Grant at 10 months

Posing for the Camera

Grant's uncles helped him out with this hairdo.

Grant showing off his silly side.

Hands and Knees

Grant reached a new milestone this week and we thought we'd share it. We thought he might skip crawling all-together seeing as how he liked the army crawl quite a bit and is anxious to get on his feet. He took his first few voluntary crawl steps this weekend. He got just a bit scraped as he decided to do it on concrete but it was great to see. We're always pretty proud of his accomplishments but this was especially fun to see. Interestingly, he took his first couple steps the next day so he might not enjoy the time on his hands and knees too long.

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!