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!

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...