My first USANA International Convention

Our first trip to SLC - September 2006, with Lee-Anne (5 months pregnant) and Andrea (7 months) and myself (not pregnant, just 20 lb heavier ... you'll see ....). It was an adventure and an exciting time for us. We had just started our businesses and had NO IDEA what was in store for us.

We had a chance to meet our team from Quebec, Martin and Roxane & Natalie Dion. The energy and passion of all of the amazing people we met really changed my life. After two days of convention (I think it was after I heard Tim Lewis speak) I made the decision to drop out of school. Everyone asked me if I really knew what I was doing (of course I did!) - which I didn't. They tried to warn me that it was going to be very hard to make a decent living in a very short time with a network marketing vision. I didn't hear them - I had visions of Gold Director dancing in my head. Leanne was excited to have a partner to do this with, as she had decided to leave her very well paying corporate job to give this network marketing thing a try full-time.

This is a photo of our team at the time, mostly our cross-line and upline from Quebec. There were about 10 of us from the yet to be named team in Ontario.

Andrea and Lee-Anne, with then VP of Finance, Fred Cooper. We've always loved Fred - now the President of USANA.