The Hassenrik Family

Monday, July 25, 2011

Chi-Town

We went to Chicago to celebrate our (youngest) friend Joey's 30th birthday! We had a blast and enjoyed some quality adult time. Dinners, shopping, dancing...So much fun!

Matt and the Birthday Boy Joey

Lins and I

Yay for Adult Time!

Me and the Hubs

Matt sister and Wade joined us for some fun!

Good times in Chi-town!!

Monday, July 4, 2011

We watched the fireworks this year from Boatwerks in Holland with Matt's family. It was a beautiful night and we had a nice little patch of grass to take in the sights. The fireworks didn't start until 10:30pm, so we had a lot of time to kill. What better way than to take pictures!

C and Aunt Bethany

Grammie and Grant

The Gang

Grantster and Me

Grant took this one...

and this one...

this one...

and this one. :)

Human pyramid...sure why not

Grandpa and C

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Mark's First Birthday

There is a reason why I wanted to post these pics...besides the fact that he is the cutest thing ever. This will probably be the last first birthday that we celebrate in this family in a long time. Well, unless someone has a little surprise I suppose. So here they are. Mark turned one! Rach has outdone herself again with those awesome cookie monster cupcakes.

The birthday boy

Silly Charley

Yom Yom Yom

Papa (The Big Mark)

Mols

Cousins

Tasty

Monday, June 27, 2011

Friends at the Beach

Just some pics from a quick beach visit from the Fus'. Lila and Tyler are twin 5 year olds that live down the street. And we love their mom and dad too! Molly and Lila have really hit it off and I just wanted to document it with some pics.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

End of Crew

This past fall, Matt was asked to coach a U7 Crew team here in Grand Rapids. So we put Grant on the team. They play other premier leagues around the area through the fall and again in the spring. They also had an indoor league in the winter. It was definitely a major time commitment, especially for a six, then seven year old. We have decided that Grant is just not there yet. Maybe some time in the future we will revisit this type of team, but for now, I think we are going to back to the Y or AYSO. I personally think we need to rebuild his confidence. And maybe he might just not be a soccer player (ouch). Hard to handle when you have two parents that played A LOT of soccer. God may just have different plans for him. But we did celebrate the end of the year with a fun pool party for the boys. Thanks again to Melissa for managing the team, and Matt for coaching! BTW, our team did awesome...I think we only lost one game this spring. The boys did improve immensely over the course of the year.

Grant Hassenrik #6

Awesome Cake

Their Attempt at a Pyramid

Getting pushed in by the girls team

Coach Matt hanging with the boys

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Moving On Up

Grant finished out his first grade year great! I'm so proud of all the things he accomplished and learned this year. He has become an excellent reader and writer and loves to write illustrated stories. He was in the Accelerated Reading Program and was one of the top readers of his class. His favorite subject this year was art of course. He LOVES art. And his art teacher said that he definitely has some skill in this area...not surprising to me. He struggles a little bit with math, but mostly because he goes too fast. He got the Good Citizen Award at the end of the year, which his teacher explained meant that he is a caring friend to everyone. Proud mom moment. He really has come a LONG way this year. He definitely is starting to be able to manage his emotions more, and we are able to talk through things more rather than exploding in rage. I am so proud of the little man that he is becoming. He loved playing basketball this year, singing in the Christmas program and the school musical, and especially loved recess!