Merry Christmas 2010

Hot Air Balloon Races

September in Reno just kept getting better and better. One weekend they had The Great Reno Balloon Races. We awoke while it was still dark, and got to the field a first light, just as the first balloon lifted off of the ground. It was amazing to be standing in the field and watching all the balloons lift off all around us. Our good friend Roger came with us. Dad even got to help get a balloon off of the ground! My favorites were the Bumble Bees. It was a great morning. Next year we’ve already decided to go even earlier to see the Glow Show (when some take off in the dark). If you ever get the chance I highly recommend it.

Summer Baseball

Summer has definitely ended as we are covered in snow, yippee, so I better finish up with our summer adventures, we still have a few more. The week we did the Rib Cook-off we stayed in Reno to check it out a bit. We’ve been sorely lacking in baseball game attendance lately so we hit up the Reno Aces (the Arizona Diamondback’s farm team). It was a lot of fun. Nice stadium, fun game, and tickets were only a couple of bucks each, I’m still free. I spent a lot of time making faces at the camera. All-in-all good baseball fun! I really love baseball, I like to practice pitching like Timmy Lincecum (don't worry I'm a Padres fan like my mom)!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am very thankful for:

My Family

Snow

Yummy Food

After dinner base jumping off of the fridge with Papa

And Naps!

Hope you had a great day!

Ribs, Yumm!

Back to some of our summer fun. In early September, Reno hosts a rib cook-off, and not just any rib cook-off, but the Best in the West Rib Cook-Off at The Nugget. It was delicious. The event featured 24 different rib cookers from all over the United States. We stopped by the first day and tried a couple of different ribs and even ended with some delicious soft serve. Having only hit a couple of the different rib cookers we decided to come back the next day and once again ate until we were full. Even after two days at the event we hadn’t even tried half of the rib places, but we did take some ribs and a turkey leg (a BBQ cook-off is not complete without a turkey leg). It was a delicious couple of days. Mom’s favorite were: Carson City BBQ for Beef Ribs (their chicken was also pretty good) and Butch’s Smack Your Lips BBQ for Pork Ribs. Papa's already planning next years trip. Yumm!

Happy Halloween

Better late then never. Hope you all had a Happy Halloween.

Mom and I had fun craving our pumpkin!

We Have Snow!!!

Yeah!!! We are very excited to finally get snow! I can't wait for enough snow for skiing!

Don't worry there are still plenty more summer adventures for me to post about, they're on the way.

Summer Fun

As I’ve mentioned before we’ve had great time just being outside this summer. One of my favorites is to ride our bikes to the park. I love the swings, the slides (by the end of the summer I was brave enough to go down the big slide all by myself), and just climbing over everything. I could play there all day.
I have also become quite the golf enthusiast this summer.

(Thanks to our friend Cory who hooked me up with my first set of clubs, thanks Cory!). So, we’ve taken up miniature golfing.

On two different occasions I got a hole in one. I’m serious,

which makes me better then Mom, hehe!

What did you do fun this summer?

Hot August Nights

Every August Tahoe, along with Reno has Hot August Nights, which means there are some really cool cars to check out. We stopped by one night to take it all in. Those two were mom's favorites. Plus it’s just fun to all ride our bikes around in the summer. An of course we had to stop for some ice cream on the way home.