Self Pity???

Well As I was looking back at my other post and thinking about where our life have taken us recently I have felt a little self pity... No Wacey and I are NOT getting divorced (even thought I can see how it looked with Wacey In Oregon and me here), and yes Wacey just drove into Utah with a Penske truck with all of our stuff (I did intend on going back to Oregon after Christmas). I did not hate Oregon, I really think I could have gotten used to it in different circumstances... I loved our Ward and I meet some really good friends, Addey and Reece really loved Dance and Gymnastics, and I was learning a lot about myself and how to drive in the city (thank you Garmin). But there were also things that just did not work in our favor... Like not getting paid, Kinda a big thing when you move for a job. (See I think I had reasons for not enjoying Oregon quite as much as I should have)

Self Pity, oh I had a lot of that and I still find myself drowning in it some times when I am trying to figure out why it felt like going to Oregon was the right thing to do and what is next for us. But then I think about what happened in the few months we have been gone and even though I still have no idea why things happen the way they do, I am content. Seeing Wacey drive up after being gone for 2 weeks, well I think I am the happiest person today. I have my husband and my girls so what else can you ask for?? (Well maybe a job that will pay)

And NO we do not need donations. Sorry No pictures but all our stuff is still in the penske truck until we figure out our lives. I guess we thought we had our life all figured out but now we know our Journey is just beginning...

It is a small world...

I posted this story on a website my family has (note to the Bisel's remember to go to our our David A. Bisel blog!! And if you have anything to post do it.)

I thought I would also post it on here for everyone else to see! It is amazing how you meet people you never expect to, in the most unexpected places.

( This is one of those take it yourself Pictures)

This is BeauDee Bisel Richards, I am DeLoy Bisel, Jr.'s daughter and I have a story I would like to share with all of you. I love Woodland which is where I have lived, and I did not want to leave Woodland. But after talking Wacey, my husband, out of not leaving to move to Oregon once...even I could not pass up the offer the new job was giving to us. So I hesitantly left my family and my beautiful valley of Woodland that I love. We moved to Oregon in October and the first week I went to church the lady conducting Relief Society was fun and bubbly!! She asked me to stand and introduce myself and tell where I was from. I was shocked when she said "You moved from Woodland, Utah? I think I have family there we need to talk." Not to many people know were Woodland, Utah is so when she said she had family there I was a little excited!!!

I did not get to talk to her until a few weeks later. I had been having a hard time being away from my family and I trying to adjust to Oregon and our new life here. It had been about 3 weeks and I was homesick and did not know anyone, so when the Relief Society president called to get to know me I was so excited to have a adult conversation and get to know someone from my new surroundings!! While we were at the park the cute bubbly lady in the presidency came to tell me that they had a "mommy and me" for moms and kids at the church that day and I could go get to know some of them and let my girls play. As we were walking down the sidewalk to our cars she reminded me she had family in Woodland and I thought for sure I would know who they are, Woodland is a small town and I know most people there. But when she said "Well my maiden name is Bisel", I about died. I think my reaction was "SHUT UP, my maiden name is Bisel" and then we went on to figure this out! Turns out that she is Susan Bisel Green. I think we decided we are cousin's once removed. I had heard so much about Uncle Rean and I think when I told my dad we were moving to Oregon he told me that Uncle Rean had lived in Oregon. But I never thought about having anyone I would be related to here and in my ward!! It has been great to see Susan every Sunday and know I have family right here. It is a small world after all!!!
This picture is Susan and my girls!! Susan Invited us to come to her house and make turkeys for Thanksgiving!! We had tons of fun thank you Susan!!!

Utah CEO

I am so proud of Wacey... He works so hard and is so dedicated to work and making things better for our family, We moved out here to Oregon because one of Wacey's clients liked him so much they asked him to come and consult their business, He has also been building his business (Bench Creek Consulting) and... HE WAS FEATURED IN "UTAH CEO MAGAZINE" !!!!



If you want to check it out go to (you can register for free to review the artical).

http://www.utahceomagazine.com/article.php?issue=122426430023917&id=247


Way to go BABE!!! I love you

Today

What is the best day- ever??? Today? Not always... Any day I spend time with my girls? Not always... any day that I spend time outdoors? Not always...

