Preparing To Move

Eddie and I are making a big change and moving to Oregon! We will be about 20 minutes outside of downtown Portland. Eddie has wanted to live up north before we even met, and almost moved there before starting Bible college in Murrieta. The Lord closed the door on the move though so he attended Bible college, graduated, and has been working there for the last 7 1/2 years. He has been involved and grown in ministry here and he met his wonderful wife here ;). It's been a really good season here in Murrieta but the desire to live in the North has never quite left. Since we've been married we've visited 3 times, he's visited more than that before we were married (in fact the 1st New Year's after we met he celebrated in Washington). Though the desire to live up there has been there we didn't feel the call until about a year ago. We knew God was doing something and growing our yearning to move up North but we stayed faithful to what He had us doing here. We knew we wouldn't always be a part of Calvary Chapel Canyon Hills, the church that meant so much to both of us. It's been hard saying goodbye to people from the church and friends from the college the last couple of weeks, and leaving a work family I loved.

Last time together with all these women who have blessed me during our time at CCCH:

One of the nights of "goodbyes" to the people from the college

My Allstate Family goodbye dinner. It was the first time Eddie met my boss & his wife and they were both sad it took so long to meet!

When Eddie was extended an offer to come be a part of a church in Milwaukie, OR we were really excited but still took a long time to pray and wait on the Lord to make sure this was His calling and not our desires only. God kept confirming the calling through scriptures & signs and ever since we decided, yes, we were moving, He has faithfully put everything into place and provided immensely. Within a week of making the decision I got an amazing job in Portland (with only a phone interview and they've been waiting for me for 3 months!). God provided the finances for the move through the church in Oregon, a place to stay for the first few weeks with our friends up there, and support from family and the people close to us here.

So now the time has come, in the last few months we've been making preparations for the big move and tonight we are days from making the drive up. Yesterday we moved out of our little condo in Murrieta-fitting as much as possible into our u-pod and cars, throwing/giving away the things that wouldn't fit.

We had a few days between moving out of the condo and traveling so the Bible college blessed us with a free room for a couple nights. Not only is the room free but the grounds can't be more beautiful. 

Lady is LOVING having this much outdoors to explore

Our view from the room:

That's all on the move for now, we're enjoying a time of relaxing after the chaos of packing and cleaning. Tomorrow (Sunday) we will be picking up our friends from the airport who will drive up with us and Monday we'll be going to Disneyland courtesy of their relative that works there! How awesome is that! :D