Working Hard, Playing Hard

Oh man, sorry it's been so long since our last post! We've been busy, we've been playing, and we've been lazy! It seems like May has just flown by!
We are sure loving this whole being married thing! 82 days! Haha, the only reason I know that is because it updates on my facebook profile everyday. But we've been having way too much fun together, there's no time for blogging it seems.
I'm really liking my new job. The guys here are really laid back, but they work hard. Mostly I just answer the phones, but sometimes they give me other little tasks to do. It goes by really slow at times, but I keep myself occupied when I have nothing to do with facebook, reading, and writing Thank you notes. It's pretty fun I guess. James has been working hard to. They recently gave him another job at K-mart. He's filling in as recieving manager while the woman who usually does it is on vacation for a couple weeks. He works during the day now, which is so nice because I get him all to myself at night, which is probably another reason we haven't gotten around to blogging. He will be done with that pretty soon though, so I'm trying to convince him to find another part time job, but he's having difficulty finding something that works with his hours at K-mart. (He doesn't want to quit K-mart because they're so flexible while he's in school). Right now we're just hoping everything works out, but we have faith that it will.
Last Sunday we both talked in church. It really was a growing experience, at least for me. I've never done a talk in church longer than 5 minutes, and I was told I needed to speak for 20. I did my best, and I think it turned out pretty good. Someone even told me that it was one of the best talks he'd ever heard. I was glad to hear it. We talked about the temple, and the blessings we receive from attending. I really feel strongly about attending the temple, so I loved speaking about it. We try to attend the temple once a month, and we really notice how much of a blessing it is in our marriage and in our lives.
I love that it is summer now, it's so beautiful outside. Our house is right on the river and we just love opening the window at night and hearing it flow all night. We've been going on walks a bike rides, it's so much fun. Every once in a while we take our old bread and feed the ducks at First Dam. I love it. We've also really been enjoying all the summer movies that have been coming out. Summer is the best time for good movies, and we LOVE our movies. So far we've seen Wolverine, Star Trek, and Night at the Museum. We've really loved all of them really. We've also watched all of the Harry Potter movies that have come out, it's been really fun! I hadn't seen any of them but the 5th, and that's the one we're on now. They've all been really good, but I think the 2nd and 4th are my favorites. I'm so EXCITED for the 6th to come out. July 15th, woohooo! We're also really excited for Transformers to come out! It looks like it's going to be so good! Haha, we're seriously movie freaks!
Anyways, that's the update on our life lately, sorry it's been so long since the last post. I'll try to keep up on the blog a little better. I guess I just don't feel like our life is that exciting, even though I'm loving every second of it. Hopefully you're a little entertained by reading this. I love reading everyone else's blog, keep em coming!
Love you guys!

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted anything but things have been crazy crazy crazy! (Aren't they always?!) We've barely had time to EAT to be honest, let alone blog. I started writing out this post as I was remembering what's been going on in our lives for the past two weeks or so, but it was coming out very unorganized and word vomit-y. So, I just deleted it, and now I'm starting over. I think I'll try going in a kind of day by day fashion.
So the last post was on Thursday, April 16th. That was the day after I got laid off from my old job, big bummer. Well, because I had so much "free time" on my hands, James and I decided to finally try to put our house together. We got together all of the gift cards we received as gifts at our wedding, and we went shopping crazy! It was so much fun. Decorating your own house is the best! We drove down to Ogden on Friday night and had dinner, went to a movie, but most importantly, went to Target! It was fun to get away for half a day. On Sunday, the 1st Counselor in our bishopric surprised us with our first calling as a married couple. We're teaching the 16-17 year old Sunday School class. I was blown away. Pretty much by the fact that I would've been in Young Women with most of these girls. It'll be a challenge, but the Lord knows what He's doing, and I'm sure we'll be just fine. James is super excited about it. He's always wanted to work with the YM/YW age group. We're teaching our first class this Sunday. The next few days I mostly was trying to maintain my sanity while diligently searching for another job. On Friday I attended the bachelorette party for my dear friend and former roommate Samantha Stoll (soon to be Whitely). I'm so excited for her and her soon to be husband. They're getting married this Monday (May 4th), and I couldn't be happier for them. Congrats!
We drove down to Salt Lake on Friday night, and didn't get there until late. We're crazy. On Saturday we got to see Kim (my sister-in-law) finally. She just got back from New Zealand! She wasn't able to make it to our wedding, so we were glad to see her for the first time as husband and wife. We're both so glad she's home (as I'm sure the rest of the Black family is too). Also on Saturday, we attended Conner and Rhia's cousin's shower. It was a lot of fun. They're such an adorable couple! Our partying was doubled because we were also celebrating Grandpa Petersen's 87th birthday! It was so much fun to be able to spend so much time with the family. On Sunday we went to Char Bridge's (a great friend of mine from high school) farewell. She's leaving for the Honolulu, Hawaii mission on May 6th. I'm so excited for her, I know she'll do great. After spending some time with my family we headed back up to Logan for finals week....yuck! James has been really busy with that the past week, and I finally got some interviews. My first was on Monday, then one on Wednesday, and the last one was just yesterday. Well, good news, I got hired! I will now be working as a receptionist at Diversified Home Loans. I had my very first day today! I think I'm really going to enjoy it. The pay is only minimum wage, but we'll see how it goes for a while. I'm just really grateful to have a job. We are so blessed! Also on Thursday, I had lunch with some of the best girls in this whole world! We had a blast! Mariesa came up to Logan on a whim, and it was so good to see her. We had dinner with James' old roommates on Thursday night, and that's when I got the call saying that I got the job. Needless to say, it was kind of a celabratory dinner for me after that. We also went to see X-Men Origins:Wolverine midnight showing. We had super good seats thanks to Stephanie Maxwell, so I wanted to give a shout out to her. In hindsight, it wasn't the best idea. James had a final this morning at 7:30, I had my first day of work, I had to check out of my old apartment before work, and we still need to clean our house because all of James' family is coming up for Kim's graduation. It's almost 9:00 and I'm pooped! The movie was fun though, it was nice to get out and do something carefree since our lives have been so stressful lately. It's really felt more like two days instead of one today, though. Anyways, I think that's about sufficient for this post. I'm pretty sure I wrote a TON! Off to change the laundry, and James gets off of work in about 3 minutes, so See Ya!