Price Family Review

I have recently added alot of people to my Facebook friend's list. It has been fun and interesting to reconnect with so many people from my past. I have also gotten several of requests for updates on what I have been doing. So this is going to be a review of all the major events that have happened over the last 4 years. For some of you, this will be a review and for others it will be news.

In April 2005 I moved my wife Sariah and two kids, Spencer and Andrew to Provo, UT so I could work on a Master's Degree in Information Systems at Brigham Young University. We were all nervous but have really enjoyed living in Utah. The schools have been much better for Spencer, who as a Deaf kid needs services the schools in California did not want to offer.

In December of 2007 we welcomed Leah into our family. She is now a feisty 20 month old who has no problems tackling her older brothers to get her way. Just don't pick her up, she does not like other adults and is very much a mommy or daddy's girl. Sariah claims that she has me very well trained, but I deny that I spoil her.

In 2008 I finished both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Information Systems Management. It was 3 years of hard work but I really enjoyed my classes and was able to work closely with several outstanding professors and fellow students. Information Systems is a combination of business and computers and is part of BYU's Marriott School of Management. I took the same core classes as all the other business majors and learned enough accounting to know when to hire an accountant. The degrees qualify me to work in a vast array of areas and industries, which has been very helpful with today's economy.

After finishing school in August 2008, I took a job that I thought would be enjoyable, but quickly learned otherwise. I secretly continued looking for another job and in October 2008 was blessed with an offer from a Utah based company named Wavetronix. It was started 9 years ago by a former BYU professor who had a vision to create radar devices to detect and monitor traffic. His other primary goal was to create jobs for families in Utah county. The company has a very family friendly attitude and gives me plenty of time to spend with the family. I work in their technical services department and help people setup and configure sensors and communication devices (see www.wavetronix.com for more information). I'm also working on a company-wide project to implement Microsoft SharePoint (see my other blog on that subject, http://tipsforsharepoint.blogspot.com).

So it appears that we will be living in Utah for a while. It was not the original plan, but we feel very blessed for the job I was able to find and love being around others that share our same standards. But we plan on visiting our family and friends in California often, so stay in touch.

You are now caught up on the David Price Family.

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