Jenny and I woke up early one morning to go to the balloon launch. Jenny has been wanting to go since last year or earlier. Even though we didn't go last year, they came to us. One of the balloons had some sort of emergency landing in front of our house on the street.
Here's all of the hardcore participants in the "Garys to Grandmas" trail run this year. The race was quite a bit harder this year with a good run uphill for the first half. Congrats and thanks to everyone who participated. 
Here's grant on the 4th of July. He's wearing his special 4th of July shirt which has come to be a pretty good description of his personality these days. He's hanging out in the tent. It was his first campout.
Although Grant was a bit on edge before, he was completely enthralled when the fireworks started. They kept him amazed like this for about half of the show until he fell asleep. 
Last night, we had a "Festa Brasileira" (Brazilian party). We had rice, fejoada, and a delicious brazilian barbeque. (not to mention some great music by Sandy & Junior to set the atmosphere.) Thanks to Christian for getting Grant his new jersey. We'll call Grant Ronaldinhozinho as we expect him to be the next Ronaldinho.
And as a final note- Can anyone tell me why you can click on some pictures and they open full size and others you can't? Drives me nuts!
