Here we go!

It's moving week and we have A LOT of packing to do yet. We knew this week was coming, so why wouldn't you put more effort into packing up all your stuff so you're ready??? I think they like to call it procrastination. We've done a little bit here and there, but we still have a ways to go. One reason we're a little behind is that our closing date was moved up 3 days, which doesn't sound like a lot, but those extra 3 days, means we can move in a weekend earlier that we first thought, so really, we lost about 7 days. Right now we're working pretty hard to get everything ready by Friday so that when all of our people come to help move, all they have to do is the moving part. So if you don't have anything better to do next Saturday (besides watching the Buckeyes) you're more than welcome to come help!

Tomorrow (Monday) we go in and sign the closing papers. Then on Wednesday we will get the keys to the house. It's exciting but hard to believe that we won't be in our apartment next Sunday!

Last Sunday I had the opportunity to go with a bunch of my high school friends up to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI to watch the Packers & Bengals. Now, I'm not really a fan of either, but I couldn't pass up the chance to see Lambeau Field! I'm VERY happy that I got to go when it was about 75 degrees instead of 0 with a -25 windchill! It was a great experience and a great game! Everyone was very friendly -- even though the Packers lost and I was wearing a Chad Johnson...oops, I mean Chad Ochocinco jersey. I got a lot of crap from a lot of people, but one of my friend's had brought the extra jersey along and no one was going to wear it. So I was the brave one to sport the jersey.

Well, back to watching Sunday afternoon football as well as keeping an eye on those Tigers! Until next time --

In the news

I think I told a few of you that my company, Berry Plastics came up with a great way to help out a lot of people in our community. For those of you who have not been to Berry Plastics, we have a big field to the east of our plant, 7 acres to be exact. One of our employees had the idea to grow some food to help out those in need, especially now, with so many people out of work in Elkhart County. So we planted sweet corn, yes 7 acres of sweencorn. If you're wondering how much that might equate to, it's somewhere around 9,000 dozen (100,000 ears)!!! We lined up a lot of area food pantries and churches to come and pick up the corn. Since it is a parishible food, it needs to be used as soon as possible. We thought we may have trouble getting willing agencies to take it, but we were very wrong. We got rid of every last ear...truly amazing. God definitely had a plan for each ear that we gave away. It was a lot of fun to be a part of something so big like this. Every person that came and picked up the corn was so grateful for it, and in turn they said "you have no idea how many people you will make very happy for this food"



We did get some media coverage out of this event, so I'm going to give you a link to the Elkhart Truth. It was on the front page of the paper this AM, and I just happened to be in one of the pictures on the front page. You couldn't see my face, but my name got in the caption! :) Our local NBC station was also there and did a news story on our project, but I haven't seen anything online yet. If I do, I'll be sure to send those on. So, check out the link (you may have to copy and paste into your browser):



http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=492847