Aimee's Trip

Aimee is down South this week.

She went to visit with her mom and dad and Nils in Mableton. Her brother Lars also made the trip. They went to help out around the house while her mom had some doctors visits and a day in the hospital.

Sook apparently doesn't need a whole lot of help because as soon as she got home from the hospital she was back to her routine and trying to take care of a family of five again.

Back home, Rosebud and I are stuck with each other. I'm sure she's wondering when (if) Aimee will ever return. It's not nearly as fun or interesting for her with just me here. Fortunately, Aimee will be back on Saturday and the dog and I will both be thrilled to see her again.

Aimee's Awards

Last month Aimee was pleasntly surprised to receive an invitation to a company awards ceremony at which she was one of the honorees.

Aimee was being recognized for the outstanding work she has done in the last year while working on-site at a major project for Chevron.

She has represented the company very well and the client has been very happy to be working with Aimee. While this is typical for Aimee, she was still quite surprised to find out that she had been nominated for any awards and even more surprised to find out she won any awards

I wasn't surprised at all because I see how hard she works and I know that people always like working on projects with her. 

Unfortunately she was a little under the weather the day of the awards ceremony and was unable to attend.  They gave her a trophy, a medallion, a windbreaker, a Kindle Fire, a water bottle and a certificate.  Curiously, the certificate was dated January 2013 (we never quite figured out what happened there.)

 

A few days after she brought home the awards we had a pretty significant earthquake.  Not too many things moved around inside the house but the trophy did fall off a shelf onto a hardwood floor. It, and the floor, survived with no damage.