We Three Kings

Our little roro

2011-11-12T18:55:00.000-08:00

here is our little roro. born June 26th, 7 pounds 4 ounces. hes almost 5 months old now and is in the 91 percentile for his height so hes a tall boy! hes the happiest cutest baby boy ever :)

Zoe Turns (TERRIBLE) 2!!!

2011-06-12T14:42:00.000-07:00

for zoes birthday we just had a little get together at our house and pulled out the slip n slide, made some yummy food and opened presents. it was a good day!!!

Almost there!!

2011-05-13T20:47:00.000-07:00

Im almost to my due date!! The doctor said this little guy is measuring weeks bigger than he should be so he's gonna be a big boy! cant wait to be done, i definately cant sleep anymore or go 20 minutes without having to pee lol so i definately feel ready.
Here is my 7 Month Picture :)

Here is my 8 Month Picture :) ...please ignore stretch marks.

Also a new addition to our family is this 2002 Silver Nissan Altima!!!! Finally i dont have to drop jake off at work and then an hour later take myself to work :) LOVE IT!!!

Just had to put this up, she's adorable.

This is at our new house, we hadnt moved any of our furniture in yet but she made her self comfy real fast haha

She also like to do her hair.....all by herself!

Dont know why these picture turned out so small but in this picture jake had just gotten his wisdom tooth and and she was kissing it better <3

And this explains itself lol

One of my besties just moved to texas :( she came by to say goodbye to everyone. Were gonna miss her!!

This was on easter! the bunny left her princess toys ;)

She had a ball finding the eggs, its been almost 3 weeks since this and she'll still find an egg in her room and run out and go "MOM I FOUND AN EEEGGGGG!!!!"

And this would be her being her goofy self at denny's...:)

Bike Ride...

2011-03-27T18:36:00.001-07:00

We went on a bike ride along the trail that follows the virgin river. It was so nice out, and it was actually kind of hot! I had to put sun screen on Zoe, but the weather just makes us excited for summer!! We had fun today :) Zoe with her kid sized water bottle (that she WOULD NOT let us take from her) and jake with his swollen cheek from getting his wisdom tooth pulled. Such cuties! She was trying to steer and tell Jake to "go!go!go!" We stopped on the bridge to look at the view Virgin River

LoViN tHe WeAtHeR!!!

2011-03-22T19:17:00.001-07:00

Were lovin the beautiful weather! We bought bikes and its zoe's new FAVORITE thing to do, she gets so excited. We took our bikes out to snow canyon park and rode along the trail and it was so gorgeous! I wont be able to ride for too much longer though cause my legs are already bumping my stomach, but heres a bunch of pictures of Zoe at the park, she likes going down the slide....and doing it by herself....and then some pictures of us on our bikes!! Cant wait for summer so we can hit the lake!

She's doin happy dance haha

Hangin on all by herself :)

haha by the time we got the self time on the phone to work zoe was not happy...

Our new home!! (Before pictures)

2011-03-20T14:03:00.000-07:00

This is it!! theres so much we want to do with the place and we'll post pictures as we renovate, were going to completely rip up and redo the front yard and were going to put up a new front porch railing and also paint those shutters!

This is one side of the backyard, we need to replace the fence on this side for Kodak and put in planters ...dont know what we want to plant though yet.

This is the downstairs two bedrooms and door to the laundry room (definately will be painting) :)

This is the stairs going up to the main floor, lovely green carpet. NOT! were going to replace the carpets on the stairs and in the basement.

More backyard......good patio area....

Downstairs main TV room! love it cause its nice and big!

Downstairs 1/2 bathroom

Basement window to the backyard, nice view i think...

upstairs master bathroom!!!! :D brand new jacuzzi tub!

stairs

upstairs kids bedrooms and bathroom....once again lol will be painting the walls!

another shot of the upstairs master bath

Living Room

Real stove in the living room, except the tiles look like there meant for a bathroom :/ thinkin about putting granit slabs there instead.

Kitchen!! and a nice little desk area, for bills and stuff, nice big pantry!

master bedroom!

Kitchen

Crayons!

2011-03-20T09:56:00.000-07:00

Zoe's new favorite thing to do is color!! We have been having to work on just coloring on PAPER but shes getting it and the crayons and paper keep her entertained for hours! She will draw a big scribble and yell FLOWER haha its so cute....thought i would post some pictures of her beautiful drawing (i did help her a little) haha

Valentines Day in VEGAS!

2011-03-19T21:45:00.000-07:00

It was a very fun and romantic valentines day, Jake sent these beautiful flowers right to my desk at work :) so pretty. and then right after work we headed to vegas! We stayed in the Luxor Hotel, some of the picture didnt upload very well and shrunk but you get the idea. We went to the shark reef at the mandolay bay, we got our picture painted and she made us way hotter than we really are ;) we went to the bodies exhibit (not very romantic i know) and it was so cool!! and then we went to CHRIS ANGLES SHOW BELIEVE!! no cameras were aloud in sadly but it was awesome, we got good seats and saw some freakin ridiculous stuff.....It was a happy heart weekend!

