spring is almost here.
yay!
that means it is time
for me to roll down my windows
turn up my music
and drive and drive and drive

that is the best

so if you watch grey's, were you disappointed in last nights episode?

today is nathan's birthday, who happens to be the most wonderful man ever! so everyone please wish him a happy birthday! he is really incredible, trust me!



who else can be this awesome?!

[i love you, nathan! i hope you have a perfect birthday! thank you for being so amazing! happy birthday]

To My Valentine:


You are the best Valentine because:

because you appreciate the silly side of life

you play in the rain with me

because you follow after God's will even if that means leaving everything close to you behind

you treated me like a princess the night you asked me to be yours forever... and you still continue to now :)

you love me so much more than i even know

you got me the BEST dog EVER!

you make a pretty cool ninja

you help make my dreams come true

you are friends with a pirate. that is pretty cool

you are the best husband a girl could ask for! thank you for being so amazing!

happy valentine's day, my love!

each of us are born on to this earth with a completely blank canvas. we hold the paints in our hands and we choose how the painting will look. everyday we have thousands of choices to make. small ones and huge ones that can effect the outcome of our painting. we can choose to float through life or we can choose to live life. we can choose to use our precious time here to make a difference. to touch many lives and leave behind sweet memories.

i think back to ellen. i am amazed at the legacy she left behind. she left beauty and God's love everywhere she went. you could see it on the faces of all who loved her. the same with bruce. and recently with my cousin, katie. she lived her life to the fullest. she got what it is all about. they all painted beautiful pieces of art with their lives.

i don't know about you, but i want mine to be a masterpiece.

Merry Christmas, Everybody! I hope it was great!



nathan got me a canon rebel! so awesome! he is the BEST husband ever....


i got him a nintendo ds and brain age... which does not compare to the greatness of his gift to me.... but we sure have fun with it!


So, once again, Merry Christmas! Have a great night!

*and if you would like to see more pictures from our christmas you can check out my flickr photos!*
http://flickr.com/photos/rachaelmoore

first, if you have 'on demand' you should do some karaoke. seriously. i just sang some christmas songs and danced around to others. fun times.

secondly, i feel God awakening my heart. and it is pretty awesome. i guess for a while i have felt rather distant from God... and lacking in passion. and this week God has put an amazing woman in my path that has helped to be an encouragement to me. and i feel His desires for me and my life stirring in my soul... and i am starting to see clearly a glimpse of my future... and it feels good to know that God will always be taking care of me. i feel i have been overly cautious with my faith lately... and feel the need to just leap, and walk in faith again. goodness. i have been waiting for a long time for this. i guess my sleepy soul finally decided to wake.

welp! i hope everyone has a wonderful night!

so nathan's company had a christmas party at amerigo's tonight. and we had to get christmas gifts to play dirty santa. we got mr. and mrs. potato heads. perfect gift! anyway... so has anyone ever seen the christmas party episode on 'the office'? you know how michael gets an ipod... this girl totally opened up a shuffle. b/c of nathan's boss. it was funny and shocking.... later we found out that it was for an even bigger scheme. so long story short, nathan's boss got them all ipod shuffles. dang. i wish i had a boss like that....

anyway... it was pretty fun. i have a christmas party with my class tomorrow... i will be getting food. for free. that is pretty cool too, right?

well, i hope everyone had a great night!

at starbucks!it was fun



we had our computers... and talked to sarah online... and to each to each other! ha!

look how cool we are! 
 
it was fun! and much needed! i so miss hanging out with all my friends! a lot! dear friends: i hope you don't think i am boring now that i am married! i am not. we can stil hang out. love, rachael
 
anyway... so i start work tomorrow. this will be the first job i have had that i do not know anyone at all. that makes me a little nervous. but everyone seems nice... so hopefully everything will go well. and hopefully i will like it. i have a problem with that one it seems... oh well. i know the time will come when i am able to do exactly what i want. but right now this is what i have to do. so might as well try to enjoy it, right?
 
well, i hope that everyone is having a great sunday! adios!

so here's a recap of my week so far...

