Yup...she's mine....

So you've seen the images that come from a grumpy 4 year old after a long day in a strange city. What happens to that same 4 year old when Pappi takes her flower shopping at Pike Place Market, Mama lets her eat a McDonald's ice cream cone, and then you shove her onto a ferry? Well, she goes a little bit bonkers. She's happy mind you, but still completely bonkers. The biker guys who were parked next to us on the ferry were probably wondering who this child belonged to (eyeing both my sister and myself). I just laughed, video taped her, and thought "Yup...she's mine..."!

What happens when you give a 4 year old a camera?

We spent the last full day of our vacation in Seattle, and by this time Naomi was at the end of her rope. She had a major meltdown after we left the children's museum and even a trip to the top of the Space Needle wasn't fixin' it for her. So what do you do with an extremely grumpy 4 year old? Why you let her have your expensive digital camera of course!
Here we have a silhouette shot.


And a personal portrait!

This one is actually really good!

Artistic...

And she even got one of the three of us together. I think we have a budding photographer on our hands...

Seatlle

Pike Place Market, such a cool place, and a great view! Naomi sat on the Gold Pig, but I didn't get my camera out quick enough.

Naomi just looks so happy here! She's in Papa Ken's house in Poulsbo.

Playing with her soul mate Missy. Naomi and Missy played for hours! Naomi was even able to pick her up at one point, but poor Missy looked so uncomfortable that we discouraged her from doing it again.

She climb in the cat carrier. Missy seems a little confused.

Yep, fit in completely.

Wallowa Lake

Here is the view of Wallowa Lake, yep, that's snow on the mountains! Prior to our trip (like 2 weeks prior) the highs were in the upper 40's. Luckily for us it was in the 70's while we were there!

Naomi is testing out the water. The saying there is that the lake water was snow five minutes ago. It was freezing!

Floating trampoline, coolest invention ever! You could sun yourself on it after getting out of the freezing cold lake because it was toasty warm from sitting in the sun. This is December helping Naomi on...or off....can't remember which.

Aunt Jennifer's in the lake!

Naomi relaxing. She loved this inter tube and spent quite a bit of time on it. Notice that she's also wearing a life vest, better safe than sorry.

She looks very guilty here, although she really wasn't up to anything. She is wearing another of the kids dresses because she was still in character from the play they put on earlier. She was the evil villain's helper, Pinkalicious!

I don't have any pictures of meal time, but it was an amazing feat! We had 24 people trying to eat in one house. Each family took on the task of cooking one meal for all 24 of us. We had some of the best food! Chicken pesto, Salmon, Burgers, and Ribs!

We had such an awesome time with the family up here! I would definitely recommend that anyone who is heading up to Oregon check out Wallowa lake!