So the other day Lucy had her 6 month check up. YIKES i cannot believe that she is already six months, soon she will be walking, and then she will be leaving me for kindergarten! But the Dr said she is doing great and right on track. AND her body is catching up to her head! All around she is in the 50%, so thats great! Here's the stats
Length: 25.5 inches
Weight: 13.13
Head Circ: 42.5
So she is getting big! Also they gave us a Rx for her eczema, so we are glad for that, as she gets really bad flare-ups. We are practicing sitting-up, rolling over and laughing. She is so funny, I cant get enough, i just want to gobble her up!!

In other news. We went to SLC the other day, the day with the GIGANTIC rainstorm. We had to get Ty's sales license. For lunch we had to stop at this little dive of a restaraunt. Let me back up a little... So Ty and I are crazy about the Food Network Channel and we especially love the show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and there have been a few places in Salt Lake featured on there. We have made it a goal to go to each of these places and check them out.
Its called Pat's Barbecue, and this is what it looks like on the outside:

It really is a dive! You roll up to it and its down this little random side street, and it looks like a place you would be a little nervous to go in to, but let me tell you, AWESOME!!! We LOVED it. LOVED loved it!!! You walk in and it has this awesome bluesy rocker vibe and its super colorful and chill. Then you walk in, grab a menu and sit where ever on a picnic table and did I mentionthere is a little stage with live music! All of this awesomeness and we havent even eaten yet! Then we order and get our food in less than 5 minutes. And the food... oh the food. SO GOOD!! Ty was even so bold as to say, that it was the best barbecue he has ever had, and thats big for Ty to say! So next time you go to salt lake you HAVE to stop in and partake of the awesome wonder that is Pat's Barbecue.

Changes

So i have been meaning to post for the last couple of days but I have just now finally got around to it. Last week Tyler officially graduated from BYU on friday. Also that night we had a surprise party for him (even though he kinda new what was going on). Sunday was his birthday AND he starts his new job TOMORROW!!!! Wow, all i can say is the last 6 months have been insane, and now, everything is coming together. It was so nice to celebrate my wonderful husband. Also I have just figured out that my eyes are not as sharp as they used to be, ALL my pics that I have taken with my Nikon D40 are OUT OF FOCUS!!!! BOO
This one is Lucy in her new high chair I just put together. Also she doesnt like solid food. She hates rice cereal and she doesnt like any of the few flavors of baby food that we have tried either. Is this normal? Oh well, she also doesnt laugh either. She will squeal but thats about it. It makes me sad because I cant WAIT for that adorable belly laugh and she just wont do it. Her next check up is thursday, so I am excited to see her stats and make sure she is growing, and also hopefully get a cure for her eczema.

So I mentioned that Ty is starting a new job tomorrow. Here is where he is working:
(well this says Sandy, but he is in Provo)
Yes, he is selling cars! SSOOO if you happen to know anyone or you yourself could use a new or used Ford, Lincoln, or Mercury. Go on over and see Ty, he will hook you up with something sweet! And the best part, he wont push you around OR wheel and deal you. Well I must go, the chubs is getting hungry and its her bed time. Adios!

This just in...

Some awesome things I would like to share with the class:

1) I am sure you have ALL heard because I cant stop blabbing about it that Ty and I have been working on running a 5K this summer. WE DID IT!!! We in the King home are NOT runners well maybe we are sort of trying to be runners these days. In fact I would have died if I knew I had to run more than 1 block, and even then... But we have been training and we did it. I actually accomplished something. This is such a big deal to ME because I actually set a goal and I actually accomplished it. I always make goals, but I pretty much never accomplish any of them. Sad I know. But Ty and I and Lucy in her little stroller did this together!! Neither of us have ever ran that much or that long before. Here is what I have to say, PEOPLE YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS!!!We can do hard things. Even I, Jody King, can do hard things. So we did the Lavender 5K and let me just say that Young Living Farms is BEAUTIFUL!!! I fell in love with the place. I never knew it was so beautiful because you cant see most of the farm from the freeway only the awesome lavender fields. If you ever get a chance to go SEE IT!!!

2) Lucy just laughed for the FIRST time today!!! I have been waiting for this moment since she was born. I am super excited at this!! Not many things are more adorable than a baby laughing. I will catch this on camera one day and post it, just you wait. Another thing she did today is roll over from her tummy to her back! Here is a little video...

Ok... So i cant get the video uploaded. And... i ended up getting the drive stuck in the computer. Like REALLY stuck. Like an inch deep inside stuck. OOPS

3) I have been craving tootsie rolls lately and so I made homemade ones. Not so good. I was really bummed. They definitely aren't as good as the original.

4) I LOVE my Lucy-bear and my Ty-bum. I am so lucky

5) And this one I am grateful for but still trying not get get uptight about. Heres why. I am not down to my pre-preg size yet. Bummer :( Thats why I get a little frustrated. BUT the good news is I am down 7 lbs since starting the running thing. WAHOO!!! I just have to keep telling myself that I can do and I AM doing it. Just slowly, kind of like my running.... Who knew the few extra would be so stingy!!!