My best days are when I am not wishing, wanting, or need to be doing something else. My best days are spent Just living in the NOW.When we moved, my mom gave me a scrapbook page that had this saying on it. Since we have been here I have to get out the page and remind myself it is NOW, and live today. Today it is rainy and dreary here in Oregon and I miss my family TONS. But I have my beautiful girls who keep me going, I have a husband who is working hard and loves me, so with mixed emotions and bad days I will remember, it is NOW... And that is the best day ever!!

Our Halloween

Well I am a little behind on posting our Halloween pictures, but we where off again yesterday exploring so we just did not get to it. Halloween was a little different this year but we still had a good time.Our week started out on Wednesday at our Wards TRUNK OR TREAT. The Young Women and Young Men had put together a Haunted House and lots of fun games. Then we headed out to the Trunk or Treat. I wish I took Pictures of some of the cars that were decorated, some people go all out.Then on Thursday we decorated our Pumpkins. We found these cute Mr. Potato Head things to decorate your pumpkins. We really were going to carve some and do the Mr. pumpkin heads but when Wacey had to work late on Thursday the girls and I cheated and just did the Pirate and a Princess, But I think they turned out cute!!So after 2 days of getting ready the girls were really ready for Halloween. We went to the Harvest Fest that Lake Oswego has in "downtown" Lake Oswego. It was really fun, They had a Halloween street that all the business's had set up a little booth and the kids could get treats. And they were all good treats. They had cracker's and of coarse organic snacks (we are in Oregon) and tooth brushes!! We also went to Play boutique ( that is where we go once a week for play time and Hooked on Phonics) they had crafts and treats and a Chemistry lab!! They also had a lady do face painting and so Addey got the finishing touches on her costume.We finished the night meeting up with Wacey's second cousin who lives here in Oregon and went to the mall. The girls had a lot of fun and WAY to much candy but we had a great time together!!

This is for my brothers!!

I know that my brothers do not look at my blog so maybe this will get there attention!! (Mom If you ever look at my blog get the boys on to see the cars and then maybe show them the pictures of the girls)
I had Wacey go to Target with me and we got a little side tracked with the car dealership across the road. Wacey says he will visit the dealership one day to buy one for himself!! So we discovered the cars and I also discovered a pumpkin patch here that next year we have to visit. I heard some girls talking about Rolloff family farms that is only about 15 miles away from us, so I looked it up online to see if we could go and this is what I found...Have you ever watched Little People, Big world? It is right here in Oregon about 20 minutes away from us!! I have watched the show and thought it would be really cool to see the little village they have set up there and had now idea I would ever live so close, and I missed it by 3 days. Go to the website www.mattroloff.com ~ I live right by it... CRAZY.

Addey has had a hard time trying to decide what she wants to be for Halloween. Hannah Montana or a Skunk. My mom bought a skunk and a baby chick for Halloween last year and Addey had already picked out her Snow White so she wore that last year. This year she really wanted to be the skunk since she did not wear it last year, although Hannah Montana was hard to pass up too. Reece's baby Chick still fits her and she looks SOO cute in it so when she tried it on Addey decided she can wear the skunk this year because it will still fit this year and next year it may not!!! So keep tuned for Halloween pictures... But mom could not resist the $5.00 buy one and get one, Hannah Montana wig!!

One of the things I have missed ( I will not get into all the things I have missed) is BREAD. I have looked everywhere and I can not find Grandma Sycamore bread and the weekly visits to Marion's house to get bread and rolls is just killing me. SOOO.... I made bread!!

tagged

I have been tagged by Amber, This picture is from my 4th folder and its the 4th picture. I tag Alisha, Cheri, and Alayna. Find your 4th folder and 4th picture in that folder and describe it.

This is actually one of my favorite pictures!! Addey is about 10 months old in this picture and she was playing with Uncle Cade and Cache!!

Keeping busy...

We are staying pretty busy, and I think we finally have a schedule! On Tuesday Addey has Ballet and Tap and Reece has Gymnastics, on Wednesday we have our mommy and me with some girls from our ward, and Thursday Addey has gymnastics and Reece has princess Ballet. On Friday we can either go to open gym and practice our Gymnastics or we go to Play boutique were the girls can play and go to different things like story time, puppet shows or creative play where they put on plays. There is so much to do here for kids!! Since we get really tired of being in our apartment it makes it a lot easier for me! I do miss just sending them out to the yard or being able to go on trips to see the animals at the farm, but this will do for now. And the girls are loving it!!!! The pictures are of the new gymnastics outfits and the Ballet outfits the girls got. The pictures of the pumpkin patch are from our trip we made with some girls that asked us to come to their playgroup with them last week. There are lots of Little girls for Addey and Reece to play with!!!

