Intern Capstone Conference

Near the midpoint of my internship at end of June, the firm flew all the interns out to Chicago for a Capstone Conference at the Q Center in St. Charles, an hour or so west of the city. We listened to a lot of guest motivational speakers ("You are the future!") and broke up into teams for a video/podcast/presentation contest. My team did a video, and while the results were fairly unimpressive, I think I did a pretty good job editing the thing given the time constraints. My more creative ideas fell on deaf ears (the number of Anchorman and Beer Pong references between all the videos was an ironic and nauseating commentary on our generation), but it was a fun process overall. The theme of the conference was "Map Your Future" and the objective, I guess, was to point us in the right direction as we start our careers, ideally with McGladrey. I saw the Sears Tower and Wrigley Field from the plane, but that's the closest I got... hope to make it out to Chicago again someday.

Think of each of these pictures as Where's Waldo? and then try to find me in each one. Here's a clue for you: Y the long cranium?

The J.A.M. Sessions

My new blog. Get curious.

The Envelope Please...

By the slimmest of margins in our poll, "Girl" beat out "Boy" 6 to 5, but majority loses this time around because our little baby is a BOY! Baby Boy Mitchell will be here in late October, and he was an active little bugger for the ultrasound lady today!

Baby Bump

Finally some pictures of the baby bump! The first picture was taken at 15 weeks, and the most recent is from this week (19 weeks). The baby is an active little squirt. I have been feeling it move a lot during the last 3 weeks and I love it! The movements are still pretty small, but Jeff has been able to feel it a couple of times as well. We are so excited!

Vote in the Baby Poll!

Just a quick plug for the little poll we posted on here... We are going in for Amy's ultrasound on Thursday, so please vote (over in the side column) whether you think it's going to be a boy or a girl!

McGladrey Intern

I started my internship this week with McGladrey, a national public accounting firm that focuses on mid-sized, mostly private companies. I will be doing audit work in the greater Denver area until the end of July, at which point I hope to get a full-time offer to come back after a year of graduate school.


My orientation and training was in the exhilarating metropolis of Des Moines, Iowa! Although the soggy scenery left a bit to be desired, it was good to meet some other interns from the Central Plains region (Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, western Illinois, etc). Next month we have an intern capstone conference outside of Chicago, a chance to evaluate our experience at the mid-point of the internship. Maybe I'll take some real pictures on that trip.

Cougar Alums, Class of 2009!

There have been a lot of changes for us in the last month, but first things first. We graduated from BYU in April, Amy with a B.S. in Nutrition from the School of Life Sciences and a minor in Dance, and me with a B.S. in Accounting from the Marriott School of Management and a minor in Portuguese.



President Uchtdorf and Elder Nelson spoke at University Commencement (pictured above) and then Amy and I had the butt-numbing idea of attending both of our individual college convocations. We're very grateful to Mom, Dad, Michael, Bruce, and Sue for coming to celebrate with us. It also gave us an opportunity to spill the beans on some exciting news (see future post).







This video has no sound, but if it did you'd hear something like,
Jeff: "We're graduating honey!"
Amy: "I know! Woohoo!"