It has been awhile since I blogged and I have free time now so I figured why not? The economy is shot! My husband had been employed as a maintance technican for five years. Almost to the day of his five year anniversy with the company he was told he would be laid off for six months until November. Well now the company is saying they may not bring everyone back which I did not know at the time, he may have known however. So he is receiving unemployment for right now which runs out in September. We have know idea if he will qualify for an extenstion, but the last time he was unemployed he did not qualify. So that really worries me as well as him I am sure. Then I was told I have to find my own internship by September in order to qualify for graduation and I am stressing over that because I have no idea of how to go about finding an internship. My daughter has had a round of freighting seizures which have also scared her neuroloist so badly that she is being sent to a specialist in Grand Rapids and my son must have surgery in August. It seems too much for one year. On the plus side we got rid of our crappy refridgerator and replaced it with a second hand one that is much better so far. The first one we bought brand new from Lowes when we moved in our house in 2005 and for the past like nine months it has been pooling water in the bottom of the fridge. Which is extremely annoying and messy. Either all our food would freeze solid or it would rot and mold from water damage. We found out when we moved out the old one that it had leaked on our floor within the past couple of days too. Also I got a new computer which I REALLY needed since I am completeing my college degree on Baker online. The old one was not fast enough. Steven cashed in his vacation days two weeks worth after his employer told him he was going to be laid off and he got a lumpsum from that. We still have to pay for a loan that we took out of his 401K though even though he may never work for them again. Which sucks it's $9.00 a week so that's not too bad. I think that is about all that is going on at this point. I applied for a job today. Maybe i'll get it that would be great!!!

Hello all ! Wow it has been awhile since my last post. My children are growing like crazy. Jade will turn Seven, Adrian Four this year. Steven and I will be 28. We now Have two kittens, Fiona and Chewbacca and one very hyper dog Daisy. We recently found out that Jade has epilepsy and Mono and Adrians Kidney disease seems to be clearing up well. I am still in college working towards my Associates degree in Accounting and I have until fall 2008 before I complete my degree. Steven is still hard at work for Eagle Alloy, INC. where he works as a third shift maintance technican. For those of you who do not know of that company they are one of the biggest steel foundries in MI owing three other Eagle companies besides the one Steven works for. They make parts for tons of different companies including bob cat and Harley Davidson. Steven has been there since April 2004 and really likes it there. I am hoping to return to work sometime this year. Jade starts school full time this September and I have been off work since 2003 so I am ready to return to the workforce.

It has been awhile since my last post. Things have been pretty crazy lately. We are getting ready for two family weddings both of my sisters are getting married. Chantilly on August 11 and Melissa on September 15. Steven, Jade, Adrian and I are in both weddings which will be fun. The Photo above is of our newest Kitten Fiona Steven named her after the princess in Shrek. We got her on April 25th, 07. I am in my Sixth semester at Baker Online! I love it there. Right now I am Job hunting with little success. I won't finish my associates until August of 08 so I was hoping to work before then. Jade and Adrian will both be at OECC starting September 4 so starting work seems like it would be a good option. I haven't worked since August 2003 and I am anxious to work again. I am hoping something comes up soon. I just recently reconnected with some friends on facebook and finished up the myspace account I opened like six months ago. Melissa has a page for Sonya and it is amazing. We still have Daisy and Halloween my cat Steven got me for my birthday last year. We had another kitten we got after Sally ran away, but we could not keep her. She was bad. well this is it for now. Bye!!!

Susan

It has been awhile since I posted to my blog. I am now starting my third semester at Baker Online for an associates degree in accounting. My husband Steven was going to take courses at ITT Tech for electrical engineering, but decided college isn't for him. Our daughter Jade started Kindergarten and turns five in October, and our son will be three in March. I was a little apprehensive about Jade starting to ride a bus to and from school, but she does fine. Not much else has happened since my last posting.

Daisy
Family portrait December 05
Jade and Adrian Christmas 05
Sally
Hello Everyone!! My name is Susan Treptow. I am from muskegon, Michigan and I am 25 years old. I have been married for six years to my high school sweetheart. We were married on December 21,1999. I graduated from Fruitport Community Schools in March 2000. After graduation I moved to where my husband was stationed Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Our first child a daughter was born on October 25,2001 at the post army hospital. Her name is Jade Noelle. We spent a lot of time in the mountians in Oklahoma. We had never really been able to see mountians, so that was our favorite part of the state. We also enjoyed seeing Buffalo. In July of 2002 we moved back to Michigan and lived in Spring Lake for awhile. I found out I was pregnant with our second child while we were living in Spring Lake. We moved to Muskegon which is not far from Spring Lake after we found out I was pregnant. I had our second child, a son on March 11,2004. His name is Adrian Zachary. We stayed in the city of Muskegon a little while longer and then moved again because of the school systems. We now live in a township outside of the city. The school system for our children is better in this area. Our daughter is about to finish Pre-School at Oakridge Schools. In my spare time I enjoy reading writing and watching T.V. I also like to spend time with my family and pets. There are pictures above.
Susan