It has been a few months of painful waiting to see where Tyler would be excepted to Med. school. We were all so thrilled when we found out that he would be going to UT at Houston. Kaylee was also excepted into Grad. school at Texas A&M. I am a bit sick that my kids are heading back home and we are moving to the frozen north! We are so proud of these two. They work well together and set lofty goals for themselves. We love them and are so proud of them.
This is what Tyler wrote on his blog about their big news! Touching....:)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
The MONTH of Good News!Kaylee and I have had an absolutely wonderful month full of great news! On February 1st Kaylee and I woke up a little earlier than normal to wait for the match results to Texas medical schools. It was an especially stressful/nervous/sickening morning for me as I feel that I have been working towards medical school acceptance for the past five years! After interviewing at six medical schools in August/September 2009 we had been anxiously awaiting the match results that were to be posted at 7:00 AM on February 1st. After several system glitches and an incredibly tortuous and incorrect "sorry, you have not been accepted to medical school" message, we finally learned that we matched to our top choice - The University of Texas at Houston! It was a very emotionally draining morning (especially after the fake-out message); however, I feel incredibly relieved and we are both very excited about our upcoming move to the Texas Medical Center this summer.The emotional high of Monday was quickly followed up with concern on Tuesday about how to pay for medical school. For the past year we have been seriously considering whether or not to have the military finance my medical education without being able to feel comfortable with a decision one way or the other. However, on Tuesday we both began to feel very strongly that we should apply for the Air Force's Health Professions Scholarship. The scholarship program is semi-competitive and we were worried that we would not be selected, but after submitting my application on Friday the 5th we learned that we had been offered the scholarship on Monday the 8th! The Air Force will pay for my tuition, books, and fees as well as give us a monthly stipend for living expenses. In return I will serve for 4 years on active duty after completing a residency program. Hopefully, Kaylee will let me do their flight surgeon program so I can fly some of these sweet jets!
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The good news just kept coming as Kaylee received a bonus, a promotion, and a substantial raise at work on Friday the 12th! She has worked for Overstock.com in Salt Lake City since May 2009 as a Demand Management Analyst and will stay there until we move in August.
Kaylee has also been working towards getting into a master's program in statistics. She has been studying very hard for the GRE and finally took the test on Saturday the 13th. After reporting her exam results to the program director at Texas A&M she learned on Monday the 15th that she has been accepted into their on-line master's program in statistics! I am so proud of her and her hard work! Statistics is not exactly the easiest degree program and she has worked very hard to get into this program. She will start in May by taking one class while still working full-time; when we move in August she will be a full-time graduate student.
We feel very blessed with all of this wonderful news and are so grateful that Heavenly Father has answered our prayers! For me, it has been a very humbling month as I have reflected on all of these blessings and contemplated how much our Father in Heaven truly does yearn for our success. It is often amazing to me how quickly we seem to forget our pleadings with the Lord for those things that we desire to have most in our lives after they have been granted. Before receiving the blessing it is as if we feel that all rests squarely upon the Lord's shoulders and we pray and fast accordingly. Yet after the blessing has been realized it is sometimes tempting to feel that we are entitled to our successes and forget how gracious the Lord has been in granting us our desires. Kaylee and I are so grateful for the strength of the gospel in our lives, and have felt our testimonies strengthed that we truly do have a loving Heavenly Father who sorrows with us in our failures and rejoices with us in our successes.
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7:11 PM Thursday, February 18, 2010
Then on Friday we had Carly & Joel and Blake & Caroline over for a cake, wii, and Catch Phrase party! Blake has become quite the cake decorating master and showed up with one of his most impressive masterpieces. Due to Kaylee's knitting obsession Blake made a giant cupcake, complete with knitting needles & yarn! As you can tell from the pictures it really was very impressive - thanks Blake!
After cake we downloaded Tetris Party onto the Wii in honor of Carly's old e-mail address: tetris521! It is usually kind of hard to get Carly involved in the Wii parties, but she was into this one. All I can say is that I hope Carly & Joel can still be friends after Joel claimed the Tetris King title!
For those of you who haven't had the honor of playing Catch Phrase with Blake Williams, all I have to say is that you should make it a life goal! Every time we get together for these parties we try to do a round of Catch Phrase and every time Blake is the most entertaining part of the game. In recognition of the fact that 1) you probably have to know Blake to think this is funny AND 2) you probably had to be there; nevertheless, let me share a classic Blakeism from last night's Catch Phrase party:
