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I could talk all day about Kally.

She's amazing.

I think that Eddy has just been a great addition to our team.

Kind, genuine, funny, nice, wonderful.

All around person. Sarah is the best.

I want to talk about Janet Wernke

because she is just such a caring and thoughtful and genuine person.

I've seen her when I've been in a conference room

and I see her walking by somebody.

 

She stops and she genuinely cares

about what's going on.

 

And I've seen her give them a hug, her smile ls just so welcoming.

 

It's huge and it's contagious.

 

Sarah had found out that I was.

 

Well, not that I was pregnant,

but I had my son and his whole room was cows

and all this stuff.

 

So Sarah took the time

to make this wonderful cow for my son.

 

She did it all by herself.

 

She crocheted. It's beautiful. Wonderful.

 

Love it.So I don't know.

 

That just speaks to

who Sarah is as a person.

 

Sarah took time out of her busy schedule.

 

She is now pregnant herself,

so obviously you don't have a lot of downtime or energy.

 

And she did this wonderful,

nice thing for me.

 

So it just speaks to her as a person, how thoughtful she is

and how selfless she can be.

 

They're just caring people.

 

They're just really exciting to be around.

 

And I don't walk into work and dread

like, Oh, I had to work with the same people

all the time.

 

It's like, No,

I get to work with my people.

 

Like I see them, even though I see them 40 hours a week.

 

I enjoy it. I enjoy their company

and our conversations that we have.

 

It's just really nice working with them.

 

But one of the biggest things that has stood out to me about Eddy is his work ethic.

 

And we've had people call in on Saturdays on multiple occasions,

and Eddy is always willing to jump up and get ready

and come in to work.

 

Even on his day off on a Saturday when most of us make plans on Saturdays.

 

He's willing to come in and do that,and he's done that numerous times

throughout the week to the camaraderie

is great and he's just a joy to work with.

 

Kally is amazing.

 

Kally is always there for us.

 

I just I look up to her.

 

I mean, I'm older than her, but I look up to her.

 

I, I, she's so confident. She believes in us.

 

So, you know, when you got your boss believing in you, how can you go wrong?

 

And she's helped me in my personal life, too.

 

I mean, there's been a couple of things that she's guided me.

 

For someone to have that kind of effect on someone,

 

I felt like she needed to know.

 

You wanted to take a little bit of time to tell us

about the people that you care about.

 

So we reached out to some of the people in your branch and got them to give us some things that they wanted to share about you.

 

Oh, lovely. So if you don't mind. Okay.

 

I'm going to share with some of your coworkers I had to say about you.

 

Are you ready. I’m ready. Cassidy has only been here

for a short amount of time, but in that time she's been able

to demonstrate the great leader she is.

 

Oh, she is 100% the Beyoncé of our department.

 

And she said you would know what that means. I'm Beyonce always.

 

I'm very proud of her.

 

She should be very proud of herself and the credit union

is lucky to have her on the team.

 

Oh, she's always so positive and welcoming.

 

It makes for an awesome day.

 

She truly has one of the greatest hearts

out there, so kind and loving and just a genuine human.

 

We have helped each other through some very dark times and came out the other end stronger because of it.

 

Absolutely.

 

Angie, you are so appreciated for going above and beyond all the time.

 

I see it and I hear it.

 

Thank you for being you. Wow.

 

I didn't expect that. Thank you.

 

I appreciate her so much and hope that I can be as good of a mama

to my little one as she is to Waylon.

 

She's seriously super mom and super friend.

 

Oh, love it.

 

Well, Sarah doesn't need to hear this for me, but

 

Sarah is going to be an amazing mother as well.

 

She is a dedicated, motivated person when it comes to her h.r.

 

Responsibilities and i admire her greatly for that.

 

However, she also has a very warm, caring, fun side that always has time for you and never turns down a Janet hug.

 

She makes my heart happy.

 

Oh, stop it.

 

I love my Ascentra coworkers.

 

Oh, my goodness.

 

It's so nice to hear these things.

Every Thanksgiving and Christmas.

