Great Weekend!

We had a great weekend! It was my dads 60th birthday and my mom decided to surprise my dad and fly my sister home from Denver to help us celebrate. I have not seen Sadie since my wedding 8 months ago. My other sister and I went and picked Sadie up at the airport Saturday morning and then we headed over to Cheesecake Factory for some sister time. I LOVE that place! We had a lot of fun and we had the most amazing dessert, Red Velvet Cake Chessecake. Oh my goodness was it amazing. We said we didn't care if we gained weight this week because it was worth every bite!

For my dads birthday all of his children and their spouses and children wrote a letter to dad and told of their favorite memory and what they have learned from him. My brother put it all together and made a book with our letters and pictures. It turned out perfect. We were all excited to give it to dad and he was very touched by it. We hope that you had a great birthday dad. We love you!

Nothing else is really going on in our lives. We are just busy with work and school. Shem has a very tough semester ahead of him and so we are just trying to stay on top of homework. It makes me glad to know that I am already done and can just support and help my husband while we get him through!

Biggest Loser

So Christmas eve my dad announced that our family was going to have a Biggest Loser competition with our family. We started January 5th and are going for 12 weeks. At the end of each 6 weeks who ever has the biggest percentage of weight loss will win $100 and the overall winner gets $100. So there is the potential to win $300! There is a little motivation! So Shem and I are trying to become our families "biggest loser" but after this last weeks weigh in I am getting a little nervous! I got 1.4% and Shem didn't gain or lose anything. But my oldest brother lost 5.9%!! My sister created a blog for our weight loss. If you are interested in everyone's percentage you can check it out (it's listed on our blogs we follow). Wish us luck!

Our family has been very blessed lately. Shem recently received a job opportunity for a research group at BSU. He can work 10-20 hours during school and full time during the summer and during other school breaks. He is doing research for his field of study, electrical engineering. This is such a great blessing in our life. Not only will we not have to worry about finding Shem full time work this summer but the knowledge and experience that he will gain will be invaluable. He also found out that he made the Dean's list with honors for this past semester! I am so proud of him. He has put a lot of time and effort into his studies and it is definately paying off. I am so blessed to be married to man who values his education and wants to do the best that he can.

Shem is also putting his new golf clubs to use. We just got back from our date for the week and we went to the driving range. It was a lot of fun to be out there with each other trying to pretend like we knew what we were doing! We both had some really good shots and some really bad ones! But we had fun and we both look forward to the weather getting warmer so that we can stay out longer and maybe attempt to actually play some holes.