Baby Time

I don't have the pictures up yet, but Amy and I are pregnant! We are very excited, Amy is due Jan. 27th. We've had two ultrasounds and the baby is doing great. In 7-8 weeks we should be able to find out the sex, we'll let you know.

June 2008 - Dental Missions in Equador and Galapagos

We spent a week outside of Shell, Ecuador in the jungle doing dental missions with Missionary Ventures. Amy and I did lots of extractions, tried lots of interesting food, including guinea pig, and spread the Gospel to the Kichwa indians. We had a fantastic group and really a stellar trip overall. We visited the Andes, the Amazon, the equator, and Nate Saint's home and plane. After the mission trip, Amy and I flew to the Galapagos islands for a few days. That was pretty incredible as well. We saw tons of penguins, sea lions, marine iguanas, giant land tortises, blue footed boobies, and I even dove with hammerheads.

Mt. Whitney

The climb was three days long. It was a great experience, but unfortunatley we did not make the summit. The weather was beautiful, but on summit day the winds were very stong and the guides decided to turn back. I'll have to attempt it again next year.

Grand Canyon

When I left to climb Mt. Whitney, Amy went to the Grand Canyon with her parents.

This was Amy's first time to the Grand Canyon. We'll have to go back together.

April 2008 - Las Vegas / Mt. Whitney

Our trip to Las Vegas to attempt Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in the Lower 49.

The lowest point in the US.

Hoover Dam

Venice, Italy ... Casino

Squiggy MTB Race

Team Bonham Dental in the Squiggy Classic 6-hour mountain bike race. Amy and I alternated 10 mile laps and tried to do as many as we could in the six hours.

Feb. 2008 - Mt. Washington

Summit of Mt. Washington, 6,288 feet. We had increadibly nice weather for our summit day.

Well, it has been a while since I have updated this, so I'll go back a little to cover everything. In Feb., Amy and I took a 3 day mountaineering course in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It was the first time for both of us to the state. We did some ice climbing, general mountaineering, and summited Mount Washington, known for "the world's worst weather."

"THE FABULOUS SMITH SISTERS"

TROUT CREEK 5K TRAIL RUN

Amy and Carey ran the trail 5K run on Sunday, March 9th. Amy ended up placing 8th overall for the women. We ran this 5k race after a 6hr mountain bike race we both did the day before, so our legs were a little sore.

TROUT CREEK 5K TRAIL RUN

Carey pictured on the final stretch of the 5K run. He passed the runner in front of him capturing the title of 3rd place over all! Great job Carey!!!!

Swamp Stomp 2008 Part II

Trek II - Amy making a "wardrobe change" before the 20-some mile trek. The temperature flucuated from the high 70's during the heat of the day to the 50's in the middle of the night.

Sunrise on Sunday morning. Very pretty. This was one of the bike sections. We traveled over 40 miles, but by this point we had to skip all of the bonuses and just get the mandatories to finish on time. Also, they shortened the course some at this point because all of the teams were running behind.

Swamp Stomp 2008

We competed for the second time in the Swamp Stomp 30hr adventure race. This year it was held at Myakka River State park in Sarasota. We knew the competition was going to be stiffer this year, as there was a pro team competiting in our category (2 person coed), but we didn't realize how good the teams would be. We ended up getting 10 of the 30 bonus points, as well as all the mandatory checkpoints in 29.5hours. Unfortunately we ended up with a 10 point penalty, which took away all our bonus points. However, the third place team had 11 bonus points, so we would have missed third place by one point. We ended up with fourth place. It wasn't quite as good as our first place finish last year, but we learned alot and had a lot of fun!

Amy at the transition area during the "pre-dawn hours" before the race. The race started at 7AM saturday morning.
Amy heading for one of the canoe checkpoints after landing on the shore.


Carey at our canoe as we were getting ready to "push off shore" and finish the first paddling leg. We had docked our canoe here, after paddling quite a ways, in order to complete the first main trekking leg of the race. We got both mandatory points and both bonus points on this portion, and since we ran most of it, we ended up passing a lot of teams.

Give Kids a Smile 2008

Feb 15, Dr. Amy, Dr. Carey, and Dr. Chris Bonham volunteered at Give Kids a Smile at the St. Pete P-Tec dental clinic. Feb. is Children's Dental Health month, and this program provides free dental care to underpriviledged children. It was a good time, but kind of sad because many of the scheduled children/families did not show up. There is a so-called "access to care" problem, yet there were four dentists (another dentist volunteered, as well) standing around, waiting to give out free dental care. Anyway, we each saw a couple of patients and helped them get work done that they would not get done otherwise, and hopefully improved their lives.