Baby makes three!!!

Mark and Lauren are having a baby!!! We are so excited for them and can't wait to meet another niece/nephew. Congratulations guys, we love you!!
03.06.09

this girl is excited.

It was a great birthday.

...details to come!

Someone's in the kitchen...

It's true. I've started to cook... and I love it. Before we got married all I could make was toast, scrambled eggs and spaghetti. Now I'm cooking up a storm. We were given a few cookbooks and I'm just working my way through them. The first meal I made was Chiles Rellenos Chicken... it was delicious! Here's some proof:

Tim waiting patiently for me to join him so he could eat.

Our fancy dinner table:

Here's the mess I made...

The next night I made Clubhouse Chicken Squares... yum!!

Earlier this week we had Bistro Chicken Twist... another yum!!

Look at all of those spices... it was a lot of fun to make!!

Finally we ended the week with Fajita Pizza.

Life is good!!

Breakfast for Brides:

One Caramel Macchiato + One Mountain Dew

I was a little wired.

06.18.81

from my mom...

"this was supposed to be your date of birth. happy un-birthday!"

...now send an un-birthday gift :)

Meet the Burkeys!!

So we've been married for 10 days now... and loving it!! We don't have internet right now... sad face. It's been a bummer not being able to stay in touch with everyone. We should be getting it next Monday...yay!! I've stolen some pictures from Kate, Jessie and uncle Dave.. enjoy! I'll be updating this as soon as I can... I have so much to add!


photos by: kate podjan photography

jessie murphy

dave arnold

Eight Days Left...

I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has helps with the details of our wedding!! Beth has spent countless hours on lists, programs, favors, dress shopping and many other details. Thank you SOOOOO much! Carrie spent an entire night folding 200+ programs... she's a saint! Thank you, thank you to everyone!

Like Weddings?

We've had wedding after wedding around here!! Congratulations to everyone!! First was Mark & Lauren then...

Garrett & Bethany Shur

04/26/2008

Dustin & Brinn Maust

05/09/2008

Brandon & Crystal Pannabecker

05/10/2008

One Month From Today!!

...that's all.

Meet the soon-to-be Burkey'sWe have a blog!
I'm not too sure what the differences will be between the two blogs other than Tim will be contributing to Meet the Burkeys.
I'll try my best to keep the life of a bulldawg about me and Meet the Burkeys about us.
Keep up with us folks!! :)

Happy Birthday Judah!!

Judah Matthew Podjan

born May 1st, 2008 at 12:18a.m.

Weighing in at 9lbs, 3ozs

See how Kate & Matt are doing!

Bubble Gum

Here's some pictures from my first shower, when we played the gum game. As you can tell I didn't do well. Check out the shower post!

Everyone's watching and laughing

It was blue gum. Thank you Ann.
My mouth filled with bubble gum

Spitting it out... yum!

Aren't I lovely?

Eight Minutes
I have had two of the strangest experiences in the past week. First, I woke up around 5:30 A.M. Friday morning because we were having an earthquake. I live in northern Indiana folks. Crazy. Next, I went to the DMV to renew my license plate tonight and I was in and out in about 8 minutes. The line was all of the way to the door when I walked in. Eight minutes. Crazy. Now I'm going to go hang out in our basement with the treadmill.

Hannah's

A few weeks ago I had ANOTHER surprise shower given to me by my aunt. It was amazing! It was at my favorite restaurant in New Buffalo, Hannah's. Almost all of the ladies from both sides of my family were able to make it. It was so much fun!!

The most amazing cake from Jewel!

Here's Ann and I walking in. She talked me into going to the Lighthouse with her but didn't realize that they're on central time so we ended up being late.Walking in, I was shaking , I was caught so off guard!!

My flower girlsThis was an awesome favor! My aunt took two different colors of beach glass, green and white, and poured them into the vase together showing how Tim and I are becoming one. It was awesome because I collect beach glass and there was one for everyone.

Lots of presents and lots of help from my flower girls!

Easter
Here's some pictures from Easter at the Gustafson household. They're kind of blurry. Tim got home at 7:00 A.M. so he's looking a little tired. Easter was right in the middle of March Madness so you'll notice my brother keeping record of the games on his lame clipboard.

We are on computers ALL of the time.
Notice the clipboard.

A couple of ghetto and deviled egg faces

Yes, we are in our twenties and we still get Easter baskets.

Trying to sneak some chocolate behind Tims back

Clipboard

I had just sneezed and Tommy decided to take my picture
Tim wearing my grandpas glassesDan making notes on that stupid clipboard

The best pudding cake

Dan did not understand this sweater