A couple of weeks back we all took a weekend trip with our old and great friends Brandon, Sarah, Emma and Chase Meadows to South Lake Tahoe for some hangout time and to catch the start of the Tour of California. Well, we hung out alright, but the race did not due to weather as you can see! Regardless, we had a great time going up a new route, awesome friend time, did catch some cycling action(not much) and we ended up buying week vacation for Kauai next year! Yeppy!
So Brady decides to ask me if he can use my camera...gulp, but ok, he's willing to try something new, so why not right? "Put the strap around your neck!" Here's his photography at hand! What is all this you ask? His recycling cans! Daddy shoots bike races, Brady shoots cans! Fair enough!
Yes, another project at The Novaes household! This time it was the front yard! We spend so much time in the front of the house during the summer months, tomando uma cerveja and watching the kids play, so why not make it nice out there right? With Melissa and Derek's vision, Bob pulled together a great plan for us! Clean and simple, yet elegant! Awesome job to all involved: Rocky with the concrete(thanks brother), Bob for the design and the fence, Melissa for painting and Pedro for his mao de obra and Brady for his green waste cans!
I only wish we had a decent picture of the front with all the big bushes still in the front! It looked like a jungle, trust me! Now we need some warm weather to celebrate!
Our Cycling Team, Rio Strada Racing, hosts an annual race series where riders from all over Northern California come down and hammer each other! The weekend went great in terms of the event; however, my poor fitness level proved to be true! On the bright side, no broken bikes nor body parts! Sunday I had treat where Melissa, Brady & Drew showed up, and to top it off even more so, friends Gabe, Val, Ainsley and Mila came out to cheer! After the race, we a great dinner at home with the family and life was grand! Summer time is here, step the miles Derek!
After a stop Didi's house, sorry no pics, we headed to Vacaville to complete the Tour of Mother's Day! There the girls got their face's painted, the grown ups had some great wine, and we all had an awesome dinner! All in all, it was a great family day, all the AWESOME Mother's were happy!
The first stop was at Nana & Papa's where we met SJ & Jane, who came out from Iowa for the week. And of course the usual suspects; Merle, Bob, Chris, Ryley and "Beiber!" As always, we had a great time and loads of great laughs, only gets better and better each time, so fun! 
And, we HAD to get a few group shots, thankfully every tends to cooperate!