Monday: apply at a church in brentwood for teaching position

Tuesday: they call me for interview

Wednesday:
10:30-interview, went well, said they would call back in a day or so for second interview
2:45- lady calls for the second interview
3:00- lady calls offering me the job

pretty awesome. and fast.

so no more lazy days for me. friday i have to go in to fill out paper work and such... and start on monday. as much as i was hesitant about another child care job, this seems like a nice place. the director was very nice and funny (and she likes grey's!!!), and seemed to know how to take care of her workers. and it is a church. being in a christian environment and doing childcare makes all the difference. so i hope that i like it.

and what makes this super great is that i don't have to cook tonight because nathan is going to take me out!!! yay! haha!

so i have had this desire to go feed ducks at a park recently, and so today, nathan and i went to centennial park. i had some bread and my camera ready!



me feeding the ducks!


that white one made some funny noises...


i took some pictures...


and nathan took a picture of my feet...


we saw some geese


and went by the parthenon


nathan walking along


i have not been there in so long! i loved it! and it was so beautiful outside today!

i hope everybody else is having a great day!

so it may be a little early... but nathan and i put up our christmas tree! it was a lot of fun! i am so excited to have it up!



nathan decorated some ornaments




and we started putting up the tree...




sophia watched...


nathan and i decorated the tree


our tree all decorated!


a view from outside...


sophia as a reindeer and me


ah! i am so excited about christmas this year! i can't wait to do all the christmas things with nathan!

i hope everyone has a great night!

nathan and i celebrated thanksgiving in nashville with my family this year. it was a lot of fun! and it was also nice to spend time with my family for thanksgiving because i have not been able to in a few years.

so a photo recap:



the expected picture...



nathan got a paper.... it was HUGE! it was full of ads for tomorrow




sophia came along...


saw all the food and wanted in on the celebration


we went outside...




and my sister and i went for a ride on our cousin's bike


it was a fun day! and for dinner tonight nathan was super wonderful and made dinner for me!!! it was nice to have dinner cooked for me. he is so great!

so how was everyone else's thanksgiving? i hope everyone enjoyed it!

well, i hope you guys had a happy thanksgiving! and have a good night! and if you get out in the crazy shopping frenzy tomorrow be careful for the crazy ladies with the killer shopping carts....

i hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving!!!

i am listening to copeland. and thinking. a lot.

sophia is next to me... and puinea gig's empty cage is on the other side. i wish i had time to clean it up and put it away... but i think i still haven't let go yet. i know, she was just a guinea pig.... but a great one. silly me and my silly emotions.

tomorrow is my last day as a nanny. and it is a weird feeling. i am going to miss judah... a lot more than i probably think i will. he's my little buddy.

i feel overwhelmed by the blank canvas that lies before me. i have so many options... but it feels like none at all. i am having a hard time finding something else. but i know that everything will work out when it is supposed to...

and on that note, i feel the need to do something more. something bigger than me... something creative... something full of passion. something that is moving. something beautiful.

and i am also feeling the need for a really good conversation and a good long cry

i felt the need to post something... anything.

i am glad grey's is on tonight... i feel the need for the drama and humor it brings me for an hour. and i love the company i have when i watch it... amber and nathan. two of my favorite people.

hope everyone is having a great night!

when i got home from work last night, nathan noticed puinea gig was acting differnt. so we brought her back downstairs and she looked pretty sick. and over the course of the next few hours she started getting worse. she was not moving, and not eating and let me tell you this guinea pig loves to eat! we went to the store to get some medicine, i read could help their stomachs (her tummy was upset) and we gave her that and some water by the dropper too. and it wasn't looking good. and when sophia got sick last month, my mom came over with an iv to help get her hydtrated. so, nathan being brave, gave puinea gig fluids. she seemed to perk up a little... but started getting worse again. we were up until about 1:30 last night, and finally went to bed.

puinea gig was a good guinea pig. all of her "wree wrees" will be missed. she was the best guinea pig.

so i was thinking a lot this morning when i was getting ready. i was thinking about God's faithfulness.

have you ever noticed that most the time when God promises you something or calls you somewhere, there is that point in that journey where you are all alone? just you and God's promise or calling?

before nathan and i started dating God kept promising me things and kept telling me to wait. and in this process i got to a point where nobody believed in it any more. i was all alone, just me and God's promise. and obviously, He was faithful. and back my senior year, God told me to walk away from a friendship because He said He had bigger plans for me. and once again, i was alone, just His calling and me. and once agian He was faithful.

i think faith is an interesting thing. sometimes that is all you have. just that faith-- the hope in something that has yet to happen. and trusting in something bigger than yourself. and that doesn't mean it is easy, because it isn't. it is hard when you are alone in something you believe in with all your heart... but that is all part of the journey and learning to rely on God alone.

God is faithful. even when we are faithless.

i am not really sure why this thought came to mind this morning, but i feel somewhere in my heart i need to know this again.

