictures above his desk!


This is Just a fun thing that Dirk and I saw Downtown Holland today when we were watching the street performers with my mom!

That's all for now! Another update to come soon!!!

Flooding in Holland

So Dirk and I came home (back to Holland) for fathers day weekend. We came home Friday afternoon and decided to parade of homes with my parents. The second to last home we went to it started to downpour outside! We ended up heading toward home at about 9pm and by that time it had been raining about an hour!

When we arrived on our street it was flooded! It was hard to even attempt to get to our house. We ended up taking a side street to get home (not a good idea!) Well the car ended up getting stuck! The water was DEEP and it was flooding my moms car! Some nice man in a truck pushed us out and pushed us to our house! During all this it is still raining HARD CORE!

Friday night many cars got stuck in the water on our road. We ended up letting 2 random people leave there dead water logged cars in our driveway overnight.

All over Holland is flooded, roads have washed away and basements are a mess (our included!) Hopefully no more water comes, and Holland starts to dry out! These are pictures of what happened this weekend!This is Aniline! That water right there is where many cars got stuck the night before, and this is after it went down a lot!


This is Garfield, its off of Aniline, This is where my moms car died! Look how far the water is up on the fire hydrant!This is my parents back yard, the lumber that is floating, is from the neighbors house who just took down his pool!This is where a lot of cars died

The water is starting to go down, you can see where the water used to be!


A van decides to risk the water! Is it to deep! Nope successful!
This is part of our yard, and the neighbors and then it goes into Garfield! What a MESS! That is what ended up in our basement, and many other basements in the neighborhood. Lots of work ahead of a lot of people in Holland!

Furniture and Blinds and Such

So Dirk and I have been busy moving into our new place and unpacking boxes and getting furniture and such. Here are a few pics that we have taken this past week and what we have been up to

Dirk put blinds in up in our apartment this weekend, he did a really good job and they look
great!


This is Dirk building our new kitchen table and chairs that we bought on Sunday when his mom and brother came to visit! Dirk also put my sign up in our kitchen! This is my favorite sign ever!


Dirk and I stayed Home Saturday night, i made panini's and salad and then we made marshmallows over the stove!

Wedding Pictures!

So our photographers have uploaded all of our wedding pics that they had taken on our wedding day! Here is a link!

http://marcphotography.zenfolio.com/p575122455

They were great photographers and Dirk and I are so happy with how the pictures came out!

Unpacking and Moving

Dirk and I have moved to Indiana, and so i have decided to start a blog so that our family and friends can keep up with our lives and what we are doing.

WARNING! OUR APARTMENT IS A MESS!!!

Dirk and i moved on Sunday and everything was just put into our apartment and we had to leave again the next day. We unpacked a little on Sunday night ( really only the kitchen! My favorite place in the whole apartment!) and then we went back to Michigan Monday morning so that Dirk could finish his last two days at Best Buy.

Well we arrived back in Indiana Wednesday night and did a little more unpacking. Dirk left to start his new job today at Notre Dame and i am left home to unpack and clean house (not one of my strong points in life.)

Here is what our apartment looks like right now..

That's our living room/dinner room! MESSY!!!!


This is our Kitchen, the only truly clean room of the apartment right now

This is our bedroom..full of boxes, still needing to be unpacked..

That's all for now. Hopefully more updates when the apartment is clean and all unpacked and beautiful!