Later

16 months later...

...still climbing! Still giving me heart failure.


16 months later...

...still has the same kidney issues. Dang it!! Just had another renal ultrasound and appointment with his nephrologist. Kidneys are not any better, but not any worse. Focusing on the not any worse part. :)


9 months later...

...Caleb finished Joy School. He has had so much fun with it, and so have I!


Being hit by several Nerf balls later...

...Carson is out for revenge! :)


Several trips to Sea World later...

...yup...we still love it. (Can you tell? Carson is becoming quite the hammy these days. Perhaps we only produce ham bones.)


12 months later...

...Still thanking NCI for doing us that favor. Still thankful Chris now only puts in 40 hours a week. Still thankful he is happy doing his work now. Still happy he actually enjoys the people he works with now. Still happy we are now better off financially. Only thing left to work out is that dang health insurance...but that is a post for another day! (Yeah..ok, so that picture doesn't really go with that one. But it's the only one I didn't have a picture for and Carson is, I'm sure, happy about all the stuff mentioned above. :)

2 weeks later since Uncle Kody came for a visit...

...still missing him!


Too many years later...


...Chris still manages to get the craziest injuries in racquetball!!


4 years later...

...Caleb still just loves to help. He can do laundry by himself now. Granted...he has a difficult time reaching the stuff in the very bottom. No pun intended.


5 months later...

...I'd say Chris and Caleb's weekly violin lessons have paid off. This video was of a practice for the song they played in church today. Can't believe Chris picked up the violin for the first time just a short 5 months ago. Some people got it...I don't got it! A man of many talents, for sure. Speaking of talents, Caleb is doing well on the violin too and absolutely loves to go to his joint lesson with Chris and then out for dinner together afterward each week.

Soon I'll have to record Caleb playing too for your viewing pleasure. But later.

Fun Run

Caleb and Carson participated in the Wildflower Kids Run held last weekend at the Botanical Gardens. The weather was good, the price was right (free!), the scenery great and we just had a blast!!

We weren't planning on Carson participating, but when we checked in and got Caleb all registered, the lady organizing the event told us to go get a shirt for Carson too because there were plenty of extras. They had a 3 and under race and so we figured, why not?!? Carson ran/walked the whole 1/4 mile run and it was sooooo adorable. He came in last place, but I'm pretty sure he got the most attention. :) Everyone around me at the finish line was oooohing and ahhhing and running to grab their cameras to take pictures of the cute 15 month old running the race. He's a little distracted by the bubbles here at the end, but he made it!!



Carson getting hydrated for the run:



Getting distracted by bubbles at the finish line:



LOVING all the attention and giving his cheesy face to all his fans:



We were so late finishing up Carson's race that we were still at the finish line when they started the 4-6 race for Caleb. So he had an extra leg in his race to try to catch up. He had so much fun though!!! He has asked every day since if we can go to another race. And at least once a day, we have to go outside and he has me time him while he runs or rides his bike to the end of the street and back again.

Here is Caleb being a good listener--listening to instructions for the race:



Getting all stretched out and warming up. SO CUTE!!!



Rounding the corner to the finish line:



Ready for his prize after reaching the finish line:



A good time had by all. We will definitely look forward to this again next year and will definitely have to check out some other fun runs for kids as well!