Things I haven't told you.

1. We have three kids now
2. We moved to Oregon this year
3. We bought a house
4. We bought a minivan
5. We saw Hamilton—An American Musical in San Francisco

We have been in Portland for about 6 months now and it's starting to feel like home. I don't really have any friends yet, but I have joined a book club and living near my in-laws is wonderful.

We just got back from a trip to Arizona to visit family. We didn't get to see very much, but we saw my Grandpa Bradshaw and stayed with my aunt Mary and uncle Russell and that was great. I've lived outside of Arizona longer than I lived there, but it still has a special place in my heart. It was very refreshing to return to the gorgeous Pacific Northwest though after the 97 degree heat (in October!). 

I'm going to be writing more on here more as a journal than anything else. However, if anyone does still read this blog, please raise your hand because I would like to know :)

I've visited 25 states!

In July we took our kids to visit my parents in Indiana and now I have officially been to half of the states in the US!

The other half is going to be a lot harder to arrange, but here are the ones I could reasonably come up with an excuse to visit in the next 5 years:

• Nebraska (I have a cousin in Omaha and it's reasonably close to my parents & brother in the midwest)
• Louisiana (Bruce served his mission there and has never been back)
• Ohio (After reading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, I really want to go to Dayton! It's not too far from my parents in Indiana)
• Rhode Island (Bruce has a sister in Connecticut, so we could easily check out neighboring states)
• Alaska (Now that we live in Oregon, I feel like this isn't that far. ha!)