Halloween

Pumpkin Patch


Witch Ruby


Gretel and the Witch
Hansel

Halloween Party



Painting the upstairs hallway

Down time with Stinky


#2

Ruby at Dre's Wedding Weekend

April

For Spring break we visited my mom, kayaked the East branch of the North Trinity and camped at a flying competition for Tim. It was fun week. Here are a couple of photos of Ruby in the car. I was entertaining her by showing her how the camera works.

Ruby and her favorite "friends"


The following weekend we visited my dad. The cousins got to hang out. Here is a series of Ruby and her cousin Sevan.

a couple of recent photos

Ruby didn't seem to mind my sunglasses. She was actually trying to keep them from falling off.

Here we are eating escargot for the first time. Yes she did eat a SNAIL and she LOVED IT! Proof that she's daddy's girl. I was so proud of her! Don't let her sad face fool you. Two minutes ago she was gulping it down.

January

First of all sorry it's taken us so long to update the blog. January has been a sick one for all three of us. I think we are healed though.

Lora and I went for a quick ski last Sunday. It was a clear day. We had a blast. We skied up about 2000ft and skied back to the car. We were baby swapping so had to return to do our share of babysitting.

We'll try to update more often.

Tim and Lora

Cold and Snowy in Reno

We had a great storm come through Sunday and Monday. In fact school was canceled due to the snow and low temperatures. In our front yard we had a foot of light powder. I took a couple of pictures of my favorite girls in front of the house.

Pillars of the Earth

I thought I'd recommend a book that I recently finished reading. This book was fantastic. The characters are so well drawn out that you can't help root for the good guys. The bad guy is really bad. No, I'm not kidding. He's really, really despicable.

On that note I need to warn you about some of the material though. There are a couple of rape scenes in the book as well as some intense battles. If you can handle these few pages of this epic novel then you're in for a real treat.

I can't recommend this novel enough. It has certainly made its way into my top 10 list. Let me know if you read it.

Tim

She's walking!!!!

Well, not quite yet, but she is taking her first steps. A couple of days ago she took one step between the TV stand and the coffee table. Both Lora and I looked at each other and I said, "did she just take her first step?"

Today, Ruby was at home with Lora and took two or three steps. So, I guess that means by Christmas we might have a terror on our hands. Luckily, Ruby will be visiting all of her grandparents homes and therefore the terror will be shared. Lucky you.

Tim

SUPERTIM!!!

A friend sent this to me from Australia. Seems like I made it into an outdoor magazine over there. No photo credit but it is a pretty cool shot.


In case you can't tell I'm the kayaker wearing the 100% Ducktape costume.

An amazing day in the air!

Well Lora is almost home from the Grand Canyon. Ruby and I have survived! The house is still standing! The cat is alive! Etc. Actually it's been a lot of fun but quite tiring.

I flew from East to West.

Since I've been stuck on the ground I thought I would post an image or two of a recent flight. It was amazing. I flew along Lake Tahoe for over an hour and ended up flying 15 miles or so. I reached 14,900ft. The really cool thing was that I landed a block from the house we were spending the night at for the evening. I actually flew to a friend's house. WAY COOL!

Words can't describe it. The views of Lake Tahoe were breathtaking. Can't wait for summer to return with the thermals.

If you want to see the stats on the flight you can click below. It allows you to zoom in and even view it in Google Earth. Just so you know I was using a GPS to track the flight.

The flight

Tim

Weekend Getaway

Last weekend the three of us loaded up the van and drove 4 hours south down to Bishop, CA for a little relaxing weekend. We had the general idea of doing some flying but as is normal with this sport the weather didn't cooperate with us. We ended up doing some climbing in the Owens River Gorge on Saturday. It was great hanging out at the cliff with Ruby. We climbed with a great couple which let Lora and I take turns with Ruby at the base. Lora surprised herself by getting up two difficult climbs. She's still got it!

Our trusty Gumby van.

On Saturday evening we watched the sunset while soaking in a great little hot spring as a family. Don't we look like a happy family?

No words to describe how cute this one is!

The evenings were a bit chilly and here we are getting ready to read a story before bed. Ruby did pretty well. Although on Sunday we had our first experience with vomiting baby.

Still cute

Last night we had a new friend take pictures of Ruby. She wanted practice at taking infant photos. Here are a couple of them.

Just to show that although she smiles most of the time she does get fussy.

The little Rubster crawls

A short little video of her crawling. Enjoy.





Tim and Lora

Bathtime

Unfortunately tim is not feeling well. So ruby and I are enjoying the
evening together while tim rests.

Water Baby

Ruby and Tim have been taking swim classes for 7 weeks now and I finally went into work late so I can watch them. It was so amazing. I am so proud of her.

Tim and Ruby waiting for class to start

Ruby looking insanely cute in her goggles.

Ruby and I go on a hike.

Ruby and Dad on top of Mt. Rose with Lake Tahoe in the background.

Mt. Rose from the trail.

On Monday Ruby and I decided to go for a little hike. I had been thinking about hiking Mt. Rose for quite a while since moving here to Reno. Ruby and I headed up to the parking area (8000+ft) where we had a quick lunch. I then loaded her up in the backpack carrier unsure if she would like being carried that way. I figured I would hike for a bit and see how she liked it. Well after about two miles she fell asleep and didn't wake up until near the saddle at about 10,000ft. I fed her a bottle and we kept walking to the top. It was about 5.5 miles to the top (10,880ft). She did great! We had such a good walk in the mountains.

On the trail hiking. (Self Portrait) She loves that blanket!

All in all we hiked 11 miles, stopped to change two diapers, drained one bottle, and applied sunscreen 3 times. Enjoy the pictures.

Lora went with us to swim lessons today so hopefully sheLunch break and diaper change.

will put up those pictures and a few short videos of Ruby swimming. IT IS AMAZING!

Too cute!

Tim

If you fly or are interested in learning more then check this out

This video is a bit crazy but it is very well done. It's about 15 minutes long but I think the first few minutes are the best. The rest of it has these guys doing crazy stuff out of hot air balloons and even an airplane.

Check it out here!

Streamlined 08 from Team Silver on Vimeo.

a few more photos from recent outings

Uncle Don and Aunt Mona visiting.

Love this photo of my girls.

Our little model showing her smile on the shore of Lake Tahoe.

Heading out to Andy and Nicole's sailboat in Lake Tahoe. Reminds me of BVI except freshwater.

Ruby bored stiff sailing dreaming of other things.

Sailing on Thurs

Tim and our good friend Dan went sailing this afternoon on Tahoe. We
are excited the Martins moved to Truckee.

100 degrees in Reno

What better way to spend a lazy summer day than by the pool.