Annual Dinner 2017

As with past years, January bring the Hasbro HFE Annual Dinner. It is a mix between a show and a wedding. This year there were over 700 people in attendance and in a huge ballroom.

Outside the ballroom were characters and backdrops for picture taking.

Inside there were many more photos and selfies.

 
 We take our new photos at the event.Here is a picture of my new team starting January 1. iPlay!

The theme of the event was "superheroes". So many people in costume.

We made the toys for Trolls movie so we all got Trolls hair at our seats.

All the HFE Category Leads dressed up in costume to represent our teams. I dressed as Mr and Mrs Potato Head. The front was Mr and the back was Mrs. And it lit up!
 

 My team dressed up with me and we danced on stage and performed.

Rico is the director working for me. Here is our professional look....

And then our costume look....

 

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! What is his costume you may ask. Well he is representing his category which took our Furreal cat and rebranded it for the elderly. So he is an old lady with her "pet" Furreal cat.



After all performances, we danced to the live band.

That's all folks!

 What a day! Such a fun event with wonderful people.

January 2016 Work Events

The second week of January is always a busy one.

Monday is Inventor Summit with evening cocktails.

Tuesday night vendor summit where all our vendors come to Hong Kong for presentations and of course, another cocktail event in the evening.

Wednesday we had internal management presentations all day. Then Wednesday night, I hotted the Women in Toys event here in Hong Kong for local and visiting members coming to see Toy Fair. We had a good turnout of 36 people (not all in the picture).

Julie and I are 2 of the 3 co-chairs in Hong Kong.

Annual Dinner was Thursday... will post all the pictures next!

Christmas 2016 in US

I was fortunate to go home for Christmas 2016. Although I was stuck in Newark for 10 hours due to a snow storm, the rest of my trip was thankfully uneventful.

During the trip home, my parents, brother and I visited Tower Hill to see the light show and we took a few (rare) family photos.

Santa came!

Peyton got a bunny for Christmas. Snuggles is adorable, although he did poop on me.

Bring silly with the kiddos!

Family photo!

This was a special day... Emery made a character on her iPad that looked just like me. I especially like the deep blush. I definitely need to take some makeup tips. 

The trip home is always too short. Always more to do and more people to see. Until next time!

Category Lead Team Building

On November 30, we had Category Lead Team Building. We did Firo-B which is a personality analysis to learn more about each other then an activity.

Can you guess what the activity was?

Yep it was bowling!

 We played a few games. First we played as a team with one row and our goal was to get closest to 100 points.

The second game we played was also a team challenge to get the most points. Each team member had to play at least 1 ball.


Group pictures!

After bowling we had a nice dinner.

Then it was time for table tennis during and after dinner. This was the ladies game which got pretty competitive.