Christmas Gingerbread House
We decided to have a bit of a competition this Christmas (of course we would). Please vote for your favorite Gingerbread HOUSE.
Grad School
Graduate School has officially become hard. Last year I think I was all excited about getting married, that I didn't even realize that it was hard. If your wondering "hmmm I wonder what Amber is doing?" just know she is most likely reading. THATS ABOUT ALL I DO!!!!
BACK HOME!!!
Today is a wonderful day! Well it cloudy and I spent half of the morning completing a final. BUT I am done, and we get to sleep in our own bed for the first night in over 7 weeks.
Still Out of the House
Still out of the house! We are so grateful for the Shinn family for letting us stay. We have had such a wonderful weekend hanging out with them.
Going RED
Our loft is still a disaster area. It's amazing, one whole month out of the loft all because of a leaky refrigerator. CRAZY! In redoing stuff in our house we have decided to try to go green. In our attempts to go green we were going to get bamboo flooring put into our loft. Unfortunately the instillation is way more then we can afford for this particular time in life. Even more unfortunate we had already purchased the 32 boxes of bamboo flooring from Costco. AND even more unfortunate now we have to take all 32 boxes that weigh 50lbs. back to Costco! Poor Matt! I can barely lift one; I'm not the athlete I use to be. So I guess we are bit anti-green at the moment, I guess that would make us red.
The Flood
After a wonderful church retreat Matt and I drove back up to Santa Barbara in our good friend's mini cooper. We put the top down because it was such an amazing day to drive up highway 1. We commented on how we had NOTHING to do when we got home (a rare occasion). Upon arriving home we noticed a bit of a odd odor to our house. Then we noticed all of our rugs were soaked! Our neighbor later informed us that he had to turn the water off because water was coming into his house!! He noticed water coming out of our front door!!! Basically the refrigerator broke while we were gone and the water mus have been running for hours. First we were under the impression that the house wasn't all that bad. We actually put a house fan on it to try to start to dry things out. We called the insurance company the next day and they quickly made us feel a bit silly for trying to dry things out with our little house fan. Now after 5 days of industrial sized fans and dehumidifiers. The house is dry. They have removed flooring and about two feet of dry wall around the perimeter. Thankfully we have amazing friends that have been more than just hospitable. We are in good spirits knowing that we have insurance that will take care of it.
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