I heard this in church tonight:
A survey on health and obesity -“In 2006 the world’s scale tipped in a new direction as those who are overweight outnumbered those who are malnourished.”
Maybe we shouldn’t “clean that plate” because kids in Africa are starving.
We have internet at our place now!!! In celebration I called my family and talked for three and a half hours! (Hey, it had been a while and we needed o catch up, okay?)
To reward all of my faithful readers and commenters….I have a picture post about my time at the State Fair.
For an overall view, we enjoyed sculpture of the fair made out of 100 tons of sand! Our sand and snow sculptures weren’t quite this detailed!
Other incredible creations included butter sculpture of a donkey, duck and sheep in a hot air balloon basket (not sure of the significance there), and a city skyline created out of playing cards. The cardstacker started when he was 14 and broke world records by 16. He now holds a Master’s in engineering (surprise!) and is trying to break his current world record at the fair – a 25 foot tower of cards!
One of my favorite shows was the dog show (of course) where we watched acrobatics, spectacular frisbee catches and the farthest leaps over water (one dog jumped 26 ft.!)
We watched some BMX bike stunts – kids, don’t try this at home – and some acrobats that were so interesting I totally forgot to take a picture!
As the day ended we took to the skies in the Ferris Wheel – 218 feet in the air! With me is Abigail, someone who lives in the Dallas area and contacted me when we moved. I had a great time talking with her and just forging a new friendship. We had a great time and totally walked our feet off.
Lastly, here’s a picture of the Dallas skyline taken from the Ferris Wheel.
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Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
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Today Brian and I ran in a race! It was just a 5K run but we had a great time doing it – it was fun just to be back in that atmosphere again. We didn’t win any great prizes – the overall winner had a time of 14:55! He was booking it! I’m afraid 4 month pregnant and a little out of shape pushed my mile time up to 9min a mile but it was fun just to run again. Oh, and the fun thing about this run is that a ticket to the fair is included in everyone’s runner packet so I’ll be enjoying an outing sometime in the near future!
–Brian’s note: at 4 months pregnant, Amy finished 7th in her age group with a time of 26:35. I came in 5th for my age group with a time of 22:37 (thanks to Amy for keeping me running a couple of times every week). We had a great time and ate lots of apples 
Okay, I finally pulled the pictures off of Brian’s phone and put them on my computer and now have actually sat down to make up a post with them!
First off, Brian’s department is in the middle of moving from one building to another. But I did get to see his temporary office last week:
Wow, does that look techy or what?
Can you believe he works on all of these at the same time? One is his laptop, one is a computer he was rebuilding or something and I guess the other is his office computer. The little thing on his ear is the bluetooth headset for his cell phone – wireless and hands free, he loves it! Whenever his phones goes off he can just touch the ear-piece and start talking.
Here is the skyline of where he works – the main building in the middle is where the new office will be, the third building from the left is where he currently works.
Here is the new office building up close. He’ll be on the 14th floor. Williams Square is apparently famous for the horse statues in front which I’ll try and get a picture of later.
I’ve also been able to meet several of Brian’s co-workers. They’re really nice and we hope to have most of them over for dinner at some point. Brian is the young guy on the team but due to his past experience with the ALERT network is able to troubleshoot and help out with the best of them. He’s having a great time and I’m really excited about the things he’s able to work with and learn.