Karsons Birthday/Superbowl!

2011-03-19T21:31:00.000-07:00

This first picture wasnt taken on superbowl day BUT i had to put it on because look at how handsome my brother is!!! LOVE HIM! but his birthday happened to be the day after the superbowl so we all got together and celebrated, ate alot of food, bet on which team was gonna win and of course me and jake won :) haha i dont have a picture yet but i made Karson a steelers tie blanket for his b-day, it turned out really cool. Here's some pics!!

Roran Jacob King

2011-03-19T21:24:00.000-07:00

We found out in September that we are expecting our second baby! We found out that its a boy and were going to name him Roran Jacob....Jake got the name from his books he reads called Eregon. It took me a little bit to get used to but we love it and we cant wait to meet him!!

Hallows Eve!

2011-03-19T21:18:00.000-07:00

Our little fairy princess!!! Halloween 2010!

Our little Zoe is growin up!! :(

2010-10-29T19:00:00.001-07:00

Zoe is almost a year and a half!! where did the time go?? She's drinking out of a cup on her own, eating on her own.....doing pretty much everything on her own or else she tell you "no!no!go!go!" She can kiiiinda count to three, she lets us know when she wants us to change her diaper and she loves getting her hair done. and i love it too!! Halloween is tomorrow and i got the cutest costume for her, so pics will be coming soon :) enjoy the pics!

Zoe's First Ice Cream Cone....what a frickin mess.

Absolutely Beautiful.

The seven of us girl finally had a get together for the first time in over 5 years :) Jane, Heather, Rikki, Me, Alex, Shayla and Tiah!

She was so tired! She just layed down and feel asleep on the living room floor haha

Zoe and Janells son Jackson. They play so well together.

aaawww! Kodak moment :)

Her hair is getting so long!

Jake said "i've always wanted to put a diaper on your head" haha and she didnt like it so well.

Stud-a-rella!!!!

Summer 2010

2010-09-27T12:20:00.000-07:00

This summer went by so fast!! Alot happened and it all made our little family as strong as ever!
"Someday your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."

kwBALE Photography!

2010-06-23T08:35:00.000-07:00

So we finally had Zoe's 1 year pictures taken. We were lucky to have Wendy Bale do her pictures. She did such a good job and it was way fun! We had a hard time getting zoe to smile, all she kept doing was her "uh-oh" face. but we got alot of good pictures! If your looking for someone to do your family pics or for a wedding or big event, this is the lady you want! She is awesome!

Here are the final edited pictures of my little girl. :)

Everyone has been asking....

2010-06-22T15:41:00.000-07:00

So everyone has been asking...what is going on with me and Jacob. Things got a little rough for a while and we split up but we needed it and we are now working things out and are back together! I'm so happy he's back home and so is Zoe. We are soon going to be having our wedding/reception that we never got to have.....kind of renewing our vows! We are so excited!

And I know i havnt updated this in so long, so here goes alot of pictures and videos!

This was the day of Zoe's 1st birthday! (I'll put up pictures from her party soon) We had my parents come over to our place to celebrate with us and have dinner and Zoe got to pig out on her very own little cake! She loved it!

This would be Zoe trying to be like dad, wearing her baby towel around her waist :)

A couple weekends ago we went to Kolob lake and camped overnight. We took canoes and it was so much fun!! Next time we'll take Zoe with us and she will absolutely love it!

We went swimming at our place and i just had to take a picture! hahaha

i was trying to put sunscreen on her scalp but all it really did was give her crazy hair!

Jakes new hobby is skim boarding, thanks to his friend steele. so we've been goin down to the river alot lately. I havnt tried it yet cause I'm scared but i'll get there haha jake is also in the middle of making his own board, so i cant wait to see how it turns out!

And this would be Zoe pushing the cart at walmart....she was getting very upset sitting IN the cart so we let her out and this is what she wanted to do :)

We took Zoe to the splash pad! and were not really sure if she liked it..... she never really smiled and we think it kinda scared her because anytime one of the fountains would spray her, she would freak out and cry lol so we might wait a while before we take her back there..

Girls night!! me and kailee went and spent the night at rikkis! we had a blast! we played Jenga, laughed all night long, watch old dogs and had a heck of a time trying to get the play pin for Zoe put together hahahaha

B-E-A-UTIFUL!!!

She likes to stick her tongue out

She was trying grandpas shoes on! They were a little too big

Pool party at brooke and trevors! fun night!

We took Zoe to the little pond by our home...it was so pretty!

My tired little princess....

Daddy's little girl....just like him!

Our little girl actually enjoying swimming at sandhollow aquatic center!!!

And then I would like to end this post with a video of zoe in the bath being so goofy!

