Shout Out to Sam

Happy Birthday Sammy-boy!

Michelle planned an awesome suprise party for Sam in connection with her family's traditional summer "rock'n'roll bbq." We had a great time rockin' to the music and visiting with family. Sam was especially suprised when he saw Mom and Caroline walk through the door with his birthday cake. He had no idea they had come up from Vegas. Thanks to all the family that could come. It was a great way to show Sam how sick he really is. Here's a couple pics from his surprise birthday party.

July Fun

First- we have our hike to Stewart Falls. Thanks much to Chris for coming with us and being such a great photographer.

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!

You're Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore

We haven't blogged much for the past while and now you'll know why: We've been livin' it up hardcore. These are mostly pictures from "the subway" hike that we did. The one of the waterfall was a couple weeks later but was blog-worthy of itself. We'd like to thank Matt T. for setting up the hike for us. What a blast! I'd also like to thank all those that made my B-day so great (it was the same weekend as the subway). The only thing this blog is missing is evidence of the soreness afterwards. The other pictures are from the day we went to the local aquatics center and had a blast in the water. Grant loved it! The pictures on this blog are good but whatever you do- Don't skip the videos. Esspecially if you know Sam, Tom, or Grant.

This is why they call it the subway hike.
Here's our group and "some complete strangers" that we met. We "are in no way affiliated with them".
Mountain Man Tom
Mountain Man Sam

This is me and my neices Alicia, Kenzie, and nephew Marcus with Grant. You'd think we could have considered an outdoor pool with that white skin.



Eat your heart out Dubai

Here's a couple pics of Grant living hardcore during our 4-wheeler ride
Grant's actually living hardcore here and trying an escape from his swing.

running, running and more running

Well, its official. Ready or not, and for my sake I really hope I can be ready, I'm running the Provo River Half Marathon. Chris decided last minute to join me and thank goodness too. I'll probably need him to pull/push/drag me past the finish line. :)

Anyone else going to join us for the good times?