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Well clearly all the birthday celebrations took it out of me since I haven't written in over a month.  Yikes!  I also left my job of 5 1/2 years for something closer to home...so things have been a bit crazy.  It was not an easy decision to leave Duckhorn but being closer to home (and making more money) are two very important things for our family right now.  Although I'm closer to home I've been working a bit longer days, adjusting to new driving/drop off schedules and recovering from pink eye...yep lovely!  So far Piper and I are the only victims and really hoping it stays that way.  My new company is a smaller 'cult' Pinot Noir producer called Williams Selyem in the heart of Russian River Valley.  This weekend is our HUGE pick up weekend where we will see roughly 4,000 members in just 3 days.  So being sick was not an option for me.  I stayed home one day with Piper and Rollie took one for the team and picked Piper up early one day and sta...

Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays

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Well we've successfully had 3 birthday parties in the last 3 weeks...and I learned to never do that again :( Too much for this momma.  Clearly the reason I haven't blogged.  On the 21st of August we had a few close friends over for pizza and cake to celebrate Lily turning 3.  Simple but still requires prep and cleaning.  She has the sweetest friends though and I know that even though she's only 3 she will look back and hopefully be thankful that I had a party.  The girls at the end of the night had a dance party on the trampoline with glow sticks and it was just about the cutest thing I've ever seen. On September 5th I threw a surprise party for Rollie's 35th with a little help from friends.  We gathered at Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastapol and had a really fun (adults only) night out.  I had custom Star Wars cupcakes made from Sift and they turned out AMAZING!  Worth every penny.  Rollie assures me he had no idea so that made it even better. L...