The big 2-6

Happy Birthday Dustin!! Yesturday Dustin turned 26, he's getting up there! I started his birthday off with a big breakfast (which i got up at 6:45 to make on my day off, thank you very much). Then Dustin headed to school for a full day of classes and interviews. Later we went out to dinner and tried a new restaurant that was okay but not worth the money unfortunately. Then the rest of the night was very low key with just the two of us. I made his favorite cake- funfetti cake with funfetti frosting, go figure! I can't complain when all he wants is a cake from a box, I guess I can manage that. A big thanks to all our family who sent Dustin birthday cards and gifts. Thank you thank you! Happy Birthday Dustin, I love you!!

Don't worry, we are still alive

Okay I know I haven't blogged in...umm...17 days. But Dustin has been so busy with school the last few weeks we haven't really done anything too interesting. The only thing out of the ordinary is that it has been colder than cold here with around zero degree wind chills. Not fun. So we are just trying to keep warm here in Michigan.

This weekend Dustin was involved in a "Case Competition" at MSU. It's where they give you an in depth case study and teams have 24 hours to analyze it and make a presentation in front of judges. Dustin's team worked really hard on it. He didn't get home from preparing for it with his team until 2:30 in the morning on Saturday. So they presented 9am Saturday morning and made it to the finals Saturday afternoon where they took 2nd place out of 20 teams! But of course Dustin wasn't completely satisfied, he wanted to be 1st! Oh well. Anyways I was really proud of him and all his hard work.

The End is Near

I'm not ready for Dustin to start school again. I love the no homework, no meetings, no classes days we have been having for the last two and a half weeks. I love him being home all the time. But as of Monday it's back to reality again, back to the hectic schedule, and spending about half the time together as we have over Christmas break. I'm not excited, but I think Dustin might be getting a little restless this last week while I've been at work. I think he's excited to go back just for the enjoyment of getting one more semester done. After that 2 more to go!! His first semester flew right by us and we are both hoping that's the case for this next semester. But with the end of Christmas break and the end of the holidays comes an excitement of what's ahead. Work, school and finding out where we will be living this summer. We hope everyone had a wonderful and safe holiday as we have had! Now all I have to do is take down the Christmas decorations!

"I want to wash my hands, my face and hair in snow"

So it's been snowing here lately..a lot. The night after we took these pictures it snowed probably another 4 inches. I love the snow but I didn't love the thermometer reading one degree this morning when I left for work. Burrr...

Washington Christmas

We are finally back at home in Michigan (after some flight delays and lost luggage). It's been forever since I have posted, so now I feel like I have to play catch up. We had a wonderful and eventful Christmas break in Washington. We had such a good time with our family and feel so blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives. Here are few pictures and highlights of our trip...

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve with all our Gamblin cousins

It just wouldn't be Christmas Eve without matching pajamas!

Preggo Steph!
The whole fam....out to dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Thanks Paul and Bev!

Us at the EMP (Experience Music Project) A music museum in Seattle



As their Christmas gift to us, Steph and Matt took us to a Sonics game. It was a great idea, we had a blast!

Eating a Maggianos before the game, where Dustin and I had our wedding luncheon.


Dustin enjoying the best doughnuts in the world!

Perry making an intersting face

Gingerbread Fun

So one the packages that Josh and Amanda sent were all the necessary tools needed to construct a gingerbread house. We had some fun making them while eating the candy at the same time. I'll let you guess which one is mine and which one is Dustin's...

Thanks Sherwoods

Dustin's brother and his wife Amanda had us for Christmas this year. They gave us a bunch of little presents to open on specific days. Amanda was so cute and individually wrapped each present with hand make tags as well. I could tell she put a lot of effort and time into it. So far we go this Christmas binder with a song, story and quote for each day in December. Also a CD, a book and a really cute Christmas ornament. We can't wait to open the rest. Thanks so much you guys!