RIP Dan Wheldon

The professional sports world lost a good one today in IZOD IndyCar Driver Dan Wheldon. Dan died from unrecoverable injuries sustained in the worst crash I’ve seen since we started following IndyCar about seven years ago. In a race that was supposed to feature a dual for the championship between rivals Dario Franchitti and Will Power along with a second storyline of Wheldon with a unique chance to compete for a prize of $5M.

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old photos

 

We recently reached out to the photographer who shot our wedding six plus years ago to see if he still had our images on file. Luckily for us he did and he offered to send them to us for a pretty decent price. We took him up on it and we're glad we did because now we get to check out all the proofs that we'd forgotten he'd shot.

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Hope and Graham on the front of Drake.edu

Drake University's magazine, Drake Blue, did a feature of my wife, Hope, and our son, Graham. They became aware of Hope after she published her ebook, Law School Mom, and they wrote about that, as well as, how the mentor/mentee program that Hope participates in through the law fraternity at Drake.

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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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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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Charity:Water September Campaign Update: Week 1

Hope and I were poking around the Charity:Water site the other day and saw the PSA (above) that they had put together. The idea is "what would be like if Americans accessed drinking water in the same way that many people do in Africa?" and it's quite moving.

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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.