End of Summer

The summer is finally coming to a close. The weather has been getting cool and it has been raining a lot here in Spokane. We have been enjoying all the yummy foods from our garden and trying to get in those last activities that we have been saying all summer we need to do. Last week Greg's dad and I rode our bikes on the Centennial Trail from the valley all the way to downtown Spokane. Once down there we rewarded ourselves with yummy food from Domini's. Our total round trip adventure was 37 miles. It was hard work but felt good. On Saturday my good friend Toni came over from Seattle and we headed up to Silverwood. I have never been to Silverwood on a busier day. There was a car show going on up there plus the fact that is was Labor Day weekend. We had a great time and spent most of the day at Boulder Beach. This week I bought my ticket to Rio for December. Now it is official! All I need now is to apply for my visa. Greg is back from his training trips up to Anchorage. Now he is ready to sell phones again. Yesterday he also applied for his business license for his new company he is starting up. The name of the company is "Free Time Enterprises". We'll put a link to his store once it is up and running.

Update

Just had to update everyone on the goings on in our life. Greg starts his new job at AT&T on Sunday when he flys off to Anchorage for training. He'll be gone 1 week. He then leaves for Anchorage again 1 week after coming back for another week of training. He is very excited to be getting back into cell phones. Him and his friend Jon are also in the process of starting up their own online business selling sporting equipment. Hope all goes well and their business takes off as they hope it will. Please pray for him that everything works out okay. As for me, I have just been working hard although I did take a few days and go to Seattle with my mom. We had a great time shopping, eating, more shopping and just taking in the Seattle sites. We even made it to a Mariners game, had excellent seats and the Mariners won. The game was crazy with a major offensive expolsion when the Mariners scored a total of 10 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning including a grand slam!

Priest Lake 2008

This past week I went to Priest Lake with my family & the Moates. Unfortunately Greg had to work. My aunt Cat also came as well as my 4 year old nephew Joey. The weather was great and we all spent the time swimming, boating, playing games and just reading and sleeping down on the beach. Joey ended up catching a couple of fish and Pepper even went swimming when he jumped out of the boat while in motion! On the last day there we took a 3 mile long hike over to Hills resort. We found out that Hills has a Starbucks coffee stand so we set off on the lake trail to get our coffee fix.

Fun in the Sun!

On Tuesday Greg and I took Pepper for a hike on Tubbs hill and went swimming in the lake. We brought Greg's mom along with us. The weather was hot so it felt good splashing in the water. Pepper even went swimming. Afterwards we went to dinner at Red Lobster. Pepper was so exausted he slept the entire way home.

4th of July Celebration!

For the 4th Greg & I headed over to Coeur d'Alene to a BBQ on Fernan lake. We brought the jet skis and had some fun scooting around the lake, swimming, and eating yummy summer foods. The weather was great and everyone had a great time.

Palmer Family Reunion

This weekend we drove down to the Tri-Cities for my aunt missy's pinning ceremony/graduation celebration. My cousin Seth graduated from college as well. The theme of the party was Mardi Gras. We had a catered dinner of New Orleans cuisine and even had a live jazz band playing. My entire family was there down to cousins I haven't seen for years. The weather was great and everyone had a great time. The first picture is a reenactment of my aunts picture that showed up on the front page of the Tri-City Herald the day after graduation.











The entire Palmer clan
My aunt Missy & I


All the boy cousins

Spring Wedding & more yard work

In May Greg & I ventured over to the other side of the state for a wedding. My good friend Toni from nursing school was the lucky bride. The day was very long as we left at around 9 in the morning & didn't get home until 1am the next morning. The wedding was very small and beautiful. It overlooked the ocean. The reception was at salty's restaurant & the food was excellent. The entire wedding was beach themed down to the cake with white chocolate seashells on it.

A couple of weekends ago Greg planted four maple trees in the front yard. His parents were also there to help out. He removed the two dead trees not surviving the winter & added two more. It looks so nice. He also installed path lights leading up to the house running all the wire under the dirt & replaced the old ugly porch lights with new ones. The good thing for me was that it was my weekend to work so I slept all day while he was working outside. The temp was also in the 90s. I think he did an excellent job. The next weekend when I was off I worked in the backyard planted some flowers & started our first vegetable garden. Come August we will be dining on cucumbers, green beans, corn, carrots, & cantaloupe. I also planted sunflowers & pumpkins for fall. We are very excited to see how it turns out.