Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirate's life for me....

Wow we've had an eventful 2 weeks, so I guess I'll just tell it in the order that the pictures got uploaded. This week for FHE we decided to go to Antelope Island. I haven't been there in years and we only live a few minutes away so it seemed like a good idea. We took a picnic dinner to eat (FYI, A Fresh Market (previously know as Albertsons) has an 8 piece fried chicken dinner for $3.99 on Mondays. It's absolutely delicious). Unfortunately we didn't realize how many bugs there would be there! They were everywhere, landing on the food, and biting us. We had to eat as fast as humanly possible so we wouldn't eat too many bugs. Yuck!

But after a speed dinner we went and played in the fragrant water of the Salt Lake. The kids had lots of fun.

This is Josh throwing a tantrum in the middle of the Salt Lake. He got his shorts wet and was sad and refused to walk after that. It was pretty funny.....my little drama queen. (ummm I mean king)

It didn't take long to perk him back up after that. He liked his name in the sand.

It was so beautiful with the sun setting. All I could see were silouettes.

Daddy showed them how to skip rocks.

You can't tell from here, but Kate had about 25 gnats on her head during this picture. I'm such a mean mom but I wanted the two of us documented that we were there too. She was covered up with a blanket the rest of the time, but not before getting a few bites on here head. We were all covered with bites by the time we got home.

This was one of those few precious days where the sun shone. Don't get too wet Rach.... Just your hair.

We also found a way to remedy the fact Josh can't ride his trike yet.

This is going out to play on a rainy day. Yes, they got dressed themselves.

Last week we went to Lagoon for my parents stake lagoon day. Of course the favorite part was the water fountain. They also liked the bumper cars even though Josh just spun in backward circles the whole time.

And as for Kate......

After a follow up appointment at the eye doctor we found that her vision was being affected by the hemangioma. So now we have to patch her good eye for 2 hours every day so she doesn't get lazy eye. We also are going to have to get her glasses (please pray for me on that one, that we can actually keep them on her face). They also wanted to start her on a medicine that will help shrink the hemangioma. Before they started her on the medicine we had to get an echo-cardiogram to make sure her heart was strong enough to take the medicine that can lower her blood pressure. Her heart looks perfect so we started the medicine on Monday. Now we just have to wait and pray that all goes well and we can get this thing fixed.

Despite all that we're putting her through she is the happiest and calmest baby ever. I am so amazed at how good she is and so thankful that we live close to Primary Children's hospital since we are becoming quite frequent visitors there.

Here's our cute little pirate in one of her stylish patches. She actually doesn't seem to mind them too much, but is always happy when I take it off.

I just had to show off this cute little outfit. Thanks Kim. We love it!

All in all, life is good.