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!