Sunny San Jorge and the stomach flu

Gosh I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do! Sheesh its basically Christmas and I havent even written about Thanksgiving yet! Well I will start there...

For Thanksgiving we had the pleasure of journeying southward to sunny San Jorge (st. george in King language). It was fun and we had lots of fun hanging out and relaxing (sorta) and just vacationing. Lucy got sick Wed night and threw up everywhere in her crib in the middle of the night. Poor thing. We didnt notice until we went to get her in the morning. So she had the stomach flu for a few days and gave it to a few people (not me, WHEW) but she was surprisingly really happy and playful the whole time. You never would have known she was sick. We took a few family pics in the beautiful red rock too.

                                                  Lucy was THRILLED in this one. Nice...

Now we are here just preparing and bracing ourselves for the next holiday speedily approaching. Ty is FINALLY done with finals and made it through his first semester as a grad student!!! HOORAY!! We are proud of you daddy!!! Im not going to lie I have gotten a lot done for this Christmas season, but I still feel like I have SO much more to do and only like 11 days to do it!!! Also I am making my first cake that someone asked me to do!!! I am SUPER excited (and kinda nervous) to do little Deja Butterfields birthday cake. Per her request, I shall do a Minnie Mouse cake with polka dots and ribbon to adorn. Photos will shortly arrive on this here blog, so hopefully it wont turn in to a disaster. Lets keep our fingers crossed...

Chalk one up on the Lucy board

Oh my little child. My little, little, naughty, gross, beautiful girl. You sure have done it this time! Wow. Just wow. I am speechless actually.

Ok here is the story. Tyler and I were watching a movie tonight and our little, dear, sweet child was all up in our grill. We descided "hey, we NEVER get to spend time together, just us, so lets put her in our room and turn on a movie". I know, we are great parents. So there she goes, in to watch her favorite show as of late, Beauty and the Beast. We saunter on back every so often to check up on her and see if she needs anything or what not. So our movie ends and I go back to check on her and as soon as I walked into the room I noticed she had something in her fingers. Something small, round, and... brown. I also noticed her hand was coming from her diaper... I ran over to her, praying that the obvious was just a vicious trick played on my mind, but no, nope, no tricks here in the King home, no tricks, just a bunch of little turd-letts scattered strategically across our beautiful, freshly clean bed.  I dont remember the words or the decibel level that came out of my mouth, but Ty came running. I just remember the words "GROSS", "Lucy, dont ever do that again!" and "GROSS" and "Lucy that is cah-cah (yes i use baby words, sue me)" and "GROSS". Did i mention how gross? Thank HEAVEN that it was in little pebbles and not schmere stuff. THANK HEAVENS!!! I can tell you one thing. And please fast forward if you are sensitive, but I know my child, and if there is one thing I know, Lucy STILL puts things in her mouth... EWE, gross, EEEEWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEE, ewe, ewe, gross, BLAH, I CANT GET THAT IMAGE OUT OF MY BRAIN!!! And now neither can you. Sorry. But I DID warn you. To say the least her hands were scrubbed and her teeth are more clean then they ever have been. Oh my dear child, my curious, curious child. Why do you hate us?!

Jealousy and Lloyd Christmas

Yesterday was a big day in the King home. We cut Lucy's hair for the FIRST time yesterday!! It was so exciting! She was bawling basically the whole time, mostly because it was her nap time and she was draped in weird black cloaks. But she did great! Before the hair cut she looked pretty much like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber. Im not kidding, we would call her Lloyd all the time. We cut only about an inch off, just to even out her hair. Not much change at all, in fact you probably would never even notice the change. We took pics but they are on Ty's iPod and i dont want to download them right now.

Speaking of Ipod. How many techies out there are obsessed with iPods (of any variety), T.v.'s, the latest gaming system, pretty much anything that is new technology? Not you? Me either, not my cup of hot chocolate (although some of that does sound good right now). I dont reallly care much about it at all. My husband on the other hand is OBSESSED!!! In fact I dont think that is a strong enough word. We are talking about a guy who has gone through THREE iTouch's! Well today I have broken my husbands heart. Literally he hasnt been the same since we found out the news...

My phone is HORRID, i hate it in fact. I have had it for a little over a year now and it has been on the frits about a year. So today it totally bit the dust. We went to Verizon and low and behold it has wter damage? Weird, i have never set it or dropped it in any sort of liquid. Anyway, since i am up for an upgrade we have descided on me probably getting an iPhone. I was totally against it in the beginning. But I either get another crappy phone that will probably go out fast again, or I get some kind of a smartphone. But then again, is it a waste of my time spending $100 on a phone that I dont even care about. But then Ty convinced me that it really is the way to go because most all cell phone compainies are trying to phase out your plain jane phones to these "internet capable" cool phones. Whatev. Anyway now my husband is seriously distraught and depressed that I get an iPhone before him. He has wanted one since the word iPhone even existed and I could care less about one. Sorry hun!

In other news, I cant believe that in one week it is Thanksgiving!! WHAT?! Its basically Christmas, which means it is basically 2012, which means Lucy is 2 years old!!!  I cannot have a TWO year old people!!  We are taking off to sunny St Jorge (this is how we pronounce it in my house) for the turkey fest and we cant WAIT!

I swear there was something else I was going to blog about but I cant put my finger on it, literally, ok that was a bad pun, i dont even know if I get it! Also I just looked up Lloyd Christmas on google and I have been totally wrong, its Harry who we compare Lucy's hair too. Oops!

Happy Halloween!!!

So I think I mentioned that I was in a cake decorating class. This was my final project! Im not going to lie, I was kind of impressed with how it turned out!!

