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I found this list on the American Family Association reguarding national reatilers and their attitude towards Christmas.  Found it enlightening…

Based on current advertising, below is a list of companies that avoid, ban, or use the term “Christmas” in their advertising.  We will continually update the list, so check back often.

Criteria – AFA reviewed up to four areas to determine if a company was “Christmas-friendly” in their advertising: print media (newspaper inserts), broadcast media (radio/television), website and/or personal visits to the store. If a company’s ad has references to items associated with Christmas (trees, wreaths, lights, etc.), it was considered as an attempt to reach “Christmas” shoppers.

If a company has items associated with Christmas, but did not use the word “Christmas,” then the company is considered as censoring “Christmas.”

Color Code:

Company uses the term “Christmas” on a regular basis, we consider that company Christmas-friendly.

Company refers to Christmas infrequently, or in a single advertising medium, but not in others.

Company may use “Christmas” sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.

A company may be removed from the “bad” list by providing documentation to AFA.

SPECIAL ALERT! AFA is calling for a “Christmas” boycott of Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores.

http://action.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147486887

We have had a very busy summer, with our perpetual house hunting, me traveling for work, moving to Bethany, and an active 2 year old, and rambunctious 5 month old.

Last week I took off of work and we headed to Split Rock State Park for a relaxing and fun camping trip.  Bela had a blast with all of the hiking and throwing rocks into Superior, and Mateo is already an outdoors pro with 3 camping trips under his belt in his 5 months.

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We visited 4 state parks in total last week, and had so much fun, that we are going on a quick one nighter this weekend before it gets too cold.

We are working on our summer newsletter, so stay tuned for that.  Thanks for checking in!

P.S.  We just cleaned off our cameras and came across some photos we have not uploaded yet….  You can find them here!

Just in time for our family camping trip, at 89 days old, Mateo sprung his first tooth! We are in awe how fast we see him growing. Kirstie is feeding him his first serving of baby food as I type.
Bela is helping…

On the housing front, we just submitted an offer on a house that we REALLY like.  Given our track record with offers, we are not getting to hopefull, but the house has been on the market a while, and we are offering asking price, so we are cautiously optimistic…

We will let you know!

I spent almost 2 weeks in San Fancisco on business at the Cisco Live Networkers conference.  It was alot of work but I got to have some fun too.
Here is a video from the Customer Appreciation event.  The theme was 80′s, and the preformers were Ton Loc, Flock of Seagulls, The Bengals, Tears for Fears, the B-52′s and DEVO.  Quite the linup.

After the long trip, I had a very difficult flight back, on my birthday no less (The Big 25), but was greeted with a big hug from Bela.
She sure did love the Chinese dress I got her in Chinatown, and our signature Devo hats from the party.