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Sunday, August 5, 2018

California 2018

We took a trip to California to see my Gran and Poppy Sexton. We left Oregon on Thursday night after I got off work early. We drove all the way down to McKinnleyville, CA on the northern coast of California. We drove through a couple areas in Oregon that were dealing with summer forest fires. We spent the night in McKinnleyville, south of the Redwood National and State forest. The next day (Friday) we drove down through Eureka, CA (nothing like the town shown in the SyFy television show which we loved!) and drove to the “Avenue of Giants” to see some of the largest trees ever.

After our travel through the redwoods, we continued on down to Sacramento. We weren’t able to make it to see Gran and Poppy Friday because it got to be too late. Saturday we saw and visited with Gran and Poppy, and had dinner with my cousin Andrea and her family all at Gran and Poppy’s.

Then on Sunday we remade a photo we took in 2010.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Robert on the blog

Well here I am again. Finally got a new computer and thought I’d see if I still have any blogging skills. Probably not, but here goes…

It is August 1, 2018 and come tomorrow I will have been working at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center for 8 years!! It may only be 8 years, but it feels like 20! The hospital I call my home away from home has gone through some major changes in the 8 years I’ve been there. Just last July 2017 we opened a new tower and in May of this year we opened a new ER section. I say section, because the old ER is being remodeled in sections. First we get the new section which is open and running, and then in November (or so they say) the second section or “phase” will open giving us more exam rooms (29). Then when “phase” 3 is complete (January 2019 they say), there will be 39 ER exam rooms! It’s been great seeing the hospital grow and our services to the community grow with it. Ok, enough about work.

Heather is still working for Peacehealth Riverbend and selling Lipsense on the side. She has been doing really well with it and has a Facebook group where she sells it. Andrew is now a teenager.. yikes! He will be starting 8th grade in the fall at Agnes Stewart where he has been going for 6th and 7th grades as well. Isabella is 11, and finished up the 4th and 5th grades at Mt. Vernon Elementary. She will be starting up 6th grade in the fall at Agnes Stewart as well.

Monday, August 10, 2015

2015 Update

We have now been back in Oregon for 5 years! I have been working at McKenzie-Willamette for 5 years and 8 days. Can’t say it’s been all roses, but the last 5 years have been full of excitement. From my last post we were closing on our first home. Well we’ve now been home owners for over a year. I love being a home owner except for the fact that I have so much I want to do with the place, but no time,energy or money to do it! It’s hard just trying to keep up the maintenance, let alone try to make something better. I’ve got projects like 1. New Fencing 2. Eliminate the non-functioning back yard water feature 3. Trimming or eliminating a couple trees. 4. Organizing my garage, to name a few. One day at a time they say. That’s what I’ll keep telling myself. Andrew is getting ready to start Pop Warner football in the Pee-Wee age group (5th grade!) Yes, hard to believe he’s going to be a 5th grader this fall. It’s also hard to believe my baby Bella is going to be a 3rd grader! They are growing up too fast! I’ll try to do better and keep updating this blog more often. Once a year is not enough!

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Escrow!!

We have a house! We went back an revisited one of the houses in my earlier post after a couple months of nothing new coming for sale in Springfield. We revisited the house seen below and after careful consideration decided to put an offer on it. After countering the seller's counter offer, they accepted our offer! We have had the home inspection and have a signed contract. We are now waiting to lock in our mortgage rate and move through the next steps to closing. We are very excited, as are the kids to moving into a new home. Below are pictures of the new house, enjoy! I know we will!