Jennifer

Dear Family,

Looking forward to seeing you at the reunion in a couple of days. We haven't been camping since Bear Lake family reunion in 2005. Guess we're due.

Last month I met up with Emily & John and family in Seattle, where we joined Ammon and Angela and kids and had a fun few days together...Pikes Place Market, Space Needle, taking a city tour riding the Ducks (which is very cool driving on the road and then into the water without ever getting out of the vehicle), ferry to Port Townsend, enjoying the island, spending the night in a nice condo at Discovery Bay, seeing the Locks where boats go from the lake to the ocean and vice versa (also where the salmon and other fish spawn), enjoying crab and freshly made donuts at the market. Thanks Ammon & Ang for being our tour guides.

Finn and Harper had the chicken pox but are healed up now. I enjoy skyping with them every week -- Finn likes me to read him stories, although we don't ever quite finish one...and he's been talking quite a bit and even called me on the phone the other day, by himself.

Ammon got a new job and is elated -- we're all happy about that. His official title is International Movie Programmer. He works at the Xbox Entertainment Dept. at Microsoft....he can tell you more about it.

Work has been generally slow, although yesterday was a very hectic day -- getting ready for trial is a pain.

We've had a lot of plums and apricots this year, we got about half, the squirrels got the other half, and if there's a third half, the wind blew the rest to the ground.

Love, Jennifer & Steve