Wow!

I cant believe how long it has been since I have posted anything!!! I haven't downloaded any pics to the laptop other than Europe ones since the last post...so nothing new to see. It has been a crazy 2 months with vacation and then coming back to catch up at work and be with Caitlyn. The fourth of July was great, watched fireworks, the parade, had friends over, and nice weather. We've been up to Detroit with the neighbors, on the Willamette with Bill & Jenni with the sea biscuit (Cait loves it), camping a few times, a little of everything. Even with all the busyness, it has been great and Cait and I are doing well.

Beach in the rain

Caitlyn, Jenni & I went to the beach one Sunday afternoon. It was kind of for work for me, but also to just get out. Cait loves the beach!!!

So Much!

A few vacation pics from the end of August and Labor Day weekend. Caitlyn and I went on a 7 night trip away from home and family. (Well, most family.) We spent 5 nights in Sunriver. We got to Bend on Tuesday evening and had dinner with her dad, and on Wednesday in Sunriver we painted bird houses (that I still need to hang somewhere!), rode bikes, and relaxed. On Thursday morning we set out on a 300 mile, 12 hour day trip in a look towards that John Day Fossil Beds. We stopped at the Clarno unit and went for a hike to see a natural bridge in the rocks, saw a lizard, and got soooo hot! The next stop was the town of Fossil where we could look for fossils and could bring some home (which I did, cait just brought rocks). We went for a swim in a creek nearby there to cool off and then ventured to the painted hills. Those were gorgeous! Cait isn't quite old enough to appreciate them, but they were pretty. It was a long day, and it was nice to get back to Sunriver! On Friday, Nick and Tara were by and we spent some time with them and baby Grayden. Cait and Nick jumped off the bridge into the Deshutes River. She is sooo brave! On Saturday, we ventured up to Mt. Bachelor. Her first time on a high speed chair lift. (She's been to hoodoo once). The views were gorgeous - but cold! Sunday morning we left Sunriver and headed to Crater Lake - another gorgeous view that was soooo much colder than bachelor! The road from Crater Lake south towards Grants Pass was very nice. It had a multiple places to get out and view the upper Rogue River, we saw a couple of waterfalls on one hike, it was pretty - I'd do that again! We stayed in Grants Pass that night, and on Monday we took the drive to the Oregon Caves just outside of Cave Junction. She did great in the cave and stayed warm. She even got a kiss from the cave! After the caves, we found this wild cat park in Cave Junction and spent 2 hours touring the wild cats and hearing them roar and jump on the cages - it was awesome! That night, I had surprised Cait by renting a treehouse to stay in at this treehouse resort just south of Cave Juntion. She had fun with that, ours was called the Treeloon. It had the shape of an old saloon. There were horses, swings, a big firepit, ziplines (yes, we did those too!). She had a blast. I would have loved to stay more than one night there, it was great. On the sad day to come home (Tuesday), we came home via the wildlife safari and definitely saw some amazing (and weird) animals. It was a long trip with a 4 1/2 year old, but so worth it!!!
Here is the link to the album I created of the photos. There were WAY too many I wanted to post here.

Vacation

I'll get more of my vacation up here when I get back... but I finally have access to the internet and I'm trying to get cait to go to sleep here in the hotel in Grants Pass. So here is the video that I took of her and Uncle Nick jumping off the bridge over the Deschutes River, just down the road from the SunRiver house.

More pics on the Pamelia Lake hike

Here are the rest of the pics!

Caitlyn and Lilly - wanting to be bussom buddies!

Teresa, Brandon, Lilly, Justine & Britney
Lilly, Caitlyn & Justine

Caitlyn and Mom What a sly look!

Still Camping - but hiked to Pamelia Lake

On Sunday, we hiked into Pamelia Lake with the girls, so here are a few pics of that as well!

Caitlyn & Lilly

View at Pamelia Lake
Caitlyn
Caitlyn and Mom
Lilly and Teresa

Weekend at the lake

Last weekend, we went camping at the lake, here are a few pictures of our great weekend - well, there are actually 3 posts for it they were all so good!

Caitlyn and Nova

Justine, Caitlyn and Lilly

Brandon & Justine pulling Teresa & Lilly

Justine, Nova, Lilly and Caitlyn - thinking they were going boating!

The giant 19" trout I caught!

Aerial shot

After how many flights I have been on this last 2 years, I finally got to see my house from the air!!!! Well, at least the area of my house, we were still pretty high up!

Long Weekend

We had a long weekend! Wow, I'm glad it's over. We had a blast and would do it all over if we could! On Friday, we took off to Sunriver with Jeremy, Novalee, Brandon, Teresa, Lilly and Justine. We had our hands full! Three 4-year olds and a 2-year old!!! We were crazy! On Saturday we had a mix up of some times we could swim, but we managed to calm the kids down. We had lunch in the park. Nick and Tara came by with baby Grayden and that was great. It was the first time I got to see him. Maybe only the third time for Caitlyn even!

We made it to the pool in the afternoon still.

We also let the kids play outside at the Sunriver house. Well, that was fun! We had sand in eyes, slivers, and peeing outside by the trees! The kids had a blast.

On Sunday, we celebrated Cinco de Softball with Bob and Leah. The kids got the firs few swings at the pinata, and thought that was great!

Today, we had a Mother's Day breakfast with Leah and Bob, and then Cait, Leah and I went swimming in Corvallis with Tonya and Will. Caitlyn and I finished the weekend off with cousin Ben's baseball game up here in Mill City. It was only the next to last game, and the only one we made it to!

Davis Weekend

Alright, the weekend in Davis has been eventful! We flew into Sacramento Thursday night. On Friday, Caitlyn and I took Lulu to the park and played for a bit...


Then on Friday, we went to UC Davis Picnic Day. Caitlyn got to milk a cow!!!


On Friday night, Caitlyn helped Uncle Bob peel shrimp skins off for dinner...


On Saturday, Leah and I took Caitlyn to the Sacramento Zoo. They had a few different animals that our Portland Zoo doesn't have. It is much smaller, but nice!

Working Wonders

Caitlyn and I hopped over the pass last night and spent today at Working Wonders Children's Museum in Bend. We also had dinner with Uncle Phil before heading back to the rain! Here are some of the great pics of Caitlyn from this morning. We spent almost 4 hours there playing.

Mexico!

Last weekend (yeah - it took me forever), I flew to Arizona to meet up with Katie, and 2 of her friends and one of their friends. The five of us then hit the road (after having Taco Bell for lunch) for Mexico! He relaxed by the pool, watched movies, went to the bar to meet random people.

Two of them (Whitney & Alean) hopped on 4-wheelers with some guys and took a ride!

We saw some gorgeous sunsets...

Had some Jello shots...

Picked up recyclable material along the Mexican highway....

Saw a bunch of stuff for sale....

Watched the bad dancing of the Dos Equis girls....

And then had Taco Bell again for lunch when we arrived back in Arizona!

It was a great trip and so much fun!!!!

Disney!

Wow, we had a FANTASTIC time at Disney. I know we were all exhausted and we got on each others nerves at times, but it was a blast. Caitlyn had a great time. She met all 7 princesses, as well as many other characters. Since it's not as easy to post TONS of pictures here, I have posted most of the good ones to my myspace page, so go visit that if you want more pics.