Lone Pine and Manzanar Internment Camp in California We drove down to Bishop, CA to look at a car for sale and ended up seeing lots of other things. This is a bakery in Bishop with a cool old bakery truck in front. We wanted to go inside and see what bakery items they had, but they weren&
Thanksgiving in Turlock, CA We drove down to Turlock, CA, to my Aunt Diane's house to celebrate Thanksgiving. My parents were there, along with Beverly and her family and some of Aunt Diane's friends.
Thanksgiving Apple Crunch Pie Assembly Line Keith makes an apple crunch pie every year at Thanksgiving. This year, we are in town and able to go celebrate with family, so he was asked to bring 3 of his apple pies. He enlisted the kids' help and they started the process at 9:30 the night
Grandpa Knight's woodworking Grandpa Knight just got a laser cutter, so he showed us how it works and the kids designed a sign and watched it being cut. You can see all the other things behind Savannah. We put it on our pantry door.
Savannah's 10th Birthday Grandma and Grandpa Knight and Aunt Teresa and Uncle Rogan came over to help celebrate with dinner, and a wide variety of treats: rice krispie treats, twinkie cake and Klondike bars.
Tucker paints a rock The kids draw on our glass door with dry erase markers. Tucker got a rock from our front yard and painted a beach scene on it.
Savannah with cousins I am cleaning out my photos; here are a bunch of Savannah pictures. Here she is picking apples at Grandma Knight's house Savannah with her newly tie-dyed t-shirt she made herself With cousins Liesel and Eliza and baby Paisley at the Ross house With a new necklace
Grandma and Grandpa visit Grandpa Gene and Grandma Bea came to visit us for a few days. We went to Callahan park and Andelin Family Farm. Callahan Park is really nice cause there's lots of pine trees, a little creek, a playground and trails. Savanna got to open an early birthday present
Andelin Family Farm The Andelin Family Farm is in northern Sparks, so it is about a half an hour drive from our house. We heard that they are having a 'Summer Farm Days' event during August, and that they have a kitten barn, so of course we had to go so
Tucker's raisin story Here it is: Hello, I am Harris the grape. I am about to tell you all about my dehydration. It was a hot Summer's day when it all started. Me and my family were at Raymond Beach, and I was lying out in the sun. It was so
Fourth of July Family Gatherings Knight cousins got to spend some time together this past week as we all gathered in Sparks for the 4th of July holiday. We met up at the park We celebrated the 4th of July by gathering in the Knight treehouse to listen to family history stories from the Revolutionary
Nicole's Art Classes - kid's craft and painting Nicole and her boys came to visit this week, and she taught a couple of art classes while she was here. The kids got to do an under-the-sea clay sculpture class. Tucker's Savannah's (see the mermaid?) That night, she taught a painting class. She directed us
Living in Sparks We are living at the Knight's house now, until we will move into our new home in Galena at the end of this month. Grandpa Knight showed us one of his Kentucky rifle replicas and showed us all its features and beautiful carvings and metal inlays, as well
Finding a garter snake The kids were in the yard at the Knight's and found a decent sized garter snake.
Searching for crystals and chrysocolla We went for a drive up to the Crystal Peak area and looked for quartz and chrysocolla on the road. Grandma Knight challenged everyone to find some smokey quartz, some chrysocolla, and some crystals with a certain edge and point to them. Grandpa Knight made sure the kids got to
Carson and Tucker projects Carson started building up his RC car while we lived in Cedar City, and has continued to fix it up here. Aunt Andrea and Uncle Brent gave him a much-enjoyed wheelie bar for his birthday. Tucker made a minecraft figure in Grandpa Knight's woodworking shop. He sent it
Riding ebikes with Grandpa Knight Grandpa Knight took Carson out for an ebike ride in east Reno. Grandpa Knight takes all the grandkids out on bike rides and four-wheeler rides on a various bike trails and up in the mountain trails around Sparks and Reno. The kids have learned how to drive the Ranger and
Tragedy Springs Melvin and Nan took us up to Tragedy Springs, which is a little south of Lake Tahoe. There are a few family connections to the people who were involved with the events that transpired there. The little house back there with the green roof houses the spring.
Rachel, NV - middle of nowhere We stopped in Rachel, Nevada on our way to Sparks. Rachel is a super small community in the middle of a desolate valley. Because it is close to Area 51, there are a few alien-themed stores and a restaurant. Can you see the spaceship being towed in the background? This
