Big Day For Sloane

Sloane seeing better through her beautiful eyes. Last minute I decided to get Indi out of school and bring her to support Sloane. I feel Indi having glasses has been huge in helping Sloane to adjust. She is only 3 and having to now wear something on her face all and everyday will be an adjustment. Once we entered the green door our new adventure would begin.
Indi is such a cute big sister.

The big moment! Her sweet little face looks so small!

Taking a look at the new her.

They said she did better than any other 3 year old getting their glasses. They have to fit them to their face and adjust them. She was patient and helpful and very excited.

Sweet sisters and their glasses.

Celebrating with bread sticks from the Soup Kitchen...Yum.

Mom loves you Sloane.

I am so proud of you for being such a big girl about your glasses!

Daddy seeing Sloane for the first time.

Daddy is having a hard time.

He thinks they are adorable on her...She is just sooo little and he feels bad she has to get them so early. I had my moment after our doctor appointment.She had a bit of a hard time just before this. She said they were hurting her nose and got emotional about putting them on again, but after I loosened her nose piece she was a champ and kept them on without complaint for the rest of the night. They say for the first two weeks until their brain learns to start seeing through the glasses they will experience problems with depth perception, head aches etc. But we are hoping she will do just fine.

Love You Sweet Girl!

Beautiful Paula

Lots of you hear me talk about Paula but most of you have never met her.

This is our Paula!

We were so excited she had a couple business meetings in Utah and got to stay with us! She came baring darling gifts for the girls...they love her! And so do I. Even though it was a short trip it was so good to be with her.

We love you Paula!

Kid Quote

I will tell my girls I love them more than the moon and all the stars in the sky, today Sloane told me.....

"Mom...I love you more than elephants and loop lee loops in a pink sky."

(loop dee loops)

need to mention....

I want to mention that the architect of the home my dad built was the One And Only...Kevin MacCabe. Who also happens to be the favorite uncle of the great Craig Hayward!
Beautiful Design Kevin!

In Honor of Bruce and Coco

I have a cousin/best friend who shares my obsession with hot guitar players.

This is hers...and today is his birthday.

Here's to you Bruce...Happy Birthday!

You are one of the Greats!

The House That Jerry Built

This is my dad's house he built in the Park City home show. It's in a new area called Tuhaye.

If you are like me I love looking at pictures of neat homes..so I thought it would be fun to post some of the pics.

I would die for a patio like this...the next picture is the upper level.

My dad designed this fire place....I wish you could see it better. There are 60 iron balls in a pyramid that the flames come up through.

Love this shot of the back!

Love this fire place and neat windows, on the other side is the kitchen.

I will give you a shiny new quarter if you guess how much this tub cost.

This wine cellar is really pretty, but can't see it very well.

I have to say my dad does amazing work and really cares about his clients and the quality of their homes.

Way to Go Dad!

Kid Quote

My girls love to dress up and make names for themselves. The last few days Indi has dressed up in her swimming suit, bathrobe and umbrella and called herself Sunny. She was sitting in her outfit with Sloane at the kitchen table and ....
Indi: "My name is Sunny, I like the sun!"....

Sloane: "My name is Fragile, I like things that are.........fragile."

What in the world?

New Glasses

In our last post I think I made it sound like we had purchased the glasses that Sloane had chosen yesterday...but we hadn't. I wasn't sold on them, except for the fact I knew she would wear them. Anyway we searched all over the valley and found NOTHING! Good looking children's glasses are sooo hard to come by!! So finally we headed up to Salt Lake to a store that always has neat glasses...and this is what we picked out. They are the only pair since the huge pink ones that Sloane liked. And I love them too. You see her face and eyes still, not too overwhelming. That made me so happy!
She was sad to leave them there...we get to pick them up on Thursday!
With how much we are going to spend on our kids eyes...hope their teeth grow in straight!

2 out of 3....

Guess who needs glasses!

