Well, a lot has changed since I've written! I graduated from OSU on June 11th. We moved later that day with a tremendous amount of help from my dad, my Uncle Kevin, and my cousin Emma. Upon arriving in Newberg, we immediately left to meet our friends Trevor and Tirzah for dinner at Henry's in Portland. After dinner, more and more friends arrives to celebrate Stuart and I's move an hour closer to all of them (and my graduation, supposedly!) It was an awesome night and great to see all the friends we'd lived so far from for the past year. Sunday morning we woke up to a home in boxes. We began the unpacking process and tried to get settled as much as we could. Throughout the week, we spent time unpacking, visiting friends, running errands and seeing family. The week flew by before I could blink an eye. Saturday, June 18th was my best friend's bridal shower, which occupied the majority of my day in helping to set up, clean up, and post-shower bridesmaids discussions about the planning of her bachelorette party. Sunday June 19th, we had both sides of the family over for a delicious BBQ in celebration of my graduation. It was a wonderful time but how exhausting it is to host family events! Thank goodness for mothers and [future] mother-in-laws who are so willing to help with everything. And yes, the part you've all been waiting for, on Monday, June 20th, I started my new job!
To answer your most pressing question -- I love it. For those of you who don't already know, I took a temporary position at PacificSource Health Plans in Tigard. My position runs from June to October with the possibility of being pulled on full time at the close. It is an amazing opportunity, and I am so grateful to have been able to find work right out of school. We have been so blessed and that carries even more so into how great the job is. The people I work with are so welcoming and kind. The work I do is in the prevention of injury and illness, which is EXACTLY what I went to school for. I love it! The only negatives about my job are not even negatives! Working 8-5 at an office/desk job is a huge adjustment to make out of college, but I can go in early and leave early whenever I want to. I can take my breaks and my lunch whenever I'd like. I walk laps around the office every hour just to stay loose and awake, and no one minds. Usually people stop me to say hi and talk! While the hours are a huge adjustment, it's life and it's what the real world is like, so it's just something I'm working on getting used to! The only other negative is that it's not a permanent position! Yet :) I am really praying it will turn into a job I can spend some years doing.
Now, for what I'm actually doing at work! It's lengthy to explain unless you can put an accurate meaning to the word "wellness." Wellness is basically what my degree is in and it's what I work on 8 hours a day. I have revamped and started a fruit and veggie challenge in the office called the 5 A Day Challenge. PacSource has done it in year's past but I made a few changes and started it up again this year with the employees. It's basically a competition to eat your fruits and vegetables! With that, I wrote a webpage for the program and created a segment to offer it to the PacSource members as well. I create workplace wellness programs to add to the PacificSource catalog, which they offer to the employers who insure through them. I've researched other insurance companies' wellness programs, done cold calling to set up wellness talks, and done data entry from surveys collected on a program offered last year. I'm involved in committees that plan events like Balloons Over Bend (which I go there too late to be really involved in), Race for the Cure, Shades of Pink, etc.
Like I said, it's difficult to explain, but I guess the important part is how much I like it there!
Stuart's working at the Target in Sherwood right now, still doing the really early morning stuff. He goes back to school in September to go back to work on his engineering degree! I am really excited for him and so grateful that he was willing to put his degree on hold so he could support us while I finished mine!
We've stopped unpacking because we're currently looking into an apartment complex in Tigard. We were only going to be in Newberg until February as it was, so we decided we would rather move again while everything was still in boxes instead of getting settled and then packing up again! If we do move to the Tigard complex, we plan to be there for a while and we are VERY excited about that!
This weekend I spent Saturday helping my dear friend get settled into her new apartment, then yesterday we were apartment shopping, and to a bbq. Today we will being laying low so hopefully Wyatt can beat the cold he's been battling!
I'm really distracted watching both Wyatt and Hayden (roommate, Shannon's daughter) so I'm sorry if the writing quality is below par.
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Remember his birthday party will be cake and ice cream at our house Sunday, July 10th at 2:00pm! He's going to be ONE YEAR OLD! craazyyy
I just realized I didn't write any update on him. He is walking like a champ. Talking tons (syllables and crazy talk of course). He says mama and dada like a pro and talks to his other baby friends like they have their own special language. He's in 12-18 month clothes and growing fast fast fast! He's got quite an attitude and knows what he wants. One moment he just wants you to hold him and the next he just wants you to put him down and let him go! His hair is getting a little unruly, but I just can't part with his long beautiful locks! I think he'll get a haircut this week :)
Sorry for the quick update! I know Wyatt is really the one you're interested in ;) I've gotta go because the kids are getting a little rambunctious! Love you all and look forward to hopefully seeing you Sunday!
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