Portlandia

So we made it to Portland!

(okay so we made it awhile ago but I have just been to lazy  I mean busy to blog about our adventures so far)

Driving out Kevin and I had to drive separate cars because we were bringing both of ours out here, we stayed the first night in Caldwell at Uncle Steve's and then the next day continued on to Portland. My parents followed the next day with all our stuff. And boy did we have A-L-O-T of stuff. Luckily the ward here was great and we had 3 men and the missionaries all show up to help so it was a quick unload.

We spent the rest of the day with my parents. They helped us unpack a little and then we visited the beautiful temple. YAY for being 15 min from a temple.

My parents had to leave the next day and head back to Idaho for a cattle convention (sounds fun huh?!?) Needless to say there were lots of tears shed the next day between Kevin and my dad. They had just grown so close in Idaho.  HAHA okay lets be serious the tears were all shed between my mom and I. It was a hard to say goodbye to two of my best friends, but don't worry we talk everyday (whether they want to or not). We have spent months away from each other while I lived in Germany but its possible that it will be longer then months before I see them again. But lets be honest I started planning a trip to get them back here asap and they are coming this weekend to visit so it was only a month and a half. 

Kevin and i spent the next couple weeks before school started exploring the city and area and putting the apartment together. I admit I was a little gung-ho about putting the house together. And Kevin looked like this for hours and hours as I made him help put everything together and up on the wall. 

Kevin noticed that I was really focused on getting everything done, and asked me to sit down and relax for a bit.  It is possible I just had a break down and cried about how it did not feel like home to me and I wanted to be home. So I was hoping that maybe once I got everything up I would feel more at home -Homesickness anybody?- Anyways we did finally get it all up and I was right it did help a lot. Lets be honest it is still not quite home but it is getting there more and more each day. Our apartment is bigger then our one in Rexburg which means we have lots of storage which is good due to all our my stuff. . We love the area and the complex and our only complaint is the road traffic (the apartment was cheaper, then other ones on the complex because it was by a road), it is not too bad though so we can't complain too much. 

Our Front entry

This was another one of my projects in Idaho

WASHER AND DRYER! I am just a little excited to have one in my apartment instead of having to take it to mom and dads to do every week. 

Spare bathroom. Which I love until i have to clean and realize I have another bathroom to clean. Yuck! 

Closet #1 in our room

Master Bath

Master Shower

Closet # 2

Heading into our bedroom

Closet # 3 (Yes I have 2 closets and Kevin has 1)

Our room

The fan that saved us during the 100' degree weather (I thought Oregon was supposed to be cold and rainy)

Our bed with our new quilt and decorations

See my blanket matches great. Thanks Mom! 

Our stars (so as I am putting these up Kevin asked "Have you ever lived anywhere where you did not have stars on your ceiling" "Of course not, and a blame my mother who got me addicted to them" And then he teased me for the next 10 minutes. However last night on Family feud the question was "What is something you put above your bed". There was only one answer left and I knew it "STARS". Kevin didn't believe me but I was so right. I would have won that round! See stars are beneficial) 

Spare bedroom (This is Kevin's corner)

This is my corner

Lots of storage

Kitchen

More Kitchen :)

My favorite part! Our Pantry

Dining room

Living room (Yes the lady is having a baby on the tv ha)

Our comfy new chairs

View from the living room

View from the Kitchen

Patio and storage room

So I hope you enjoyed your tour of our home, and you are all welcome to come visit! 

The end of life as we know it -round 2-

A little over a year ago I wrote a post about The end of life as we know it . Graduating was a big step for us and yes it brought about lots of change and lots of time (no school=no homework=more time), Although for me I often still felt like I had homework because I was planning lessons. Nonetheless we embraced the change and grew to love our new life.

Now its time for another The end of life as we know it. Soon I will be unemployed so no work,  we will be no longer living in Idaho so no more Idaho, we will moving away from my family so no more family dinners at Mom's every Sunday, Kevin will be starting dental school so no more free time for him, I will be looking for a job so its back to the drawing board for me, and we will be living in Portland so a whole new adventure for both of us. But like I said before we have done it before and we can do it again. We jumped into marriage, we jumped into adulthood, and now we get to jump into graduate school TOGETHER, and I wouldn't want it any other way.So here is to a great 2 years of marriage in Idaho and to many more great years in Oregon!  

Projects

While in Idaho I decided to do some projects to keep me occupied. The first project was to finish the quilt I started back in October. I never realized how much work a quilt is and being a little ADHD I never could manage to sit there long enough to completely finish it. Finally with my moms help (ALOT) and her motivation I/we/ okay I admit it my mom finally got it finished :) Yes, it is very bright and a little crazy but it is very cute and matches our bedroom decor great.

This is the picture we have in our room that it was made to match 

My next project was a little bookshelf I inherited from school. It was in the throw away pile, it was a cream color but had many scratches and other paint marks on it. I got it out hoping that maybe with a little paint job I could recover it and use it by my desk. IT worked great for me. However the little paint job I gave it was horrible (better then before but still not good). I spray painted it quickly blue. And often had people tell me it needed a paint job. You can see it in the left corner of this picture. The blue shelf with the purple container and books on it. Yes the room was a mess I was packing up. 

So this time around I got actual paint and a sander and went to work. Kevin and I sanded it down and then added 3 layers of gray paint to it. I then glued and modge podged scrapbook paper to the back of it. For some reason it looks shiny in the pictures but the paper is not shiny at all. In the end I thought it turned out really cute and was happy with the finished project. It was a great save from the trash bin.