Monday, April 30, 2012

7th Anniversary

Zach and I celebrated our 7th Anniversary on February 19th by going on a mini vacation/job interview to Bend, Oregon.  My parents drove up to Walla Walla the day before we left and stayed with Declan.  It was so fun to get away for a little while!  On our way to Bend, Zach surprised me with a new camera!  We have a nice SLR camera but it's a little too bulky to take everywhere so he got a nice little point a shoot and I love it!  Here's the first picture ever taken with the new camera.  Zach will love this. :)

Anyway, we left on Friday afternoon around 4 and got to our hotel in Redmond around 8:30.  The drive from Walla Walla to Redmond is quite boring.  There were only a few little towns that we drove through and luckily we had a full tank of gas since by the time we were driving through everything was closed.  It was a little weird.  The next day we drove around Redmond in the morning for a little bit to see it in day light.  Zach then had a working interview where he performed eye exams on the staff and their family members for a few hours.  After that was done him and I were able to go to lunch and then we both went to the office and met up with Dr. Sheldon who was interviewing Zach.  Dr. Sheldon drove us around to all the different offices (he has 4 in the area) and showed us around all the different towns around Redmond.  It was really nice of him and we really enjoyed the areas he showed us.  After a few hours of driving around we went back to the hotel and rested up a bit before going to dinner in Bend with Dr. Sheldon and his wife.  The restaurant they took us to was amazing and it was fun to see parts of Bend.  

The next day was Sunday, we got up early and headed to church with Dr. Sheldon and his family.  We wanted to check out a ward in the area.  Afterwards we drove back to Bend and spent the day walking around the Old Mill District.  It was great to see Bend in daylight.  It is such a gorgeous city!  This is the only picture we got of the two of us during our trip. (I swear my face gains 10 lbs itself when I'm pregnant...)

We had so much fun on our mini vacation!  We left feeling really good about the interview and thinking that if Zach was offered the position we would probably say yes!  Zach kept in really good contact with Dr. Sheldon during the next month.  In the middle of March Dr. Sheldon called and offered the position to Zach!  He gave him all the details of the job over the phone and asked him to think about it and let him know as soon as we could.  Well, we had been talking about it for a month so we talked about it for about 10 minutes and Zach called him back and accepted the job!  haha.  It's so crazy to know where we will be and have a real job.  I'm SO proud of Zach.  He has worked so very hard the last 5 years plus the 4 of undergrad to get where he is going now.  So, Zach will be the newest optometrist at Central Oregon Eyecare.  We'll be moving to Redmond on June 30th.  The next 2 months are going to be a little stressful but I'm sure we'll survive!  

What did Declan do while we were gone?  Beat up on Papa Pat...




He had fun with my mom also but the only pictures I have of them together, my mom is in her pajamas and I don't think she would like me posting those! :)

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