Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Wanna see more Davis Pics?




Ok we are just soo in love with ou little guy, we just want to add a few more pictures of him. He is soo great! This week the babysitters have been here while I work and all has gone well. For the most part he has been fine with the complete strangers. The babysitters are fun. They take him for walks, read to him and play with him. I very rarely hear him cry and when I do, it means he needs grub. I quite enjoy getting to take a break to feed my little guy. We reconnect. I did however learn today I cannot check in on him randomly because he will get upset that I am not with him. Good thing I got over my micro-manager phase early in my managing career so I can allow these babysitters to do what they need to do with him and not feel like I am constantly looking over their shoulders. It's been so nice outside so we will take more pictures outside for your viewing pleasure or maybe its for our enjoyment. Either way, you have to admit he is a darn cute kid!

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Keddington Happenings




I recently received the best news ever, Lush called me and offered me a job I can do from home. I never did lose my faith in Lush. They came through. Lush has been an amazing company to work for over the years. My resume is pretty awesome because of them. I have had so many different job titles and opportunities I could never have with any other company like store manager, new store manager trainer (I traveled all over the USA to train), best practice/buddy manager where I developed my own team of store managers, RMS system lead (I rolled out the new till system RMS to the entire company with the help of IT), USA marketing lead where I was the only person from the USA on the marketing team and was able to travel to Vancouver to the head office for meetings to develop upcoming campaigns and promotions. What other company could provide me all of that? Well now starting Monday, I will be the recruiting assisitant for Lush USA. I could not be anymore excited. I have hired I babysitter/nanny to come into our home while I work to watch Davis. Later this month I have to go to San Francisco to train for 3 days. It is going to be really hard on me to be away from Davis for soo long. I have been pumping non-stop to build up my 30 bottle supply. So far I am at 15 bottles which by the way has not been easy to do. Glama keeps telling me about a woman on Oprah who pumped 50 bottles a day for her sextuplets. I think the woman was a liar for shock value on national televison.
On the 4th of July we were lame and just looked out our French doors at all of the fireworks across Seattle. We live in the perfect place for viewing. From our home, we could see fireworks feom Seattle all the way up to Lynwood 2o miles north of Seattle. We could not see south of Seattle from where we were standing. I counted 15 firework displays. I think I could even see some way out in the cascades on the other side of the sound or maybe that was just Bainbridge Island, either way it was an amazing sight. There were probably a hundred people at the park across the street taking in the view we got from our bedroom. The other thing about our view we love is the greenery. You look out and all you see are trees. There are thousands and thousands of homes in the seattle metro area and all you can see are trees. There really is a reason Seattle is called Emerald City. If you would like to come and enjoy the views for yourself, we would love the company! Thats all I have to say for now. I will try to post a lot more often now that I have a suitable little office area.