1 Down 2 to GO!

Can you believe it, I am officially done with my first trimester.

6 weeks ago, this day seemed so far away. It is a wonderful feeling of accomplishment getting thru the first 3 months. After many hours being nauseated and sick it is good to see the light at the end of the tunnel...I hope! :) So far so good. I am just waiting for the big burst of energy everyone talks about.

From Baby Center:

The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.

6 months to go....

Love at First Sight

Today, I went for my very first ultrasound. It was a unique experience. I learned about ultrasounds in school and even got to see a few. There was something different this time, slightly! It was OUR baby. I could not believe it. It was the sweetest thing my eyes have ever seen as it sat up against the placenta like it was in a lounging chair. . .feet crossed at the ankles and all! Z was unable to go with me today because of his busy work schedule so Mom lucked out. She got to go right in there with me and she was so shocked! Everything checked out perfect thus far and we are awaiting the blood results to rule out genetic disorders.

I this baby keeps growing like he/she is now, its going to be a tall baby. Hopefully not 4 ft. like my dream!!

I have ultrasound pictures that I will post ASAP.

Team spirit and some good ole advice...

I have been given my very first baby presents! Both were extremely fitting.

Julie brought me a happy when she came in town last weekend. It was perfect! A Ole Miss burp cloth set and a passi clip. So cute and I am sure we will get tons of use in the Grove! Hotty Toddy!

Mary also sent me a book entitled The Sweet Potato Queens Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit. I must take you back several years. Mary and I went thru this phase of being really into the SPQ and even talked about planning a trip to the festival. For some reason, we never made it but we still have time. I have already read the first part of this book and laughed out loud. It is hysterical, just like the others!

Thanks for my baby Happies!

11 weeks and counting...

Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden.She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.

I go Friday for my first ultrasound. I will keep you updated!

Reblogging straight from Marbear

I got this from http://blwoutmyflipflop.blogspot.com/ .


Check it out and please don't be as blonde as me! It took me three tries.



okay friends...grab your calculators. yes really.and then set about working this out.then, be as dumbfounded as I was that someone took the time to figure this out.
1. Grab a calculator (You won't be able to do this one in your head)
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code-if your number is 01-123-4567, the 1st 3 digits are 123)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number (don't add the individual numbers together add 8841+8841)
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2

hmmmm. someone out there is MUCH MUCH MUCH smarter than me.shocker.

All you have ever wanted to know...

• I am 10 weeks due January 10, 2010
• I will have meet my deductible all over again 1o days into the new year!
• I am currently craving potatoes in any form, fruit, ice cream bars and lemonade
• For dinner Sunday night I really ate watermelon and potato salad..i know, gag me any other time!
• I quit drinking Dr. Peppers the day I found out I was pregnant- I know it is amazing
• I get sick right in time for dinner. Don't be surprised if I jump out of my seat and start running.
• I can sleep almost any day away.
• I don't get sick at work unless someone else does then I join right in
• I have not had an ultrasound. . .yet. . .2 more weeks! :)
• I don't care if we have a boy or a girl, just healthy!
• Zach is the best ever catering to my every want and need!

I will keep ya'll updated if you will keep Baby King in your prayers!

January 10, 2010

Maybe by the heading you have already caught on...Zach and I are expecting our first baby!

If you just found yourself gasping for air and asking yourself WHAT, then you are exactly where I was 5 weeks ago. We were a tad bit, okay, greatly shocked but we are so excited now. It has been a whole new world already.

I found out on a Friday when we had a house full of guest. Most of you are aware of Zach's desire to start a family so I knew there was NO WAY I could tell him the news. I had to work the rest of the weekend and I knew if I had told him he would tell our guest out of excitement. It worked out well because I could adjust to the fact that there was a baby inside of me and be really thrilled when I told him. I told him first thing Sunday Morning and he was so excited but a little shocked too.

I then headed to Memphis to celebrate Mothers Day with Lala and broke the news to her. Actually Allie Kate Nutt broke the news to her. If that doesn't make sense to you then go back to December post and learn a little! :) She was so excited and did a jumping number that was very funny! She said she already knew which she probably did because she kept saying, "Just tell me your pregnant, I already know". See she has this really weird thing where she can tell. Just ask the Popes! After spending the day with my Mom I kept saying, "Can you believe I am pregnant"? She simply replied, "yea I can"!

I rushed home to Oxford and we headed to Zach's parents to tell them. They were so shocked and very excited as well. They are really hoping for a girl since they have a hill loaded with boys!
Then over the next few weeks we began to tell people about Baby King. It is impossible to keep quite grandmas to be around!

I was so excited at the timing of all of this because one of my very best friends, Lisa was in town so I was able to tell her in person! All my other friends had to have the bomb dropped on the telephone!

I told my Dad's side of the family one night at Rhonda's house. We were all gathered around and I told them I had a game to play. Against all of their wishes, we played. I had written out the date on bibs and gave each person one and told them to spell the words out. They were not totally shocked by the bibs because my sweet Aunt Nancy had made a bib for Uncle Bill because he apparently can be messy. I introduced the game by saying, "I brought a little bib for everyone because I know ya'll are jealous of Uncle Bills". They all laughed and didn't think anything else about it.

