Aug California Trip

We went to California to visit my family while Dustin went to San Francisco to the Gourmet Show. We were exhibiting our VICTORIO KITCHEN PRODUCTS there. We were there from the 6th to the 11th. So Dustin spent 3 of those nights in San Francisco. Everything went well, but we are glad to be home.

Family Reunion Pages

Here are my scrapped pages of our family reunion...nearly a month later. It was a good time. I love the slide show video that Jaris did for us. Thanks so much! That's a good tradition to start. You can click on the pages to make them bigger so you can read the text and see the pics up close. Kids are back in school today, hooray, so I was able to finish these up. Oh, and I used our new canner for the first time today and we processed 10 8oz jars of black berry jam from Hollie and Rod's berries. Thanks guys. I also got two containers of fresh freezer jam. Yummm!

Bear Lake Pages

Hey, I got a chance to do a scrapbook page today. We had a good time at Bear Lake on the 1st of August. I will work on Reunion pics next and then our California trip. California was great but we are done taking any trips for a while...for a long while. The kids were such a mess on the way home that it will be fine if we don't go anywhere for another year or so..or at least until we forget how hard it was. Today is actually Leia's 3rd birthday. We will probably take the kids out to eat and to a park then home for presents and cake. I am making a strawberry jello cake. For those of you who don't know what that is; it's when you make jello water and pour it on top of your cake. Let it set in the fridge and put a cool whip type frosting on top. I am mixing some vanilla pudding in with the cool whip. I think I will color it pink too and add some sprinkles to make it festive. Yumm! Hey, I love it when people leave a comment. Then I know that a few people actually look at my pictures. Thanks so much!

One more thing from July: Dustin went to Taiwan on a business trip just before our reunion. It was a neat experience but the time difference being opposite of ours was very difficult so he felt sick and exhausted most of the time. He met with the broker that we've been dealing with over there and made sure they got some of the changes taken care of with our grainmill. He got to visit two of the main factories and learn more of the processes that go on in making our products.

Time to Catch Up

Ok, to catch up. In July was Breanna's birthday. She also took a crash course in Ballet for 3 weeks. We will start again in the fall. We went to the Discovery Museum in Salt Lake. We also had the Palmer Family Reunion which I will do pics of next. And finally we spent a day up at Bear Lake. We are getting ready to leave for California in two days for our last big summer activity. Time has really flown by.