Happy Summer

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. We are doing well, things are busy around here, as always. Warren is busy with his grape vines and summer projects. Warren is also busy with work and will hopefully get a promotion this September.

I am really busy with the youth group. We are cleaning the fairgrounds this week starting Thursday and going through Monday...so I will be pretty insanely busy this week.

Work is going well. I am in my second month in my new position and the learning curve is amazing. I do keep forgetting small paperwork things and that is going to be a problem. I still seem to forget certain things. I am getting better at interviewing and assessing cases, but still have a lot of work to do.

Well, that's all for now,

Amy

Warren's grapevines

Here are some pictures Warren took of his grape vines today.

flowers and rose bushes

Strawberries

We have a really good crop of strawberries this year. Here are some pictures of me making strawberry jam.

graduation

We are a little behind in downloading pictures. Here's Svenja's graduation pictures.

Flooding

We are OK from the flooding in the Cedar Rapids area. My office in Vinton does not have power and is flooded. Warren's workplace in Cedar Rapids is OK, but he has to go out of his way to get to work.

It is quite a mess and will have thunderstorms again tonight. We have water in our basement due to all the rain and the ground is unable to soak up anymore water. Our small garden is gone. Our older grapevines are doing well and our fruit trees are OK. The new grape vines are struggling though.

You can go to www.kwwl.com to see pictures of Cedar Rapids and Vinton flooding. We live closer to Vinton, so that impacts us more than Cedar Rapids.

How things are going

It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought an update would be good. I will hopefully get the graduation pictures up soon, I need Warren's help for that.

Svenja flies out on June 12 and we will be "empty nesters" It will be so strange to have the house to ourselves. I miss her already. She is working on getting herself packed and deciding what she needs to leave behind. I will be training the whole week in Des Moines, so I will try to get back the night before she leaves to help her get ready.

The new job is going well. Things are getting pretty busy. I have a few termination hearings connected with my old job, so I'll be doing that also. It will be a better set up for me, occupation wise.

That's all for now.