December 22, 2009

Hello everybody,

Hopefully this letter nds you all after another busy year. The biggest news that I have to announce is that it is lessthan 6 months until I marry a great girl, and the love of my life, Jessica Hill. The ceremony will be June 12, 2009 inAmes IA. It is with this in mind that we prepared a Joint set of Christmas Card Letters, save the date cards and oth-er things. I could write volumes about Jess but since she did such a good job, just turn the sheet over and you willnd out all about her.

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I am happy to announce that I now have an A.S. in Management of Information Sciences from DMACC. Unfortu-nately Computer Science and I had a disagreement and after several tries at Discrete Math and proofs we decidedto split up and go our separate ways…In other news, I am now gainfully employed as “Information Coordinator” with Schillinger Genetics, a small non

GMO soybean seed company. What is an Information Coordinator? I am still trying to gure out what all I do, butgenerally I am everything from the frontline IT guy handling support calls, dealing with tech vendors and repairs,web design, statistics, and learning about NIR protein readers. It is a great job that you never quite know what youare going to encounter the next day.

I have also gone through a change of address, with a full time job I have upgraded to an apartment in Urbandale,IA. It is very nice, in fact, it is a former resort that was converted to apartments (who knew that no one wouldwant to vacation in Urbandale?) It is a lot better than my former apartment in Des Moines as it has more than oneroom and a far lower crime rate. I will be at this apartment until Juneish when Jess and I will move in together.The location is still to be decided, but we plan to be somewhere half way between Ames and the Des Moines areaas that will be half way between our jobs.

My current address is:

Andrew Denner

10821 Douglas Ave Apt 204

Urbandale, IA 50322

Cell: (515) 460

9006

email: denner@gmail.com

As I am about out of space, I guess this should be the end of my letter, I apologize for the delay, Jess has been onme to get it done for several weeks now, unfortunately, with work and a busy life it always got put on the backburner. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Stay safe with all of this bad weather we are hav-ing!

Merry Christmas,

December 15, 2009

Hello Family and Friends,

It’s that time of year again…. where we start bundling up and try to stay warm amongst all thesnow. It also means it is time for my annual Christmas letter. It has been a very busy year for me with starting a full

time job and trying to plan a wedding.Last December, I graduated from Iowa State with a Bachelor’s in Food Science. Immediatelyfollowing in January, I started full

time at Caremoli

USA in Ames. My title is Quality Control,which means anything from preparing samples for our sales team to testing incoming raw ingre-dients to the final product before it leaves our facility. It has been a very hectic year and I try tostay caught up as much as possible, but sometimes it’s just not feasible. On the bright side, weare getting a new person in January, so that will take some of the load off of me, but not untilafter I train them. For any of you, who do not know what we do at Caremoli, we are the onesthat make the multigrain pasta mix for the yellow box of Barilla Plus Pasta (aka… the healthykind). So the next time that you are in the grocery store, check out the pasta aisle and say “Iknow someone that tests that stuff.” We also distribute plenty of other ingredients, such as guar gum and acids for confectionaries and bakeries, mainly across the U.S. but we do sell to placeson the East and West Coast, as well as Canada and Mexico. We also have a plant in Italy, Ger-many and India, so I have learned about all of the hassles of shipping products internationally.Andy graduated from Des Moines Area Community College after transferring from ISU in Janu-ary. He graduated with an Associates of Science in Management of Information Systems, andnow works for Schillinger Genetics in West Des Moines as the Information Coordinator/IT guy.He works out of the corporate office in West Des Moines, but they have research stations in Mar-yland, Illinois and Grinnell, IA. They primarily deal with non

GMO soybeans and corn.For those of you that did not know, Andy and I got engaged last December after I graduated.Our wedding will be June 12, 2010 in Ames. I can’t believe how fast the year has flown by andthat we are just shy of 6 months away from tying the knot. Plans are starting to fall into place aswe are slowly making progress on the all the logistics. We already have a reception site; it will be at the Story County Fairgrounds in the Community Building in Nevada, IA. We also have our photographer, my cousin, Amy Becker and our officiant, the former University Lutheran pastor,Fritz Wehrenberg, such an amazing guy. We will also be having the associate pastor from St.Thomas Aquinas, Fr. Dennis Miller, to assist and be the Catholic voice. Finally, I bought my bridal gown in July and absolutely love it. It was not the first dress I tried on, but very similar toit. I was the first one to try it on in the store and the owner had to add it to their inventory beforeI could buy it. It fit almost like a glove, but since I have been continuing to work out, I will probably have to get it altered. On the subject of working out, I have lost approximately 40 lbssince I started in late February. I feel so much better now, it is amazing!I think that is a pretty good wrap

up for the year. Hopefully, I will see most of you over the holidays. If not, I will look forward to seeing you in June! HappyHolidays and Best of Luck in 2010!

Love,

Jessica