More August Fun

It's been a busy month. My niece Britteny got married and Kurt has had bike races.

Kurt waiting for his race to start. This was taken in Boone on August 23rd. He did pretty well in his category.

Off he goes. He finished his 2 laps in 1 hour and 52 minutes.

Here are some pictures from Britteny's wedding. Her and Troy were married on August 15, 2009. It was a beautiful ceremony, even though the weather was threatening rain.

Britteny and Troy pouring their unity candle.

Here is me with my great-niece Shane Marie Babcock. That weekend was the first time I got to meet her in person.

Kurt and I at the wedding. Of course my brother Jeff had to ruin a perfect picture.

Here is my brother Jeff walking his daughter down the aisle.

Not much else is happening. I've been riding my bike to work approximately 2 days a week. Kurt usually rides out to West Des Moines and then we ride a little farther. When we do that we ride approximately 30 miles. We have bike races the next couple of weeks. Next weekend they have time trials, which they ride one lap as fast as they can. Then the following weekend is the 7 Oaks 24-hour Mountain Bike race in Boone. Kurt still hasn't decided if he's going to find a team, a partner, or do some solo riding. Last year was our first year, and we had a blast. It's more of a fun camping trip with some biking thrown in. I've been looking forward to this all summer long. After the 24 hour race, it's pretty much cyclocross season.

Work is going pretty well. School has started, so the majority of my patients are in the afternoon. Staffing got re-arranged a little bit, and now I actually enjoy waking up and going to work. For awhile, it was pretty bad, but I now have a good team at my office. My vision therapy doctor asked me if I'd like to go to this year's conference, and I accepted. It'll be in Colorado again in October. I'll get to fly again!

That's pretty much all I know. I hope everybody is doing well.

August Fun

Thought I'd share some pictures of some of our August Fun. Sorry to hear about the terrible storms that happened back home. I hope everybody is safe. We got some heavy rain and wind, but nothing big Sunday evening.

Friday was Family night at the Blank Park Zoo. Kyle, Julie, and Alexa invited us to go along.

Sunday Kurt had another mountain bike race "Mob the Quab." He had a pretty good time and did very well. I'm very proud of him.

Great to have him home.

Well it's been one long week. Kurt was up in Breckenridge, Colorado. I spent the week staying busy, but it was quite lonesome at night. Monday and Thursday I had to work at Cheese Castle, and Wednesday night I watched Alexa, Kurt's great-niece. We had a good time. Tuesday evening, I hung out w/ my friend Molly and met her 7 week old baby for the first time. His name is Dylan and he's a doll. Friday and Saturday I spent time w/ the girls; Friday w/ Julie S. and Saturday my co-workers Amanda and Christa came over to the house and we grilled lunch. Oh ya and I also went for a 17 mile bike ride on Saturday morning.

Well after a week of being by myself, Kurt finally made it home Saturday evening. It sounded like he had a good time. Here are a few of my favorite pictures he took!

Saturday night we relaxed together, and then Sunday we traveled up to Waverly for the Camp Ingawanis MBT race. Kurt did pretty well, I think he placed in the middle of the sport category. So it was quite the busy weekend.