Farewell BYU and Hello Workforce

The MBA's. I took this picture after one of them (Ben) left. But this was Steve's first group of the MBA program, and these guys have been his good friends all the way through. Adamar, Brad, Kallan, and Ben. I'll hopefully get a picture of all five of them at graduation.
As of Friday, Steve will be an MBA Graduate. We are so excited! Going into MBA school, I was very nervous of the time and energy it was going to take for Steve to get through it. I thought we would never see him. But now that these two years are over, I look back and think things ran as smoothly as possible. Yeah, we had an unexpected baby come along half way through but thanks to our wonderful mothers we got through that adjustment well. Steve treated his schooling like a job. He was there every morning by 8am, and would come home around 6pm just in time for dinner. He was usually able to get everything done during those hours, and occasionally he would have things to work on at home in the evenings. His weekends were mostly free to be home with us, and we did actually spend a lot more time together than I thought we would. And with student loans, we went through graduate school pretty comfortably. Yes, we do have to pay those back, but because of them we ate well and the girls had plenty of fresh diapers.

Last week I attended a closing social for the spouses. After the social I drove around where I used to live in Provo when I met Steve. I lived in the cutest townhouse with a green door just south of campus. Steve lived around the corner. There are a lot of really good memories for me on that little block in Provo. I loved that time of my life. I loved attending school at BYU. As I was driving around I felt a little nostalgic. We are done with BYU now. We both got our degrees, worked, came back for more schooling, and now we're done. Probably forever. It's kind of sad. I will miss it. Steve probably will not for a while. I feel so blessed that I got to go to school there, and how I met my wonderful husband there, and for the life we have together now. So blessed!

Steve has accepted a job with a company called Cirque. Cirque is a tech company where they specialize in the touch capabilities on electronics such as lap tops and cell phones. Steve is on their marketing team and is looking forward to marketing these products. He has been working there since March one day a week while in school and will start full time here soon. They are located in Salt Lake and we are excited to stay here. We will probably stay in AF for at least a couple more years, and Steve will make the commute to work each day. He is used to this commute though because Cirque is only a few blocks away from where he used to work at Pepsi. It takes him about 30 minutes each way. We feel so blessed to have a great job for our family and for Steve's career. So blessed!