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

A Wonderful Weekend in September!

So I know this one is late in posting but I am playing some catch up! Lots has been going on, busy, busy, busy!
Anywho! The weekend of September 19th, my brothers birthday by the way, my brother and I drove our Grandpa up to Seattle! We met up with our cousins, just missing 3 of us, and took our Gpa to a Mariners vs Yankee game! It was so much fun! The game didn't go in the Mariners favor and it may have been freezing cold, but we all had a blast and it was great for us to get to spen time together and with our Gpa like that!
On our drive back to Oregon, we made an unexpected stop... it went like this.
Heather- "Hey, Josh have you ever made it to the Air museume yet?"
Josh- "No, but I have wanted to go every time I am up here!
Josh looks in back seat...
Josh- "Hey Grandpa would you want to go to the Air Museume?"
Gpa- "I'm just along for the ride!"
Exit approaching very fast on right.
Josh vers off and we go!
Now if you have ever gone to a museume with my brother you know that you are not leaving until he has seen everything, including the items in the gift shop! I didn't mind though, it was so much fun to go there with my brother and Gpa! Gpa showed us every plane that he had worked on during the war and told us soooooo many awesome stories!
I cherish every moment I get with my family especially my Gpa! He means so much to me and alway has and always will!

The pictures at the top are of Gpa with all of his grandsons (Josh, Ian and Jeremy) and Gpa looking great at the game. Marissa, Carl and Leslie (Carl and Leslie are the sig others of Marisa and Ian) also were there!

New adventure for the Grays!

So as many of you already know, we are going to be moving to Portland! We found out a couple of months ago that the company that Francisco works for, Garage Games, is relocating from Eugene to both Portland, OR and Las Vegas, NV. Thankfully his section of the company is going to Portland! At first it was a HUGE shock to the system, but as things have settled down a bit we have been looking at this as an awesome opportunity to try a new place to live and hey why not, right?
We have decided to try and rent our house out and then become renters ourselves in Portland! We are looking for places downtown and have found a couple of great options, do we go funky and modern or old and eclectic? Lots of choices! And yes if you are thinking it, we will have an area for guests to stay, it may be a pull out couch but if you need a place to crash to catch a plane or are going to a concert, or you just want to go shopping in downtown with me, guests are welcome!
So it's another thing to add to our first year of marriage that will ultimately allow us to grow in so many ways, and I am looking forward to stepping into a new adventure with my husband!
Wish us luck!

Peace always,
Heather

Labor Day Weekend

So we had a very busy Labor Day weekend, traveling yet again! Francisco headed to Seattle for PAX, a gaming convention that he has always wanted to attend and got the opportunity to go with the company he works for! He had a blast and came home with lots of swag (t-shirts and what nots). I headed to the Portland area to visit my dad. We explored Portland and did lots philosophizing about the way the world should be! Josh, Amber and Skittles came for the weekend also, it was fun catching up with everyone! On Labor Day Monday Francisco and I had dinner with his sister Jennifer! I showed Acasha how to make one of her uncles favorite dishes, I love spending time with her like that! I also got to get in some really good snuggle time with Little Joe! Over all it was a wonderful weekend and we are glad to be home together again! Sophie would like us to not leave for a very long time, she hasn't let us forget that we have not been home! In the coming weeks I am looking forward to going to a baseball game up in Seattle which should be fun! Francisco has decided to stay home and relax, too much traveling going on for him right now, Sophie is happy about that! Lots of birthdays are coming up including my own, so looking forward to doing a lot of celebrating! Peace, Heather

Vegas Baby

So we went to Las Vegas, or as my mom calls it "Lost Wages!" We went we are very good friends Brooke and Andy, they invited us to go with them! We spent a week there, which we all decided is probably a little too long to stay there! It was a whirlwind week we did so many things, we saw shows, gambled, walked and walked the strip, saw the Hoover Dam, jet skied on lake Mead, went to Fremont St, saw Dolphins at the Mirage, hung out with the celebs at Madame T's and generally just had a great time!The Saturday we were there was Andy's 32nd birthday so we went to the Tournament of Kings dinner show at Excalibur, it was a ton of fun and the boys yelled and hollered the whole time! Hazah! Brooke and I went out dancing at Paris which was fun! On Sunday we saw the Cirque show Zumanity, an erotic version of Cirque! It was funny, beautiful and fun! On Tuesday we saw the Blueman Group, which was hilariously fun! Great music and comedy! Francisco was tagged on the nose by one of them! Vegas was fun but I am glad to be home!

Here we go!

So I have decided to create a blog! I think it will be about me and my family, what we are up to and the what nots, plus I will post things that I have found that are of interest to me! I know that I love to take peeks into other peoples lives and thoughts so I thought I would jump on too. I don't know how often I will post so check when ever and there might be something new! I know the address is Heather and Francisco, but it will probably all come from me, just some things if not a lot will invovle him! ~Heather