Celebrate Me Home

Friday, July 24, 2009

2 - Headwaters of the Sacramento River

Carly and I have traveled past the City of Mt. Shasta many times on our trips together. Howerver, we had never stopped at the Headwaters of the Sacramento River located in the Mt. Shasta City Park. She was quite impressed to see that the huge river that flows through her town starts out as a couple of little springs flowing from a hillside. We watched as a line of people waited to get up to the spring to fill their water bottles - personal-sized bottles, gallon jugs, even 5-gallon jugs! So we made plans to stop on our way back to fill up ours too.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

1 - The Journey Begins

Carly and I are off to Portland to visit family and see the big city! The first leg of our journey is the trip from Redding to Grants Pass. Carly was soooo excited that her mom and dad let her take their digital camera. Here are a few shots of the "photographer" and the images she caught on camera.

Photographer...

... and her subject.

Mt. Shasta from Vista Point on I-5

Castle Crags

The Forest in Mt Shasta City Park

Black Butte through the windshield...

We stopped for lunch in Yreka at Grandma's House Restaurant... another photo opportunity for the budding artist.

"Self portrait in the mirror of the bathroom"

"That would make a great shot... got it!" - Table Rock

Picking Charley up from the "kitty hotel" in Grants Pass.

And more self portraits...

She ran out of juice halfway through the Zoo on Monday. With the recent move, Amanda wasn't able to find the battery charger to send along with us. So it was up to Sarah and I to capture the rest of trip in digital images.

A Home of Their Own

Wes and Amanda moved into their new home shortly before I came down to pick up Carly for our trip to Portland. When I arrived, the kids took me on "the grand tour" of their new bedrooms - posing in each room for picutes. The house is a perfect fit for their family with 4+ bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a huge fenced backyard - all in a nice, quiet neighborhood in South Redding. Amanda and Wes have a "master suite" complete with a large walk-in closet and adjacent office space. (All at the opposite end of the house from the kids!) Amanda is not so wild about the wall-to-wall carpet throughout - but I love it - reduces the noise! Wes would have liked a larger kitchen and already has ideas on home improvement in mind. Overall it is a great space for a growing family.

Beautiful landscaped front yard and lots of space for parking too...

Everyone can get up close to the computer now...

No more baby gates... and Aubrey is taking advantage of her new found freedom!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Ryan's Portraits

What a handsome boy!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Emily is getting married!

Ben proposed and Emily accepted... Spring wedding???

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Natalie's Adventures with Grandma

Natalie came to visit in June. Here are a few photo's of our adventures together.

So at dinner Natalie and I are discussing our plans for the next few days and I ask her what her favorite thing to do is and she says "be sneaky... sneaking around so nobody knows when I'm being naughty..."