FINALLY A NEW POST!!!! woohoo :)

So its been like almost 2 months since I last posted, and I don't really have an excuse! So to fill you in on the last little while....where do I even start?
Dave only ended up working as an assitant for a couple weeks, and then it came time to look for something else. It just happened to be the same time I was looking for a job as well, so for a couple weeks we we're both unemployed and it was so fun :) At least I thought so...we kind of laughed at ourselves for a while, and then it got to the point that we just felt so pathetic it wasn't even fun anymore.
So I started working as a nanny again for the family i've always worked for, but it was only a couple hours in the afternoons so I still needed to find a real job. Luckily, a job just fell right into my lap when a guy from my parents ward called and said he really needed a receptionsit at his office, so i went in the next day for an interview and he hired me on the spot :) So I'm the receptionist for a pension plan specialist company and I love it :) I got soo lucky with this job because its so close to where we live, some of my friends work there which makes it more fun, and it has amazing benefits for me and Dave which was a huge blessing.
Dave continued to apply for jobs for pretty much anything, just to get his foot in the door to somewhere he could maybe stay for a while but nothing was working out. Even jobs that he was completely over qualified for, weren't working out. He finally just got on with a temp agency so he could be making money while he continued to look. We're finally starting to get closer to figuring out what it is he really wants to do for a career. He had an interview with a credit union up here last week and we should hear back from them this next week. It's for a loan officer position, and he's wanting to stick with them and just move up in the industry to managing banks.
Then, my sister is crazy and just does research all day for everything and everyone, and she found Dave an application for border patrol. Dave has wanted to do this forever, not necessarily border patrol as his career, but just start with that so he can get into the law enforcement feild. I have been totally opposed to it since we've been dating, i just wanted to have a husband who had a boring office job, which would be safe :) Everyone would tell me I just needed to let him do what he was passionate about because he's the one who was going to be supporting our family. Well for some reason within the last couple days I've had a complete change of heart and I want him to do what he's always wanted to do. I would love if the bank job worked out and if he loved it that would be even better, but I dont want him to do something he's not passionate about just because I wont let him do anything else :) So...he applied and has some tests scheduled, and we'll see what happens. We'd end up having to move to southern california, arizona, new mexico, or texas, and as much as I love living back home and close to my family, I'm starting to realize we're young and if we're going to do something crazy like this, now's the time to do it!
So we will see what happens, it should be exciting :) Thats about all that's been going on with work, we've had lots of chances to house-sit and babysit over weekends and thats been fun :)

Anyways, this weekend we had a lot of fun. On friday night we went down to the Portland Rose Festival which is basically just a big carnival, and friday was the first night so they had a big fireworks show :) And of course, Dave had to win me something :) He kept saying as we were driving there he wanted to win me another big stuffed animal (like he did when we got engaged) and he loves playing those games that no one ever wins! SO he played a few and won me a cute pink monkey and a little tiny one too :)

They had this animal exhibit and it was really sad because all these little animals were locked up in really small cages, but it was kinda cool to see them up close. The baby tiger was sooo cute!
I dont know what that thing above is, it was just kind of scary, and the porcupine was sooo ANGRY, he wanted to get out so bad! I was glad he was locked up.
Our camera doesnt take the best firework pictures...this is even on "firework setting". They really were so pretty!
We had a lot of fun there and it was just fun walking around the city. We love living so close to Portland, we live a lot closer that I did growing up, its litterally like a 3 minute drive and we love it, its such a pretty city. Dave was saying he couldn't believe this is where we live, because its so big and pretty right on the water. WE love it :)

On saturday night we went to one of my close friend, haley's wedding reception! I was so excited because 1. we dont see each other anymore because she's going to BYU-I and I live over here, and 2. I finally have a married friend!!!! I was the first one out of my group of girls to get married, and I've just been dying for someone to join me! It was so great to meet her husband, they are so cute and I can just tell he is going to be sooo good to her! Dave really liked him too and so it's kind of sad we wont be living by them, at least for now :(

We had sooo much fun! After the formal reception part was over there was a dance and luckily i talked dave into staying! I LOVE dances, and although its not daves favorite thing, he's so sweet and was willing to stay and have fun with me! It reminded me so much of the night we met and it was just so fun :)

YAY for being MARRIED! :)