Goodbye Ben

This past week I drove Ben up to Oregon and dropped him off for his new job up there. I thought that Indiana was the country, but this place is something that you have to see for yourself. In the summer time I can see how it would be really pretty, but at the end of the summer all you could see for miles and miles is brown sage brush! Also, a lot of cows. Ben is living in Summer Lake right now which is 20 minutes away from civilization, 1 hour away from a grocery story, and 2 hours away from a mall!! :-) I have always wanted to live in the country, but not this country of a country. It will be interesting if we end up here for a while.

Ben will be working there for the next 3 months. He seems to have already left a good impression on his supervisors, which is awesome. In December or sooner we will be finding out about the full-time position that is available! Hopefully, it will be obvious that he is getting it, so we can finally figure out where we will be living.

As for me, I'm still in school. I moved in with my old roommates. It's kinda weird, but I just didn't want to be living by myself being pregnant. It was really sad leaving Oregon, well not Oregon just Ben. It's been ok, but it's only been two days so far! I'm just hoping that time flies and December is here before I know it.

Welcome New Adventure

Well, right now I'm sitting in our empty Wymount Apartment. Luckily, these places are tiny so it doesn't take to much time cleaning them out! I'm heading up to Oregon with Ben to drop him off at his new job in about an hour. We are hoping and praying that everything goes well and that this job will turn into a full-time position. That would just be marvelous!
I'll be spending the weekend with him and then get to drive the car back. I'm not looking forward to the long drive, but I really wanted to see where Ben is going to be working and just the area.
This whole week has been pretty crazy. On Sunday I totally fell apart at church. It was pretty embarassing! :-) After church I got a major headache and have had it everyday since. It's got to be just nerves, so hopefully I relax soon. We've been cleaning since Monday and all my teachers probably think that I'm an annoying hormonal pregnant lady. I haven't been the nicest this week! :-) It'll be nice to just get over this beginning part of this new adventure!

Life

Life is an interesting thing. Sometimes I wonder why we plan for the future because you never really know what is going to be handed to you.



Ben has been looking for jobs for about a year now. He's gotten plenty of job interviews for jobs that he is qualified or over qualified for, but yet nothing ever seemed to happen. He always just kept saying that they weren't places where we needed to be and that the right job would come around at the right time. The right time...yeah right! :-)



This past week Ben was asked to fill two different job spots. One is in Utah where he will be a conservation officer in Northeast Utah. The job deals with making sure everyone is legally hunting and not doing anything illegal. The other job is in central Oregon (the middle of nowhere)! He'd be doing his biology research there for a few months and then hopefully get the full-time position that opens up for the same job.



We finally reached the end of the job drought, but not quite when I had expected it too!



Oregon is the job that is sounding more of what Ben really wants to do. This job definetely isn't the best job ever, but it will get his foot in the door with the Oregon Wildlife Department. However, I'm pregnant and the baby is due in 3 months! This is where the whole bad timing comes into play. I can't leave Utah with Ben. How sad is that?! One of the first things I've wanted to do since I got here. I have to stay and finish my last semester at BYU and I have to stay here to have the baby. Not the best timing. In church we had a lesson about the pioneer women and the trials that they went through, one being childbirth. A comment was made about how the women probably didn't want to give birth in the most awful of circumstances, they just dealt with it because that was the only choice they had. I'm sure they also made the best out of it and had a lot of faith too. I feel like that. I definetely wouldn't choose to be away from Ben the last few months of pregnancy, but it's the only choice there is and I'll deal with it!

School

School started again! One more semester of classes and annoying BYU students.