Happy Birthday Nora!

These are some one year pictures I took of Nora with the beach towel gramma "M" got her. I wanted to try bright, vibrant colors for a change and a different angle. I like how they turned out. I will be getting around to sending them out, but you know me it takes me a while.








































Here's Nora in her pool at her pool party. She had a good time until her Dad dumped her in the pool. No, he just accidentally let her fall forward. It was quite a shock to her and when she stopped fussing about it she continued to yell at the water. She is now terrified of getting water on her head. I think it's swimming lessons time.











Here is the turtle cake I made for her. I think it looked better than it tasted. Next year I think I'll go for making the cake actually taste really good. At least this way we didn't gorge ourselves on sweets.... right?


I'll get this posted and then there will be video to come. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORA! We love you so very much.

Our Plans for Jan 27, 2009

Recent Travels

Lots of pics and catch up, so here we go:


This picture is the most hilarious picture of Nora on May Day with her flowers that Gramma M got her... I think she liked them.



This is Mom and the family at convention, minus Ocean, as he's off somewhere playing real hard. Senna is looking all moony eyed at Nora. She adores her only girl 1st cousin.



Nora loves her Uncle D.



After convention we went to the "Nutt Farm" as I shall call it. We had lots of fun. Daddy didn't come out 'till later so in the mean time we took pictures by the water pump and took a wagon ride and did lots of stuff, that I will have to post later, until Daddy arrived. I had to take a picture of Nora on the infamous swing that we have had lots of pictures taken on, some of which I will also have to post another time. These last two pictures are of some incredible clouds that came in North of the farm and then the farm at sunset...beautiful. That's it for now. I apologize if the pictures and words are all screwed up, as I am very compy/blogger/tech illiterate!

New York, new job, new year for Nora

Some bits of news....

Nora turns one this month! We have some great pics and videos of her but we are slow to get them posted. We'll get something new up soon.

I got a new job! Or rather, I got a promotion. I was the Search Engine Optimization manager for Sierra Trading Post. Now I'm the Web Marketing Manager. I'm in charge of our online marketing team and online marketing efforts. One of our guys is leaving and one of the people was me. Which means that the first thing I have to do is hire a replacement for each of those positions: PPC Specialist and SEO Specialist. I won't bother to explain what those positions will do right now because it would probably bore most of you.

Suffice it to say that the new position is challenging in that I have a lot of goals to monitor and meet as well as having personnel under me. The largest group of people that I have been responsible for in the past is two. It will also be exciting because I will hopefully be able to do some really cool projects with our website to make it easier to find, surf and shop. I have a cool team that I have already worked with for awhile so....should be fun.

I went to New York recently on business with Bertrand The Bold (whom you may remember from previous mountain biking posts and who is now part of my marketing team). Our hotel was on Times Square and we spent a morning just walking around Times Square and then central park. We even saw a huge fire! Pictures below...

some castle, central park


some bridge, central park


some family, central park


some cool guys, The Plaza Hotel


some fire, columbus circle

SavvyShooter.com launched

So, I haven't really mentioned it on the blog yet but I started a new website as a distributor of binoculars, scopes and other shooting and hunting gear. Wifey is not going to teach next year. She put in her notice and will be a full time mom as soon as school gets out. Part of my goal with the new website is to create a bit of replacement income to compensate for the sudden drop in household cashflow! That and the fact that I love shooting...I'll probably be my own best customer.

Everything on the site so far is manufactured by NcStar. NcStar scopes probably don't measure up to Leupold's mid and high end or other high-end optics manufacturers but their products have a lot of features for the price and seem to be pretty solid. There is no middle man between me and the manufacturer and they don't do any advertising like Leupold, Redfield or other big names do so they can sell a lot cheaper. I put one of their scopes on a varmit rifle and have been very pleased with the results.

Anyway, it's been fun building the website and learning a lot more about optics and such. I still have a lot of work to do on the product copy blocks and website in general but everything is in place and working - it's been a lot of hard but fun work.

The website:
SavvyShooter.com NcStar scopes

Suggestions or comments to improve the site are welcome. I'm working on a coupon system so I can give family, friends and blog readers a discount. Otherwise, if anyone is interested, shoot me an email and I can do a special price.