Deathly Hallows

awww yeah.

blended

I feel as though I have lost my defeniton.  I think I need to do some serious inner discovery and figure out who or what I am.  I have been blending in with my enviornment for so long that I have let my self become lost amongst the wallpaper.  I need to stand out again, I need to be myself, not just a someone.  I don't even know what my favorite color is anymore.  I am ready to be unique again, I am ready to have personality. 

no more posts for a while

I am signing off for a while... Need some fresh air.

dreams just might come true

Robert Charles and I have been thinking/dreaming a lot lately.  We have been longing for the the Ocean and mountains... The Northwest is on our minds.  It makes our blood boil.  We ( well, acutally me...) have been doing a TON of research on living in Oregon... In fact, I have been researching non stop for about a month now.  If I can make these things work, then we can make it happen. 

1. Affordable housing

2. Nearby  church building

3. Nearby good school

4. Job(s)

Well, I am happy to announce that I have FINALLY put the puzzle together.  I have found a quiet little historic city that comes with all the above and more.  It is an hour from the ocean and about 20 minutes from a massive national forest and mountains.  Its not as rainy as most of Oregon and there are still tons of things to do there.  Charlie EASILY qualifies for a really nice paying phlebotomy position at the hospital in town.  The local community college is very affordable and on top of that it has all the classes he needs.  There are a TON of houses for rent, that are actually cheaper than Springfield.  And to put the cherry on, it is beautiful and very charming.

So without further adue, I would like to imtroduce my dream place or residency:

Klamath Falls, OR

Woot!

May 18

11 hours

17 roller coasters

120 mph, 420 ft high

Cedar Point

Amazing.

My Home.

 

For the beauty of the earth

 For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

For the beauty of each hour,

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale, and tree and flower,

Sun and moon, and stars of light.

For the joy of ear and eye,

For the heart and mind’s delight,

For the mystic harmony

Linking sense to sound and sight.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.

I am so grateful for this great world that I live in.

Happy Earth Day, turn off the TV and go outside.

♥

I ♥ Us.

taking charge...

I like to think of myself as a loving, giving wife.
But tonight, I am going to make my strong, handsome and amazing husband watch a movie genre that he hates, but I Love... Horror.  I rarely ever do this, in fact this will be like the 3d time I have made him watch one with me since we have known each other... Hmm is that mean?  I guess I'll make him a steak dinner to eat while watching it....

Spring in my backyard

Autumn

My favorite little girl...

I love your sweet smile.
I love way you say goodbye to all the trees as we drive past them. 
I love your soft red hair and how you never let me touch it without crying.
I love your dances.
I love how you say "Goodmorning!"
I love how you always want a cookie.
I love how you love to walk around barefoot in the yard.
I love your blue eyes.
I love that you love dirt.
I love the little songs you make up on the piano.
I love the songs you sing.
I love the way you giggle when you are being tickled.
I love when you rub noses with me.
I love your little toes.
I love when you try so hard to run fast but it is only as fast as you can walk.
I love your kisses and hugs.
I love to cuddle with you.
I love you for whoever you are and who that person will become.

                                            My dear little Autumn, I love you with all my heart.

Easter Dress

Oh Easter, such a relaxing holiday :)  We were blessed with a wonderful day full of family, Conference and sweets :) Who could ask for more?  I have a confession though, I maybe heard one talk of conference, it was really hard to juggle everything.  I hope to sit down with Charlie and fully absorb the messages sometime this week...

The day before Easter I scrambled around like crazy.  I couldn't find a dress pattern for Autumn for her Easter dress.  I was tempted to just go to the store and buy one, but I am stubborn, so I decided to just wing it.  Well... Wing it I did.  I free handed a pattern and prayed that I got the guess measurements right.  I was up to 5 in the morning working on this... I just kept sewing and making up stuff as I went along.  At least it fit :) Heres how it turned out:

The dress and coat in action on Easter morning :)

I didn't get any pictures of Liam because he was sleeping at first, then my batteries decided to die... But I promise myself that I will get some good pictures of my little man soon :) Hope everyone had a good Easter!

Preparing for warmer weather

I ordered a new camera today :) Nothing fancy, but perfect for my clan of explorers. I look forward to giving it Lots of use.

Tuesday night.

I am willing to admit it.  I have an addiction.

I believe this calls for ice cream.

Only 7 more episodes!

(A word from the wise: If you haven't watched Lost before, please, Please, PLEASE start from the very beginning!)

Miss Dolly

I feel alive today.  I stepped outside my door and breathed in deep, searching for a plan for the afternoon.  Autumn strolled past me in her yellow dress and galoshes, heading straight for the mud.  I think I will plant flowers.  I have a back patio that I need to fix up for the summertime when we have the pool up and the smoker going.  I have the pictures of what I want in my head, all I have to do is make it reality.  I need patio furniture.  Speaking of furniture, I wish I could get rid of the couch sitting in my living room.  Sometimes I feel like not having any furniture at all.  Just an empty house to run and dance in. 

