Our new home!

It's so hard to take pictures of rooms, but we did our best to capture some of the inside of our home. The next few pictures show our kitchen, part of our living room, part of our office, and part of our master bedroom (not all the frames are up in there yet). It is a very cozy and spacious home, and we are loving it! Notice that Jeremiah's reading chair is now in the master bedroom - it's working out perfectly, as he loves to read and fall asleep in it. It's easier for him to get to the bed from there when I wake him up then it is for him to go from the living room (it's old residence) upstairs to the bedroom!

Our new home!

Here is our new home! It is a two-story apartment with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. It is really lovely, and we have loved making it our own!




















This is the view from our front door - straight ahead is the pool (seen in the far-back of the picture). It is so peaceful here and quiet. (and very hot - the temperature was 107 degrees the other day!)














This is another view of the apartment community - straight ahead is the fitness center, so we can stay in shape!
















And for those people who said that we are living in the middle of nowhere, that's a lie! We found the Costco....

Moving Day

These pictures capture a bit of what moving day was like! It was so strange to pack up our whole home again - we had just starting moving things in during late September! It hasn't even been a year! But, we found wonderful tenants to rent our gorgeous La Habra home, so once again God has been incredibly faithful!






























The moving company was SO fast. Our stuff took up their entire truck! They took really good care of all of our stuff - nothing came broken...though we are wondering what happened to one of the floor-length mirrors - we saw them pack it, but it has gone mysteriously missing...







Now the home looks just the way we found it when we first saw it. How strange. We first saw it in July last year. But all of that furniture has now been happily transferred to our new beautiful home in Porterville... keep reading!

Going Away Party

On July 5, the day before we moved to Porterville, Jeremiah's mother and Grandmother hosted a going-away-party for us! We had so much fun, and we feel so blessed to be loved so much by all of our family members!

4th of July

We all spent 4th of July at Melissa's parents' home, and Jeremiah's mom came over too. After a delicious barbecue, we sat outside and played Yahtzee. Jeremiah's mom won BIG time!



















Jeremiah and his mom are concentrating very hard on the game....













Even Kami came out to join us. And he's even smiling for the picture! (well, he's looking at the camera...)















And to make the evening perfect, our lizard came back!!! This brings us back to how Melissa and Jeremiah met...a lizard was in the garage of Melissa's parent's home, and Melissa's mom frantically called Jeremiah over to help... and the rest is history...go to this website for more details: http://registry.weddingchannel.com/wedding_websites/PersonalWebsite.action?view=wp&occ=573099405&st=wc

Angels Game

Jeremiah's mom got four free tickets to the Angels Game from one of her vendors. The game, held on July 3, 2009, had the Angels playing against the Baltimore Orioles. Well, Melissa had always wanted to take her parents to an Angels game, and especially to a game where they could watch their true home team play! So, Jeremiah's mom surprised us and gave up her seat and Charlene's seat to Melissa's mom and dad, and everyone was really excited! Melissa's mom and dad got completely into the spirit of things - they're even
wearing a "first Angel's game" sticker!

These were the amazing seats that we had - we were able to see EVERYTHING really close.











Turns out the Orioles won that night! Now, we were afraid that Melissa's mother was going to anger the drunken men surrounding us because everytime the Orioles scored a point, she cheered while they seemed ready for murder. :) Jeremiah took this picture during the fourth inning to show just how well the Orioles did that evening compared to the Angels... yes, the Angels did eventually get on the board, but not for a long time! Go Orioles! (Even Vladimir Guerrero seems upset here at the Angels loss that evening...)


And for the final touch to an already wonderful evening, we got to watch Friday Night fireworks at the Angel's Stadium. The fireworks were so good that we decided not to watch them the following night.

This was a perfect way to spend part of our last weekend in Southern California!

Relaxing at the Beach

In the days preceding our move to Porterville, Jeremiah and I found that we were actually quite busy packing up our home, looking for people to rent our condo, and getting all the last minute stuff together for the big move. In the midst of all of that, however, we found time to relax with one another, and we also spent time with family. In the next posts, we will share how we spent our last few days as residents in Southern California. This first blog here displays pictures from Huntington Beach. We decided that since we'll be moving further from the ocean, we might as well enjoy it while nearby... (actually, the trip to the beach took over an hour!!! And all we had to do was go straight down one street - Beach Blvd...and stop at every single red light.... :)

















It was really windy out....













We were eating pretzels, and this bird decided he was hungry for a pretzel too...