Next month will mark three years of living in the Troutdale apartment. It seems like yesterday we moved in, but it also feels like a million years.
Three years ago, I wrote about moving to the apartment and the craziness our life felt back then: newly married and excited to build a home. I vividly remember Moving Day... packing the U-Haul. My muscles sore, and Dave cranky at me for shoving boxes in the truck disorganized. I remember driving the U-Haul to our apartment and thinking that my whole home was in that truck. I remember un-loading the truck with some amazing friends of Dave (heroes!) and taking them to a Chinese buffet afterward to say thanks. Oh, and it rained the whole time. The whole flippin' time. We were soaked.
Next month we are moving again. The actual date, we don't really know yet except it will be in October and we will need help. And it better not rain.
We will say good-bye to Troutdale, my favorite grocery store and gas station, to our favorite best-ever Chinese restaurant (where, I swear, the lady has a crush on Dave) and to Kings Meadows apartments. We will say a huge hello to a new home on the outskirts of Portland. On a dead-end street technically in Lents (but close enough to Happy Valley to feel a little snobby), we will be renting a home. It's not much bigger than our apartment (and Dave and I will share a bathroom - oh the horrors!) but its a house with a yard. And we couldn't be more excited. Dave will have a man-cave. I've been obsessed with pinterest and ideas to decorate the guest room, the kitchen, the master, oh, about everything.
The Mt. Scott House is pretty close to being smack dab in the middle of the two churches Dave and I serve with... which is great. Already, I am meeting people who will be my new neighbors. People I attend church with! People I like!
Oh yeah, and we are getting another black-and-white cat named Pepe. Pray that Elwood will like him and not want to eat him or bat him around like a new toy.
So there it is. The Unglert's are on the move. And we are getting another cat. Whew!
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