Yes, that’s right!  Sweet Leaf Tea has just had triplets!  No, Granny’s not having babies—she’s just too old for that.  (No offense, Granny.)

What I mean is, we’ve just welcomed three new family members to our flavor line-up!  Introducing “Lemon Iced Tea,” “Citrus Green Tea,” and “Diet Citrus Green Tea.”  Aren’t they cute???

Sweet Leaf Tea's New Flavors: Citrus Green Tea, Lemon Iced Tea and Diet Citrus Green Tea!

Sweet Leaf Tea's New Flavors: Citrus Green Tea, Lemon Iced Tea and Diet Citrus Green Tea!

Let me back up.  I’m Megan, the Innovation Manager here at Sweet Leaf Tea.  And to be honest, I’m usually too buried in spreadsheets to do anything else. (What? We have a blog??)  But as it turns out, those spreadsheets told me that we were missing some of the most popular flavors on the market!  Thus the birth of Lemon, Citrus, and Diet Citrus.

Citrus Green Tea is already a major hit around here.  We brought it into the office on Friday for the first time, and all the cans were immediately drunk, taken home, or stashed in a secret hiding place.  (Don’t worry guys—we’ll get more.)

Citrus Green and Lemon Iced Tea come in our new cans too!

Citrus Green and Lemon Iced Tea come in our new cans too!

More on Citrus Green’s siblings, Lemon and Diet Citrus, next week!

Yes, you might have heard us chatting up the fact that our new cans are available at  7-Eleven stores in Austin and Phoenix. We even had a Twitter contest to see who could find the new cans first. (@sugarrob, you are super quick on the draw!) As the news of these fancy new cans spread, we had several Tweeps and FB fans asking, “Where can I find those cans?”

Sweet Leaf Peach Iced Tea 16 oz. Can

Sweet Leaf Peach Iced Tea 16 oz. Can

Well, I finally have an answer. At least for some of you…

As of last week, we found out that our cans will now be available in 935 7-Eleven stores in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Las Vegas and Arizona. That’s a whole lot of sweet goodness spreading across the states and a whole lot of opportunities for y’all to get your hands on those cans. Think of all the road trips you’ll now be able to go on knowing that  Sweet Leaf Tea will be available along the route to keep you fueled for your journey. Oh, yes. Indeed, thank heaven for 7-Eleven.

Now for the rest of you who are still looking to find Sweet Leaf Tea cans at your local convenience store, I have a pretty good solution. Just click on the request form here and remember cans come in four delicious flavors (Original, Mint & Honey, Peach and Raspberry)…as of right now.

New 16oz. Sweet Leaf Tea Cans Now Chilling at 7-Eleven

New 16oz. Sweet Leaf Tea Cans Now Chilling at 7-Eleven

So how much is 449,000 ounces of tea? Well, enough to fill up an 18-wheeler. And that’s how much we donated to Feed the Children who was looking for food and supplies for Haiti.

Closer to home as Danny mentioned Monday, we were able to set up a table in front of Dominican Joe Coffee Shop along-side the Peace Peddler herself, Jamie Josephs to offer people one of our new 16 oz cans in exchange for a donation of ANY size!  The Haiti Disaster Relief Fundraiser was put on by the kind folks at Markarios. Danny and April had the booth set up from before 11AM until around 3:30 and in that amount of time we raised around $350! That’s a lot of cans, I tell you what!

Sweet Leaf Tea 16oz Cans for Haiti Relief Donations

Sweet Leaf Tea 16oz Cans for Haiti Relief Donations

Check out the footage from KXAN (our local NBC affiliate) and Fox 7 News! I think that the people of Austin really came out to show their support and I hope that in 6 months when this issue seems like a distant memory, that we are still sharing much-needed aide with the people of Haiti.

So as most of ya’ll might know already, about 2 weeks ago we moved offices further down South Congress to Penn Field.  We are right next to Ruta Maya, Clear Channel Radio, and our good friends over at the GIBSON GUITAR SHOW ROOM!  We love it!  Tons of room, beautiful space, huge kitchen, etc.  So, naturally with the Holidays rolling around, we wanted to show it off.  In a big way….

SO WE HAD A HOLIDAY PARTY!!!! <== Click Here!

It was great!  250+ people showed up and had one hell of a time.  The nights festiviites included:

DJ Orion Pumping out the beats till 1am!

- Ping Pong

Ping pong with Clayton

- Darts

- Old School Nintendo NES == with classic games from Super Mario Bros. to Contra to ExciteBike.

- Photobooth

- specialty drinks (see below)

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- Karaoke

- A Crazy Dance party

This wasn’t your ordinary work holiday party.  No showing up for 10 minutes to “show face” and jet,  hoping your poopy pants boss wouldn’t see you leave. There was so much going on you HAD to stay till the end.

Towards the end of the night Happy, Charla, Elizabeth, Emily and Myself decided to kick off the EXTREME Dancing!  Which included break dancing and ended at salsa.
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Check out our Flickr! to see all the photos from the party. They are worth gazing at!

Happy Holidays to all. Safe Travels.  Check in before NYE for an update on our activities!

A huge perk working for Sweet Leaf Tea is the free events that employees get to attend or participate in. This past weekend was the Livestrong Challenge and as sponsors of the event we were given entrances to the 5K run and the bike ride. I am all about working out for free and getting a good training ride in, so I was not going to let this opportunity pass me by.

Livestrong Challenge Starting Line

Livestrong Challenge Starting Line

Our new Sr. Mgr. Financial Planner, Brian Hack was my partner for the 45 mile ride through Dripping Springs. If you know anything about the Texas Hill Country, then you know that it’s not flat. There was a lot of up’s and down’s in this ride much like the challenge of living with cancer. It was so inspiring to see the notes and flags pinned to participants jerseys with the name(s) of the person that they were riding for. There were many times during that 45 miles (4.5 hours w/lots of rest stops) where I teared up from reading why folks were doing the ride. I was riding in memory of my father, who lost a short, horrible battle to the Big-C 7 years ago, and for my friend Jim who is trying to kick cancer’s ass currently. It was an absolute honor to ride for the both of them and for everyone else out there living, fighting, surviving, or mourning the loss of someone they loved. I wish I was talented enough to have taken pictures while I was riding, because one of my favorite jerseys said “cancer sucks”. I don’t think it gets much plainer than that.

My wedding day (me, Dylan & my folks) 2/12/02. Dad passed 7/6/02.

My wedding day (me, Dylan & my folks) 2/12/02. Dad passed 7/6/02.

What are YOU doing to fight this craptacular disease?

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