monkey business

here are some pictures from christmas and a few of maddie milling around the house. she's an absolute goober. steph- i'm glad you decided to join the blog, you can give us losers who never leave the country some lessons in world travel while you're in russia. we'll all just live vicariously through you. hope all is well with everyone.

The Best Christmas Ever... Seriously!

Thanks to everyone for contributing to my best Christmas ever! I can't explain how wonderful it was to share the excitement with the kids and to get to know everyone better. I feel soooooo lucky to have the coolest cousins in the world! You might think I'm being slightly cheezy here but I'm serious! I just said to my mom after looking through the pictures already on the blog, "Can you believe that we're related to these awesome people?!" Of course she thinks it's all great as well.

I'm getting ready to head back to school and then off to Russia around February 1. This blog will be a great way to stay connected.

Love,
Steph

Christmas Pics

Here are some pre Christmas pics (decorating cookies and hanging around the tree) and of course one with Dad and Emma when they went crabbing.

Happy New Year!

Why isn't anybody blogging? I want to see some pics of the Gusler Christmas. Here are a few pics of our New Year trip and some Christmas pics. For New Years, we were supposed to go to a lookout tower near Mt. Hood with our friends Scott and Lori but there was so much snow that we weren't able to get to it. Instead we played in the snow with the kids, then came back to our house and had a slumber party. We had a great time!



Miss you all!

Good Times

Just thought I'd send a few photos of our trip to Mexico. What a great relaxing time we had. The first photo was taken in Mexico City where we had a layover and ended up spending the night with Ryan's cousin who is an MCC country rep. there. The rest of the pics are of the beach where we spent most of our time and the last one is a view from our hotel room. Ryan and I thought it would be fun if we all planned a trip to Mexico for our Christmas some year. We'd have to plan far enough in advance so we could all save up for it. But it would be a rock'n time.

Sorry we'll miss you all at Christmas. Hopefully next year we'll be home. Love you all!

ONE!

Halloween pictures

Here are a few pics from trick-or-treating. If you can't tell, Emma was a fairy and Sophie a butterfly. The girls had great time. Sophie really got into it, more than I thought she would. Anyways, I can't believe it's November already. One week and Ryan and I will be vacationing in Mexico, no kids! Yipee!! Well not much more to say. I've got to get back to my motherly duties. Take care.