Sunday, August 26, 2007

Mad about Cleaning Products

Our weekend was full of good food, hot weather, and crazily shopping for cleaning products. At work, we are trying to place a test to understand what people think about our product versus that of our leading competitor. As you can imagine it is easy to obtain our own product because we can either make some or call up the warehouse and ask them to send us some. Normally, we can go to one of the stores we always work with and place a large order of the competitive products we need

But as it turns out this product is quite new and is replacing an old product so it is hard to find...not only that we need hundreds of them so I've spent my weekend trying to locate as many of these products as I can, amazing race styel. If you can imagine, I park, run in and make a bee line for the cleaning aisle and rustling the shelf for the exact product - exact size and scent. If it is there, I hoard all there is on the shelf and make a crazy women, mad dash to the checkout line - I prefer the self-checkout at times like these. Otherwise, you deal with curious checkout people asking so what are you going to do with 17 of the ?

Then I hurry back out to my car and throw them in the backseat along with the other plastic bags full of the exact same product hoping that there aren't any nosy customers near me (probably thinking I have OCD) and make my way to the next store...

Among hoarding of cleaning products, we did have time to have dinner with the Cetti's. They all came over afterwards and Julia was playing with Owen's toys as normal and actuall using his mower as it was intended. I think Owen finally realized how it was to be used and as soon as he had a chance to steal it away from Julia he took it cruising. I've uploaded a video of it.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Happy Birthday Owen

We celebrated Owen's first birthday a little early ... but I guess that's fitting as he did arrive early too. He loved his cake and actually ate his entire piece. (check out pictures for proof) We had invited a few people over to grill out and at one point there were 6 kids under the age of 4 in our house, utter chaos and great birth control too. Owen did get a couple gifts (even though we said no gifts) but as anyone could predict the shiny bow and crinkly tissue paper were his favorite items.