Yeah! Two in a Row!

Yeah! Look at me actually writing a post two weeks in a row! Mostly this week we've been gearing up for the end of the semester and Christmas. Eric had his last day of classes on Thursday so it's been papers, presentations and projects all week long. It didn't really lend itself to either of us getting much sleep this week (obviously more so for Eric since he was the one actually doing those projects), but hopefully we'll be able to make that up as soon as finals are over.

One of the really fun things we did this past week was to buy and sell Wii Fits from Amazon.com. We'd been helping Eric's brother Tim to get one for Christmas so I'd set my phone up to get text message alerts when they were in stock. Since they have been in such high demand and impossible to find Amazon set a limit of three per household. We decided to take advantage of that and help out family and friends who would have had a hard time getting them otherwise. Since right now they're in such high demand you can pretty much only find them on eBay for around double the retail price and we know how much we've been enjoying ours we felt pretty confident that we could find people who wanted them. We were right! We were really excited to be able to sell them (at retail price, not ridiculously marked up) to Eric's sister Dianne and our good friends the Criddles. It just felt good to be able to help out around Christmas time, albeit in an unconventional way :)

The other really fun thing this week was that we had both of our company parties on Saturday night. It was too bad that they both fell on the same night so we had to choose which one to go to. However, since we went to my Christmas party last year, and Eric's company party was black tie at the Grand America hotel... it wasn't a very difficult compromise. We were able to go to the very beginning of Axis41's party up at the Millcreek Inn. It was fun just to get to introduce Eric to my co-workers so that he could put some faces with the names. Plus they had some great hors d'ouevres and punch that we enjoyed while we were there. We stayed for about 45 minutes before heading back down to Omniture's party.

The Omniture logo...in style!

One of the great things about Omniture... they definitely know how to throw a party! The place was packed and it was a really fun night. They had paid for their employees to rent tuxes (or given a set amount of money to their female employees to offset the price of their formal wear) so everyone was very dressed up. I told Eric afterwards that I still felt like a little kid who was at a grown-up party, even though I know full well that we're grown ups now too. The food was pretty good. The appetizers were a little weird, we felt like we were eating garnishes (and I'm sure someone was sitting there and laughing at us... but that's all that was on the appetizer plate and everyone else ate them too *shrug* ) but the food itself was really good. I got halibut which was really good and had Omega 3s which are important for our baby's brain development. Eric isn't as big of a fan of fish as I am so I get excited whenever I get a chance to eat fish. It's not that Eric won't eat fish or even that he really dislikes it, but if I'm going to go to the effort of making a meal for him, I'd rather have it be something that he gets more excited about eating. Eric got the steak, which was pretty incredible. It was a super tender cut of meat and very well made. It also came with these potatoes that I'm really sad we didn't take a picture of. They were sliced super super thin and then layered on top of each other with sweet potatoes in the middle. They were really good, and partly just amazing to see.

They also had some cool games that they had everyone play to compete for 6 iPod Touches (is that how you pluralize touch as a noun?) and donations to different charities. They also had some cool presentations that summarized all of their business for the year. We're really excited that Eric is part of this company that is growing so fast right now and doing such cool things. They had a dance floor set up in the middle and dancing afterwards, but we left because the bouncing style of dancing isn't quite as fun when you're 29 weeks pregnant (probably not very attractive either :P ).

As far as the pregnancy goes, things are going really well. Still fighting heartburn but it's not unmanageable. The weirdest thing is that I've been getting really warm - not so much hot flashes, but generally I've found that I'm warmer than other people. It's super weird for me because I'm usually FREEZING even in the middle of summer... but it's the middle of December and I'm the one turning down the thermostat! I'm not complaining in the least, it's probably the best thing about pregnancy! Well, except for the cute baby that we get at the end of it all :).

Now we're just counting down the days until Eric finishes his finals and we get to go to California for Christmas!! We're pretty excited because it's the first time that we're going home since we've been married (like actually going to my family's house and staying there, we did go to California for Memorial Day weekend but we stayed the whole time at Carpinteria, which is just different from actually going home). Hope everyone else's holiday preparations are going well!! We'll probably post to you again from the other side of finals :)