Welcome to Oregon!!

We are officially living in Portland. We ran into a few minor bumps along the way... but we made it and are LOVING it!!!

Wednesday evening Dallin's family arrived in Portland. It was dad's birthday so after going out for dinner we celebrated at our ex-apartment with a delicious oreo cake that Dallin and I had made. We spent the next few days packing, eating off paper plates, visiting the Bean Museum, and dress shopping with Elayna. It was a great way to finish off our time in Provo.

Saturday morning Provo gave us a going away present... SNOW!! Yes. The perfect present for packing up a Uhaul.

We drove all day Saturday...
with a few stops at Krispy Kreme and Cafe Rio...

until we arrived in Kennewick. My family waited to eat dinner until Dallin and I arrived at home and could enjoy the French Dip sandwiches with them. (it was only 10:30pm when we got there....)

The next morning we all left for Portland. "We all" being me, Dallin, Mom and Dad Heath, Branden, Danielle, Trevor and Dakota. It was a party! and the drive was great! We stopped at Multnomah Falls to eat lunch and ended up hiking the 1.5 miles to the top of the falls.

When we were back at the bottom, we realized that both Dallin and I had a missed call on our phones from the apartment complex. They informed us that they close at 5pm and were wondering if we were going to make it. Well... it was 4:30 and we were at least an hour from Portland.... in other words there was NO way we were making it by 5pm. Luckily we convinced our manager to stay a little late and we quickly got in the car and on the road.

We found our complex without a problem and got there right before 6pm. We signed some papers and had dad give them a check because we had no idea where we had packed our check book (they don't accept third-party checks but would just hold dad's until we found our check book... we made quite a first impression didn't we?!) After the legal stuff was done we got to check out our new home.. and then started moving all of our stuff in. Thank goodness for all the extra hands!!! It made the job MUCH quicker!

Dallin started his internship with Intel on Monday, and my family left that afternoon. Things have been going well so far. Dallin is liking his work with Intel and I'm breaking in the fitness center and unpacking/organizing our new home. It's so nice being able to relax and not have to worry about school.

Sorry we don't have many pictures... there will be more to come. I accidentally left the camera on the parents couch back in Kennewick :( so once I get it back I will be posting more pictures!!

With love from Portland!!