best friends.

I made the mistake of telling Krew 4 days early that he would get to spend the day with Jo Jo.

That is all he would talk about, and he would get frustrated when I told him not today,

only 3 more days, 2 more days, tomorrow, until finally the morning arrived and it was time 

to go to Jo Jo's house.  

He was an angel getting ready, he did everything I asked him the first time, (which never happens).

He just loves to play with Jo Jo!

They are so cute together, B.F.F. from birth;)

Hillary was awesome and took Krew for the day for me while I spent the day

at the John A. Moran Eye Center in SLC.

I finally got to a Uveitis specialist, Dr. Albert Vitale, who is going to help me get

this whole mess figured out.

He is going to wean me off the oral and topical steroids this month and put me

on some drug that helps with my unknown auto immune disease,

which should make the swelling be gone forever,

and then I will be able to get my cataract surgery in a year and be back to normal.

If all goes as planned.

Who knows with me lately, I always have the weirdest things happen to me.

Here is Kolt and Tiana, the next besties;)

We figure between the four kids maybe we will have a Williams and Jones Marriage;)

The parents can always hope right;)

I have to find Krew and Jo Jo's pictures when they were this age, 

I am pretty sure Krew was trying to hold Jo Jo's hand.  That is how the Jone's boys roll;)

Ok, So I was sure I had posted it on the blog back in 08 but after an hour of searching, no findy.

So I will have to pull out my picture archives.

I will post it soon;)

The Williams live an hour away from us, which is WAY to far when you get

wrapped up in the business of life,

but close enough that we can just jump in the car and see them when ever we want;)

I LOVE THEM!!

Thanks again Hill!

GO COWBOYS!

Cowboys vs. Redskins.

Cowboys won!!!

enough said;)

p.s  Aaron's boss is a redskins fan, so we had to watch the game at Synergy.  (Aaron's work)
the kids had a great time playing, the  mom's had a wonderful time chatting it up and the men
had a great time battling it out. Luckily we came out VICTORIOUS;)

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.