Tender Mercies

Isn't it amazing how the Lord knows what we need when we need it?!?!  I love it!!!  Last week was such an amazing week!!! It started off rough.  I was having a hard time with some students at school and getting extremely discouraged.  I was on the verge of tears as my 4th graders were leaving the computer lab, but then came in my adorable kindergartners.  These kids are just the cutest things EVER!!!  One little girl walks in, looks at me and says "You're cute!" and then her friend behind her looks at me and says the same thing.  I know those were just 2 little words from 2 little girls but that made me suck up those tears and go on with my day!  That to me was a tender mercy from my Heavenly Father, telling me, don't give up!  Then I got to come home to my sweet husband who always knows what to say to make me feel better!  He is the best!  He puts up with a lot from me but he is just oh so good to me!
The next day as I'm getting out of my car and walking into school the first student I see says "Hi Mrs. Matos! You look really pretty today!" Talk about starting off the day great!  That day finished off amazing too!  We had a huge blessing come our way!  A long story short, there were some things stopping me from getting my diploma and that night everything got taken care of so any day now I should be getting it in the mail! I can't wait!
On Friday we got to go to my cousin Brian's wedding in the Salt Lake Temple!  I love going to weddings there because that means we get to go back to the place where we were sealed!  It was a beautiful ceremony!  Those always make me so happy!  I love weddings!
So I went from starting off my week ready to just give up and by the end the Lord had sent me so many blessing that I realized just how silly I was being!  I have so much to be grateful for and I am just so glad that my Heavenly Father knows me so well and knows how to help me when I'm feeling down.  I am so blessed!

Just some thoughts

Yesterday while Jose was at school my mom's visiting teachers came.  I love these sweet ladies!!!  They both were my young women leaders and so I joined my mom and talked to them for a while.  We got talking about how fragile life is and since then my mind has gotten away.  I am so lucky to have found such an amazing man who makes me so happy and I feel like I take life with him for granted every single day.  He is my best friend, he is always there for me no matter what, and he's a great husband!  I'm just feeling so overwhelmed right now with how much I love and appreciate him!  There is a song that I absolutely love that says my feelings exactly.  It's called Forever and Always by Parachute.  This is what the course says: 

I want you forever, forever and always

Through the good and the bad and the ugly

We'll grow old together, and always remember

Whether happy or sad or whatever

We'll still love each other, forever and always

Forever and always, forever and always

and here is the song:

My point that I'm getting at is that we never know what's going to happen in life.  I want to make sure that every chance I have to make a happy memory with my sweetheart I take it and enjoy every moment I get to spend with him.  

It's been awhile

So as I said in the title, it's been awhile since I posted anything.  So in the time since my last post a lot has happened.  We got all moved in to my parents house, they've been so great and so helpful in so many ways. We both have had lots of job interviews and I got offered a job at Providence Elementary as a computer lab teacher.  It's so weird that I'm going to be teaching at the school that I went to as a child.  Jose has been so supportive and great he's been down to my classroom with me lots in the last week helping me get it all decorated and ready to go.  On my birthday I got my keys to my room so as a present Jose took me and we bought stuff to decorate my room.  It was lots of fun!  For my birthday he made me an awesome birthday video with pictures of me growing up and pictures of us together.  I loved it!  It was the best birthday ever!  Then it was Jose's birthday.  We went down to Orem to spend the weekend with his family.  It was lots of fun and I loved that neither of us had to work on our birthdays.  I love getting to spend the entire day with him!  We hung out with his mom and little brother and sister most of the day and then that night some friends came over and we all had a party for him with Mexican hot dogs and cake and ice cream.  It was a pretty fun day!  The next day we spent making his best friend, Parker's, wedding video. We really enjoyed making it but it took most of the day to make.  Saturday was Parker's wedding reception.  We went for most of it, it was gorgeous, and lots of fun.  Sunday we went to church with Jose's family and had dinner with them then headed back up to Logan.  It was a great weekend!  Now we are just getting ready for school to start tomorrow for me, and Jose starts school on Monday.  We're both pretty excited, but kind of nervous.  So now we start the next big adventure in our lives!