Here are my little lambies. Arent they the cutest!!! Dad was a good sport.

One of our favorite parts of the costume is her little tail that wags when she runs. Its SO FUNNY!!!

This is grandmas costume that she bought and we just HAD to borrow it. This is the funniest little costume ever! She also took home first place cutest costume at our ward party!

And here is me, Little Bo Peep with my baby sheep

My sheepies again frolicking in the pasture grass

Odds and happy endings

Lately I find myself at odds with Lucy. The last 2 weeks for some reason we have just been butting heads. This same thing also happened like 2 months ago. I dont know if it is her or me but someone has some serious SASS that needs to be dealt with! Everything is "NOOOOO!" or a fit or some kind of meltdown. Maybe its because she is almost 2 or maybe its because she is teething. Or maybe it really is me and Im just in a bad mood! I dont know. But I tell you what, kids certainly have a way with turning things in its opposite pretty quickly.

Let me give you a little back story. We try to be strict with Lucy a little and we do put her in time out and we do repremand her for doing naughty things. Dont get me wrong, we play with her and laugh and let her get away with plently. I always try to keep the motto of "Say yes to children as often as you can".  So before you all call child protective services on us, just keep that in mind. BUT... I digress. When she does get punished or repremanded she will likely throw a little fit and then quickly be ok and things are great and she for the most part wont do the thing anymore that got her in trouble to begin with, and life goes on. She doesnt really cry and doesnt get really sad or or her feelings hurt. Like I said, maybe a little tantrum on the way to timeout for a few seconds and then she is fine. Back to my story...

Today she has just been into everything and tearing things apart and getting into things she KNOWS she isnt supposed to. Lets not even get started with dinner, (or her eating habits that stress me to know end) and throwing food all over and dragging things here and there... the list goes on. Well just before we put her down for the night we were trying to get her to fold her arms for prayer time and all of a sudden WHAP, she smacks Ty in the face... Immediately we tell her no and that we do not hit and that it hurt daddy and Ty very firmly tells her "NO Lucy!" She fell absolutely silent and stared at Ty for a second and then nestles into his chest. I Look at her and notice her little lip start to stick out as she lets out a little tiny whimper and her eyes start to fill up with tears. She didnt ever actually break down and cry but she just had that look where her heart has just been shattered and she is fighting back the tears. We have NEVER seen her react this way before. Ty and I looked and each other and our hearts were broken... We both started to tear up because of her little emotions and it was the saddest little thing! I still get a little choked up when I think about her little lip stick out and quiver like it did. And during our prayer she gave daddy a little kiss and nestled back into his chest.

And this my friends is the reason I have a child. And will continue to have more for that matter. Because no matter how hard it is to raise them, there is always a tender moment like this that makes me realized just how blessed I truly am. I have never in my life felt the type of love that feel for Lucy. Every night before we go to bed we will go in her room to check on her and we just stare at her adorable little face and stroke her hair and chubby cheeks and just marvel at how precious she is and how happy we are. Often times a tear or two will leak out and every hard day or moment we have just disappears.

Alrighty... Gosh It seems I never post these days. I guess I just feel like there is nothing new to share. Everything is fine and dandy, same ol' same ol'. Well I guess there is something new. I started a cake decorating class!!! Its so fun and I have learned a lot. I really want to start doing cakes, so if you know anyone... I still need to take the nest two class, so by December I should be a pro!!

Last weekend I had the pleasure of taking family pictures of some of our best friends! It was so much fun. We love the Trythalls!!! Here are a few pics that I promised to post for them.

We also saw this little guy slithering along. I bet if Blake hadnt have spotted it, we TOTALLY would have stepped on it!!! CREEPY!!! Also we really think it is a real life baby rattle snake!!!

Long overdue

So I finally got the gumption to edit my sis-in-laws wedding pictures (dont worry, i wasnt her real photographer, so there was no rush). Her wedding was so cute, and it turned out fantastically (is that even a word?). Here is a little shout out to the latest a greatest newly-wed couple out there, The Bangerters!!!

 

This one makes me laugh because it looks like Catherine is totally picking a fight with Andrews mom, and Caits is like "hello people!!! This is my day!!!"

Also not much going on around here. Well actually Ty is back in school and is working two jobs!! Holy smokes huh! Well they are on campus and the rule is you cant work over 20-22 or so hours a week (both jobs together) so its not that bad. But speaking of work... I have a confession... I am having a REALLY hard time deciding something. In fact I have been losing sleep, lots of it, and stressing out about this decision. We think we are going to take the plunge and quit my job and stay at home with Lucy. It has been in the mix for a while now, I am just having a hard time actually doing it. Im scared. I have had a job since I was like 14, everyone in my family has had to have a full time job their whole lives, and I honestly I am scared of what people will think of me. I feel like people will think I am a huge slacker, or entitled, or not contributing to my family and making my husband do it all. I am having a REALLY really hard time with this. But other than that... not much is going on.

But if I do quit my job I am considering advertising more about photography and maybe trying to take more peoples pictures. Also I am starting to get into baking. I am starting up a cake decorating class next week and this is something I have always wanted to do. So maybe Ill make cakes for people! So if you guys need a cake (or pretty much anything bakery) or need some photos taken... Think of me!!!!

Lucy is getting so big, as usual. She is still a sassy pants full of energy little ball of fire and it is really funny!!! Seriously, we think she is trying to cast a spell on us! She points at us with such power and says (in a language we have yet to decode) BA-Uh-DUDDO!!!! Or something like that.  Its really funny, maybe a little creapy, but still funny. What a silly girl. We sure do love her!