California

I make no promises that this will be amazing...inspiring...deep...funny...etc. I do promise that I will try to keep it updated (obviously that hasn't happened in the past).

Here we are plopped in the middle of California. Not really the middle I guess...just mainly La Mirada. For those of you who I forgot to inform, Drew and I relocated to Southern California for my job opportunity as a Resident Director at Biola University. We bravely left Oregon in July...just in time for some extreme heat. I began work mid-July and feel like I am just this week able to come up for air again. Things have been so busy with the students and with their training that I feel like Drew and I are just now starting to figure out what it means for us to live in southern California and what this new season of life will be like...we are just trying to be where we are and experience this transition...the excitement and the loss of what was...and figure out where God is in the midst of it.

My staff consists of 10 students...2 guys and 8 ladies...who are amazing. They know how to have fun and they also have depth of character. Our residence hall is only a little over a year old and so we are still defining what the "feel" of the community will be. I love being able to work with students...challenging them, caring for them, having fun with them...and I am totally not able to keep up with their lifestyle anymore. I am trying to balance living where I work and working where I live...I don't know yet. Biola has been a blessing...I have felt supported and cared for from day one.