What a party!
On Saturday, we celebrated my youngest daughter’s engagement to Shaun Stenning who originally hails from Echuca in Victoria.
Stephanie joined me in the business in April last year and I promised her that she would learn much more (and more quickly) by working with me than she would at university. I told her that I would send her to seminars and courses and that she would learn a lot “on the job”. (I couldn’t believe I was saying that to her as she came home one evening, ready to drop out of university)
She has certainly learnt a lot in that time and has made some massive changes to her life since then too. Life in the business has been very hectic for her since she joined us and I’m sure she sometimes thinks: “life was much easier back at uni”.
Stephanie and I started a new business together and she bought a house in 2006.
Little did I know when I suggested that she should join me at an internet marketing 
seminar in August 2006 that this would have such a HUGE impact on her life.
You see, the seminar was held in Melbourne and I had a team of software developers who also worked for me in Melbourne. I spoke with Ben who heads up that team and suggested it would be a good idea if he and some of his key people went along to this seminar.
This they did and one of those people who came along to the seminar was Shaun.
Despite the fact that Stephanie had a terrible cold that weekend, Shaun decided that “she was the one”.
One Thursday evening back in November 2006, I came home and guess whose smiling face was there to greet me. It was Shaun. He told me he had flown up from Melbourne for the evening and would be going back home before the weekend.
Well that wasn’t to be because he joined Stephanie at one of the Tomorrow’s Youth seminars held by Brent Williams and Dale Beaumont. I think he was here for 3 weeks before he flew back to Melbourne for a few days to finalise things down there and move to Bathurst permanently.
We are delighted to welcome Shaun to our family and he has also joined us in the business and is making a wonderful contribution by heading up the team at Sure Fire Marketing.
To celebrate Shaun and Stephanie’s engagement, we had a wonderful party on the farm. Shaun’s parents, Brenda and Karl came up from Echuca together with his brother Matthew and sister Nicole.
Peter Rogers Real Estate kindly lent us their marquee for the weekend, while Grinners catering made sure everyone was well fed as we partied on till the early hours.
If that wasn’t enough, we greeted a beautiful sunday morning with a champagne breakfast on the terrace overlooking the grazing cows and calves in the paddock.
Just after lunch, it was too much for most so an afternoon nap was the order of the day to recharge the batteries.
Warm Regards,
Hans Jakobi - Australia's Wealth Coach