A boring, no pictures post

It's not that we don't have pictures as of late...we just haven't had time to grab them off the camera. It's been a very busy few weeks....

Chris and I are finding becoming "puppy parents" is harder than we originally envisioned, but we're loving every minute of it. Barkley can now sit, lay and fetch! Potty training has been tough on us, though. Because we both work full time, we've been trying to hit the training hard on the weekends. He's getting better, though.

We've also had friends in town and took a trip out of town in June. Kory and Laura Dee, two of Jen's friends from college, were in town the second weekend in June, and then we went to Myrtle Beach for Pi Kappa Phi RoseBall the third weekend. Pi Kappa Phi is Chris' fraternity, and we were invited to go as alumni. We had a hotel room on the beach at a resort with a lazy river - there were many floats in there with a cold drink in our hands because it was too hot to walk on the beach.

Chris has been keeping busy at work, and I've been keeping busy with work and working with the Big Ten Atlanta Alumni committee on an event called the Big Ten Pub Crawl. This is a yearly event between all of the Big Ten alumni groups, and last year it drew 800 people to a series of bars in Atlanta to raise money for a charity. This year, our charity is Bert's Big Adventure - a local radio host takes kids with chronic and terminal illnesses (and their families) to Disney World every year, and it truly is a dream trip for them. I'm really glad to get involved with a fun (and generous) project. We're shooting for 1,000 crawlers this year!

That brings me to an open invitation: if anyone wants to come down and represent Iowa at the pub crawl on August 22, you are more than welcome to stay with us and make a vacation out of it! :)

Hope everyone had a Happy 4th - I spent most of it sick with a cold on the couch. I very generously passed it on to Chris, though. What can I say? I share!

Jen