Settling in

We've been back in Utah for little over a week now and have been lucky to have family to help us along the way. We found an apartment in the avenues while still in Oregon, were able to look at it the day after we got back, and moved in a couple days later! It is a nice feeling to get settled somewhere...as much as I'd like to think I'm an adventurous traveler, I really like having a home base and being able to know where 'home' is. Jake is back at his old job, getting into the old routine while I keep searching and applying for jobs near us. We're still trying to figure out the world of health insurance but are otherwise just being our boring old selves. :)

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 Closing the circle

We started the new year living in downtown Salt Lake City, planning our adventurous year ahead. Little did we know that we would end up back in SLC; Jake back at his old job and me...well, pregnant. From SLC -> Leiter, WY -> Portland -> and back...it's been a year full of traveling and since we haven't made it back to SLC yet, there's still a long trip ahead. We gave it a try (albeit a short one) to make a go in Portland but after hearing time and time again of how bad the job market is here in PDX and not hearing back from any of the places we submitted applications/resumes I started getting antsy. I wanted some stability, a place that was ours, and a way of supporting ourselves... and it didn't look like that was going to happen any time soon so we decided to start looking into jobs in SLC as well as Portland. As soon as Jake's old work heard that he was looking into Salt Lake they had a job available for him. Although we were just starting to get used to Oregon and were enjoying being around my sister and her kids, finally hearing a job offer was something we couldn't turn down. So...here we are, moving back to Utah this weekend, and closing the circle of our journeys this year...as far as we know...

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