The Wood Between the Worlds

I haven't even looked at a blog in months.

For one thing, I never get on the desktop computer anymore now that I have an iphone.  And even though it doesn't document our life as well, facebook and instagram have taken the place of all the documentation I used to do on the blog.  Go find me- Kate H Jefferies and spideylark...if you haven't already.  ANYWAY... I'd really like to get back into the blog again, just so I can finally get around to making a book out of our most important milestones.

Another reason is that we have been extremely busy moving...moving!  Holy moly!  What a summer!
Back around the time I last posted, in May...Brent learned that he FINALLY got accepted to the post-doctorate fellowship that he was hoping (read: fixated on) to do since he had graduated 6 years earlier.  Well, this fellowship happened to be at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.  So we packed up 6 years of living in Oregon and moved back to Utah!  It was bittersweet.  One the one hand, so happy to be living close to our old family and friends again!  So happy to experience all our old fun spots!  So happy that Brent was finally getting a chance to do the research he had been hoping to do for years.  But sad to leave the beautiful, green lands and the friends we have who are like family to us.

Well, we moved to Utah at the end of June ... and it was apparent almost right away that the research program he had been dreaming of was not the same one he had dabbled in during school.  Maybe it changed in 6 years, or maybe Brent changed...but the biggest factor in him not liking it was that he realized that it would require much more of our family time than we were willing to sacrifice.  So, Brent resigned just a few weeks into the program...with a heavy heart...but early enough in the fellowship so that they could still replace him.  We really wanted to stay in Utah, but after looking high and low we found there were not many jobs open in his field (much to our surprise!).  There were a LOT of jobs open back in Oregon, so we packed it up and moved on back!  This time we are residing at the beautiful, wild coast!!  We arrived in Lincoln City the very beginning of September.

Our summer in Utah was a great big, fun vacation!

All CrAzY, all bittersweet...LOTs of big changes for us and our kids in a short time.  We are really hoping to settle in here and stay for several years though, and think we will be really happy here.  It is the smallest town we have ever lived in.  It is very touristy!  The BEACH is only 1 block away from our house now.

Come visit!