What do we do?

            Ok so Matt has been applying for jobs all over. He has tested and interviewed at all of them but he just has not been one of the top 3.  He always gets in like the top ten, which is good and i am so proud of him cause he works so hard staying in shape. but he just has not got a job yet.
           He has recently applied for a port of entry officer position and an officer position in Moab.  We got an email saying that we have to be in Phoenix Arizona on the 12th at 5:30 in the morning (which is a Friday)  So we where planning on going down the 11th and staying 3 nights there to kind of make a little vacation out of it.  But then we get a call from Moab saying that we have to be there at 8:00 in the morning (that's Wednesday).  I don't know if you have realized but we have to be in moab and two days later we have to be in phoenix.  Thats so much traveling and so much money in hotels and gas, plus missing 3 days of work.  Of course i could not go with Matt but he is a horrible navigator and seriously it is just a bad idea to send him that far alone.  There is a high chance that he will get the port of entry job but there is always the chance he won't and there is a low chance he will get the one in Moab but there is always a chance he will.  So we don't want to pass up a job opportunity but it will just be so hard on our budget and our sanity.  We know that a lot of people that are already certified applyed to moab because they are doing a whole separate day of testing for them.  So why would they higher someone they have to pay to certify it just does not make any sense.  Also i don't know if anyone has checked recently but to get a hotel in moab is expensive, our hotel in phoenix is less.  I just feel like we are just putting a lot of money out there but i guess if thats what we have to do to get a job then thats what we will do.  I will probably go into work on Saturday to make up for days missed but still its not going to be fun.
          I am trying to think of plus side things, one good thing is that matt and i will have about 20 hours of time to sit and talk to each other.  And we have a whole day in phoenix that we can spend doing what ever we want so i think we are going to Castles and coasters and an aquarium, and laying out by the pool!! It will be a long 3-4 days but hopefully we can make the best of it and get a job!!!!!

VENTING

This summer seams so much harder then last summer.  I think back to last summer and life just seamed to go by so much smoother. I don't get it.  Our house is hotter then ever and i thought when we moved in it would be cooler down her in a basement but i was oh so wrong.  Last summer Matt and i made quite a bit more money because he was working like 3 times as much as he now. now he only gets like 2 to 3 hours a day which is not much.  It just seams like we have more bills this year and making less money.  This is a bad thing.  Matt and I try so hard to keep our credit card paid off and put money in savings which we are still doing but it just seams like our money is just vanishing and neither of us is really spending it.  (we do have money from 3 of Matt's pay checks that we have not used because we just really want to save so that's maybe why it feels like we don't have money when we really do, Please don't think we are super poor and starving cause we aren't i just need to vent my frustration.)
  One thing that i really wish for is that Matt could find a career job.  He just graduated so i know i have to be patient but it feels like we are just stuck.  I feel like we are not moving forward or backward we are just here.  I know it takes time to get a job so hopefully he will soon!  I really like my job and i am good at it so if he could get a job here that would be awesome but i don't think that will happen, but i am glad i get to do something i like and i am able to make enough money to pay rent, which is my whole pay check but at least it gets paid.  (i know that was a really long run on sentence)  anyways i feel better now, i think i just needed to vent a little.

Birthday!

A few weekends ago it was my 21st birthday and Matt and I went to st. George and went shopping ! It was so fun! Matt was so cute and he did not complain at all he just pretended he really liked shopping :) we both got some clothes and some yummy food!! It really was such a great birthday!!
Tomorrow I think we are going to my grand parents! I have not been there for so long. At first we were not going to go but my grandma called and I just could not sat no I just felt so bad so I said that we are comming. It should be fun I think!
Tonight we went running and seriously i want to be a runner but i am not sure i will ever be.  We ran down to Wendy's and back and around campus.  It does not sound like that far but for me it was.  I was running a lot like  a month ago but i was running just around our block and its on a hill and after a while i got this huge bump on the side of my knee so i went to the doctor and its like an inflamed something that i cant remember but its from running up and down hills.  Retarded i know and that would only happen to me but hopefully i can get in shape with Matt running with me!

