End of August 2016

Nowadays you blink and a month has gone by.  This past week has been full of highs and lows.

We started the week with Joe enduring an awful head cold.  Most likely he got it from going back to school.  Even so, he went ahead with his MRI that was scheduled for his brain on Tuesday.  Joe has been having headaches for a few years now and we just wanted to rule out anything serious.  Thankfully we have a great doctor who is fully invested in helping Joe figure this out.  His office called us on Wednesday to tell us the MRI was clear - no bleeds, no tumors.  We still need to figure out the headaches, but at least we know it's not something serious.

Survived the MRI

I (Patty) was looking forward to Thursday morning when I would participate in the Western Colorado Senior Games swimming the 500 meter freestyle.  This is something I wanted to do (get back in the water and compete) for the past 14 years, but I have always felt too heavy.  With encouragement from a lot of people, I signed up for the event even though I was not at the weight I wanted to be at in order to "don" a swim suit.  It felt great to swim again; albeit it was very difficult, but rewarding.  The two women my age who I was to compete against did not swim, so I was moved up to swim with the 60 year olds.  I did win my age group - because I was the only siwmmer in my age group.  I met a lot of new friends.  And I was so thankful for the friends that came to the pool that morning to watch me swim.

Go Patty!

Jessica had a big week as she applied to Grad school and was accepted.  She started her Senior year at Colorado School of Mines this week.  They offer a 5 year Masters, so she applied for that and was accepted.  She can begin taking grad classes this year.  She worked up a whole budget for a year from now so she would know how she can pay for that 5th year.  Needless to say, we are very proud of her.  Her undergrad is in Applied Mathematics and her Masters will be in Statistics.

I guess we will see her in December.  :)  

    

After the swim on Thursday, I came home and saw that our dog was in pain.  We knew that it was time to put him down.  They could take him on Thursday or Friday.  If I did Thursday, the boys wouldn't be able to say good bye, so I scheduled it for Friday.  Ben took real good care of Buddy on Thursday night and Friday (Ben doesn't have school on Fridays.)  Then I took Buddy to the vet on Friday afternoon and said goodbye.

Buddy

I had caught Joe's cold on Wednesday night and spent most of Thursday afternoon, Friday and Saturday in bed.  Sunday I worked all day to get caught up on all the work I didn't do last week.  

Dave and his worker had a great week getting a lot accomplished with our business and bidding new jobs.  We can hardly believe it is almost September already.  That about sums up our week.  I will try to keep this blog updated weekly as well.