Out and about at the Dwolla Meetup

Anna Jones was out doing her awesome networking photos at the Dwolla meetup this week and she caught me. Very cool to be included.

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The Year of Our Wood - 2010

Dear Family and Friends,

Thanks for finding our holiday letter online!

You might have noticed that there was no card or letter last year, so this post will have to count for two! We've been busy and you probably know a bit about what we're up to but we'll still hit the high points.

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My Farrell's Extreme Bodyshaping Experience

Central Iowa is the home to at least two (maybe more) multi-state fitness chains designed around a ten week extreme/total body shaping/transformation: Farrell's and Kosama. The gist of each is that you combine a planned diet with cardio and strength training and that you see awesome results in a mere 70 days.

Several friends have done each and back in August I decided to give Farrell's a try. Their ten week program comes with a $389 up front fee which is admittedly pricey but includes some personal equipment (boxing gloves and wraps), some intellectual property (a guidebook with nutrition and exercise information) and your workout fees for those ten weeks.

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Hope wrote an ebook - Law School Mom

I'm a few weeks late with this post but I wanted to make sure everyone know's about Hope's recent project: Law School Mom.

Much like myself, Hope had a "bucket list"-like goal to one day write a book. She realized at some point in the last year that chronicling her journey through law school as the mother of a young son might be a good topic.

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Updated Des Moines Foursquare visualization

It's been over two months so I figured it's time to publish a new visualization of my Foursquare check ins in Des Moines.

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More Foursquare Visualization

With all the talk about Facebook Places, yesterday, I decided it was time to update the Foursquare visualizations that I blogged about the other day.

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Graham and his lion in the Pappajohn Sculpture Garden

Hope has Fridays off this summer and today she decided to hang out with Graham downtown. He loves this Lion-shaped walker that my Aunt & Uncle gave him for Christmas last year but he doesn't have a lot of flat surface to walk with it in our house. Hope took the Lion downtown today and let him roam around the sidewalks in the Pappajohn Sculpture Garden. She sent me this image from her iPhone with him in front of the iconic "Nomade" statue.