Home, sweet home

Well we are here! I apologize that it has been a month since our previous post - obviously we have been very busy saying goodbye to friends and family, moving our lives up north, and moving into our new home! The last month has been a whirlwind. God has done so much in the past few weeks.

We are so grateful to our friends and family who put together some amazing goodbye get togethers and helped us pack our home. We couldn't have made it through the last month without you! I truly mean that. My mom helped me pack our home- nothing would have gotten done without her. Thank you to all our friends who blessed us with their amazing gifts and with the time we were able to spend with them. Needless to say, we were completely blown away - I am tearing up just thinking about how much we are blessed with you all.

In my last post, I shared that we had found an apartment. We were so thankful to have found it and we love living here. It is just blocks from a mall, coffee shops, and tons of other great stores. We only have one car so it works out well that we can walk pretty much anywhere we would need to go. Everyone walks everywhere so it's a fun new experience to have since in Camarillo we didn't walk anywhere!

Trevor was able to transfer to Peets coffee up here which is a HUGE blessing since we have our health benefits through them - especially now that we are expecting our first child in OCTOBER!! We couldn't be more excited. God's timing is truly amazing.

I began working from home for two companies and it has been a blessing to have flexible hours since my "morning sickness" has been "all the time sickness" and I have been completely exhausted everyday. I hope this goes away soon as I enter my second trimester. It has been hard to unpack and decorate our new home being tired all the time but it has also been fun to get furniture and find creative ways to save space as we don't have a ton of storage here. Trevor has been so considerate of my exhaustion and sickness- I couldn't ask for a better husband.

Our dear, dear friends Adam and Jen made the trip up with us to help us move in and they were a huge blessing. Jen and I drove our car while Trevor and Adam drove the moving truck. We were able to stop and see my family in San Jose on our way up which was a huge blessing as well. It was a longggggg drive! I am so thankful to have had wonderful friends to enjoy it with, laugh with, and have twinkie fights with on the freeway while we were stopped in traffic (oops.). Once we arrived in Portland, the boys unloaded the truck in a mere 30 minutes! It was unbelievable! Jen is an expert organizer which helped a clutterer like me a ton! Within a day, we had new furniture set up and the basics all put away. Jacklyn, Travis and Lucy happened to be in Portland for a few days as well so we spent some time shopping while the boys got some golf time in. It is so beautiful up here. We have been here over a week and it has only rained one day! Come on Portland!

The best part about our neighborhood is everyone is very friendly and it is easy to meet people. We plan to start our home Bible study in the next 2 weeks once a few other people arrive up here to help us start the church. Lord willing it will be easy to meet and invite people and share Jesus with them.

Please pray for open hearts for the people of Portland and for God to continue to provide as he always has. Please pray for energy for me and health for baby Gavin.

Thanks for reading!

Here we are in front of the "welcome to Oregon" sign!