Summer lovin

Well all I cant believe it myself, but we have actually kept a real life human alive for a whopping 4 months!!! This may not be an achievement to most, but to us, its kind of a big deal. I mean your talking about a girl who cant keep a plant a live and killed it by putting christmas decorations on the tiny little leaves and who fed her brothers fish some candy for its dinner. And my lovely husband whos fish Sparky died after a day. ok, maybe we just arent fish people. But it is true that little Lucy has hit the 4 month mark back on June 18th. We are proud of our little butterball, maybe the kind of butter made with 1% milk because she is still pretty little, but a butterball none-the-less she is growing like a little weed. It turns out she is in the 50th %ile for height and weight, and yes an astounding 90th %ile for her head!!! She is just really smart i guess. Do keep in mind though, that these stats are for her adjusted age 2 & 1/2 months not for a typical 4 month old. So all in all she is growing, growing, growing! I was really worried that she wasnt even going to be on the charts but she is right on track! GOOD JOB LUCE!!!

Another two thumbs up would be to Ty and I because believe it or not, we have actually, for reals, not even joking, have worked our way up to jogging 2 3/4 miles nonstop!!! I know, i honestly cant believe it either. I never in my life have been able to do this, never. I was even pretty darn fit in high school and this would have kicked my trash in a second. I think it has to do with a LOT of prayer and telling myself that I can do hard things. I always tell myself "Jody, you have given birth and it was a heck of a lot harder and longer than this is going to be, and you are still alive, you can do this!!" We are scheduled to run our very first 5K on July 10 at the Lavender Fields. We are excited. Nervous, but excited well I am a least.

In other news, still no job yet for Tyler. Granted he does have a job right now, but thats only because he is taking a completely waste of our time and money class that he has already taken for a stinkin $600+books so he can not even make that much money in his total salary this summer notice how I am not at all pleased with this situation, just so he can keep a job until August. I feel like we are being taken, I dont think we are, but thats how I feel. Its just like sending your kid to daycare just so you can work and make money, but all your money goes to the daycare, so there really isnt a point in going to work and sending your kid to daycare. Does that make sense. Total catch 22!!! I cant handle it. There must be a better way. But there isnt!!! At least not to our earthly knowledge. Ty has had his resume out to at least 35 places since April and he has had a total of 2 job interviews, TWO!!!! Its not that he isnt qualified. Its not that he is applying for jobs that he isnt trained for, or shooting for the absolute perfect job. He isnt. He is just trying to find a job that makes more than minimum wage for crying out loud!!!! Gees he couldnt even get a job throwing peanuts at the Owls baseball stadium!!! I just dont get it. But we are trying to keep our spirits up mine are warring, im not the most patient. Its just really scary to know that he HAS to have a job by August or we will have to resort to selling our kidneys on the black market you think i am kidding?. Plus I dont think our insurance will cover that. Anyway, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us know of any job openings!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will be our hero.

I wish i had pics of Lucy to post. They are all on my phone and I have NO CLUE of how to get them transferred, our phones dont have sd cards in them. But maybe I will think of something. Until til then, have a wonderful week all!!

PICTURE OVERLOAD

Well here is a butt load of pictures that i have been waiting to post. most all of the pics are from when Lucy got her newborn's done (even though she was 2 months old at the time). Now we need to get her 3 month pics done! but i am pretty sure these are some of the CUTEST pics i have ever seen. our photographer is Alisha Siddoway in Logan and she is AMAZING!!! Her prices are incredible and she knows how to handle a camera. Lucy was kind of a pill through most of them and as you can see she still got amazing pics!!! I cant say enough about her!! Andthis is completely random but i just have to say, right now lucy has this swing she sits in and there are little birds that go in circles above her head and also has a mirror to look at. well for weeks she loves the little birds and watches them as the bobble and sway above her head, but today, today folks is a new day!! she has discovered the mirror!!! she has been staring at herself completely bamboozled for the past 10 minutes!!! oh i love it!!! i can just see those brain wheels a churnin. She is so stinkin cute, i cant handle it!!! Oh ya, and another way random thing, lucy is losing her hair:( there are little hairs all over her stuff and when i put lotion in her hair it gets all over me and her!! But she is still bea-utiful!!!

these first pics are from lucy's blessing on mothers day

these are the ones alisha did

So little time

Well, where do I even begin?! It has been almost two months since our last post. Well life is awesome. We will start there. Ty and I are still here in Provo, and will be until who knows when. You know what, we are perfectly ok with that. We didnt get in to any school's for Ty. And we are ok with that too. I am back to work, and for the most part, am ok with that (most days). Life is great. We still have no idea where we are going to end up, what Ty will be doing for a career/school, and where we will be 6 months down the road. But life is good. Honestly, we are so happy. Having Luce around is the best thing ever. Being miserable for 8 months was TOTALLY worth it, and I would do it again in a second (well maybe in a couple of years).

