Viewing the world through a 3yr olds eye's (and camera)

Here are some pictures Caitlyn has taken with her camera lately... some are actually not too bad considering her age.



St Patrick's Day

Cousin AnnaBelle

While driving to Grandma Marianne's

Tehya come over to play

Pretty toes

Trying to scare daddy coming up the stairs

The recycling

Mommy decorated the house

A kickety kick ball and maracas

Monty thinking about attacking daddy.

Max getting cornered in the laundry room by the photographer.

The Great Fishergirl Brings Home Dinner

The three of us spent the day at the Sportsman Show. This is an annual thing that usually happens on Rebecca's birthday and Caitlyn has been to every year, with her first trip being less then two weeks old. This year she was very excited to go fishing and bring them home to eat them. The second fish started bleeding from the eye as Rebecca tried to hold onto it as Mike got a bag to put it in. Before it was all over Bec had blood all over her shirt and Caitlyn had blood splattered on her face and shirt. Suprisingly she was not bothered by getting her shirt dirty. She just wanted to hold the bag with her fish. Caitlyn and Mike posed with a few animals as well as got in a few shot at the archery booth. Once home Caitlyn was ready to get in the kitchen to cook her fish. She helped pull the fish "stomach" out and get them ready to flour them up for the frying pan. During dinner we found out she does not like tartar sauce, but no need she scarfed down all the fish on her plate in record time. It was a great day... hope you enjoy the pictures and movie of the "catch".

New Harley

Ivan & Cherie's visit...day 6

Ivan & Cherie's visit...day 5 of trip

Ivan & Cherie's visit...day 4 of trip

Ivan & Cherie's visit...day 3 of trip

Ivan & Cherie's visit...day 1 of sightseeing

Our friends Ivan & Cherie from New Zealand came to the States for a month long holiday. They spent the first 10 days in California at Disneyland & Knotts Berry Farm as well as surrounding area tourist spots. Then it was to Oregon to spend the next 10 days with us. It was just like we saw them yesterday, not 4 years ago. We would have a packed schedule each day trying to get in all that we wanted to show them. After leaving us they headed off to Hawaii for 7 days of sun before returning to their cold winter weather. We are so blessed to have such wonderful people in our life. It is wonderful for Caitlyn to know who they are now - more then just a name we tell her about. Here 3 months later she still talks about them almost every day. We can't wait until we go visit them again in beautiful New Zealand.

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A visit to see newborn Tehya.

On our way home from the Childrens Museum we stopped by the hospital to see day old Tehya and mommy Lacey & daddy Tony. I was lucky enough to stop by the night before after work just in time to see and photograph Tehya's first bath with daddy and the nurse while Lacey rested a bit. Caitlyn was very facinated with finally getting to see baby Tehya. Once the greeting was over she was ready to chill out a snack and watch some cartoons while I visited with Lacey.

Children's Museum 6-6-08

Caitlyn has a blast playing in the "dirt" as she calls it. She LOVES tractors so the rubber pit is a hit with her. And yes she dumped the shovel load on her head on purpose.

We discovered Max the Train (as we have to call it, to not get confused with Max the cat) in a back room after playing in the clay room . Caitlyn was overjoyed to get to drive Max the Train.

Shopping and pushing a cart is always a battle with the real deal...she loves to get to push a cart her own size as well as be the clerk.

We couldn't find the mallets but she did just fine with her hands. It was still fun to her.

After the story time was over (which we didn't get to listen too because we had to sit still) and all the other kids went elsewhere it was time to climb and play in the tree.