monkey bars

Before we left Washington Kali mastered the monkey bars.

She is pretty excited about it.

She tries to see how fast she can go and tries skipping every other one.

 Krew loves playing on the monkey bars as well, with a little assistants from Grandpa Wood.

money. money. money.

Monique, a fabulous women whom will get her own blog post here soon,

is soo good about spoiling my kids.

Thanks Monique;)

She gave Kali and Krew these money soaps which they had a blast trying to get the money out of.

10 baths and 2 days later there was success;)

Both bars had 1 dollar bills in them.

preschool

Kali's first day of preschool.  

This was back in January, but I am playing catch up right now.

Kali loves to pose for her pictures.

 Kali loved going to preschool and planned her whole week around it.

In Feb. for her birthday and Valentine's Day they celebrated at her school.

They made fun Valentine's Day folders to fill full of valentines.

She had me straighten her hair for fun, it is only the 2nd time we have done that.

 Her Grandma Wood bought her, her first pair of skinny jeans for her birthday.

  She looks so cute in them;)

St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 I decided to make it a tradition in our family that the kids can have Lucky Charms once a year on St. Patties Day;)

 The kids LOVED IT.  They just wanted to pick the marshmallows out.
When Kali ran to get something Krew started picking her marshmallows out of her bowl.
I remember doing the same thing when I was little, so I let them do it.

 Kali remembered that we had done a scavenger hunt in Hawaii on St. Patrick's Day to look for the leprechauns pot of goal, so that will be another tradition.
Kali just loved it, after we had finished she wanted to do it again.

my yearly episode

So this is not the best picture, but I have to take my annual picture and journal what is going on so I can remember and know what to tell the doctor.  From researching the past, looks like I got lucky and skipped a big episode in 2010, It flared up again the beginning of May and my normal steroid drops did not do the trick, I spend a sleepless night in pain about a week ago, I could not decide whether to go to the ER or what to do.  After a blessing from Aaron and some Ibuprofen i was able to get a couple hours of sleep.  I made an appointment the next morning to see my doctor who just gave me some migraine medicine to stop the pain and set me up the an eye specialist, who just started from the beginning.  Prescribed me with omnipred every half an hour (not realistic) and an eye relaxing drop 4 times a day and to see him in a week. Since we are moving to Utah in a couple weeks, I won't be going to that appointment, I will just start seeing a specialist in Utah, who maybe if I pray hard enough will be able to help me figure something out before I go blind.  Every time I have an episode my eye color changes to a bright green.  My vision is blurring, I have a cloud over my eye and lots of floating black spots.  Since my first episode in July of 2008 I have never regained clear vision in that eye.  

Comparing Stats 3 months

                                Kali 4 months                                          Krew 3 months                      Kolt 3 months

                                15 lbs.                                                      16 lbs.                                   15 lbs.

                                26 in.                                                        26 in.                                    25 1/2 in.

For Alicia :)

most recent family pic.