My new ride

With fuel prices high and me feeling like it may be time to replace my 1990? Murray, I decided to go ahead and buy a new, you guessed it! Bike. After living in the country all of my childhood riding on gravel with the closest pavement being a highway, Yeah I don't know why they didn't let us ride on that, I am enjoying going for a little joyride during the evenings around Grimes and it's bike trails.

My first ride was interesting as a stumbled on a crime scene in the park where they found a dead body a 1/2 hour before I got their, but hey, that happens right? To clarify apperenty the man died of natural causes along the trail by the park but it still was wierd coming up to a pedestrian bridge with police tape around it. I just figured the bridge was out, until I watched the 10pm news and found out what happened. Here is a pic of my new bike, and I do wear a helmet when I ride, because thats what cool people do.

Dinner and Minigolf

Last weekend we were able to get together with some of our highschool friends for dinner and minature golf. I don't have any pictures of us actually together but it was a good time. After dinner at Court Ave Brewery we headed over to some mini putt course on SE 14. It was fun and we played as two teams, Men & Women. Below are the score cards incase anyone was questioning how well they did. Kevin of course won but he is a pro-am mini golf player.

Here is the Mens score card, Kevin is on the end with a final score of 43

Here is the Womens score card. Karen is the one who filled it out and probably the only one who can decipher some of her coding but apperently Carol won. I believe Melinda's score is on the far right but I can't tell what she actually got.

Claire's Baptism

This morning we were happy to witness the baptism of our niece Claire. It was fun seeing some of our family along with getting caught up with some friends that were at church for another baptism that day. Claire did really good through the baptism and service and was curious about the ministers mic by trying to pull it off. She's so cute.

Carol's Progress

Well it has been another few weeks so I thought we better post another picture of Carol. She is definitely getting bigger and our daughter is kicking a lot. I've felt her a few times, mainly in the evening. Apparently she was also cheering on her cousin Claire this morning at Claire's baptism. She didn't kick much during the service but once Claire was being baptized she really got excited and was kicking up a storm.


We also had our second ultrasound on Friday. They confirmed it is a girl but they believe at this point that she may have a problem with one of her kidneys. This really did not make my day. From what they said one kidney is fine but the other is a duplex kidney. This means that it is segmented into two pieces with two ureters going to the bladder. They said on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being a serious problem this is a 2. That made me feel some what better but when some one tells you there is something wrong with your child it still is not pleasant. We will be having another ultra sound in a month to track how things are progressing and set up some time to meet with a pediatric kidney specialist to discuss what we can expect. We pray that everything will be fine and our daughter may just need to be carefull with certain things that are hard on kidneys, such as different medications.

Now you see it, Now you don't

Carol and I decided to take a three day weekend and headed down to Osky/Pella area for Friday and Saturday. We first went and saw the Dark Knight Thursay evening to begin our weekend. I thought it was pretty good but still not as fun as Batman Returns, but thats my opinion. We think our daughter thought the same thing because she was kicking through a lot of the movie.

I was glad that the weatherman was a few days off on the heat wave because most of Friday afternoon and Saturday was spent building posts for Dads new Shop. It was really nice working under the tree and we were able to answere the age old question, which is better, DeWalt or Makita. My Makita vs. Dad's Dewalt. Our exact scientific measurement was who could drive in the 3 inch screws the fastest. Unfortunatly my Makita lost, but to its merrit I was still on my 1st battery when we decided to try and Dad had a fresh one. So after reviewing the results Makita is still the best, I can say that, its my blog.

The posts are going to be used the build the new shop in the space created as shown below. The place looks different with the old machine shed gone.

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