Can I Just Brag for a Minute?

This press release recently came out. NGA is a group that I spent countless hours putting together their bid. I had meetings with the Governor's office, and scoured the city, but my hard work paid off, they're coming to Salt Lake!

Utah Chosen to Host 2011 Governors Association Annual Meeting

by PR or News Wire

28 August 2009—

The National Governors Association (NGA) announced that Salt Lake City, Utah, will host the nation’s governors for its 2011 Annual Meeting, July 15-17. This will mark the fourth time NGA has held its Annual Meeting in the state since 1919.

“NGA is excited to be gathering in Salt Lake City,” said NGA Vice Chair West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who will serve as NGA’s chair in 2011. “NGA meetings offer governors of all political parties the opportunity to sit down together to focus on solutions and ideas that improve state government and strengthen the federal-state partnership. I know Utah’s capital city will serve as an excellent setting.”

NGA’s nine-governor executive committee selected Utah for its first-class hotel and meeting facilities, as well as the city’s overall appeal. Utah’s bid demonstrated the state’s ability to meet all of the association’s criteria for hosting an Annual Meeting.

“The 2011 NGA Annual Meeting is a tremendous opportunity to showcase Utah. Governors and their families from across the nation will be in attendance, and Salt Lake City will serve as an excellent place for us to gather and discuss issues of importance to all governors,” said Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. “I am honored that my fellow governors have selected Utah as their host and am thrilled for the opportunity to showcase all that this wonderful state has to offer.”

Salt Lake City hosted the NGA Annual Meeting three previous times: 1919, 1930 and 1947. NGA’s Annual Meeting draws approximately 1,000 attendees. This is one of the organization’s two official business meetings held each year; the Winter Meeting is held in Washington, D.C. The next Annual Meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, July 9-11, 2010.

New Blog Project

Hey Family!

I started a new blog to record our trip to China. I'm having some issues posting photos, so right now it's a lot of text, but read and enjoy.

Annie

China!

Here are the China pictures from our trip. Enjoy!

China 2009

China

Well Family, Mom and I are off to China. Just so you know what's on our itinerary for the next few days:

Sunday
9:20 pm flight from Salt Lake to LAX
10:24pm arrive LAX, RUN from Terminal 5 to the international terminal (I'll try to take video of Mom running)

Monday
12:20 AM Fly from LAX to Soeul, South Korea

Tuesday
5:20 am arrive in Korea. (Yep, that's 5:20 am KOREA time, so that's a 13 hour flight. Can we have just a little sympathy? Just a little?)
10:20 am fly to Xi'An China. (That's where the Terra Cotta Warriors are if you aren't up on your Chinese geography.)
12:00pm arrive in CHINA!

We'll be incommunicado while in China. Talk to you all when we get back!

Love you!

Happy Birthday Naida!

Blogger Queen

My work asked me to be a contributing blogger for the Visit Salt Lake Blog. I'm supposed to be the "Meetings Expert" whatever that means. I posted my first blog today about the Salt Lake Marathon. Go here if you want to read it.

Cake

I went to Stacey and Rick's to hang out last week and we had cake. Sam ate the top half of his cake including all of the icing and then gave the last of it to Rick who had finished his. He said he knew his dad liked cake more than him so he was going to share. Then Sam came up to me with his big puppy dog eyes and asked for some of my cake.

We Have a Clepto in the Family.

We had the Harrell Family Birthday Party tonight for Mom and Rick's birthdays at Annie's house. Sam said goodbye to everyone and went out of the house. A few minutes later Sam came running back in the house, he said goodbye to my roommate Carri and then grabbed a coaster off the table and took off out the door again. Stacey grabbed him at the door and rescued the coaster, but he was determined to make it home with something. He came back in for balloons.

David

To see what Dave's been up to check out the link at the left.

More Family Skiing fun!

Picture from Skiing

1st Annual Harrell Family Ski Day

Check out Tim's awesome footage from the 1st Annual Harrell Family Ski Day at Solitude:


Harrell Ski Day at Solitude from tim wagner on Vimeo.

Tim's Skiing Adventure

Tim and Janna went backcountry skiing on Sunday and Tim took this video with his helmet cam. Turn up the volume and enjoy the music as you watch.


Untitled from bud green on Vimeo.

Cookie Monster

In Which I Go Skiing

To read about my trip to Grand Targhee go to this post .