Corvallis

I am away from my home compuer, so I do not have pictures to post, but if I did it would be a picture of me smiling from ear to ear because I am in Corvallis. Anyone who knows me knows I love it here. I love the tree lined stretch of Harrison, I love the energy of OSU ,and I love all the great bike trails. I love Corvalis for many reasons. So far in my life the best things in my life have taken place here. I met Richy here and it is here that both of my children were born. I feel Corvallis is where I met myself. It was the first place I was on my own and away from family. I got to decide what was important to me and live my life accordingly. About 4 years ago Richy and I moved to Austin Texas for about a year, all I wanted was to get back to this town I love so much. After returning my sister in-law Emily came to visit, she commented that I looked at peace and happy here and that is how I feel even today. Things have been stressful with getting ready for the move, my brother's wedding anst life! Getting to escape for a couple days here was just what I needed. Tonight I took the kids on an awesome walk to Sunset park. The weather was perfect and I once again felt ar peace, even though Levi wet his pants mid way on our walk still everything was right in my world for the walk. Since I have been down in Corvallis and Eugene, I have been able to spend a lot of time with family. My sister in-law Katie is 3 weeks away from her due date. I really want my baby niece to come before we have to move to Missouri. My brother Cocky (given name Aarom) was married in the Portland temple last Saturday. I wish I could post pictures right now, they were so cute. It rained which may sound like a bad thing, but I think the umbrella pictures were perfect. I gained a new sis in-law. Sabrina is awesome. I am so impressed with her. She is kind and smart and most of all she loves my brother. As a sister I find it really rewarding to see my siblings in love. Being married and in love with Richy has made me so happy. I am excited for Cocky and Sabrina to experience the joy I feel. I have got to spend time with my sisters. They each bring so much to my life. Hillary is always willing to brain storm with me on how to make the impossible possible. I have accomplished many things because of her. Emily is always up for a good joke and Emily is also always excited for anything I have going on in my life. I think it is from her that I have learned to get so excited for others accomplishments and the things going on in their lives. It has been so nice to be down in this area of Oregon, but I am very excited to no longer be living out of a suitcase and a storage unit and most of all to be with Richy every night as soon as we move to Saint Louis next month. He is still in The Dalles until next week. When ever I get stressed about moving. money. or whatever I have to remind myself that these are the problems I want to be having right now. life is moving forward, my kids are healthy and I am happy, so I can handle these problems. Too sappy? Sorry that is just how I feel right now!

Good Bye homes of The Dalles

I just realized my blog looks like the out side of a Victoria Secret bag, I am sorry the things in my blog will not match the arousal ability of things found in side those cute striped pink bags. I am getting ready to leave The Dalles for good next week to spend some time in Eugene with my family. Richy will stay here for a bit longer to work., I think it is time to share some pictures of the great real estate here in The Dalles. If you are looking for ways to add some curd appeal to your abode consider these options. Who doesn't like a house that literally smiles back at you? I first noticed this house while out for a walk on April 1st, I thought it must be a joke. It was not! The house continues to smile at me each time I pass by. All I can assume about the Clydesdale house is that they are huge horse enthusiasts, why else would you have a gigantic horse statue out side your otherwise normal home? The Dalles Oregon is not only a strange little place, but also a beautiful little town right along the Columbia Gorge river. At first moving here was not exactly what I wanted, but I soon came to see it was exactly what I needed. I met great people and enjoyed my in-laws like never before. Mine and Richy's relationship took a serious turn to awesome. We worked together in new ways and were able to accomplish things together such as paying down my student loans and saving for our next adventure. It seems our adventures change almost daily. I have been toying with the idea of when/if I will go back to work. I have been offered some really cool jobs recently. I was just offered a job in Washington DC to work for The Department of Defense. I have always wanted to work In DC and the job is right up my ally doing advocacy work. My responsibilities would be to research current hiring practices of persons with disabilities within the department, as well as work with department organizations to create a data base of qualified applicants who have self identified with a disability. The objective is to reduce discrimination of persons with disabilities. This is very close to my heart as I do have a vision issue that puts me in the category of "disability". As mush as I want the dream of living/working in DC, I want even more to be in Saint Louis with Richy. I am looking forward to driving Levi to kindergarten and decorating Naomi's garden themed bedroom, which I have had all planned out in my head since I found out I was having her. I hope that along side getting my family set up in Saint Louis, I will also find opportunities to serve others as that is a passion of mine. To sum it all up we are happy and how could we not be? we have these two cute faces to wake up to every morning and unfortunately through out the night. PS i am really confused why blogspot will not let me indent.