 

But Thanksgiving is my favorite.

 

We all get together at my grandparents,

basically my dad's aunts, uncles,

 

cousins, my cousins, my aunts and uncles

all get together.

 

We all bring food.

 

We all spend time together.

 

Everybody has their kids there.

 

All the kids are playing.

 

Everybody's talking, having a good time.

 

And I and that's why

I enjoy Thanksgiving the most,

 

because of all the food and family

that's there.

 

The holiday tradition

 

kind of changed a couple of years ago

when I bought my my house in LeClair.

 

And so I started the tradition

of having my parents

 

and my 101 year

old grandma over for a meal

 

and we just hang out

and listen to grandma’s stories.

 

And usually after we have a meal,

we're all a little sleepy.

 

And so we turn on football

 

and we watch football

and all of us usually end up asleep.

 

And last year I'm pretty sure even the cat

fell asleep on the couch with all of us.

 

It's a good time.

 

Christmas Eve, my mom

hides spiders in the Christmas tree.

 

A lot of people do hide the pickle,

so we always do

 

the spiders that my mom makes by hand,

and we take turns.

 

We have 30-second rounds

trying to find a spider,

 

and then it's kind of fast

paced and aggressive.

 

But when you find a spider,

everybody celebrates and you get to pick

 

a wrapped gift card for somewhere

 

or a wrapped board game,

you know, of some sort.

 

So we always fight over trying

to find the spider in the tree every year.

 

So I have two holiday traditions.

 

The first one is every year on Christmas

Eve, my mom gives us new pajamas.

 

It's always one of our favorite things

 

because who doesn't like to sleep in

nice, cozy new pajamas on Christmas?

 

And then it's fun

to kind of look back at the ones

 

now that we've stopped growing.

The second one is

we get ornaments every year.

 

So this is a tradition

that my husband's family has done

 

ever since his mom and dad got together.

 

So they've got ornaments on their trees

from like the early nineties

 

all the way up to now.

So it's really nice to see

like their ornament

 

they got each other

when they first got married,

 

when they first had Jake's sister,

when they first had Jake.

And now like as their grandparents.

 

My heritage is Hungarian and also Irish.

 

So super duper

superstitious at New Year's,

 

once it hit midnight,

we would all go outside.

 

We would all just start

hitting our pots and pans, because

 

 

apparently it was to help relieve you

 

from bad spirits for the next year

 

and shoot off fireworks

and just be as loud as you can.

 

I will go over to my mom's house

and we bake from like 6 a.m.

 

till 7 p.m. from sugar cookies

to peanut butter squares.

 

Anything you can think of.

 

And we'll put them in little tins,

 

and then we take them around to,

like our neighbors, to family, friends.

 

And it's just something we've done

since I was little.

 

And it's fun to see, like,

the smiles on everybody else's faces.

 

So I think traditions are important

to people

 

because it's something

that they can do generationally

 

and then it's something unique

to their family, too.

 

So this tradition isn't something that

you can be like, Oh, I was raised in Iowa.

 

This is what all the islands do

so that you can be like, No,

 

I am a Turner,

I am a Dylan, I am a Kershaw.

 

And this is what we do.

And that's kind of our fun tradition

that we do in our family.

You're gathering together around

something that you all can focus on,

 

and I think that that is something

that we all need.

 

I think it's just the people

you're doing it with.

 

And so I don't always spend a lot of time

with my parents and my grandparents

 

because all of our lives are so busy

and so it's nice to just

 

relax and slow down and have some time

to talk about the little things.

 

Just to be together

 

and enjoy that time together

because we know that our time is limited

and we don't get to do that

every day of the year.

 

I just like spending time with my mom.

 

It's a lot of fun

to go over to her house and,

 

you know, just make a mess of everything

and then just get to spend the quality

time.

 

We get to play our Christmas music

 

and just be spend the whole day

with each other.

 

As we all know, memories need to be made

because we don't last forever. So finding something

that we can make memories and have share

with our children and pass on to them,

I think it's just something special.