Monday, May 19, 2008

Family Pictures and Grandma's party

OK three items of business I want you all to know about ASAP. First, one is about the family picture. We are going to have our family pictures done by Inkley's. The basic 8x10 to order is $10.00 which is extremely reasonable and not to mention they do a wonderful job. Each of you who have paid your $50 have paid for your photo and dinner/party etc. Also, we get the copyright issues for a small fee so we will be able to do what we want with the pictures afterwards.

Inkley's staff is willing to come to Park City, but they will charge a fee of $135 to come and if we do it in Sandy it is free. The studio in Sandy can fit our group without any problem and the photographer is really great to work with as well as being a fabulous photographer. Also, if your individual family would like any additional poses it will be $25. He said that if there is four additional poses in additional to the entire group pose that he will not charge anymore for any other additional ones.

Second item I wanted to make you all aware of is, I have been calling around for a location for Grandma Mackey's big birthday celebration in Park City and I haven't had any success for a gathering of our size. Unfortunately, the places we are staying at do not have a large gathering location. With that being said and discussing it with other family members we believe the best solution would be to have it in Sandy/Draper on the same day that we do our family pictures in Sandy. The best location for the party would be ideally in one of our backyards and then we will have a barbecue. It won't be too much work, but a lot of fun! Suzanne and I are both willing to have it at our homes and have the dinner/party in the afternoon. Also, hopefully that day we could also see John's slides he had from he and Annette's trip to Egypt. The date for the pictures/party will be on Tuesday, July 29th at this time. Hopefully, by having it on Tuesday we will be able to possibly have our family pictures ready to take home when the reunion is over!

Third, I have enjoyed receiving many of your surveys and thank you very much for taking the time to fill them out so promptly. If any of you have possibly overlooked sending it you can still send it. Of course I am very aware that the deadline is the 25th, but it has also come to my attention that the sooner we reserve the dates for any activities the greater our experience and price at them so I wanted to pass that on. So far many have shown an interest in a variety of activities so if you are one who wants to do some activities the sooner you alert me to this the better. As always if you have any questions or comments please contact me.

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