Pictures Galore!!!

Here are just a few snapshots of some of the things we have been up to since arriving in houston... as soon as life slows down again for five minutes I will be sure to post pictures from the road trip here to Houston!



the entrance to our apartment complex...


A day in the life of Northstar... :) (Cinco De Mayo festivities to be exact)



AN AFTERNOON IN GALVESTON... cruisin, on a sunday afternoon. :)



A couple remnants from HURRICANE IKE... (you know... just half a pier missing with a random truck slammed in to the side, and the paneling on a house ripped away. Nothing big)


EVERYTHING is built on stilts now... (thanks to hurricane IKE)



The Gulf Coast... ugh! (I'm sorry, but NOTHING compares to southern california's beaches)


Just about the only two nice houses in Galveston...





Eww... fuzzy for a reason, we didn't want to get any closer 'cuz we thought we'd barf!!! I have NEVER in my life seen such disgusting people as we did yesterday in Galvseton!! too bad, the place had so much potential!!

Welp! Here is what we have been up to the past few weeks, I'll be sure to update the blog as often as time permits... just so everyone is clear, I went from working MAYBE 25 hours a week, to working 70 hours a week. Now do you understand why I have been TOO BUSY TO TALK!!!!! :) xoxxo love you all

Too busy to talk!!!

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you that we have safely arrived here in Houston. We've been here just about two weeks and in that time have battled a wicked rain storm/ mini hurricane, a beyond hectic first week of summer sales, and an even crazier week of life in general. :) All this aside, I'm happy to report that we are happy and busier then ever... give me another week or two and I should be back on the blogging band wagon with pictures and stories galore... until then, just know that Frank and I love you all and are thinking of you even though we are too busy to talk to you.
til then,
~sabrina~

One down, One to go!!!

What a whirlwind two weeks we have had. We packed up, moved out (of our temporary first place) headed off to Utah for some work/vacation time, headed back to Cali, bounced from house to house (and still bouncing) prepapring for wedding pictures and our sealing in two days, then saying our good byes and off to TEXAS!!!!! (four days from today! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! We're just excited to be settled (temporarily)atleast for four months this time. He are a few shots of our adventures over the past week and a half or two. Enjoy!!! I'm signing out, (more then likely until we're in Houston)!!
xoxoxo

For all of TIME... AND NOW ETERNITY.

Well, the big day has finally arrived, after much planning (only to fall apart COMPLETELY) we have reached our Temple Sealing Date. SATURDAY APRIL 18TH, 2009. As to be expected, Satan has worked EXTRA hard on us up to this point, but we're still going and GREATLY anticipating Saturday and the sacred nature of what will happen that day. We are so excited to finally Solemnize our marriage in the holiest of places, the place where Heaven and Earth meet and hearts and minds are turned toward God. we are excited to celebrate this day with many of you have become like family to us over the years, and to feel the sanctity of our union. Being married for 2 and a half months by civil law only has left us feeling empty. Yearning for more, and eagerly anticiapting the day when civil law meets Heavenly Law and binds us as man and wife in COVENANT with FATHER IN HEAVEN, not only through the end of our days in this life, but for ALL of the days in the ETERNITIES to come.
What a special day it will be.

*Pictures to follow, we are shooting them tomorrow!

Two FAIRY PRINCESS'

