Bath Time

Andrew really enjoys bath time. He was having so much fun I had to take some video. Enjoy!

One week down, 40 more years to go...

Hello everybody, I usually leave this blogging thing up to Sarah, but she wanted to me to tell all of you about my job because I think she still doesn't really understand what my company does.

Well, about 2 days before I got my Bar results back, I accepted a job at a company called Excelerate Energy. As Associate Legal Counsel of Excelerate, my job is to get myself acquanted with the company and the industry. At this early point in my career, they do not expect much from me yet, but that will change. I am actually the only attorney at the company because they have primarily used outside law firms to most of their work. The CEO wants to develop a staff attorney from inside rather than hiring a expensive outside attorney. Thats where I fit in.

About Excelerate - Excelerate deals primarily in the transportation of LNG (liquidified natural gas). The thing that makes us different from most companies is the technology that we employ. Most companies bring LNG to a port with a regasification plant. The plant turns the liquid back into its gas form, after which it is piped to consumers. These plants are big, expensive, and create a lot of pollution. Our technology allows us to regasify the LNG on board our ships and then pump the gas into an underwater pipe line (as seen in the picture below). This allows us to reach more markets, because we do not have to build an expensive regasification plant, and this process is extremely clean in comparison.


Even though its only been one week, I can tell that this job is going to be ideal for me. The people are all very nice and the company seems to have great potential in the future. I enjoy the corporate atmosphere over that of a law firm. One week down, 2080 more to go.

Andrew Smiling

Here is a video of Andrew with his first real smiles and coo's. It's pretty darn cute.

(Please ignore my high pitched voice - aka: turn down your volume)

We moved...

For those who don't know, we moved out of our friends, the Larson's, house about a moth ago. there was a family in the ward that was moving back to Utah. They asked if we could stay at their house until it sold. They wanted us to make sure nothing happened to it and to mow the lawn etc. It's been nice to have our own space, and we really do have a lot of it. It's over 3000 sq feet. The master bedroom is down stairs so we never go upstairs, but just the downstairs is big enough for us. Andrew was sleeping in our room, but he's a noisy sleeper so we moved him just outside our door into the living room. During the day he sleeps in the craft room which has doors so we don't wake him up. It's neat because the craft room doors are glass so we can still check on him.

The down side is we pretty much have to be ready for a showing at any time. The owners may call us and need us out in 20 minutes because a realtor is coming by to show the house and it needs to be in (what I learned today) model condition. There is usually a 2 hour window that we have to be gone for the showing. Last time we had 2o minutes for the showing and we frantically tried to get everything in order and get Andrew ready. It was sad because he was having a bad day and finally had gotten to sleep and we had to wake him up and leave. When our two hours were up, we came back only to find the realtor just driving up to the driveway! It was 10 minutes past the window of time for the showing so we just drove around until we finally parked on our street and waited for them to leave. Oh well.

Here's the front of the house. I'll post more pics of the house soon.

Horray!

We just found out today that Ryan passed the Texas Bar Exam! We are so proud of you!

Our Little Pumpkin

This was Andrew's first Halloween so we got him some Halloween clothes.

His onesie says Baby's 1st Halloween.

When my mom came to visit she brought Andrew a costume of his own. It's size 3-6 months and Andrew still fits in newborn clothes so it was a little big. (But I think that made it even more cute!)

Happy Halloween!