Saturday General Conference

I just LOVE General Conference!

So many good messages.

Things to remember, things to change.

Always striving to be a little better.

Between sessions we had a little picnic out back.

On the menu, taquitos, salsa, corn and watermelon.

yummy.

Kolt was loving life and crawling all over the place.

We watched dad water the garden,

 crawled all over the lawn,

 and mooched off of everyone's plate.

 Kali and Krew did some digging and treasure finding,

and made cookies with Grandma.

I am realizing my photography skills are decreasing with my lack of vision.

So sadly a lot of these photos are blurry,

I guess a reflection of what i see;)

We taped Krew's thumbs, so he would not suck them while rolling cookie dough,

that is going to be a hard habit for that boy to break.

Then we watched the second session of a wonderful conference.

Kayla's Visit

In August we had 2 full weeks with Kayla and it was SO FUN!

She is 11 years old now, she is so grown up and is such an amazing

big sister!  We had a fun time a Bear Lake swimming, boating, jet-skiing, skating around

and just spending time together.

 We went to the rock climbing wall and honed our climbing skills.

 They all did such a good job!

 We went to the Aquatic Center, where Kayla did a lot of diving and even

did her first front flip and dive off the high dive.

We went one day for the whole day and stayed for their dive-in movie with the Ausen girls.

We also spent a day at the Sports Academy, playing basketball, soccer, running and swimming.

 We went to Tony's Grove and hiked around.  It is so beautiful up there. LOVE IT!

We camped one night at Spring Hallow.

 Krew just loves campfires. 

He asks all the time now if we can go camping again.

And Kayla showed us her talent for painting toes.

SHE IS AMAZING!

We love our time with Kayla.

She is such a fun amazing young women.

She is into surfing right now, and has competed in a few competitions.

We are excited to see her again soon for Christmas in California!

NO SLIPPERS

Apparently these slippers were not our smartest purchase for back to school shopping.

At the kindergarten orientation we were informed that there were 3 rules 

when it came to dressing standards and one of those were 

NO SLIPPERS or flip flops is what they call them here on the mainland;)

Luckily they were on sale 1.99 each.

As you see they are going to get their money's worth of wear.

i like the way he moves

On Saturday, Aaron took Kali and Krew to work so I could get some rest and relaxation.

Kolt and I hung out and of course I had to get some pictures of my little man 

crawling, standing and laughing.

no teeth yet.

 Kolt has started pulling himself up against everything, the wall, the couch and the entertainment center.

He likes to adjust the volume when watching a movie, to VERY LOUD.

He will randomly let go and go tumbling to the ground.  He is still working on his balance.

As far as crawling goes, he likes to mainly pull himself across the floor with his arms,

having a little assistance from his feet.

He has tried the hands and knees crawling a few times, but it is very slow,

so he just reverts to the pulling with his arms method.

He also can be found in plank position, just practicing his form for push-ups.

Kali's First Day of Kindergarten

I finally chose to have Kali go to Adams Elementary's afternoon kindergarten class.

It is the closer school and just seems to be the right fit for me right now.

Kali was so excited for her first day of school.

She has been waiting for this day for A LONG TIME!

She was excited to ride her bike to school.

We got there a few minutes early, so all the kids were playing on the playground.

Kali did not want to take her backpack off, and she had to show everyone that she

had mastered the monkey bars.

When we got into her classroom, everything was labeled with their names.

Where their backpacks were supposed to go...

Where they sat, and they even had name tags to put around their neck.

 Kali had no problems with me leaving, she was ready to learn;)

 She loves her teacher Mrs. Garrido.

 I was so excited for Kali to start school and get to start this new phase in her life.

Maybe I am a little weird, but I love when my kids have the opportunity to grow and learn, 

it stead of being sad, I was really excited for her.

garden is growing

We actually have some tomatoes, peppers and tomatillo's growing in our garden.

It is a miracle:)

 Look how big Kali's sunflower has grown.  

Krew just loves it, everyday he goes out and smells it and tells me to look at it 

through the window while we eat breakfast.

losing vision...in both eyes

Well the loss of vision has now spread to my right eye.  On Aug. 23rd, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. my migraines started on the right side this side.  My right eye was in pain.  I could not open it, it was swollen and red.  I took the migraine medicine, left over from the earlier episode in May on my left eye.  After taking 3 pills the migraine stopped around 2 p.m. on Wednesday.   I have been putting in drops of omnipred every couple of hours.  I got a blessing from Aaron which was amazing. The pain subsided for about a week.  Today, Monday August 29th, I woke up to another migraine, my eye would not stop watering and took another migraine pill, used the eye drops that dilate my eye and continued using omnipred every few hours and the pain and gone away.  Time to make some calls and find a doctor to help me get this figured out.  Right now life is rough,  I do not have clear vision in either eyes.  Life it just kind of hazy.