Because of Indi's eye condition called amblioplia my other girls have had to get checked once year until they are 4 or 5. Because it is genetic. We went up to Primary's where their eye doctor is hoping she would get a clean bill of eye health like last year and he would say we were out of the woods. But after she couldn't see a few small things and him grabbing TWO prescription pads I knew it. Indi is of course thrilled and so far Sloane is game for it. But I am having a little hard time. And I KNOW this is nothing to complain about. I told the doctor if this is all of the health issues with my kids they have to deal with...I'LL TAKE IT! Every time you go into Primary Children's you really get your priorities straight with what is important in life.

It is just a little sad for me to cover up their sweet little faces with glasses. You know how you just love to savor their every little expression? Anyway I am not feeling bad for myself...just having a little moment.

Sloane has an asymmetrical astigmatism. An astigmatism is when your cornea is the wrong shape. She was examined a year ago and was fine but in the last year her cornea grew into the wrong shape. The doctor said since we caught it so early that it won't turn into amblioplia...(lazy eye) like Indi has. Only "asymmetrical" astigmatisms turn into amblioplia if untreated. It makes your brain start seeing incorrectly. Then your eye starts to move. But if you get glasses when you are young enough, as you grow your cornea will grow into the correct shape and your brain will learn to see correctly.

Indi has kids eye doctor on her list of "what I want to be when I grow up."


Here are the glasses Sloane picked out immediately and refused every other pair. These pics are taken with my phone so they are slightly distorted. They actually look cuter than this photo. They are funky and of course the most expensive pair in the store. We are planning to look at others but she keep saying she wants the ones that are pink and wound! (round)
The pediatric girl also said she is at a hard age and if they don't love their glasses they have a bad experience, won't wear them and then your screwed. So I don't know how much say I'm going to have.
PS I really appreciate everyone who tells Indi how cute she looks in her glasses. Kids who wear them need to hear it. They start to get comments coming from the other direction in school. So anytime you see a child with glasses. Compliment them!
And it's a good idea to get your kids eyes checked when they are young! Before preschool and kindergarten. Indi had severely bad eye sight and this over paranoid mom didn't have a clue until her eye started to move toward her nose. They don't know any different so they don't know to tell you. And the earlier you catch it the better.

When we got back to my moms Beaux was showing her support. I believe Hayley made them for her. Considering her sisters history she should probably get used to these.

Giddy Up!!

This weekend Craig and Kelli took us horseback riding!

We started up the Alpine loop and rode up behind Redford's property. It was 2 hours of the most beautiful scenery ever! We were up so high, had the most gorgeous view of the mountains, the leaves changing...not to mention a HUGE elk right near us. (5 or six point) We would do elk calls and hear them call back to us. It was something I had never experienced before. It was amazing.

Greg is on Magic and I rode Misty. I told her I had children waiting for me at home and to please be a good girl...she was! I hadn't ridden horses for years, but I wasn't nervous once. She was such a great horse.

Me and Kelli!


This was right where we saw the huge elk.

We came upon this shack. Kelli told me it was built years ago by Brian Wimmer. Sound familiar? Robert Redford had him build it, when he was young and worked for him.

Inside is this sign.

It got pretty dang cold! And we had to be quiet so we wouldn't scare the elk. I don't think I have gone so long with out speaking in my life. I was beginning to have with drawls. Coming back we were startled by a really loud sound we thought was elk but was actually wild turkeys up in the trees. We also took the horses down some really steep tiny trails. It was such an adventure.

The last memories of riding horses were with my life long friend Terra. They include feeding Stormy her favorite candy...Mambas, Blacky bucking me off on Lovers Lane and Thunder sprinting towards a barb wire fence then ending in a dead stop right in front of it...throwing me off over her head. I had bloody palms from pulling the reins so hard and a grape fruit size bruise on my inner thigh! Remember the good ole' days Terra?

Kelli spotted this baby horny toad and jumped off her horse and caught him. I don't know how she spotted him, he was tiny and was exactly the same color as the rocks. Pretty cute though. My girls would have loved it.

Thanks Kelli and Craig!

It was so fun to do something new and exciting! And I love my new buddy Misty, she was good to this inexperienced cowgirl!