I took in another stray.  I keep telling myself that I am going to take a break from the "rescue" business.  I just couldn't say no.  She was lying in a field, with a destroyed paw and completly empty belly.  I believe she was going to give up if I hadn't put her in the back of the truck and drove her home.  I call her Miss Dolly, she has so many wrinkles on her face that she can barely see. She is quite the lover, my Dolly, maybe due to not having anyone to love until now.  I enjoy the company of animals, sometimes a lot better than people.  We tend to have an understanding that most humans seem to neglect.  Well, I am off to Lowes.  I have flowers to plant and sun to soak up.

Birthday

Yay for Birthdays! I turned 22 today. 

I love birthdays, its the only day of the year that everyone gets to have special for just them :) 

Thank you to my family for giving me such a good birthday.

Spring crazy

I'm the type of person that is pretty easy going about most things.  I have a few quirks here and there like having to make a list about EVERYTHING, being OCD only about how my rock collection lays around my house, or the fact that I MUST change my furniture and get rid of things (at the very least) every six months.

Well, its that time again.  I have hit my 6 month marker and I am on the move.  I am a strange cleaner/orginizer.  Charlie is very kind to put up with me... I have a tendency to make a massive mess while I am trying to clean up another one.  It all gets done in the end, but that is just how I am.  To clean and rearrange a room, the entire room is gutted and then the things that are really important and get to stay in that room go back in.  SO, for the better part of today, my bedroom was in my living room.  Well, I am happy to report that I have a clean AND bassicly new looking room.  It smells and looks nice, don't you just love getting cozy in a clean room? I love it.  And, as icing on the cake, I even lit some candles to melt some of that extra stress off.  

Unfortunantly, the room was my first base, now onto the loft.  I think I am going to be pulling an allnighter to get my whole house done.  

In other news, I start at the zoo tomorrow.  I decided to go ahead and volunteer as a Docent.  I will be helping out with a lot of things, including teaching kids about the animals and conservation.  I'm excited :)

For those of  you who have a clean home and don't have a two year old who won't go to sleep, goodnight.  And to the rest of you who are in the boat with me, Godspeed my friends.

Bonfire

I thought I would send out an invite on my blog as well

On April 10th we are having a bonfire at our house at 6 p.m. if anyone would like to come out.  I'm not going to give out my address on here, but if you would like to come, just email me at charlieandsaraz@gmail.com and I can give you directions.  It should be a lot of fun, not to mention we get to light stuff on fire :) 

I. Must. Clean.

There is no getting out of it now, I need to bleach, scrub and organize.
Let's not forget about burning stuff I don't want any more.

I must build a home for chickens.

It's a beautiful, rainy day today.

A good day to listen to some Sufjan, make lists, bake, and Of Course> Clean.

Robert Charles and I often dream of living in lands far, far away from here.  It's days like this that remind me just how glorious my little Missouri world is.

A lot of people are often in a misfortunate mess of being people that can't recognize the small wonders around them, thus making them miss out on the true essence of life.

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Run-on sentence/ thought of the day.

3

3 years have come and gone so fast!

Robert and I met 3 years ago at church.  We both went to a dance that we didn't want to be at and ended up dancing together.  6 days later, we were sitting on his living room floor trying to decide what to do for Valentines day, when he asked me a couple of quiestions about what type of mother I want to be and what I want out of life... When it seemed my answers satasfied him, he asked me to marry him.  Me, being completly crazy, said yes.  We were married a month later in the St. Louis temple on St. Patty's day. 
We have had 2 children, lived in 8 different places in 2 states, had 8 different jobs, we have shared our home with about 20 different animal, started school 3 different times, sold all of our possesions and started over 3 times, had 6 different cars (one being our moped), and have shared so many memories together in the past 3 years.  It has been a crazy road, but I wouldn't have changed it for anything.
For our anniversary ( a week early) we went to St. Louis for 2 days.  We spent the day at the zoo the first day, looking at animals, enjoying the 70 degree weather and getting mugged by a goat.  We didn't realize that that tricky fellow had taken our only means of money until around 9 oclock that night when we were searching our car and luggage franticly for our debit card.  Needless to say, we finally called the zoo and a very nice park ranger retrieved the card from the goat.  At least he decided not to eat it.
After retrieving our card, we went to the Moolah theatres to watch Alice in Wonderland.  If you haven't been to this theatre, you really should experience it, it was awesome. We spent the night in a cottage at the Napoleon B&B in the Lafayette historical area.  The next morning we went to the Arch and finished the afternoon off at the Cheescake factory.  Awesome. 

Thank you Robert/Charlie/Charles Magilicutty for the past 3 years, it's been a blast.