Recently

Ok so I feel like Matt and I have not really done anything exciting. We have just been working and hanging out with each other.  It is kind of nice not to have to do any homework or anything like that though.  We did get to go to Richfield to see my family and go to my best friends baby shower!! It was so fun to see my family, we don't really get the chance to go down there very often.  My friends baby shower was fun too! The night before i went over to her house and helped her family decorate the baby's room and it turned out so cute! It kind of made me want to have a baby but that will have to wait.  We spent the 4th with matt's parents, we went to the parade and had a bbq that night with some neighbors and family.  It was really nice to spend time with both our families.
This Sunday is my birthday!! I am so excited because i kind of just wanted to go shopping for my birthday so i have been trying to save money so we could go shopping.  Low and behold matt has been saving money for the last little while and yesterday he gave it to me!! it was like 600 dollars.  I am not spending even a 4th of it (most of it is going to fix both of our cars)  but he was also trying to make a point that we can just live off my paycheck and put his in savings when he gets it! But i am excited to go shopping with some of that money!!! :)

Scary

Well i went to Walmart tonight and as i walk out of the doors this guy is like hey, you are pretty.  I was like AAHHH.. ....... Thanks.  Like what do i say.  I was trying not to talk to him but he started talking to me and following me.  He was a scary looking guy too.  (sorry if that sounds judgmental)  anyways so i stood outside by the doors for like 20 min.  I didn't know what to do because i was alone and i didn't want to seem scared so i just tried to keep my cool but inside i was panicking.  I told him i was waiting for my husband to come pick me up because he just ran to radio shack, which was a lie but i did not want him coming back to my car.  But thankfully some guy came and got him away from me.  I was going to go back in the store i just was in panic mode and was just trying to not cry.  Seriously it was so scary though.  I am so glad some guy came along and saved me! When i got home i just broke down in tears, matt just gave me a hug and sat with me till i calmed down. (I am so glad i have matt!!)  Anyways there's my story.

Temple Experience

On May 28th Matt and I where sealed in the LDS St. George Temple.  It was such an amazing day!!  I was super nervous when when arrived just because i didn't really know what to expect. Matt and I where both taking out our endowments and right after we where scheduled to be sealed together.  I was so nervous when i went back to change and it was just me.  After the first part they had to sit me down and calm me down cause i was so nervous and shaky but once my mom got to come back i felt a little better but i was still nervous.  We sat and talked in a little room and it was just a good experience for me and my mom.  Once I got to see Matt right before the session started i felt so much more calm and i was not nervous.  I was just so excited to see him!!  We went through the session and honestly I am not sure i remember a whole lot but i remember i just felt the spirit so strong, it really was amazing.
Matt taking me through the Vail was probably the most emotional part of the whole thing.  I had a hard time keeping it together but Matt really struggled.  Once he brought me though he just started crying.. like really crying.  It was so sweet because Matt does not cry, ever.  In the sealing room he just could not hold it together and i was having such a hard time.  I think we where just so overwhelmed by the hole experience and seriously it was hard to not have such strong emotions.  During the sealing i just felt so much love from everyone in the room and it was nice to have family and friends there.  When i saw Matt crying i think i fell so much more in love with him or at least closer to him.  (not that i didn't love him before)  It really brought us closer together and i am so happy we are now sealed together for time and all eternity!

After we went to a park just down the street with everyone to eat dinner/lunch.  It was fun to be able to talk with everyone especially people i don't get to see a lot.  We ate sandwiches and had cake which was so yummy.  Thanks everyone who came.. and parents for the food. :)

Graduation and Aniversary

So Matt finally graduated college!!! He graduated with a B.S. in Criminal Justice.  He did so good.  He graduated Magna Cum Laude!!  I am so jealous that he is done with school.  I guess i only have one more semester so its not that bad but i just wish i was done two.  I did take some pictures of his graduation by my camera is a fossil so they all turned out blurry so i am just not going to post them.
Our one year anniversary was Sunday.  The night before we went on a date to chillies and it was so so yummy.  We thought about going somewhere but we kind of just wanted to stay home and hang out together.  Sunday we mad a Philly cheese steak pizza.  It was not as good as it looked but it was still ok, we even got out candles and sparkling cider. :)  We then got out the top layer of our cake and tasted it.  It was kind of gross so we just kind of ended up making a mess.  ha ha.  It was fun to just hang out we never have time to do that.  I can't believe we have been married a year already.  Its so weird how time goes so fast.  We also made some brownies just out of a box but something went wrong.  I am not really sure how we could mess up simple brownies but they seriously were rock hard and it was impossible to get them out of the pan.  Matt scrapped and scrapped and got like 4 brownies out of the whole thing.