God is faithful.

we went to the park.
it was cold.
it was fun.

so this year i was determinded to have a halloween party. mainly because i wanted to dress up. so i had this whole thing planned... and a lot of it fell through... such as people being out of town and what not. so, still determined, i decided to have one with two guests. call me a loser, but i wanted to have one. and it was fun! so a photo recap:



we had decorations...

puinea gig even joined in... she was a ghost as you can tell

we had fun halloween food and treats

nathan was a ninja

and i was a flapper

our guests, scary licking scream guy (michael) and cinderella (amber)

one so pretty and one so weird

nathan and i strike a pose...


and sophia joined in too... she was a dinosaur. she was very unhappy with us and her costume.... she hid from us until we took off the costume. and then she tried to attack the dvd player. so funny.

so it was a lot of fun. i am glad that i was able to dress up and such. i wish that i could still go trick-or-treating. that would have been great!

but yeah... in other rachael news... i quit my job. and am currently looking for a new one. no more childcare for me. i need something new. preferably something creative, such as photography. if you know of anything please let me know. (and to those of you that know my job history in the last few months please understand that i am not just jumping from job to job because i think it is fun. i want to do something i love and am passionate about. and i think life is way too short to be miserable. so i am looking foward to bigger and better things. i am not being irresponsible, nor am i being indescisive. i just have big dreams for myself and choose not to settle for anything less)

but yeah... how is everyone else? i hope that life is wonderful for everyone! i hope you guys had a great halloween and hope you have a great night!

so nathan and i carved our pumpkins tonight.... so as always, a photo recap:



i had to clean out both pumpkins...

while waiting, nathan decorated his little pumpkin

nasty stuff in the pumpkin

sophia had no clue what was going on...

we finally started carving....

and this is my penguin pumpkin

and nathan's strongbad pumpkin!

don't they look great?!


it was a lot of fun! i have not carved a pumpkin in forever! i am really looking foward to the holidays this year... i am having a lot of fun decorating and spending it with nathan!

today we have been married for 5 months and it has been great!

so, i hope everyone else is having fun! have a great night!

can you believe this happened a year ago today?!







so crazy how time just flies by.

nathan is great! this past year had been amazing! ahhh i love it all!

so over the past few months nathan and i have been watching the previous seasons of 24. we are currently on the 5th season, which nathan has already seen. over the time i have watched it i developed my favorites, david palmer, chloe, tony, and of course jack. if you don't watch this show i know you don't know who i am talking about... you you should watch it. seriously. anyway, last night we were watching an episode... and it was terribly sad. tony died. i am not going to lie... i cried. a lot. i felt so ridiculous, but he was my favorite character. i still feel so silly... just like i did last week on grey's anatomy when mcdreamy walked away....

ah tv... how silly am i?

anyway... last year sometime i posted about some things i would like to do before i die... and recently i have been thinking about some more things to add. i was able to do some of the things on my list such as, get married and go out west and see the pacific! fun fun!

so here are some more:
-live in nyc
-see a bear and moose in the wild (still weird, i know)
-pet a penguin (i actually found a place that allows you do to this!!!!!!!)
-go to italy, london, and paris
-take pictures of things in other countries most people won't get the chance to ever see
-go to the san diego zoo
-swim in the pacific
-get a job i love!
-have something published (book or photograph)
-learn to like new types of food
-drive on the pacific coast highway
-drive on route 66

i am real serious about petting the penguin. if i ever see one in the wild somebody better hold me back because i might just take it. i could keep it... and walk it on a leash. picture it. you know it is cool.

well, i have to get back to work. i hope every one has a great day! 

i want to be there. right now.
i want to hear city sounds.
walk on the side walks.
ride the subways.
be cold. wear a scarf.
sit in the park.
see the lights.
take it all in.



 


my heart is still in nyc.

so i took the children i nanny to the pumpkin patch today! it was sooooo much fun! so as always, a picture recap



justin and the giant pumpkin

justin as a pumpkin

judah and a calf

in the corn maze...

and us in the corn maze



yay! i have not been to a pumpkin patch since i was a little kid. i was running around so excited! it was too much fun!

and a quote from our trip:
justin: "whenever i get to high school i will be black."
me: "what?! what are you talking about you will be black? haha"
justin: "a black belt"
me: "ohhh HAHAHAHAHAHA"

fun times

we got some new stuff...

nathan got a new mustang convertible (as in new to us)

i got a dog! her name is Sophia!

us in the car

yay!


i love sophia! she is great. we gave her a bath tonight and it was too funny. she's pretty much the best dog ever.

everything is going pretty good here in the moore apartment. we have been married a little over 4 months now and it is still lots of fun and really great. i love nathan so much!

and can i tell you how excited i am about something?! we got some little tiny pumpkins tonight! i cannot wait to decorate them! i get excited over the small things in life.

well i am pretty much exhausted kids. working 10 hours a day kills me. if you know of anything better you should let me know. please.

i hope you have a great night!