Two little fairy princesses come to life...
These two fairy princesses are sisters and they are about as different as any two people could ever be, but they do have a few things in common, one of which is me. You see, I take care of these two in the afternoons four days a week, and for the past year and a half, I have fallen in love with them and the little people they are quickly becoming. They have grown up so much even though they are still "little people". Before we know it, they will be grown and off on their own adventures in life. My time with them is drawing to a close ever so rapidly, as Frank and I pack up and move on. Today as I sat here and played with them, I felt my heart begin to ache just a little. I think each day until we leave it's going to get worse and worse. I just adore them.
We have experienced so much together, and I greatly anticipate each day I get to spend with them because each day is a new experience. We get to learn about things outside and things around the house, we pracitice our ABC'S and NUMBERS. They even teach me primary songs!! We go for walks and play at the park. We have the most interesting conversations, and at the end of each day, we say our good byes in a way that could melt just about anyone's heart. To hear a two year old say, with the sweetest little voice "I love you" is pretty much an indescribable feeling. It's so fun to be around them and experience life from a two year olds point of view. There is only excitement and fascination. There is NO SUCH THING as a "bad day". Just a temper-tantrum that lasts a little while, then you put them down for a nap, and voila, life is perfect again!!! :)
I love these little girls, they're like my best friends, and thankfully, most of the time, they feel the same way about me and even whisper it in my ear! :)
I am so sad to say good-bye, but I greatly look forward to hearing about all the life they have left to live. Even Frank is going to have a hard time saying good bye because he has grown to love them almost as much because he spends A lot of time with them as well. He has helped me tend them several times, including our first week of marriage. Here are just a few pictures of all the fun we've experienced together...

To my love...

For those of you who read this, you might have noticed by the tone of my writing (if that is possible) that at times Frank and I have experienced some frustrations, either with one another, or for some other rediculous reason. These past few days have been no different. In fact, they may very well have been our most trying both collectively and individualy thus far. We've struggled through it, but made it through and this time it feels different, this time I think and hope we've reached the turning point where things start to go our way, even if it's just slightly. :)
We had a VERY VERY trying day, then as life or luck would have it, not sure which one, we had the opportunity to spend some EXTRA time in the Temple and do some work vicariously for some special people waiting for us, and I think in some very real, and notcieable ways, it has changed us for the better. Never have I felt more love, the kind which runs down to the very core of you, towards my husband nor have I felt the kind of emotion I do as I look in to his beautiful eyes as I do now. We have a song that has become "our song" and it is the first song that plays as you enter our blog site. It's called "Man and Wife" by Michelle Featherstone. Tonight, I decided to write Frank a letter, (I am MUCH MUCH better at communicating through written word) and as I sit here writing it, I keep hearing these words over and over again:
We Are Man And Wife

All the things you are to me
Darling you have set me free
I'll always give you what you need
and what you deserve
All the joy and all this love
I know that it is from above
and now together there is enough
to fill this world
Cause you are the love of my life
you are the love of my life
and now we are man and wife
Of all the things that you will do
Yet now I'm standing next to you
Darling I will see you through
the rest of our lives
With you beside me I am one
I'm glad I've waited for so long
there is no doubt that
you are the one for me
Cause you are the love of my life
you are the love of my life
There'll be times
and there'll be things
but everything
is going to be fine
now your in my life
So I give you my heart and soul
It's yours to take where ever you go
and through the years you'll always know
it's yours to keep
God has blessed this sacred vow
and angels high above look down
they see the two of us have found
the perfect love
Cause you are the love of my life
Yeah you are the love of my life
and now we are man and wife

Frank, I just want you to know how much I love you, and I know that some day soon, :) things will begin to look up for us. :) ha ha ha!! Trials mold us, they shape us in to the people we promised Father in Heaven we would become and that is when we reach our "best", and I know that as long as we keep the "eternal perspective" we will make it through all that life throws our way.
xoxo

JOOP DAY!

So the other day Frank and I decided to take "joop" our jeep wrangler, on a little adventure. The weather here in Murrieta has been sooo great lately, spring has certainly arrived, so we wanted to take advantage and spend the afternoon outdoors. There is this hill a few miles from our house that has an old water tower on top of it and the views from up there are gorgeous. It's a FULL 360 degree view of our town and all that is in bloom around us. It's too bad our camera SUCKS, 'CUZ it was a fantastic day for photos. We love the outdoors, and we like to take joop out to play so it was a good combination. We took the car off roading after and I did some mean donuts in the mud and we went 4 wheeling. I've come A LOOOONG way from my prissy days. I'm a whole new woman. I'm out playin in the mud and shooting guns, even sometimes enjoying driving the old beat up jeep over my nice luxurious Infinity. Wow. anyway, here are a few pics from the day, including the view, the flowers, even our "cow" friends. Hope you enjoy!