well, hello there

So it's already nearly summer and I haven't written is five long months, which means lots of exciting news. First, I'm going to be an aunt!! Chad and Amanda are 9 weeks and counting til they meet their new baby boy. The whole thing seems so incredible to me...a new person! This is the first new baby in our immediate family, which must be why it feels so profound. When I try to put it into words, they fail to express the wonder of it all. They've made a new person who will have his own thoughts and ideas and future and personality. It's so very cool and I am so SO excited.

My next piece of news is twice as exciting because of Baby Armington. Ben and I are going to be moving to Oregon for school in September, so we'll only be an hour and a half from Chad, Amanda and the new little guy! I'm going to be going for a graduate degree in public health and Ben is going back for his undergrad. What an awesome adventure. I haven't been this excited about a move in a very long time. Corvallis is a small town of 50,000 people and looks to be about 2 miles by 2 miles. Obviously, we'll be in for some adjustments. I can't really even picture how drastically our lives will change, but it's a welcome one.

This weekend, my best girlfriends (including my sister, Linds) all met up in Fort Collins, Colorado which is one of my all-time favorite places in the world. It was such an amazing time. There was laughing, story telling, shopping, eating, biking and some pretty serious bingo involved. The whole experience made me think of how much i enjoy a slower pace and smaller town.

I plan on using this blog to keep everyone in the loop so it doesn't feel like such a long long way away (as your blog says, Amanda!). I planned to post a bunch of 2010pictures, but my newer camera cord posed as my old camera cord while i was blindly searching for it early this morning. Expect those pictures soon.