Austin Finley Hansford

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Family - Relay for Life 2009

Relay for Life this year was great fun (6/26/09-6/27/09). Our booth ("Beautiful Feet: Rock Around the Clock") was decorated in a 1950s theme and the family wore costumes to match. (Austin donned cute jean shorts and tshirt with slick hair - I couldn't figure out how to roll his pacifier in his sleeve, though.) The entire event raised $62,000. with our team rasing around $1,000 (estimate). Austin and I stayed at the event for the entire 24-hour duration (plus set-up and clean-up) with Grammy, Grampy, Uncle Nick and Uncle Jared, and with Daddy coming to visit us for a few hours late Friday night.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Austin - 10 weeks

I was able to cancel, for work-related and strategic business reasons, a work trip that was planned for this week to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. However, that meant that I had to be involved in all of the pre-planned all-day meetings remotely from Michigan. At the point that I had to head home for the child care switch, I grabbed a company cell phone and dialed back in on the road and at home. While at home, Austin was able to enjoy observing mommy working and even piped in a few times. Luckily everybody had a sense of humor about it.