Kaitlin Reflections

This week was Kaitlin's School Reflections Awards Ceremony. Kaitlin's black and white photo was one of five winners from her school in the photography category.

Kaitlin spends hours each day drawing and has a real talent for it. More importantly though, she has a drive and passion, that if continued, will take her far. She posts lots of her artwork on Facebook, but for the benefit of those of you not on Facebook, I've put her two most recent additions here.






These are both characters from the book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which Kaitlin just finished reading and really enjoyed. It is the series that the new movie "The Lightning Thief" is based on.





A Trip to San Jose

Chuck spent the week in San Jose. When I asked him what he was doing he said that he was "documenting [a company's] billing process." Chuck had never been to San Francisco and got to see the bay and eat sushi at an authentic Japanese restaurant. Several nights we were able to chat with him via video on Skype. He was even able to attend our Family Home Evening (every Monday we spend the evening together as a family. We have a short religious lesson, we play games and eat snacks) via video. He even played the song lyrics game with us, and advanced his team with his own rendition of "Dad is great; he give us chocolate cake."


Cafe PrimaRio

On Saturday my presidency and I put on a Thank You dinner for all of our Sunday School Primary teachers called Cafe PrimaRio. It was so named after a popular Mexican restaurant we have here called Cafe Rio. We served a chicken and sweat pork enchiladas and salads. The food was fabulous thanks to one of my counselors who is a fabulous cook. We had mariachi music and games and decorations. Everyone that came had a great evening. It is very satisfying to walk away from a big even and feel like it was a success.