Shem and Reilly Purnell: May 2011

It's been a while...I know. But there hasn't been too much going on with us. Our lives are pretty boring during a school semester. We wake up. I go to work, Shem going to school and work and then 11 hours later we are back home where we eat dinner and Shem goes off to do school work and I watch a few episodes of Cheers or The Cosby Show on Netflix. It is quite the excited life. But now the semester is over!!! So instead of going to school Shem goes to work all day just like me. And instead of coming home and doing school work we have committed ourselves to going to the gym every day after work. We started last week and we made it every day. Now we just have to keep that tradition going...Speaking of school, Shem got his grades all back. This was another semester of him saying that he wasn't going to pass his classes and that he would have to re-take some of his classes. But I had faith in him. Not only did he pass all of his classes but he also raised his overall GPA again and made the Deans List with honors again! I am so proud of him. All of his hard work and late nights paid off yet again. I am still planning on him graduating next May but he tells me that since he had to change his catalog year that graduation may be pushed back another year because of 2 classes, I believe, that he has to take. So I strongly encouraged him to email his advise and see if they can't work something out. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

We celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary this month. I cannot believe how fast time flies. It seems like the other day we were counting down to our wedding day and here we are 2 years later. We both took the day off of work and it was so nice to have a 4 day weekend! We went and got new cell phones, went and show the movie Thor and then had an excellent meal at Lock Stock and Barrel. Very yummy. Shem got prime rib and I got filet minon. I would highly recommend that place. So a few months ago we were very seriously thinking about going on a cruise for our anniversary weekend to the western Caribbean. Well after we researched everything and added the cost up for everything we decided that it was probably best we didn't spend a lot of money that we didn't have and put what we make this summer in our savings account instead of the credit card bill! It was a tough decision but we are both so happy that we made that choice. So instead of a week long tropical paradise anniversary, we had a nights stay at the Anniversary Inn in the South Pacific room! We had our own little tropical paradise island all to ourselves. We didn't get our cruise this year but it will defiantly come some year!

This summer we are also trying to grow a little garden. It is hard when you are renting and do not have a lot space but I think that we have come up with a pretty good plan; let's just hope it works! I was at Michael's the other day and they had those plastic sand buckets for $1. Well I bought 5 of them and had Shem drill holes in the bottom. We bought some top soil from Costco and some plants and planted a little garden. We have a red and green bell pepper, a jalapeno, rosemary and basil. We have 2 little flower beds and in one of them we did carrots and onions and in the other we are trying for tomatoes and cucumber. I hope they turn out. I am so excited about what we were able to plant with how little space we have.

Well that is about it for us. I have attached some pictures for your enjoyment. Part of my family did the Race for the Cure at the beginning of this month in honor of my Aunt Collette who was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall. It was a lot of fun and now I have a picture of Shem with a pink shirt on! :)