Hopefully a house soon!

Yesterday we turned in our application to rent a 3 bdrm, 1 1/2 bath home in Coos Bay, Oregon. It is cute and a cozy little victorian that is perfect for us right now and although not huge will be way more room then we are used to at all. We should know hopefully by Friday if we're approved once background checks, and reference checks are complete. We really want to have the keys by this weekend so we can move in then but we are trying to be as patient as possible. I'll post more information about this house once we know we have it for sure because we're trying not to get to excited until we have it for sure!

I'm still looking for a job, and just had an interview on Friday but I haven't heard back yet!

My Long Hiatus (spell check please!)

I am so sorry that this is not updated as much as we both would like. Right now we don't have our own place, so we don't have internet at all. So I've been coming to a coffee shop with an internet connection to check all my basics but unfortunately there is never enough time to blog. Also, my laptop broke and I've been having to use Carter's which stinks because I don't have any pictures on this thing and I'm still daily trying to figure out how to use it.



A little update from us though...Carter is enjoying his job and is doing great at it so far. He is still in the getting to know the youth stage and has been loving getting to have his own office. On a down side I cannot find a job to save my life. There really isn't too much available here and I've already filled out applications for almost everything! Now I'm just waiting to get a phone call back for somebody to tell me to come in and interview. It really is very frustrating because the days are long when you don't have something to do, and we can't rent our own place until I have a job so we are just waiting on me...well waiting on the people to call me.

So, please pray that I find a job that pays decently well and that we find the house that will best fit our needs here. I hope you all are doing well!

Carter's Brother is Married

Two days after we arrived in oregon, we packed up our newly emptied suitcases and traveled to Tacoma, Wa. The special occasion was Carter's brothers wedding to Sarah (who I just love!) and has been much anticipated since this summer. The wedding went smoothly (although the unity candle was forgotten about) and all was beautiful. I loved her dress and I know that Clayton was in awe over how gourgeous she was that day. We are proud of both of them and can't wait for them to come visit us!!

Carter's dad praying during the ceremony

Christmas at the Russ' with the Davis'

Christmas at my Yuba City house is usually just a small ordeal with maybe my grandparents coming down and a family invited over for the Christmas meal, but this year we were going to have a houseful and I was excited, especially since I wasn’t home for last Christmas. To top off having my grandparents come, and my aunt and uncle, Carter’s family was now going to spend Christmas with us because of the whole moving ordeal. Christmas morning rolled around and as everybody came it was easy for me to see why I love Christmas so much, it is not only exciting because of the presents, but I just LOVE having so much family around and spending time with the people close to us. For Christmas dinner we had Roast Beef which my dad cooked on the bbq after marinating for 3 days, and mashed potatoes, and gravy, and rolls, and fruit salad. And, of course yummy pies for dessert!! Here are some pictures of Christmas, and a great little video for you to enjoy of our dog Kozmo who loves to open Christmas presents, but this year we forgot to get him some so he opened one of my sisters with her, and then thought it was his and was slobbering all over it…it was too funny!! I hope you and your families had a great holiday season as well!!

Below are a couple pictures from us trying to take a good picture on Christmas, Carter was not cooperating so he ended up having to take about 50 more then the original if he had just been a good sport!

Sister, Mom, Nanny, Aunt, Mema

Carter Checking out a present

The Moving Adventure as Told by Amber

So for those who are wondering how our trip from Oklahoma to Oregon went all I can say is bad luck after bad luck. I was fortunate enough to be able to fly home to California Saturday the 20th in the evening but I was really hoping that the moving truck (who was going to load all our stuff and drive it to Oregon without us having to worry about it) would have been there by then. Unfortunately it wasn’t but it was only 4:00 and we decided that I just needed to go. My plane left a few hours late and as of 7:00 the moving truck still wasn’t there. After a midst of panic and trying to get a hold of the office of the company, all to no avail I decided to board the plane. On Sunday, Carter and his Dad, mom, and brother who were all down for graduation went to church and then back to the apartment to wait once more for the moving truck. The truck NEVER showed up and we couldn’t get a hold of them and they sure as heck never called us. So at about 3:00 Sunday afternoon they made the executive decision to rent and load a U-Haul but they wouldn’t leave until they called the moving company office at 7:00am on Monday. So at this point they are a full day behind schedule of travel, and now Carter’s Dad has to stay behind to help drive a vehicle (this was the plan for Carter’s brother the whole time). So, Carter’s mom goes to the airport to fly home to Seattle but when she gets to Denver airport around 10:00pm she finds out that the Seattle airport is closed because of snow until the day after Christmas but she can fly back to OKC the next day, standby, but her flight won’t get in until 1:00pm. The problem with this is that the boys were going to leave at 7:00am. So after another delay they finally leave OKC on Monday afternoon when I had originally been expecting them to pull into my driveway. Now, not only is it a fight against weather (which is bad everywhere they need to be driving) but they are trying to make it to my house by Christmas. Because of the lovely weather in flagstaff they had to drive 5 hours out of the way to avoid bad storms and icy dangerous weather…but they eventually made it to my house on Christmas Eve at about 9:00pm, 3 days later. So after a lot of worrying, tons of stress, and all that jazz they made it and all was well after all.