Always BUSY! Life in pictures!

Man, have we been busy! Most everything gets posted on Instagram and Facebook these days. However, I really want to keep up with our family blog because it is my journal of us.
So, here are some random pictures that pretty much sum up our crazy life lately...

Caroline FINALLY got her haircut. The last time she had it fully cut was when she was a year old!!! I know, craziness!!! Luckily, I have the best niece, Abbi, who is taking cosmetology while in high school. I love these 3!

I took the kids and Abbi and Marissa to Lupe's one night.  Did I mention that Lupe Tortillas brings out the crazy in my family?

The boys had baseball tryouts.  Man, did they do awesome! Especially, for not picking up a bat and ball in a year!

WE LUCKED OUT AND THE BOYS HAVE BEEN PLACED ON THE SAME BASEBALL TEAM...MORE ON THAT TO COME!!!

Caroline thought she wanted to play ball this season, but chickened out at the last minute.  However, come this fall, she will play softball!!  Because, this girl has some CRAZY MAD SKILLS!!! 

Jake finally got his glasses fixed...maybe he can finally SEE again!

Our favorite missionary finished his mission and went back home. He will be missed.  Cameron really liked Elder Leavitt and was bummed to see him leave.

And yes, this is from our Super Bowl party---way back!  And yes, we were rooting for the BRONCOS!!!

Jake and his eyes

After failing 2 vision test at school, we finally made it around to taking Jake to the eye doctor (actually, we finally took him in after we realized he couldn't see the score board at the baseball field--I know, parents of the year award!). Well, Jake ended up needing glasses. It turns out, his eyes are pretty much like mine---BAD! The eye doctor said he should be fine with not wearing the glasses while he is playing sports this year, but next year, he will probably need to get sports goggles or contacts. Let's just hope that we can get him to eat his carrots and his eyes will improve!

 

These are his glasses....Red is a good color, huh???

 

Just kidding!  Here he is with his Nike glasses on....

 

Good thing we purchased the insurance policy on the glasses....2 weeks after wearing them he fell asleep with them on.  The dog ended up getting a hold of them and chewing them to pieces!!!!

On a positive note--they were fully replaced! Thank goodness!!!!!!!! 

seeing things a little clearer

Well, it looks like Cameron has inherited my terrible eyesight. I knew it was only a matter of time before one of the kids would need glasses.  My eye sight is awful and Dusty jokingly tells me I should go ahead and invest in a seeing eye dog. Actually, Cameron's eyes are not that bad. He recently had a physical and failed the vision test.  After an appointment at the eye doctor, we learned that he has trouble seeing out of his left eye and that his right eye has been working extra hard to make up for the blurred vision in the left eye. Cameron was happy to learn that he doesn't have to wear them all the time. He can take them off when playing sports, riding his bike, and outside playing.      

I thought it was sweet that Cameron's best friend, Dylan, showed up the next morning at our house in his glasses.  Apparently, Dylan has the same eye issue as Cameron. Cameron wasn't thrilled with wearing them to school, so Dylan came over with his glasses on to show him that being able to actually "see" things isn't so bad! 

I got my first pair of glasses in 4th grade too.  I wish I could locate a 4th grade picture of me. Now that would be site. I think I was rocking some big round old school glasses, permed hair, and big puffy bangs. I wonder if Cameron will look back 20 years from now and think his cool TMX glasses are big round and goofy?