This post is getting to be so long, tomorrow I will post the "All you ever wanted to know"!!!

Shoe box shoe box, I need more!

So just a friendly reminder to start saving those shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child this coming December. For those of you that missed out last go around, we collected a large amount of shoe boxes for the Samaritan's Purse mission and wrapped them all in the same paper, Old Santa Paper. We shipped them to over 40 kids in honor of my Dad. We would like to continue this yearly for those of you who want to participate. This year I am going to start collecting the boxes the middle of October. So get to buying shoes and saving the boxes! If you need me to store the boxes, let me know!

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/

Last Day with Muir Woods and Sonoma

We set out early this morning for a trip to Muir Woods and Sonoma. We decided to rent a car so we could go at our own pace/speed. We were perfectly set with breakfast in hand and the GPS set ready to roll. The trip was a lot easier than I ever expected. We drove about 30 minutes to Muir Woods. The only bad part of this trip as the windy roads up to Muir Woods. I was so car sick! We finally made it and took a little hike. These trees are amazing. I could not get over how big they are.

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We then headed to Sonoma to do a little wine tasting or smelling! :) Our first stop was at Imagery Winery. This is a sister winery to Benzinger and it was really neat. The neat thing is that they hire a new artist every year to create the wine label. It all has a Parthenon somewhere in the design. We enjoyed this stop and picked up a bottle of WOW OUI. Don't look for it locally because you can only purchase it at the winery. I think Zach might be more into the girl on the label than the taste! :)

After Imagery, we headed to Benzinger Family Winery for a good tour and tasting. This was so neat and very pretty. We had a tour of the grounds and got to learn a lot about bio dynamics in wine making. It is very intense and really makes you appreciate the price of a good wine. This bio dynamic mess is all about not using pesticides. Long story short, they make the ranch as close to natural as possible. Some man from Switzerland did a lot of studying to determine which plants to plant on the grounds to prevent the wrong pest and attract the right ones. So between every row of grapes is a row of random plants such as mustard. They say it really works! This Ranch also spent 4 million dollars to dig out a cave so they could store the barrels of wine in natural temps. It is so neat! If you ever go to Sonoma you must visit Benzinger!

As we headed back to San Francisco, our GPS broke. Its a good thing I paid attention because we did not have a map, we had a GPS!

We head back to the beloved SOUTH in the am. We are so ready!

Sausalito and the Street Cars

Sorry I am a day late. It was a long day yesterday and I was sick all last night!

We caught the ferry over to Sausalito yesterday morning and enjoyed the little unique town for a couple of hours. We enjoyed lunch at Horizons on the Bay. We both had crabcakes that were out of this world! Then naturally we had to stop at a chocolate shop and eat a huge piece of chocolate cake...yummy!

After that we decided to make the 2 mile walk to Fishermans Wharf where we caught the streetcar to Union Square. This is a must do before you leave San Fran and we did it. Zach was not thrilled about the hour wait but oh well. The funny thing is when we got on the car, I was totally prepared to stand on the inside of the car. The driver had different plans. He kept making me go outside and stand on the outside holding on. This is cool and all but I really didn't care. So needless to say he won. When I jumped on in the two open spots this girl got a major attitude. I almost had to throw down. She sat there and over heard the whole conversation with the attendant and how he was insisting on me standing on the outside. If I heard it once I heard it 20 times, "THIS IS MY WHOLE FAMILY WE WANT TO BE TOGETHER". (she apparently thought that the 6 of them could take up 12 peoples spots.) So in a very SOUTHERN,demanding tone, after explaining it to her 3 times, I said "MAAM, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. HE IS MAKING ME STAND HERE. I WOULD RATHER NOT STAND IN YOUR WAY BUT YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GET OVER IT." I kid you not, she pouted for a minute and said, this is my whole family. we want to be together. I replied, "GET OVER IT. ITS NOT HAPPENING." Her mother then replied, Kate, I ride this all the time it is okay. She stupid girls mom was from San Fran and she was still throwing a fit....ugh. I was highly irritated and Zach was slightly embarassed.
We jumped off the car and three obnoxious drunks jumped on in our spots. I bet she was begging for me to come back!

We ended the night with a quick trip to The Cheesecake Factory. It was tasty but I was sick so I barely ate. Dont worry all you CF fans, I got cheese cake to go. I dominated it a couple of hours later.

A relaxing day for catching up

We woke up this morning very tired and ready to have a low key day to recover. It all started with watching the Ole Miss baseball game on ESPN. Surely you did not think we would fly to California and forget about our Rebels!

Then we made the trek to Fisherman's Wharf and Ghiradelli Square. We had fun looking around the Wharf and enjoyed lunch at the famous Boudin Bakery. Zach was sure to get the ever popular Clam Chowder and I just stuck to the cute sourdough turtle and salad!

You can not leave without saying hi to the Sea Lions. They were really cutting up today and I caught some of it on film for you.