Pumpkins

Today we went to Lee's farms to get us some pumpkins. i t was so much fun, we went on rides saw some farm animals and picked our pumpkins. When we pulled up we thought it would be boring because we have all the animals at home, but Addey loved telling everyone about all the animals and Reece was the star of the show riding the ponies!! We ate fresh donuts and went through a corn maze. After we picked the perfect pumpkins it was time to head home but we had a fun day at Lee's farm!!

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Oregon here we are!!

I have posted some pictures of some things we did while my mom, dad, and Cole were here. I did a separate post of each thing we did because I have so many pictures and I wanted do describe each event. I want to thank my mom, dad and Cole for helping us move and having a little fun with us before they went home! I will post some more pics of our new apartment and what the girls and I have been doing lately.

Multnomah Falls

Just before we pulled into Portland we stopped at the Multnomah Falls. It was a much needed rest from driving all day and a nice welcome to our new residence! Plummeting 620 feet the Falls are breathtaking and with all the lush greenery and beautiful trees it is amazing.

Tillamook Cheese Factory

The day before Mom,dad, and Cole left we took a little drive to the Ocean and the Tillamook Cheese factory! We got to go and see the production of how the cheese is cut and packaged. It was a lot of fun to go with my dad. I think he could have sat there for hours and watched every detail and figure it allout. I could have sat there and listened to him figure it all out, but the girls were soon ready for the fresh ICE CREAM!! YUM YUM!!

Our trip to the coast.

This was our trip to the Ocean. We had been driving for two days and then unpacked one day and needed a break. My mom, dad and Cole were leaving the next day so it was great to have a day of fun before they left! It was rainy but it was still beautiful!!! We went to a lighthouse and it was a little walk to get there, it started raining as we were walking and Addey was not happy. I have always thought lighthouses were cool. I love how the stories of ships out in the ocean look for the light of the the lighthouse and know were to go. I think I am going to decorate my bathroom with the pictures of our first trip to the ocean. I love the picture I posted at the top of the tide and beech with the Oregon trees and even though it was rainy and the winds were blowing there was sun peeking through and it was a beautiful day, even in the rain. I will also put the picture I took of the light house, it isn't a great picture but it will remind me to follow the light and I will know were to go! We went down on a a beach on the sand and it was amazing to watch the big tide's come in. Again it was rainy and windy so the tide was Huge and it looked like it was going to come right over the top of us. I loved how it would be calm as it got to up us but looked so big just a few miles out. I think I will enjoy being so close to the ocean (especially in the summer) It is so beautiful and amazing and I am glad My mom, dad, and Cole got to go with us! Next time maybe Cade and Cache can come!!

Joy in the Journey

Well we are here and Oregon and have had a busy week getting here and in our apartment. I have lots of pictures, but am not totally set up and did not have my camera hooked up to down load my pictures. Maybe that is what we can do for Family home evening tonight!!

Today was Wacey's first official day of working FULL time for RMT international, So therefore I was on my own. I got up and picked up and put a few more things away. I then decided I wanted to try to get out!!I have been proud of myself and I think my dad would be proud to. We got ready and we went to Deseret Book and got Reece her own Book Of Mormon and a case for Addey's. I then decided to get real brave and went to Costco!! We live pretty much in the city but you really can not tell because of all the tree's. To get to our apartment you have to go up a windy hill and it is all covered with tree's and shrubbery. But it only took me about 10 min. to get to costco so that reminds me how I really am in the city. I would have to plan my trips to costco before.

Well I will try to get my camera set up. I have some beautiful pictures of the coast!! I can not believe I live by the Ocean, It only took us about 1 1/2 to get there. I am open to visitors any time!!! Anyway it is beautiful and green here and I will get some pics up!!! I am trying to enjoy this Journey, It is hard to be away from family but me and the girls are having fun hanging out and I am glad we are on this JOURNEY together!!!

Happy Birthday Addey!!

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We are leaving on Addey's birthday (September 30) So I did this post early so I could just put it up before we left. (that is why it says the 16) I was trying to be so prepared. So happy birthday Addey !! We love you and we are going to swim at the hotel tonight for your birthday~

We went to the fair this weekend!

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