Getting Settled at Home

Coming Home and Cleaning Up!

Sara and I have been home for a few days from camp and have had a great time getting settled. We've spent a lot of time together and that's been a great change from camp where I had to work about 15 hours a day (loved every minute of it though!). We've spent the first few days home not working (since we worked 18 days straight at camp) at our jobs and more working on our marriage. Since we spend so much time at home we thought we'd go ahead and clean up our clutter a bit. Yes, that's an uncluttered desk...for now.


Sara's Showing!

Sara is officially showing now and here's a picture to prove it. She also wanted me to remind anyone viewing this picture that she ate a large piece of lasagna before the picture was taken:) She's in our fourth month and is feeling well, other than the daily naps and occasional headache.



Major Furniture Sale

There's a furniture store here in town that we like to go browse at...but never buy anything there...until now! We bought the piece of furniture for our front entryway that we can store all of our shoes in as well as hang all of our jackets and hats. We got it for about 60% off so we were pretty pumped about that deal. We also bought a small recliner for Sara to rock the baby in. It's small so it'll fit in our baby room pretty well since it's not any bigger than our bedroom.




Sara's Upcoming Arts Festival

Sara's going to be showing off her card-making skills at the Sioux Falls Sidewalk Arts Festival(Click link for more information). She's going to be sharing a booth with her friend Sara Rasmussen, who is a very gifted artist herself! Please stop by the arts festival on Saturday September 8th anytime between 9am and 5pm!




Transitioning Out of Young Life

I'll be done working for Young Life at the end of the month and will be working on getting things ready to hand off to our committee as they work on who is going to run the area next. We're still working out how much we're going to be involved in the next year as we start a family and I start my new career but at the very lease we'll most certainly be following up with kids that we went to camp with this summer as well as kids that didn't go to camp but are still keeping in touch with us throughout the summer. Their school year starts Monday morning!


New Job, Here I Come

I start with Thrivent Financial on September 1st and am really, really excited about my new career! I get to help people make great choices with their finances and give them peace of mind through the products I'll be able to sell to members. I'll be working with a friend named Bryon Meyer and he's really good at his job and I'm so excited to learn from him and the other people at Thrivent. I truly believe this is a great fit for my gifts and passions and am looking forward to helping friends, family and strangers find peace and growth in their finances.

We love you,

Andy, Sara & Baby to be named Traub