Next, we headed to the famous Ghiradelli Square where we enjoyed a Gold Rush sundae. What use to be a chocholate factory is now simply a chocolate shop and ice creamery. We did love our sweet treat!

After walking about 6 miles we headed back to the hotel to rest. Needless to say, my rest turned into the rest of the night and here we are. We enjoyed room service and a good nap.

We have big plans for tomorrow.

A little go cart and a big city

Yesterday, we set out on our Go Car tour. I tell you what, this was something else. I have researched these on the Internet (www.gocars.com) for almost a month now and I still was not prepared for what I experienced. First of all, it runs like a four wheeler. Secondly, it is like a mario cart. Thirdly, it is suppose to go only 30 mph. Don't worry ours only did that going down very steep hills. On the upside of those hills. . .not so good. We had to get out and push it. Yes, in the middle of very busy streets. It was slightly mortifying.

We had planned on getting the car for about 3 hours. It is GPS navigated and it tells you every move to make, or at least attempts to. Anyways, you have the option to pull over at several stops to see the views and take pictures. It really was a great way to see the town and if you are ever visiting somewhere that has go cars, you must do it. Zach and I laughed so hard a few times that the people on the streets were laughing. Like the time it would not make it up the hill and the construction workers pushed up! :)

Of course we also had to make a pit stop to see the Sea Lions. Call me uncultured or whatever but dang they are HUGE. I could not believe it. They stink, make crazy noise and attract tons of people.

Last night we went to Alcatraz. I have been looking forward to this for a while and I was not let down. It is so amazing being in there and hearing the stories. We did the audio tour which was navigated by actual inmates and officers. It was not scary like we had heard but I will say it was kinda eerie. I really can't go into detail and even do justice so I will just show you some pictures.

Now that I am typing our update I don't feel like we did a ton yesterday but boy we were Exhausted. Yes, with a capital E.

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Welcome to San Francisco

Three layovers later, Zach and I made it to the Minneapolis airport. Our connecting flight was to leave at 11:47 am and our delayed Memphis flight pulled into the gate at 11:40. Just as my luck would have it, our connecting flight left early. We missed our flight and they had our new information at the terminal when we got off. I was pretty upset because this cut out half of our day in San Francisco that I had already planned to utilize. Oh well at least we got on a flight before the 9 pm flight!

A few jumps, jolts and falls later we arrived at SFO. The weather is awesome. I am sure it will kick in and be cool in few days! I had already planned our transportation to the airport so all we had to do was grab our bags and go. As it always happens, everyone crowds around the baggage claim like a bunch of vultures. All eyes fixed on the non-moving machine just praying our bags would hurry up! That is when I was FURIOUS! The Delta attendant had a bag from his office that he started to sling onto the machine and I said, "Zach that looks like ours". The man kindly replied, "Mr and Mrs. King?". "um, yes", I said. Then he lets us have this news, "Your piece of luggage came with the 1:45 flight and I have been holding it for you. You have two more pieces on this flight". Then naturally, you can guess what I said, "You have GOT TO BE KIDDING Me"! So in a nutshell, our luggage made it on the original flight that OBVIOUSLY had not really left yet and they were just being mean and not letting us on! Ugh, airlines. . .at least we are here.

We checked into the hotel, which is very nice! I am proud of my planning. . . Thus far. As you can imagine we were a little travel weary and really wanted to eat something local, quick, and good. This is when the concierge man told us to go to Chinatown and eat at House of NanKing.

Alright someone in Oxford did tell me this place is really good but come on, Chinatown? I was a tad bit nervous but we headed out. Without a lot of food details, Zach already said it has ruined all Chinese for him. It was the best thing EVER! It was fresh, white meat, no MSG, and so unique. Nevermind, I am giving you the details. We had sesame chicken with sweet potatoes, fried rice- no egg please, and egg rolls! We ate every last bit because as Zach put it to me, we must take advantage of good food. The dining experience was an experience in itself. Picture this. . .a restaurant full of 6 place setting tables. We are a party of two. No fear they just set you at a table with other couples to make a party of six. Don't picture Shogun, we all ate separately. So your food might be the only at the table with everyone else glaring at it. It was fun though!

After a tasty dinner, we just wandered around in amazement. This town is so clean, so pretty and everyone is pretty friendly.

It is two hours behind here and we are up at them this am. I will keep you posted!

At last, time for vacation!

Zach and I are getting ready to catch a ride to San Francisco. This is our 1 year wedding anniversary gift to each other. I have got it all planned out and we are so ready to go!

Zach is busying getting his managers in line today and then will work in the office tomorrow. I on the other hand will run around, as I can, clean and pack and get ready for a long day at work Wednesday. As soon as BMHCC lets me free we will be heading to Memphis to spend the night with Mom and leave bright and early on Thursday.

This trip has been booked since December and we are so thrilled to finally be going. Here are a few places you might see our faces in the next few days!

Check out the weather while we are there.. pray for no more rain! http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USCA0987?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared

You might get a few updates along the way since it is near impossible for Zach to be without work email for a week. While he works, I will consider this blog to be my work! ;)