See, I told ya... Caitie's in the dinosaur pj's. I took this the night we arrived in Payson, this is in our hotel room. Caitie has a thing for hotel phones.
She was talking to the cats at home, she was trying to persuade them to come up and join us. I expected to see the two cats at our hotel door, she's that convincing when on the phone.
What all is wrong with this picture... let's see... hmmm... first of all, it's crooked, secondly it's on the 'cold' side, too much blue, perhaps, and third and lastly, which has nothing to do with the quality of the pic, it has to do with my fashion sense, or lack of it, actually... is the way she's dressed. I'll explain this in a bit. Anyway, we usually go to Wal-Mart the night we arrive in Payson, but we got there pretty late this time so didn't go to Wal-Mart until the next morning. Caitie likes to measure her height whenever we go to a store that has a measurement chart. We like to measure her to see if she's reached the height it takes to go on some of the rides at Disneyland. It shows here that she's at an average height for a three year old; but she's not quite tall enough yet for some of the rides we hope to take her on during our next trip to Disneyland. More Pediasure shakes, I say!
I'm still on my diet, well sorta. Here is what I had for lunch, a quarter of a quarter of a sub, it had maybe four bites total.
Here we are at Woods Canyon Lake. Caitie is throwing rocks in the lake, she loves doing this. You can see a similar pic in last year's post. I wasn't kidding when I said this post will resemble last year's post at this time.
Again, this pic resembles one from last year. We like to browse the lake convenience store. We usually end up buying something for Caitie and a few snacks.
This is what Caitie picked out. She wanted to go 'fishing', and decided to do so with a net.
My little fishergal.
She decided to try and use the net to capture the paparazzi(that would be me) ... ummm... I don't think so, I haven't lost that much weight.
We like to hike in an area that, unfortunately, charges a fee, which Michael is not happy about. It's a $5 fee to enter the area with your vehicle. You can walk or boat there, but it's a bit of a walk and it costs to rent a boat. We go ahead and pay the fee each time since we like the area and like to hike there. When we arrived we noticed an orange mesh fence and a barricade with a sign that stated no hiking in that particular area, which is next to the lake, due to an eagle's nest that was found there; they don't want it disturbed. We weren't happy about this, especially after paying the $5. It should have been posted at the entrance to the area, but it wasn't. We were still able to hike, but had to go a different way and use a different trail than the one we're used to. Here is Michael and some other guys reading the sign, and Caitie, of course.
I got a few pics of some chipmunks. Yep, just like last year. This post is already quite lengthy, so I decided to do a scrapbook page of a few of the pics I took of 'em instead of showing each pic individually.
Here is a blue jay that hung around while we were snacking and feeding the chipmunks. We gave it some crackers.
Here is our snack area.
My forest ranger; ain't he cute?
It rained for a bit while we were there. We all love rain.
A 'framed' pic of Caitie on her daddy's shoulders.
It's tradition(you know me) to get a pic of Caitie sitting on a log in the woods during my birthday trip to the lake. Here is why I dressed her the way I did... She's wearing overalls in all the pics I've taken of her in this area each year; this started when she was a baby, not even a year old yet. I didn't want the clothing to change, but couldn't find the pair of overalls I had planned to use this time, so at the last minute I grabbed the ones that she wore for the second pic, which was just like the one she wore for the first pic, just a size bigger. As you can see, she's outgrown the overalls, but I think the shorts with the overalls as a top looks okay; it shows how much she's grown. I also changed her white tennis shoes to brown ones for these particular pics; she was wearing brown ones in the previous years pics. They're too small for her to wear to walk in, so I brought them along and put them on her right before taking these pics. Does that sound sane, or am I losin' it? Don't answer that.
Is it just me, or do we all look solemn in this pic? That's what happens when I get in the pic.
A hikin' we go.
Caitie using her net to try and catch some fish and crawdads.
Daddy joining in on the fun.
Caitie was coming up to where I was sitting to gather rocks to throw in the lake; she loves doing this.
This is a scenic spot on the road that leads to and from the lake off the main highway. The view over the edge is breathtaking. I took this pic on the way out.
Michael didn't give me my birthday present on the trip, he said it was too big, but he did give me my birthday card. There are so many different kinds of birthday cards these days... some play music, some let you add a message of your own, this one is a 'crank' music card; you turn the little handle at the bottom right of the card to hear the music, which was the Peanuts theme song; I like that music. Caitie enjoyed 'cranking it up' for me.
When we got home that night, Michael brought in my birthday present. I got on to him for not having wrapped it(kidding). I've been wanting a swing/glider for the patio for a while now, but haven't been able to find a 'three-seater', which I think is strange, so Michael got me a nice two-seater that we saw a while back at Home Depot. I love it. He said I can leave it in the box for now and see if we can find a three-seater somewhere, but since we haven't been successful so far, I'll probably keep this one. In case you're wondering... the black plastic on the floor is a makeshift door from the kitchen to the living(movie) room. The room has to remain dark until the 'big bug' projector has been calibrated, which is taking longer than we expected.
