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When things started to regrow in the spring...we noticed on of our backyard trees didn't come back to life. So since spring Mitch has been talking about when & how he would get rid of the old tree. And then what would he plant in its place. He would ask me, but I am NOT helping cut down a tree, nor do I have an opinion about what replaces it - just something green. I would prefer something not messy. So Saturday night (a couple of weeks ago), our friends Katie & Jason stopped over for a beer. Mitch was talking about the tree again. Jason offered to help cut it down, because he does his. Since it has been in discussion since April, I didn't think this would happen anytime soon...just whenever. Well the next morning bright and early for a Sunday (8ish)...here comes Jason with a chain saw and down came the tree. And within about 30 minutes the tree was down and the branches where in a pile! Wow! Good Work, boys! Now we have a huge pile of twigs to start warm & toasty winter fires all winter. And a pine tree to watch grow in its place. =]!
Last October, Mitch left his job and began working on this own projects. He began with "Rental Metrics". Once that was planned, he started to realize that there was a need that he could fill. He took what he had developed for "Rental Metrics" and created "createWOWmedia". Below is his blog post about his new adventure!
Hi folks:
The team has been working on some very exciting things here at Midwest Command. Over the last year, we've been producing robust multimedia content for our Interactive Learning Environments (ILE). We had many firms contact us and ask if we could do the same for them. They asked us to:
We have working under the radar to form www.createWOWmedia.com
createWOW provides Brand Amplification to small and medium businesses through multimedia, blogging and social media, and Interactive Learning Environments.
Ask your small business owner friends how much their "Yellow Pages" ads cost per month? Ask the same group how many of them go to the Yellow Pages to look up services/products available themselves? Could that resource be re-tasked?
It's a pleasure to work with SMB's. I know they get the shaft sometimes when it comes to these kinds of services because their budgets are small and their dreams are big. Well we're tired of you being on the receiving end of the shaft...and believe its our job to help you take advantage of as much of this technology as makes sense for you. We know how to provide IMPACT and RESULTS on a budget. It's how we've modeled our own business and we believe you should get the same treatment.
We're already making an impact locally. Feel free to contact Ryan @ Nutrisport - Full Potential Training and ask him what it's like to do business with the createWOW team.
If you can spare a couple minutes, please watch some of our videos in the products and services section of the site.
Here is what Scout, Jaeger, and Sculley have been up too...
This is what he does all day while Mitch is working at this computer!
Watching the neighborhood activity, wondering who she should go lick first!
Savoring every last bite! It takes her half the day to eat her food.
In the Spring, Gavin and Georgia started noticing worms and finding worms...Daddy created a worm house out of our old fish aquarium with dirt. Even our neighbor would brings us worms. We restarted our composte bin and Daddy said...put the worms in there, because that will be excellent for the mulch we are creating. So we are calling it the worm apartment complex! Gavin and Georgia went worm hunting today. And added about 10 worms to the development!
Let the season begin!! We have the first tree in the neighborhood to drop leaves. As soon as the yard is covered the neighborhood kids swarm our yard with rakes to make a pile. Friday night there was at least 8 neighborhood kids in out front yard playing. It is fun to sit back and watch them!
If you have kids you have heard about this! We bought one. Ordered the caterpillars and watched. According to Gavin, Georgia and the commercials that educated them, here is what would happen:
After 2 weeks we had 4 out of 5 butterflies emerge. And we let them go. We are still waiting for the last butterfly to emerge from his cocoon.
Gavin loved sticking his hand in the tree house, let the butterfly land on him and then let it fly off of his hand into the world. A big difference from when we visited a butterfly habitat on our first visit to Iowa and one landed on his foot. I will have to find that picture and post it to share. =]!
Georgia thought it would be nice to stick her hand in the tree house. As soon as a butterfly got close to her hand she giddily (is that a word?) pulled her hand out and said I don't want to do that.
This is one of our butterflies in the tree.
Georgia started her storytime at the Library last Monday (9.8.08). There was a reporter there from the local paper. She was on the front page of the Clive section of the paper on Friday (9.12.08). 
Georgia started preschool on Tuesday. She was so excited to get dressed (she picked out her own clothes) and have breakfast! We were just hanging out waiting for it to be time to leave...she was enjoying a piece of cheese - all of a sudden Jaeger snatched the cheese right of her hand. If you have ever had Jaeger do this to you, you know she is not gentle about it. She was on a mission to get that cheese and she would take a prisoner if she had to! Well that turned Georgia's mood. She was so sad that Jaeger stole her cheese. She would not let me take her picture in our front yard as we were leaving. I was bummed, because I knew how excited she was for preschool and who knew how long it would take her to snap out of the funk! We get to school...she is still a little bit crabby, but you can see that she is starting to realize that this is HER preschool! She noticed that the door to class was open and she bolted for it. Once inside her classroom she was BEAMING!! She didn't even care that I was saying bye to her. She was playing with all the toys and ready to be on her own.
Here are some pictures of her day...
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Sometime I'll be able to video her swinging and swaying in my office as she sings into the microphone. It's become a thrice daily (minimum) thing for her to come in and say, "Daddy I want to sing a song." Problem is she knows about 3 of them and we're 2 down :)
Anyway, click and enjoy our little monkey singing "5 little monkeys swinging from a tree"
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