September Is Gorgeous!

today my sister and i took my 1 (almost 2) year old nephew out to a local lake just south of downtown called gray's lake.. behold it's glory! you can see a few of the taller business buildings but the majority of them are shorter and hidden by the vast wooded area surrounding the lake.. damn pesky wilderness!

so the distance of the trail around the lake is 2 miles and a portion of that is along a beach that my nephew, kyden, guided us on..

and another portion of it is a bridge that kyden also enjoyed..

he ended up throwing a stick in there for good measure just to teach the lake a lesson! anyways, it was a lovely afternoon with weather probably in the low 80s.. tomorrow will be much cooler (that's iowa for you!) in the 60s and my roommate rachel and i plan on going to the gym then hitting up the nature trail. thursday morning i'll jog said trail with my sister.. and tonight i walked a mile around my neighborhood! by the time this week is over i do believe i will have walked/jogged the distance between here and the moon. 

my roommate also told me about a walk/run being held in remembrance of our fallen soldiers and in support of their families that's going down sometime next month so i plan on joining in on that.. and i'm planning on doing more things like it because it pushes me to get that much healthier and it also benefits the cause :)