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 Last week I had the chance to photograph a darling couple in my ward. We went to the Provo Library and had a lot of fun! Here is to you Katie and Vitali!!!

Desperate times calls for desperate measures

Here's the deal. My child is a picky eater. No I take that back. She's not a picky eater, that is way too much credit, she is a like a non-eater, or maybe a food hater. Its not like she absolutely won't eat anything,  she will, but only like 5 things. Seriously I could name on one hand the food my child will eat.
-Bread
-pizza
-breakfast food (well any sweet breakfast food, no eggs or meat or anything like that)
-horrible foods like anything covered with sugar, or chips or crackers and stuff like that (which we rarely give her because we don't buy it)
-peanut butter, she is CRAZY about peanut butter
-sometimes quesadilla's or a grilled cheese

Thats it. No fruit, no veggies, no meat. I have researched and researched until i could research no more about picky eaters, and they are all the same. All the same advice. And i have tried it all. Multiple times. In fact, she has gone to bed hungry right now. She is SO stubborn that she could care less about going to bed hungry. And its not because she isn't hungry that she won't eat, she is, she just wants the above mentioned food, and nothing else. I REFUSE to be a restaurant and make a different thing for every person in our house. REFUSE. Thats not even an option in my house. So, time to cut to the chase.

The other day at the in-laws during dinner time I told everyone at the table "if you can get Lucy to eat 1 bite (of anything besides the above mentioned food) I would give you $100". Needless to say, my wallet is still full. I do not know what to do. I am at my wits end. I lose sleep over this. I have prayed more times about this than I pray for my food to "nourish and strengthen our bodies".  If anyone out there has any USEFUL info to get Lucy to eat, no joke, i will pay you $100. No if's, and's, or but's. I will come to your door with a $100 bill. You know what they say, "Desperate times calls for desperate measures".

Blah-ness

BLAH. Thats how I feel at the moment. Just when I thought I was home free, it hit me. Now I'm the sickie. Seriously what is it about winter time and getting sick. Its like an unspoken law of the universe that every winter, every person must get sick at least once, or the world will end. Luce is still sick but she is feeling MUCH better as her "spirited" little self is much more perky than before.

Speaking of... Today after work I got home and again, feeling blah, all I wanted to do was lay down, and Ty was tired too. Lucky for us, Lucy just woke up from her nap, so there went our dreams of having a dream, if only a brief one. So we piled into our bedroom and popped in Aladdin. See its somewhat genius on our end cause Lucy can't get off our bed, which means we don't have to chase her, and we can "relax" somewhat for the length of said Disney flick. Well she got restless so we put her down (rookie mistake on our end) and she went running off into her favorite place, our pantry (aka the lazy susan cupboard next to the oven). Both of us were too exhausted to go and get her as we hear rustlings going on in the kitchen. Next thing we know she comes sauntering in with no joke, a bowl of cereal. It was of course without milk in it, but still, a bowl of cereal. That Lucky Charms box was HUGE and just imagining her dumping the entire box onto the floor just to get a few marshmallows, made us shudder. So after the movie was over we put on a brave face and went to assess the damage. HA! To our surprise, Ty went in the kitchen, no mess there, no mess in the living room, or her room. Nothing but a few charms on a movie case. We were amazed. I think Ty even wiped a lone tear from his eye. Our little angel is all grown up!

Here are a few pictures that I have wanted to put up, to catch up from the past while. Visit to temple square, Christmas, first ever cake for a client, and some random funnies.

                                       Awe... one of the many joys of winter, endless static

She is SUCH a girl. She has been OBSESSED with this tutu (and fairy wings) since the day she got it from Grandma King. (Don't mind the wack-a-doodle hair)

Christmas catch-up

WOW. I honestly cannot believe that it is 2012. The month of December flew by faster than any month this year, and that is REALLY saying something! I swear it was just the other day we put our tree up. We had a crazy busy month, so many things going on all the time, i have been really bad at keeping up. But for the actual holiday we had a lot of fun. We went to G-town and celebrated with my sister and her family. It was fun to have little kids around for Christmas morning rather than just adults, and Lucy. We went to church and then went to my parents and met up with my other sister and her family there to have Christmas dinner. It was delish and fun to see everyone. The next day we had a little party to go to for miss Deja Butterfield as well as another Christmas party, again so much good food and fun. I made my very first fondant cake and surprisingly, it turned out better than expected and I didn't swear once during the process! A few years back the one thing that i REALLY wanted to accomplish was to one day be able to make a double layered cake, thats it, just a double layer, nothing special. And now a few years later I made a double layered, two tiered cake from scratch. See (I'm telling myself), I really can accomplish things, even if it takes a few years. I don't want to track down the cord for my phone to get pics off but I will do that shortly.
Then we went to Logan to celebrate with the King side. We were spoiled, of course, and celebrated "Christmas" for THREE days straight!!! Again, good food, good fun, and good family time. All the little girls (except lucy, until now) was sick the whole time we were there, but moral was high and so was the toddler energy. Now my poor baby is the most sick she has ever been, but at least she went down having fun.
Thanks to EVERYONE who made our Christmas a memorable one!

Being the new year, it is always infamous to make new goals and resolutions. I used to make a list of goals and then about Jan 7th they were all already down the drain. Since I have never made a resolution that I have kept, I haven't made any for the last few years. I think about them and kI think about ways that I can better myself or accomplish something, but I don't officially make a goal or write them down. I guess I feel like I am setting myself up for failure if I do. But I am SO excited to see what 2012 has in store for us. We have YET to have a calm and relaxed year. As my husband says, our lives seem to have something crazy, life changing even, going on. So Im excited to see what this year will bring us.

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!