here are some pictures for you heather. i think maddie might be in need of a trim.

Welcome Gracie

I'd like to introduce the new member of our family.  Gracie's a very sweet and gentle girl who we got from the humane society this past Friday. Emma fell in love with her the minute we took her out of  the kennel to walk around.  We looked at two other yellow labs while we were there, but Emma didn't want to have anything to do with them.  She just kept saying, "I like Gracie.  Let's go get Gracie."  I have to admit that Emma knows how to pick out a dog.  She's awesome with the girls.  We couldn't have found a better dog for our family.  

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!