Evonne's Big Ride

Monday, September 10, 2012

Cat & Rob's Wedding!

Cat looking gorgeous!

Married.

Riding in style...the party bus.

Kristel enjoying the reception.

The gorgeous reception site.

Me and Kristel:)

Fancy table decorations.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Happiest. Flower. Ever.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Rachel, knowing me all too well, bet me that I would never have the patience to grow my hair out to donate. This of course fueled my desire to prove her wrong and grow it out. While I often dream of lopping it all off, I haven't done it yet, and might possibly have even come to peace with my hair. This is probably the first time I've worn it down in almost a year. Not too bad...

Retirement!

My dad had his retirement party yesterday after 33 years at St. Lukes. I was so busy socializing that I didn't take as many pictures as I should have, but here are a few good ones. One woman told me that just the other day at work they were talking about how my dad was diagnosed with cancer and shortly after he started working there. He would go to Iowa City for chemo during the day and then come back and work the night shift. So needless to say they figured no one really had room to complain too much about work. Pretty amazing!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Plumbing 101

I know that I should never buy anything without first asking if my mom has it at home first, but I am still amazed at what this woman can come up with. When I was home last weekend, I told her that one of the pipes in our kitchen sink was in bad shape (wrapped with electrical tape, leaking, and about ready to fall off at any moment). So we looked under her sink and I showed her where the problem was. She seemed confident that we could easily fix the it. Then she went out to the garage, started fiddling around, and sure enough, a few minutes later she returned with the exact part of the pipe we needed. Maybe she snuck off to True Value to buy it and impress me, we may never know.

Was I surprised? Yes.

Should I have been? No, I should know better by now.

Unfortunately we couldn't reuse a gasket from the old pipe so we ended up spending a whopping $4.27 to get the entire replacement set. Here is the new, leak free set up in all its glory!

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Post ride bike shower.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Daily Deliciousness

When you plant 10 tomato plants, this is a small daily harvest.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

RAGBRAI: People

I broke out my troll from 4th grade for the trip...except I ended up forgetting him at home so he only got to ride the last 3 days. But he had a ball!

Smiling (day one, 10 miles in...that explains it!)

Lounging in a giant shoe.

Bikers everywhere!

Biking does strange things to your body.

35 miles in and everyone is down for the count on the post office loading dock...this week could be a struggle. (I was right there with them until I got up to take the picture)

Sweet ride!

Laundry 101. Put your bike clothes on inside out and wash them while you're showering with the hose. It is also extremely fashionable.

This isn't going to end well!

Walk of shame...

Enjoying our free popcorn.

We found about 5 other fellow brim wearers! My mom drug this guy across the town to get a picture with us. Skin cancer kills! On the hot days we had A LOT of people inquiring about where they could purchase a brim. (Bonus: it makes you easy to spot in a crowd of 10,000+)

SWEET CORN!

This town had a great t-shirt slogan. On the way out of town I stopped to get a picture, and after I was done this guy said "You just got a picture of the mayor!"

"Now get back on your bike and get the hell out of town!"

My mom teaching Denise the ins and outs of properly cooling your arms while laying down. I think it also works for your legs.

A Metro strategy meeting.

This sweet guy was sitting outside and occasionally passing out cookies his wife was baking to the pathetic riders who were taking shelter of the shade in his lawn.