Last week on the Kids’ Content Team, we weren’t really feeling the Halloween spirit. So, we decided to do something about it and what better way to get that fall feeling then having a pumpkin decorating contest?!

So, we all went home with dancing pumpkins in our heads and spent hours upon hours hunched over our masterpieces. Monday morning we all proudly displayed our squash centerpieces. We needed a judge, so we outsourced Bob from the Outdoor Content Team. Bob pondered over each and every carefully crafted pumpkin until he finally came to a decision <drum roll, please>

EVERYONE WINS!! We all erupted in cheers and overall jubilation. Nowadays the Halloween spirit is high on the Kids’ Content Team and we are all eagerly anticipating a ghoulish good time next week!

At the end of last week everyone on the Kids Content Team left the office like normal, but Monday when we arrived we had a most interesting surprise waiting for us... Mr. T!

Well, not the real one, but cleverly drawn pictures of him. They were everywhere! They were taped to desks and hanging off name tags... it was madness! All of the pictures depicted Mr. T doing things across the country, like eating Maine lobster or visiting his oil derrick in Texas. I don’t know how all these Mr. T’s got here, but I don’t know how we ever lived without him now. So, I'll leave you with the words of my personal hero: “I pity the fool who don’t love these amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties!”

Way to go Mr. T, I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Earlier this week, our resident financial expert & host of “Feelin' Frugal, Matt T. had a birthday. We all got together in the days prior and brainstormed on how to make that day extra special for him. We decided that the greatest gift would be to show him that his frugality has made an impact on our lives.

So, instead of spending our hard-earned money on a cake from the market, we made him one from things that we found in the lunch room. Who doesn’t dream of blowing out their Cheetos candles on their special day? No birthday is complete without the perfect card, though… something that really says how much you mean to the people around you. So of course, we ripped out a sheet of notebook paper and came up with a little rhyme to sum up the day. Roses are red, violets are blue. You’re so frugal and your birthday is too. Happy Birthday Matt!