A few weeks ago we redid Richards office to reflect more of his style : ) Which in this case is the Phoenix Suns.
An orange wall, a purple wall and two black walls. It was fun painting such bold colors, it's not every day you paint a room purple, orange and black. Now it definitely looks more like Richard.
Nothing that exciting has been going on in our lives lately, that's why I haven't posted in over a month. Our lives pretty much have been extremely busy with church, youth, and work. We're tying to figure out how to balance our days so that we have time to ourselves to just do nothing (one of my favorite things to do).
We started small groups in homes with the youth on Wednesday nights. It has been going great and they really seem to like it. We've been doing these video series that talk about things that high schoolers deal with on a day to day basis. We've also started a small group study with a few friends of ours too, which has been a lot of fun!
Richard has been extremely busy. He seems to always have something to do or finish at church. He's been planning studies, meetings, retreats, church service... and lots more. We've also been trying to go to some of the many sporting events that some of our youth are in like football and volleyball games. Those are always a lot of fun.
I have been working full time in the infant room at the preschool I work at. It has it's good days and it's bad days, like every other job. Some of the kids are adorable and one (my favorite) just moved up to the next class and out of mine, I was sad to see her go : ( Here is a picture of the room I have been spending the majority of my time in throughout the week. It's in an old Catholic school and the room has a lot of character.
And here are a few of the babies that spend much of their days with me : )
It's definitely beginning to feel like fall in Vancouver. There has been a chill in the air the past couple weeks and it makes me excited for the fall smells and colors. Autumn is the best season! Maybe this year I can really enjoy it since last year I was too focused on moving and being away from my family. Soon it will be Halloween!
Last weekend, Richard and I went to Long Beach, WA to celebrate our one year anniversary. I can't believe it's been one year! We stayed at a friends grandparents cabin and had a lot of fun. All day Saturday we hung out in downtown Long Beach. We ate breakfast at a little diner, walked the boardwalk, went put-putting, walked through the shops, made sure to get some fudge and snickerdoodles and ate some yummy seafood for dinner. It was a really relaxing weekend and I was happy to spend it with the love of my life : )
This is the cabin we stayed in.
There was this really large frying pan for people to take pictures by, (why? I have no idea).
Put-Putting. Richard got a hole in one on one of the holes!
I like taking pictures of pretty flowers : )
The beach at dusk.
We had been looking forward to eating the top of our wedding cake from a year ago. It had been through some traveling and didn't look to great, but it still tasted like the best wedding cake ever!
Since we moved to WA just a couple weeks after we were married, that means we've been here for about a year too. In fact, we just signed another year lease at our apartment, that means we'll be here for at least two years : ) When I look back on this past year, in some ways it seems it went really slow, but then I think about all that we have done and it seems like a lot for one year. Even though this past year has been full of changes and hard on us both, I think we have grown so much individually and as a couple. It's weird and funny how God works in ways you don't expect, you just always have to be ready and open for what He throws your way.
Here we are at OHSU just before dropping Danny off for his interview, it was a beautiful view of downtown Portland.
On Friday night, we had a Hoe Down with the middle and high schoolers, so they got to tag along with us to it.
The square dancing was probably the best part of the night.
On Saturday we took them to downtown Portland and walked around. We showed them 23rd St., Powell's Bookstore and got some coffee at Stumptown. It actually started pouring down rain while we were on 23rd.
This was on our drive up to Seattle, I had never been there before so it was pretty cool to see.
Here we are walking around the University of Washington campus. We ate dinner at this cute cafe and I had some amazing salmon pasta. My mom recommended getting salmon in Seattle and I'm glad I did.