Outside of the school district office the day I got offered my job!

The beginning of our birthdays!

Decorating my new classroom!

Hanging out on Jose's birthday!

What's up?

Whats up blog world its Jose! First writing on here so I hope I don't bore you. and don't worry Melissa will be blogging more than I will. Just wanted to let everyone that she is the best wife ever and we had the best birthdays ever! We went down to Orem with my family and it was awesome and my best friend parker's reception. and we had a great time but we missed being home a here in Providence! but ya melissa will write on here soon. see you later!

I am the luckiest girl in the world!!!!

I have such a great husband and I am so lucky to have him!!! Monday evening while packing up our apartment I got a phone call that my grandparents had been in an accudent. It freaked me out pretty bad and he was there for me for the rest of the day while playing the waiting game to find out what was happening. Well Tuesday afternoon my parents decided I needed to come up to Logan to help with my grandparents. So Jose being the amazing husband he is told me not to worry about the packing and go. So I dropped everything and left him to do all the packing. He has been so sweet and so supportive!!! I hate being away from him, but my parents and i are headed back down tomorrow when they're off work to move us up here. I can't believe it's really happening! But I'm excited to start something new with my sweetheart! Thanks Jose for everything you do for me! I am the luckiest girl in the world to be able to call you mine!!!

The Dark Knight Rises=Best Movie Ever!!!!

This week was lots of fun, first on Tuesday we went to Jose's best friend, Parker's wedding.  Parker and Holly got sealed in the Draper Temple.  It was so fun going to a new temple we haven't been to.  It is such a pretty temple!!! I love going to sealings with Jose and hearing those promises that we made each other 8 months ago.  It's a great refresher and always brings us closer together. 

Outside the temple

Then Wednesday we went up to Logan where we both had job interviews, we're really hoping we get these ones so we will see.

Now here is my favorite part of the week. 4 years ago when I moved to Orem the very first movie I saw down here was the Dark Knight.  On Thursday we went to what will probably be the last movie we go to down here, The Dark Knight Rises.  I am obsessed with Batman!  I love it!  Jose and I have been planning on going to the midnight premier of the final movie of the trilogy since we saw the very first teaser trailer at Harry Potter last July.  I need to add that when Jose and I started dating he HATED Batman, or any other super hero movie.  I have now brought him to my side, he was just as excited to see Batman as I was!!!  So Thursday at 1 I picked Jose up from work after running some errands and picking up our friend Ryan we were in line at 2:30pm to see the midnight showing.  Ya call us crazy, but we have fun!  It was such a good movie!  I can't even put into words how good it was.  We didn't get to sleep until about 4 in the morning Friday so we were pretty lazy all day yesterday.  It sure has been a fun week.  Now we have lots of packing and cleaning to do to get ready for the moving truck next Friday, YAY!!!

Me and my sweetie waiting for the movie!!!

In the theater waiting for the movie to start, Derek looks kind of creepy haha

Always pulling faces!!

I find my self always hanging out with a bunch of boys.  What is with this?!?!

New Adventure

One of the hardest parts of graduating is finding a job.  I love the movie Post Grad and I feel just like the girl on that movie!  She just graduated college and can't find a job and it just shows what she is going through while trying to figure out what to do with life.  I've never been so discouraged before in my life, but Jose has made it so much easier for me.  He was there for me for every rejection email and phone calls.  He is the absolute best and I love him with all of my heart!  I don't know how I would have made it through the last few months without him!  It's been an emotional time but it has only brought us closer to one another. So after feeling so  lost and confused on what to do with life we finally came to a decision.  We read both of our patriarchal blessings, got a blessing from the bishop, said lots of prayers, and spent 5 hours in the temple.  After everything we finally had an answer.  We are moving to Logan!  I can't believe it's real!  But we are really doing it!  I told my boss yesterday and he will be telling his tomorrow.  I'm excited to start this new adventure with my sweet husband!  Everything is just falling into place!  We both have job interviews on Friday that we are going up for so we're hoping it goes well!!!  I'm sad to be leaving Orem, but know this where we are suppose to be.