Just The Two of Us: NOVEMBER

Birthdays

Our November Birthdays

AJ's Retirement
Also we had a major happening in our family. Back in August AJ received a phone call one day asking if he was interested in selling his business. There was a lunch meeting with Midwest Office Solutions and Cory and AJ....Cory told his dad you have to do this. You are never going to get a better offer especially we weren't even thinking about selling the business for at least another three years. Details went back and forth with lawyers and accountants and AJ and I went and met with them on Oct. 1, 2014 and AJ signed the documents and sold Pioneer Specialites. AJ made sure his employees were taken care of. And all of them have joined Midwest except Laura who decided to do something different. She is still employed with AJ working on Accounts Payables and Receivables. We were able to lease our building and property to Allied Fence Company...and so during the month of November there was a transistion of moving out all of Pioneer's Inventory and offices and getting ready for Allied Fence. We took AJ's employees and spouses out to dinner and bowling for one last thank-you and goodbye. His office manager Carrie couldn't come because of a funeral. But it was a fun evening.

Court, Cory, Laura, Jack, AJ and Roy

One last picture of Pioneer. AJ started this business 25 years ago. And he still can't believe this happened. We know Heavenly Father has truly blessed us with all that has transpired.

My birthday flowers. We didn't plan on going out for my birthday because AJ actually had a church meeting planned for that night. But our Stake President called and him and Lori showed up at our doorstep with Sugar cookies for me and told AJ not to worry about the meeting and he got the information for the meeting from AJ. But since we hadn't planned on going out we got Winger's Quesadilla and spent a nice evening at home.

Anniversary

We also celebrated our 36th Wedding Annivesary on the 17th. We didn't go out to dinner to celebrate because of AJ's retirement party I counted that has our evening of celebrating.

Thanksgiving

We always do our Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday evening so they can either celebrate with in-laws or friends on Thanksgiving Day.