Welcome to Oregon!!!

Moving day finally came! We got a little nervous when the movers didn't show up on the scheduled day. Come to find out...they really were never scheduled...Picture Leah's face turning white with horror...Lucky for the US Gov't they were able to find someone to come the next day who showed up right on time. They flew through the house like a whirlwind. Alyssa fell in love with Bob, an older gentleman who packed the kitchen with precision might I add. The next day more movers came to load the truck, and after a not-so-fun goodbye to our best friends, we were off to Oregon.















We were so excited to make it to Oregon...It was a beautiful ride along the Columbia River...I took a lot of the same pictures...hee, hee! It was a typical day, from what we have experienced, overcast and humid in the morning; sunny and blazing hot in the afternoon.






We were introduced to Portland Traffic...Didn't know that we would be going through Downtown during rush-hour traffic...Poor Garrett had to pee so bad. We kept telling him, "Just 5 more minutes." It took a little longer than that...the poor kid barely made it. We were so afraid to get off of the Mapquest route...We later purchased a TomTom GPS and boy, do we love our Tommy Boy!









We were especially happy to see some familiar faces when we arrived in Portland, Uncle Pete, Aunt Keri, and Jack. Pete introduced us to MAX the public transit train system. We rode into downtown, a.k.a. PDX. We saw A LOT of interesting things...And, ate lunch from the food carts...It was cheap and sooooooo delicious!! We walked through the Rose Festival Goings-on, and even got a show from a silver man...It reminded me of being on the plaza in Portugal. We were hoping to tour the Navy boats....sorry, I don't know what the proper name is...But, they only had the Coast Guard set-up. The Waterfront was awesome...We are living on the west side of the Willamette River...We walked and walked all over Downtown...That night I bought a sit and stand stroller for the little guys! Thanks, Keri and Pete, for a memorable day in Portland!









We visited the Portland LDS Temple. The grounds are amazing...temple flowers are always perfect, but this was like an enchanted forest garden with fountains and paths and a reflecting pool and huge trees. Now that we know our way around a little better, it's fun to spot the temple spires above the trees from the freeway.


















The kids love this park...






This was our first trip to the ocean. We went to Cannon Beach. It was beautiful! But, it was sooooo windy and cold! The kids didn't care...Alyssa ran and ran and ran; Garrett wanted to make a sand castle; and Wyatt was searching for shark teeth...he was not successful.