Sarah Ann Mulder...

Alrighty, there are some highlights that I not been sharing from my life, and while I don't particularly feel like writing, I am going to appease the 80% of reasoning of why I am actually keeping this blog.  That reason being I want my future kids to know what I participated in and thought about as a young adult....good and bad.  I wish my parents would have had blogs for me to peruse through at my liesure. They have always given me great advice and have allowed me to make my own decisions as I see fit, but it is so much fun to see pictures of them from when they were my age.  Before they had kids and even met each other.  Their hair and glasses and clothes and the people they hung out with...all of it is fun and wonderful.  So anyway, that is why I am writing this blog...mostly.  The other 20% is because I am a little scared of some freak accident coming through my house and destroying all my pictures and I figure no such accident can destroy the internet.  I'm pretty sure I get that fear from my Momma....all you need to know is that is why cats that pee in our house have just been sentenced to death row.

My mom and dad.  I don't look like them at all...

One of my favorites of my mom and Aunt Su.

So, where do I start?  All the way back to December 2012 when I visited my dear friend Sarah Mulder in San Diego.  I spent a full week hanging out with her and Francis and their not-so-little puppy Leo Beo. We went to the beach and had California burritos and had a photoshoot.  We went shopping and sang Christmas carols.  I got to know Francis much better which was good for me.  It is so wonderful to know that your friends have married great men.  We played quite a bit of the Playstation.  We went to Los Angelos and saw the Hollywood sign and quoted Pretty Woman and saw all the touristy stuff.  I really just enjoyed being around her.  

I know her last name is Kaggwa now...but she will always be Sarah Ann Mulder to me.  She is even in my phone as Sarah Mulder and I have absolutely no intention of changing it.

How do you describe Sarah?  She changes with the wind it seems.  Her style and taste are different every time I see a new picture of her.  This makes my life difficult because I always want to dress like her.  From freshman year to now, I am constantly wishing I had her clothes.  I love that about her though.  Her confidence is such that she can wear/ do/ think/ say anything she wants and people will always think she is awesome.  Or at least they should...because she is.  She is a wife.  A loving, thoughtful wife.  A role I only got to experience her playing this last winter.  Sarah sees beauty in everything.  Things most people find ugly or worn down, she sees as glistening and intriguing.  She has liked some of what I thought were my worst pictures because she sees me in them.  The real me....not just my form.  This has blossomed into a wonderful passion for photography.  From traveling shots in Africa to me, I count it an honor to have been photographed by her.  She has taught me so many things about myself.  She has taught me to appreciate my body...all of it, to what it takes to live with someone successfully, to how to let loose and walk around a room without pants on, which was absolutely appalling to me at first when I lived with her.  She loves my giggle and was not afraid to tell me that.  She is one of the only people who knows what my singing voice is like and we take advantage of that by singing Christmas carols at night before bed.  We have slept right next to each other on a twin size bed, and I have sat and watched her sleep during all-nighters with ear plugs and a face mask that she donned just so I could work comfortably from that same bed.  We are kindred spirits and God knew that and brought us together through terrible roommates, dramatic friends, breakups, reunions, every appliance known to man, and never seeming to be able to remember that our lives overlapped.  She loves thunderstorms and old records.  Once she flushed a live fish down the toilet because she figured it was going to die soon anyway.  She listened to this singer who had such a high pitch talking voice...I can't remember her name.  She loves patterns and prints and Pride and Prejudice.  The quilt on her bed is the same one that she made when we lived together.  I will always remember her singing around the dorm room practicing for choir.  For some reason when I think of this the lyrics of "trust and never doubt, Jesus will surely bring you out, He's never failed me yet" always pop into my head.  These are just some of the things I treasure in my heart about my best friend.  I look forward to finding out many more  secrets about you Sarah Mulder.  I love you and I am so thankful for you!

October 2007

Winter 2008

Sarah's Wedding August 2010

Graduation!  April 2011

Senior Banquet 2011

We're so silly!

Sarah's favorite.

Hollywood!  Everybody's got a dream.  What's your dream?

I LOVE HER!

Leo Beo.  He was so fluffy and soft..and for not being a big dog person, he grew on me.

Mom and pup!