Bonnie and Mike Witte Family

Hi Family!

Hard to believe it's been a year and what an eventful year it has turned out to be. I became the manager of the New Carlisle Curves in October, Mike left Delphi this spring (no early-out packages were offered to salary employees before he left) and he seems to enjoy working at Mazak Corp., and Matt and Lina are giving us a granddaughter in September. We also made it to 2 80th birthday parties--Uncle Fred's and Uncle Fritz's. Enjoyed being at both parties. Got to spend some quality time with Jeani and Kitti, something that we haven't done in a very long time.

To top it all, our basement flooded after 5.5" of rain fell in less than 24 hours. The sump pump couldn't keep up with the water (it had been zapped twice by electrical outages). Long story short, lots of damage and no sump pump insurance. Silly us, we assumed it was covered in the homeowners policy. Now Mike is working on redoing the basement. My beautiful oak laminate floor in my 3 year old sewing room was a complete loss. We hauled away a lot of damaged stuff. But it's just STUFF. We are still alive and our home is livable. We were spared from anything as horrible as Iowa. Besides, the basement needed to have a good cleaning!!

Missy's oldest Allie is a freshman this year, Cara is a 4th grader and Kevin is going to kindergarten. They were very involved in baseball this summer. Cara broke a bone behind her knee playing ball. She did however get back in time to play in the All-Star game and did very well.

Mike Jr. is now working in electronics and seems to be enjoying it. He continues to play softball and golf.

Matt, Lina and Connor are waiting on baby Hannah Marie in September. They are well and keeping busy with the installation of a new floor in their dining room and living room.

To say the least, the Bergman family is growing in leaps and bounds this year. Congratulations are in order for Paul and Amanda (Adrianna Marie) and Adam and Lindsay (Kaleigh Yvonne). Soon it will be Jenny and Justin's turn, Matt and Lina's and then Doug and Christie's. What a great year!!

I'm sure there's something that I've forgotten, but that's the way it goes!!

Love to all of you,
Bonnie and Mike