Trask the Photo-Bomber

My niece Amanda with her active family of 5 stopped by on their trip from Nevada. When I looked through the photos of the day I noticed a re-occurring theme - Trask, with tongue at ready, was in a whole lot of the pictures - including two selfies my niece was taking with the youngest on her lap...

 Surprise!

 Amanda with Keegan...

 Surprise!

 Trask giving his first surprise kiss to Keegan.

Amanda, Noah and the boys...

 Surprise!

We had all been picking berries. Trask's ready tongue made short work of cleaning up the sticky juices covering baby's face and hands.

 Cadence was posing for a picture when...Surprise!

 Amanda relaxing with the boys...

 Surprise!

 Cadence also had sticky red hands.

 I wanted a family photo but Trask up-staged Cadence.

And then of course there are other pictures of the visit.
First task: exploring the house. Keegan navigating the stairs.

Dog beds make great wrestling mats.

Family picture in the woods...

where we went for the boys to watch the "big diggers" work.  (I got them Good Nite Mr. Digger for Christmas.  All big machines are "diggers"). Because they were logging, we could not get pictures of the kids on the machines this visit.

 Keegan, Noah and Cadence back from the woods.

 Lunch time. All three dogs were very attentive to every piece of toddler dropped food.

 Another Aunt Kay Lee visit tradition is picking berries. I got these great buckets for the kids.

 Not that many berries actually made it into the buckets.

And the premier tradition: driving the toys. Noah and the boys following Cadence driving the tractor.

 Baby on the tractor.

Keegan was wearing down after the long drive to Eugene and long, hot, (99 degree) day. He wasn't into driving the tractor by himself and almost fell asleep when riding with dad. 

 In 2011 Cadence first drove the tractor by herself - first gear and mom for wheel adjustments as needed.

2013 - Cadence was in total control of the tractor - second gear and a huge reluctance to give up the wheel to anyone else.

2015 - Cadence discovered the accelerator. Her legs just reached. Watch out when she discovers the gear shift!