What's our team been up to lately? Here are a few recent highlights: 

Last weekend Erika Montgomery had a great time visiting with two of her younger brothers from California, Paul & Sean. On Friday they celebrated Dennis' birthday with a trip to Percival Landing in downtown Olympia, awesome burgers at Norma's and a Heath Bar Blizzard Cake from Dairy Queen. They capped off the day with a trip to Tolmie State Park beach where they watched the sunset and saw a huge jellyfish near the tide 

pools. 

On Saturday they checked out 4th street, the main drag in downtown Olympia filled with lots of curious little shops & restaurants, and on Sunday they rounded out the weekend with a trip to Seattle's Hempfest, the largest event of it's kind in the nation with more than 250,000 visitors over the 3-day event. 

Emily Sidley recently hopped on a plane with her husband and 8-month-old and spent an entire week in Northern California attending Mount Hermon Family Camp and visiting various friends & family in the area. Highlights included a trip to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, time with the baby's 90-year-old great-grandma, sharing a mudslide sundae (8 scoops of deliciousness!) and just relaxing in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 

Stefanie Burger recently had some fun, too, although hers was much closer to home. Last weekend she spent the day in Seattle for her boyfriend's birthday. They spent the entire day downtown, enjoyed a delicious lunch at the Yard House and then spent the rest of the day watching the Seahawks dominate the Broncos. She was also excited about watching her niece dance with the Seahawks' SeaGals!

Erika and Emily are putting on black and white jumpsuits and getting locked up - and they need your help making bail! 

While it's not a real jail, it's even more important as they're raising bail to help children and adults with Muscular Dystrophy in their community. Do you think you can help support this important cause? 

Find out more on Erika's donation page and/or Emily's donation page.

Do you or the men in your life have trouble with collar stays? These smooth, rigid strips of plastic, rounded on one end and pointed at the other, are inserted into specially made pockets on the underside of a shirt collar to stabilize the collar's points, helping to keep those crisp, clean lines. The problems with these collar stays are: 

• They're precut for every dress shirt you buy 
• They come in all different shapes and sizes 
• They're flimsy and easily distorted 
• Searching through them each day to find a matching pair is a hassle and waste of time 

The good news is now there's a solution! CLEVERFIT is the world's first collar stay to give you precision fit sizing, structured collar support and enhanced stability. Engineered to be the instant and permanent upgrade to the older restrictive fixed stays, CLEVERFIT's precision interlocking geometry gives you one powerful solution for all of your sizing needs. No more time consuming searches, CLEVERFIT's "quick-click" fingertip adjustment gets you ready in seconds! 

Find out more and help them get funded here.

Paige McDaniel traveled from Washington to visit some of Three Girls' clients in the San Jose area last week and had an amazing time! She spent the day with Xactly Corp's marketing team and visited their offices, the local market and enjoyed delicious desserts and wine from local restaurants. She was lucky to stay at Hotel Valencia right on Santana Row where she joined fellow Three Girls Publicist Mericia Gonzalez for dinner and drinks at Citrus. They tried practically everything on the menu (the salmon was to die for!) and grabbed a drink on the Row while Mericia told Paige a bit about Bay Area living.

The next day, Paige enjoyed a delicious Greek omelet brunch before venturing to We've Got Your Back and learning more about their ergonomic equipment. Once she returned to the hotel, she visited some great stores on Santana Row and has officially claimed Cocola as her favorite cafe on the road. She also had the most delicious gelato - fico pistachio and red velvet! 

Her favorite event while visiting was grabbing dinner with the Xactly crew at Maggiano's Little Italy and tasting delicious wine at the Vintage Wine Bar. She also ran into some locals while there and hung out with them Saturday night! She concluded her trip with some R & R by the hotel pool, a delicious lunch at Left Bank Brasserie and a tour of the Winchester Mystery House. It hardly seemed like a business trip, but she developed genuine friendships, enjoyed delicious wine and cuisine and now has favorite places in San Jose that she can't wait to visit again.

Did you see Hotel Valencia Santana Row in the news? This chic boutique was recently featured on Boutique Lodging Magazine: 

"If you ever find your way to San Jose, it's an absolute must to spend some time on Santana Row - the Rodeo Drive of the Silicon Valley, a street lined with upscale clothing stores, restaurants and entertainment venues, including an outdoor wine-tasting bar featuring live music, and only one hotel - the Hotel Valencia. Standing tall in the middle of this bountiful boulevard, the Hotel Valencia, is a chic, modern boutique hotel that has picked up countless travel awards since it swung its welcoming doors wide open to the public in 2003. This year, it made the Conde Nast Traveler's Gold List as one of the 'World's Best Places to Stay.'" 

Read more here.

Also - don't miss Three Girls' Emily Sidley weighing in on tools for telecommuters in Get VOIP: "Along with a designated work area and her MacBook Pro, Sidley utilizes a software program called Wunderlist that helps her to categorize all of her to-dos and stay on task throughout the day." See the full article here.