Home Going: 2 Whole Years!

Without wanting to repeat the oft-said cliché, "time flies!," the last two years seems to have gone by fast.

2 Years?!
That's right, it's been 2 whole years since our last post here and we've left tracks being us to prove it, so lets look at a short review: Reno (our beloved RV) is long since gone, we have lived in and moved on from our first Bakersfield apartment to a rental home on a 1.5 acre lot in west Oildale.

Yes that Oildale.

We have had our first kiddo, the most-beautiful-girl-in-creation Isabelle Grace:

Like I said: "most-beautiful-girl-in-creation." Jennifer has started a little photo business on the side. I can say without any bias you should pay hundreds of dollars for her to take your pictures.

We don't just watch Netflix... We do stuff too.
We have had 2 semi-successful vegetable gardens, one bicycle stolen, one old black truck with a rebuilt motor, a grapefruit tree, and more plane flights than anyone not getting paid to fly on should ever experience. I (David) have had the pleasure of working with 3 separate groups at Occidental Petroleum and witnessed this company spin off into California Resources Corporation. And now, Jennifer and I have the great pleasure of expecting our next drooly crawling mini-person this November!

Isabelle helping her daddy with garden version 2.0. Our original experiment can be seen in the cedar planters on the right. They did great even with the daily cigarette ash from our old upstairs neighbors.

Yet another generation of Underwoods enjoying the tailgate on this wonderful machine. The rebuild process was expensive and extremely time consuming, but worth it to save this piece of Underwood history.

Walk the Streets of Bakersfield
Don't let the cheery pictures fool you: Bakersfield is not a lovely place. It's hot, dry, the air is incredible dirty (yay inhalers!), and people love driving trucks that would make you nervous to go through a drive-thru. We desperately miss Colorado and the friends we left behind. The extra 1000 miles makes the drive unfeasible for family and friends, so we spend a lot of time and money on air travel. But... BUT, we have made good friends and have seen the Lord work in our lives while we have been here. That is why we are here. We have met incredible people who have become dear friends. It is our hope that we will continue to grow in the Lord and lead our children to do the same, with the help of those that He has placed into our lives.

It's not easy, it's not always fun, but everyday we learn to treat this place a bit more like home for the time we are here. We can't wait for our next little one and to see what adventures are waiting for us tomorrow.