Pucker Up (2007-7-8)

Beautiful Morning (2007-9-3)

Belgian chocolate

Meme is my grandmother, my Dad's mom. She's from Belgium and her two sisters and nieces and nephews all live in Belgium. Her niece Michelle comes to visit sometimes during the summer. Here's a photo of the kids with Michelle and Meme a couple weeks ago. Josh loves to run around Meme's large yard. Emory loves to eat veggie puffs at her table. We all love having great food and cold lemonade together on a hot Texas summer day.

Michelle just returned to Belgium last week. We stayed with her when we visited there Easter of 2006. She introduced me to the most excellent chocolate I have ever tasted, which unfortunately would melt if I tried to transport it on a plane. Must go back for chocolate.

Joshua's First Day of Preschool

Today was Joshua's first day of preschool. He was very excited. His school is very close to where we live so we can walk to school together. He attends the Spanish Schoolhouse, a Spanish immersion preschool. He learned some Spanish while he attended school in Spain and we are hoping if we keep it up maybe it will stick with him.

His teachers are Senora Giovanna from Peru and Senorita Beula from Mexico.


He had a great day. According to Josh: he drew a picture of himself (soy yo), made a hand print, danced and listened to music, did not eat all his raisens, played on the playground that "was to small for me but had a cool ladder," was awakened during his rest time, oh, and he ate playdough! Everything a 3 year old loves to do. He was very excited to show me all the pictures he colored. There are about 12 kids in his class and I think he's happy to be making new friends. He said he had a really fun day.

I in turn had a really fun day too. It was so restful having time to myself while Emory took a nap and Josh was at school. It was nice too just being able to give 100% attention to Emory. She's in that really fun stage right now and it was so fun getting to enjoy all of her.

Fall Guy (2007-2-22)

Hello

Welcome to our new blog - our little home on the web.

Since we are no longer in Spain, we decided to close down the old blog. (It's actually not closed, so feel free to visit if you like. But we won't be posting there any more.)

And since we are now settled in Frisco, Texas, we should be at a point in life where we can get back in the groove of posting more frequently. You'll enjoy that our videos now can be played directly from this page. Click on the link to the right under Go To "All Our Videos" to bring up all the videos posted here.

Finally, we'd like to say thank you. Thanks for following along for our journey the last two years - through life in Spain, an MBA, a new baby, a job hunt, and now a new phase in north Dallas and corporate America.

Here we go...

Team Browder

The Job

So, what is the position that was waiting at the end of my job search?

In May I accepted a role in marketing with General Electric Healthcare in the Information Technology division. I started in June, so I'm approaching 3 months on the job. I help market revenue cycle management software products and services to healthcare organizations under GE's Centricity brand. Basically I run marketing programs to generate brand awareness and new leads for our sales people to follow up with.

GE is huge and learning how to begin navigating the organizational structure is a challenge. I've been there just long enough to undergo a change in job title, manager, team and market focus. This keeps me on my toes trying to learn as I make my contribution to growing the business.

I have been impressed with the quality of the people I work with - their competence, expertise and creativity. Most everyone I work with is not in Dallas, so there are many people I have yet to meet in person.

I am also impressed with what I see in GE. It is one of the world's most respected companies and brands for a reason. For my part, I'm excited to be part of GE Healthcare where we are committed to growing the business around ways to improve the landscape for healthcare delivery in the US and around the world.