CHA

We are back from CHA. I didn't think anything could be crazier than getting ready for & packing for CHA while babysitting neighbor kids. I was wrong. Coming home to a weeks worth of Vinyl orders plus an abundance of Stamp orders from the show is much crazier. Even after working from 7am until 1am everyday except Sunday... we still haven't caught up. You can't really see how many packages we ship each day because the packages that we haven't printed shipping labels for yet are still hiding behind the desk. The picture above depicts a daily occurance since we've been home.
The drive to and from California was the most relaxing time we've had in a very long time. No one was crying and we enjoyed listening to books on tape.
Somehow Tyler fit our entire booth, all our promotional materials, & our luggage into our tiny little Jetta.

The show was fun. I got to see a lot of friends I used to work with (at least 10 of them.) It was fun to catch up. We made lots of orders, learned a lot, and talked to lots of media. We are happy we went and think it was just the kick start that our stamp company needed.
Everyone (including Elizabeth Kartchner, who you can watch on Studio 5 tomorrow) loved all the stamped samples that Emily made. Thanks Emily!

We didn't do much after the show ended each night. We had just enough time to grab some dinner. Afterward, we tried to keep up with emails from customers. By the time we finished answering as many emails as we could on our hotels low speed internet, it was nearly midnight.

Tyler had a birthday while we were gone... we will celebrate after we get caught up.

We missed Ella & Lily and were very happy to see them when we got home.

We appreciate My mom, Trisha, Emily, & Tyler's parents for watching our kids while we were gone.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us. Starting a new business, and trying to make it successful is a lot more work than we had anticipated, and we couldn't have done it without everyone's help.