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Since Grandma is now on the phone and the cake cutting has been delayed, I give in and instruct Makayla on how to use the camera. This is her first shot (trimmed and digitally re-mastered a touch for best online viewing). She did a good job, too bad the subject was me or it could have been a great first picture. ;)

She was so excited that I could not help but say "Okay" when she asked if she could take a few more pictures. Fortunately, she chose other victims, I mean subjects, for her next shots.

Stephanie in red

Ha! See what you get when you gang up against me Stephanie? Your own daughter makes you her second victim, I mean subject, and I cut the half of the picture with you on it to make a very close-up picture of you.

This is the left half of Makayla's third picture. Makayla's second picture was of Stephanie's belly region.

Cateland

This is the right half of Makayla's third picture. Cateland is standing just to Stephanie's left in the uncut photo.

As I mentioned on page 6, Cateland is my Uncle Art's wife. Like Art, Cateland is also a musician. Cateland used to sing country and has even recorded two albums. Cateland tells me that she met Art when, "I was hiring a keyboard player for my last band." It took some digging but I found the name of that band, it was, Lakota Wind.

Also to Cateland's credits are, in her words, "first runner-up on the first TV reality show You Can Be A Star" and she "won 1990 Texas Music Assoc Songwriter of the Year."

These days Cateland is a freelance writer and a contributing columnist. There is talk that she may get back into singing one day though.

Cateland's blog: Diary of a Mad White House Wife.

One more observation, Cateland likes Vanilla Coke… yuck. Myself, I like Diet Mug Root Beer, which happens to go great with vanilla ice cream. ;)

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