Ah a whole year has gone by!

So I started my last post with it has been awhile since my last post, but boy it really has been a long time since my last post! Almost a year! A ton has happened in the last year.
We decided last summer to move back to Eugene, which we did the last weekend of July. We loved the Portland area but missed our family and friends so much. We are glad that we had made the move to Portland and had that life experience, but we are happy to be back in Eugene. We aren't living in our house yet but by the end of this year we should be moved back in, our tenants have a lease through the end of November.
The reason we moved back was Francisco accepted a position with the University of Oregon, which so far he is loving and he really loves the stability. The stability felt amazing when shortly after we moved back the company Francisco was working for in Portland closed it's doors. We felt thankful, but were sad for the people that no longer had a job. I was fortunate to walk back into my same job that I had before leaving. I am thankful for that, because I love the people I work with.
We are loving settling back in and making plans for the house that we will implement when we move back in and loving getting to watch our niece and nephew grow. We can't believe that we are already at 2.5 years of marriage it's going by so fast!
Hopefully I will get around to posting more often I enjoy having a little chronicle of our life together!

Hi all!

It's been awhile so I just thought I would update our blog! So this last spring we joined a softball team, The Cadillacs, and we are now in summer season! We don't win very many but we have a ton of fun! You should come cheer us on some time!
Right now we are looking forward to a long weekend this coming week! We have a wedding of one of Francisco's high school friends and we are going to help get ready for our nephew's 1st birthday!
We can hardly believe how much or Niece and Nephew's have grown, it's amazing getting to be there aunt and uncle! Acasha is going to be an 8th grader next year, Jesse is going to be a Senior, still can't believe that one, and Joseph is going to be a year old in two weeks! We love them so much have a blast with them!
As of now there isn't much more to report!

Winter Time

So we finally have settled in to Portland a little more! We aren't 100% sure that we are urban-its but we are liking the area! I am finally totally on my own at work which is nice to not have to be training anymore and after 4 more months I won't be on new employee probation anymore. Francisco is still loving his 4 block walk to work! It's been hard adjusting to living in an apartment again, especially when twice in one week the fire alarm went off, once at 4:45am yes I said AM and another at 11:45pm thankfully both times on weekends! We have been driving around a lot getting to know our new city and surrounding suburbs, which has been fun. Looking a little back now, we had 2 Christmas' this year, the Gray's went to San Diego so a couple of weeks before we had a Christmas with them, it was nice and calm and we had some good family time with them! On Christmas eve we headed down to Lebanon and stayed with mom and John until Christmas day! Christmas day there was me and Francisco, mom and John, Grandpa, Josh and Amber joined us once she got off work! It probably was one of the nicest Christmas's that I have had in a long time, we played a very long game of Uno which Gpa beat us all, and Josh gave Gpa a gift that I think he will cherish for every... it was the leg lamp from the movie A Christmas story! My Gpa absolutely loved it, laughing so hard, making crude jokes, and never putting it down even when he fell asleep! It was great! New Years we spent with our best friends! Robyn and Isaiah hosted everyone in their new place, and we all had a blast ringing in 2010! For Valentines weekend Francisco and I took a cooking class! We learned a lot about making a steak dinner and we are excited to try out the recipes on others! So what else is to come in the coming months... soon my best girlfriends, Robyn, Brooke and Michele are going to be coming for a girls weekend which should be a blast! The second weekend in March we are going camping with Francisco's family to celebrate our niece Acasha's 13th birthday!! We can't beileve she is going to be a teenager!! And in April we are looking forward to Francisco's Aunt Deb coming for a visit! So stay tuned our lives are going to be continuing to stay on a busy pace, which I love!!
Peace,
Heather
The picture is of Mt Hood, from the tram stop at the top of OHSU

Francisco's Birthday!

We just celebrated Francisco's 26th birthday! On his birthday we took the street car and went to dinner and a movie! We saw Men Who Stare at Goats, pretty funny but we both agreed we thought it was going to be better. Today my mom took us out to breakfast at the Byways Cafe which was very yummy then the three of us walked around the neighborhood a little! In the afternoon Francisco's parents, sister, grandma, and niece and nephew also joined us for dinner! We all went to the very busy Cheesecake Factory! After we ate our yummy food, we all had a piece of cheesecake and watched Francisco get a little embarrassed being sung to by the wait staff! Overall I think he had a pretty good birthday!

Our New Home is Portland!

So we are finally moved in, though not completly unpacked! We are working on that, but it's hard when you don't have a couch yet and your kitchen is maybe 1/4 the size we moved from, but it will happen it's just going to take creativity! I haven't gotten to be home very much this first week as I had to finish up work in Eugene. Thankfully I was able to get a job fast here in Portland working for Oregon Health Sciences University or OHSU as most know it, as an office assistant in the Center for Womens Health. I am very excited about it and should be starting sometime next week, they just have to make sure I'm not some hardend criminal who does drungs! Francisco is loving his short 10min walking commute to work, it could be a little warmer but it is nice when you can walk home for lunch! He has been doing lots to get our address changed on everything under the sun and getting the esscentials set up like cable and internet! Now that the headache of the move is behind us we are looking forward to having the chance to settle into our new suroundings and explore! Last night Dec 4th, Francisco's b-day by the way, we took the street car to the movies, I thought it was awesome! We look forward to more fun times here in our new home town or Portland, and I am serious come see us!

New Car

So since we are down sizing when we move to Portland and Francisco will only be 3 blocks from his office, we traded in both of our cars for 1 new one! We got a Volkswagen Passat, wagon! I love it! I am keeping up the tradition of Volkswagen in my family, it may not be a bug but they still appreciate it! My favorite feature is the heated seats, they are very nice!

1 Year Anniversary!

So we made it! One year down so very many more to go! It has been a crazy busy, emotionally trying, filled with tears and laughter kind of year with my husband! We now understand why people say that your first year of marriage is the most difficult! But though we may have been put through some tests we passed them all, coming out stronger and more connected.
We started our 1st year together with a beautiful wedding, that we had a blast at celebrating our vows and then we went on an awesome honeymoon in San Francisco, which was a wonderful time of just being together! After we got back we were thrown straight into a crazy year!
Francisco had to have emergency surgery to have his appedix out at the begining of the year, we traveled down to San Diego, I got sick all with in a few months. At the begining of the summer we lost my grandma, and I couldn't imagine not having my new husband by side to help support me and my family through that most difficult time! After we recovered a little from that we focused on recovering from the news of being moved to Portland! We now have become excited to move, but you really didn't want to see how stressed it made us when we first found out! We then got to take a fun trip to Vegas with our great friends Brooke and Andy! It was an awesome week and great to get out of town for awhile!
There was more but not worth mentioning now! We ended our first year with a nice weekend of just the two of us and 1 very cold night of camping on the coast, we only stayed one night because it was so cold at night, and dinner and movie! It was great to have my husband all to myself for a whole weekend!
We are looking forward to our married life ahead. We are surviving marriage and the obsticals life trys to put in the way, and are looking forward to facing more of life's chalanges together! We are starting our second year together with an eventual move to Portland and what happens next we shall see!
Much Peace,
Heather