Right now I am back to work full time. Ty is working at the Library until August and in the mean time, is looking for a good job, so that maybe I could stay home more and take care of Lucy. He is going to change his major to Sports management and is looking for a job to give him some good experience in this. We are also thinking about the Air Force. The bottom line is, we are trying to figure out what the Lord wants us to do.

Luce is growing like a weed. Well to us she is. To everyone else she is teeny tiny. She is almost 11 weeks old and is 9 lbs. She is still in newborn clothes. But last week i could fit my thumb and middle finger around her thigh, and this week I cant!!! I was exciting about this since I would LOVE for her to chunk up a bit. But she is doing awesome! She is almost sleeping through the night and is cooing, and talking, smiling, and is so strong! She is like a little he-woman. She does have reflux and has to take medicine and she pukes ALL the time (not spit-up, she pukes, like her whole bottle at once sometimes). Man we love this little girl. In our prenatal class we took before we had her, the nurse drew a straight line and then the line dipped and then rose up and flat-lined again , but the line after the dip was higher than the other line (if this makes sense). She explained that before you have your baby, life is good, then for the first few weeks after you have them, stress, exhaustion, and whatever else makes life dip down. After you get used to everything life is better than it ever has been and you cant imagine it any better. That is SSOOOO true in our experience. Life is so good. It doesnt matter how poor we are, where we are going to be in 6 months, or what crazy things come our way. Its crazy how much happiness one little poopy, spitty, crying, beautiful, happy little girl can bring.

In the mean time... Awesome news!!! Ty and I have been married for 2 years!!! Yesterday (Sunday) was our anniversary. I cant tell you how amazing our two years together has been. Man I can tell you I have never been more in love. I have said this time and time again, Ty and I can stare at the wall and it would be SO fun. We love being together. We are obsessed with each other. I always wonder if people get sick of us being so lovey dovey all the time. Not that i care one i-ota if they do. One thing I love about us being married is that we are best friends. Honestly, there isn't one thing we dont talk about, we are never worried if we are dorks in front of each other (which is all the time), we laugh, cry, sometimes laugh until we cry. I am so glad we have eternity to hang out and just be together. Dont worry we have many pictures to catch you all up with, but I dont have them uploaded yet. But stay tuned!

What a week part 2

Wow, again, like we said before, WHAT A WEEK!!!! Last Wed our little Luc finally came home!!!! Holy cow were we excited! But what a rude awakening we had into parenthood! Every little noise she made i woke up to make sure she was ok, and boy is our little munchkin a chatterbox!! We surely didnt get any sleep that night out of worry/feedings/diaper changes. All I can say is it is a good thing we had a few days to "sorta" catch up because we are EXHAUSTED, and I am basically recovered. I cant imagine what it would be like taking her home in normal circumstances like usual parents do and still have to recover. I feel bad that I only get basically one thing done on my to-do list a day, I honestly didnt realize that I would be this busy with a newborn cause she just sleeps all day. I still dont get it. Besides making bottles, feeding, changing diapers, and squeezing in a cat nap I am not sure what else I do, but my day is over by the time I get all of this done. I just dont get it!

We went to the Dr today and Lucy is progressing fabulously. I was kind of worried because at the hospital the nurses and Dr's talked about "failure to thrive" and that is when a baby goes home they dont grow and dont do very well, hence, "failure to thrive". But she has gained 7 oz in 5 days and is a respectable 6 lbs!! I was pleasantly suprised. And supposedly she is 20 inches long, which i CANNOT believe since she was only born 17 inches. There is no way she can grow 3 inches in 2 1/2 weeks, right? This wednesday I am thinking I may tackle the chore of taking her pics. I may post some, if, and I mean IF one actually turns out. I am nervous.

Anyway, in other news. My family had the unfortunate event of losing yet another of member of our family. My nephew Wesley passed away last Tuesday. What a crazy day. Wesley and I are only one year apart and for the greater part of our childhood we spent them terrorizing my neighborhood. He was basically a brother rather than a nephew, so hearing the news had a great impact on me. But as that day/week went on I felt very comforted. I am very grateful that I have my beliefs and testimony of Christ, because I truly believe that is why I became so calm about the ordeal. In fact, its more than that, its more than truly believing. There arent words to explain, but the fact that I had my baby in the hospital and the many stresses incorporated in that, and the fact that I was/am still recovering from the hardest moment of my life and my hormones and emotions were RAGING really says how blessed I was that I didnt completely fall apart. Wow, how incredibly blessed am I. Once again, there are no words to explain. The funeral was Sat. I hate funerals. Especially non LDS funerals. But this one wasn't that bad, meaning it wasn't as doom and gloom as they usually are. I like the fact that I know I will be with my family and friends in the next life, and it makes me sad to know that people think that this is the end. I think that is the hardest part of funerals. But everything turned out ok, and I think Wesley would have been pleased.

But to end on a happy note. Lucy is SUPER cute and my husband is SUPER handsome. Its to bad we aren't filthy rich so that we wouldnt have to work and go to school and we could just be together all day everyday and maybe tour the world. Oh if only...