Month: September 2011

Grace was part of the fun when mom and dad did a BBQ for some riders at Honey Lake. But the big surprise was when Grace saw her friend Jerry, who was delivering a beautiful present from his daughter Claire. Claire and Grace have taken a real fondness to each other. Here are pictures of Grade posing with her new dress:

And here is a cool video that Claire’s dad took with his phone:

For more fun times with Grace and Claire go HERE

Grace has really got speedy on her two feet and she LOVES to run. She also has a ton of energy so it’s a pretty amazing combination when she sets out. Today we went to the park and she went for nearly 1/2hour of non-stop action. A portion of it we captured on this video:

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After the NV Museum of Art, Grace went to “Kids Day” at Sparks Marina. It was crazy fun with a full assortment of people. Grace was eager to do activities that she’s not ready for ..thankfully some older kids helped her along, but mom and dad were a bit nervous as Grace attemtpted some things with much bigger kids aggressively playing all around her.

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Grace went back to art class. Many will remember she did this before her first birthday, that day was quite the adventure (here). Today was great fun as well and Grace spent some of the time with a very funny boy named Micah. He’s in many of the pictures.

Big thanks to Lisa K and the Nevada Museum Of Art ….These child events are like one big fun factory.  We took a lot of pictures, -click on image below to see them:

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Grace was not in the best of niceness this evening, but she did set a record for riding her tryicycle! She’s been spoiled with mom/dad always eager to push her …but tonight she did very well going solo! No doubt the start of some new-found fun. Although, I’m not sure Grace was all that impressed with herself, she made the fun of riding a tricycle seem more like a chore! We’ll see what tomorrow brings!

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10years since the tragic events of 9/11 ….Grace & Dad decided to take a rural road trip and hit some tiny towns …a good way to see some real home-town America and reflect.   We hope that Grace never see’s such and attack on USA soil in her lifetime.

We headed north hitting towns so small many are not even on a map -as we zig-zagged off and on hwy 395.   We stopped and played at tiny rural parks as we took many leisurely breaks.   Eventually we headed on (dirt) backroads toward the Black Rock Desert -where we had an applesauce snack at the IBA memorial.   Grace has been here a few times before -including with her friend Eric.   Then, out to get silly on the playa -Grace LOVES the playa and nothing warms her dad’s heart more as he loves the playa too.

Eventually into Gerlach  -which was the biggest town that stopped at on this day.   They all know Grace at Bruno’s and she got the VIP treatment as usual.   Know one knows Dad’s name anymore, they just refer to him as “Grace’s Dad”.

Below is a primitive but fun video that shows Grace’s spunk and appreciation for the playa:

Weekend of the Reno Air Balloons and mom had a crazy idea:   Why don’t we all get up real early and go to Nana & Papa’s house to watch the balloons!   Well we managed to do exactly that, mom and dad up before 5am (yes on a Saturday) and Grace up shortly after.   Before 6am we were at Nana and Papa’s and it was still dark!!  From their back yard we watched it slowly become light as the balloons lifted off.    Often times the balloons come right toward/over the house, so close it’s as if you can touch them, but this year the winds would take the balloons the other direction.  Grace had plenty of room to play and run around and even an episode of playing “Dr/Patient” was caught on video.  After the balloons we went home and then a trip to the grocery store via the stroller.

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