Graduation!

Eric graduated this weekend with his MBA. I'm so proud of him. We just got here a year ago, but Eric went straight through and a lot of late nights and hard work later here we are! He's been able to do so much in the little amount of time we've been here. As many of you know Eric studied in Switzerland during the break between his first and second trimester and then did a second summerim here in Phoenix between his second and third trimester. He's been able to work closely with several "real" companies on school projects including a small restoration company in Denver, Biosense Webster, and Target. He truly has worked hard over the past twelve months and this weekend he keeps thinking he needs to be doing something...I don't think it's quite set in that he's done!

Eric's dad and stepmom and my parents came down to celebrate with us. We had a lot of fun meeting Eric's classmate's families and saying goodbye.

An added bonus for me was to get to have our families intown for my birthday. I was spoiled. We had dinner with Eric's parents and once mine got here my mom made breakfast, they took us to lunch, and I got to go shopping with my mom and Krista. Once we said goodbye to our parents, Eric and I topped off the night with ColdStone (thanks Erica!) and falling dead asleep for the next ten hours.

Baby Shower/Going Away Party

I wanted to make this post a little earlier, but Eric has been monopolizing the computer until 3 or 4 in the morning lately....luckily he's finally DONE!!! Eric and I have made some GREAT friends since we moved down here a year ago and we're really going to miss them when we move this week to Indiana. This past week they threw us a Baby Shower/Going away party. We had so much fun and all the guys got to experience their first baby shower. They definitely put their own twist on it when at some point in the evening we ended up watching some Thunderbird Rugby highlights. We had a great time! Thanks for the party guys!

This is the gang... Ty and Erika are moving to Mesa this week, Jenn, Dawson, and Evie are hanging in here one more year, Eric and I are heading out to Indiana, and Ryan, Abby, and Riley have already left to Slovenia!

Here are the girls and the boys at the party!

Erika and I decided to take a picture of our growing bellies. This is about 6 months for both of us. Erika is due 3 days before me!

Thunderbird Global Brand Plan Competition Winner!

Congrats to Eric... I haven't seen him much this last little while, but his hard work paid off. He's currently taking a brand management class where one of his projects was part of the Thunderbird Global Brand Plan Competition. He and two other classmates were working with a group from Target India to try and re-brand target as a great company to work for in India. They did a great job, won a little prize money, and get to sleep again! I've attached a brief clip of a video they made that was part of their presentation... Does it make you want to work for Target??

Moving on!

This last year in Arizona has gone by so quickly and Eric is now 3 weeks away from graduation. He had been talking to Cook Medical about staying here in Arizona doing sales, but they recently had an opening in their marketing department that he's pretty excited about so even though it means moving to Bloomington, Indiana he decided to go with the marketing option. The company is reorganizing their marketing department into three divisions (Asia, Europe, and the Americas) Eric will be over the Americas and is hoping he'll get to use some of his Portuguese as the company grows in Brazil. We're so excited to know where we're going and have it finalized and I'm so excited Eric was able to find a company and position that he's really excited about!

Diamondbacks

We finally made it to a Diamondbacks game and just a few weeks before we have to say good-bye to Arizona. We had a lot of fun, but unfortunately the guys lost. We also tried out the zoom on our camera to get a couple shots of the players!

Family!

What a fun surprise. Eric's cousin, Kami, and her family were in town visiting Bill and Sherry and they invited us over for dinner. We were excited just to meet up with them for dinner and swimming, but they found out we were having a boy a few days ago so they made it into quite the celebration. Telise, Kennedy, and Jace made us a congratulations banner. They bought us all sorts of cute boy clothes (Our child is going to be much better dressed than we are) and to top it off they even got a congratulations baseball cake. We were pretty spoiled!

8 year olds really bring out the kid in Eric, we practically had to pull he and Jace out of the pool to eat ice cream.

It's been so great living close to Bill and Sherry and knowing we have a little bit of family close by. Thank you guys for the great surprise party!

Monsoon

Well... I'm a little late posting this, but in Phoenix we have two types of weather... HOT and Monsoon. The other night I went walking with Jenn and Erika and we got caught in the Monsoon. Luckily Eric was on campus and he came to our rescue!