welcome to oregon.

we drove all day and arrived in oregon late.

for days i had been anticipating this arrival.

i had almost cancelled our house rental many times, because i was worried.

our house is BEAUTIFUL and it is nestled on a mountainside with gardens and woods surrounding us.

we have a two story deck on the back of the house that is like extra rooms in the house.

we have neighbors close to us,

but because we are on a mountain, we look over them and can see other mountains in the distance.

my first impression--  WOW!! It is so pretty here.

to the right of our house we have a field with lots of beautiful trees. 

to the left we have a neighbor with dogs and left of them is another field with 3 horses- brown, black and white.

so fun. 

 our back yard is a tiered garden (another reason I was VERY nervous about this house). 

who has tiered gardens with 7 kids?

can i tell you how much i love it?  

when you stand on the deck, you can smell the beautiful flowers.

AND, we have a gardener that comes on Thursday so we don't even have to weed if we don't want. 

There are some big, nasty slugs that we found... hmmm.  Gratefully, i haven't found one in my bed yet!! 

 i still need to take better pictures of the inside. 

it is two stories- 3400 square feet.

it's newish and very pretty.

it is big and very open... and very hard to photograph.

upstairs is the living room with a large fireplace, master bedroom/bath, study, kitchen, laundry room and half bath.

downstairs is a half bath, full bath, kitchenette, two bedrooms, big toy closet under the stairs and a large open area.

we have 5 sliding glass doors (two on top, three on bottom) that open up to the deck.

and lots and lots of beautiful windows.

this home feels so bright and open-- the outside is such a part of the inside.

and, it's beautiful. 



kitchen, dining area.

laundry room.

Sorry I don't have better pictures of the house... my 50mm camera lens doesn't do rooms very well.
We really love Oregon so far.
But, how I miss all of our good friends in Texas.
And... my mind is going to burst with unpacking...  burst I tell you!
setting up a house is HARD work.