Zoes First Easter

2010-04-15T18:08:00.001-07:00

Zoe loved all the candy! but she didnt quite get the concept of putting the eggs in the basket and then leaving them there haha but it was a fun day! heres some pics!

And also we painted Zoe's nails for the first time! but i had to wait till she was sleeping haha

Exciting Stuff!!

2010-03-17T09:29:00.000-07:00

So! Chirricks Black Belt Academy is gonna send our leadership team to World Championships in Little Rock Arkansas to represent St. George Utah. We'll be the only people from Utah there! It's gonna be huge! Anywhere from 6 to 9 thousand people there from all over the world! I've have been wanting to go to Worlds since I was a white belt at age 8! So were actually doing it and were gonna need help to raise the money to send everyone. It's waaay expensive. One thing were doing is a board break-athon in two weeks! Our goal is to break 1,500 boards in 2 hours. and we want to get anyone to sponser us per board. Whether its a penny, nickel or dime a board. Or even just a flat rate of 5 bucks. Anything will help! Anyone can help or participate! Let me know if you wanna be a part of it! So on top of working out every day and training for that, our cute little family has moved! I hate moving! all the boxes, the mess, not knowing where to put things.....BLEH! but we like it. Also spring break was fun, we didnt do anything special cause we were both to busy to go anywhere but i love the new weather that comes with it! Makes me want to go to the park just talkin about it. Also Zoe is as cute as ever. of course! Here are some new pictures :)

Practice Photoshoot

2010-03-03T11:29:00.000-08:00

A little update on Zoe! In less than three months she will be 1 years old! Its so crazy how fast this year went by. She's crawling, pulling herself up on everything, cruising along furniture, saying mama and dada, eating solid foods, she can wave bye bye and clap, she can shake her head no and click her tongue. Her doctor said she's short and fat for her age haha but she's doing more things than she should be doing at her age. Im getting her pictures taken by a friend named Wendy. Her business is called kwBale Photography and her blog is kwbale.blogspot.com Check her out, her pictures are way cute! So a lady in our ward has a TON of land out in Anasazi Valley and we just put together a ward garden. Jake has been going out there alot to help and me and Zoe decided to tag along yesterday. There was alot of cool places to do pictures so I did a practice photoshoot to see how she's gonna do and she took good pictures but I could NOT get her to smile! haha but i thought they turned out cute so I posted them. :)
Zoe Rose

In Loving Memory......

2010-01-29T10:29:00.001-08:00

Lori Lee Ward Mickelson, age 49, passed away January 10th 2010. Things were rough for her and loved ones at the end of her life but she left behind a couple generations of amazing kids, grandkids, memories and she is very much missed by everyone who knew her.

Lori was born January 2nd 1961 to Don and Gale Ward in Kingman Arizona. She had three brothers named Donny, David and Steven. She was an amazing artist and had some of the most beautiful paintings. She loved to show them off and talk about them. She also was an amazing sales lady! This woman could sell ice to an eskimo. (Thankfully Jake got this trait of hers, cause thats whats paying the bills) She started her own Tamale business and was very successful. She got to travel all over and make great friends and meet amazing people and was given different awards throughout her career. Another thing that made her unique was her athletic abilities. She would excersice by riding her bike endless miles through cliffs and hills. She would jog miles and miles up the mountain to there home in Pintura. She would lift weights and was very in shape and toned throughout her whole adulthood.
(Sorry about quality of the pictures, alot of these were hard to get and hard to transfer to the computer)

The most important thing about Lori was her family. She has 6 kids of her own and 4 grandchilren and that number is only going to get bigger. She nursed everyone of her kids till they could say "no!" and she loved her kids with everything she had. Up until her last day, thats all she could talk about. She constantly said how much she loved them, how she was so proud of all of them, and how lucky she felt to be there mother.

(Jacob)

(Ashley and Jacob)

(Somer and Ashley)

(Aubree and Jon)

(Jon on Mommy's Lap)

(Jacob with Lori's Mom Gale and husband Normon)

(Somer and Ashley)

She also loved her husband Jody.

(Tying the knot)

~All The People Alive Because of Lori~

Somer was Lori's first child born on September 19th 1984. At the time Lori was married to Barry King. He is the father of Lori's first two children. Somer is now a stunning young lady, age 25. She lives in Las Vegas Nevada. She has two kids, Javion and Hannah. She is just like her mom and works out like crazy! She loves horseback riding and shopping and is currently with a GREAT guy named Vince! :D

Ashley was born September 4th 1987 to Lori and Barry King. Down the road a little the two got a divorce and eventually came to St. George Utah and she met Jody Mickelson. Ashley is now 22 years old and lives with her gorgeous little family in Abaline Texas. Her husband is in the airforce and they have a 1 year old son name Tank Ryan. Ashleys got her moms sense of humor (for sure!) and her natural beauty. She doesnt even need to put makeup on and she looks great. She likes spending time with her family, starbucks and shopping.

(Ashley holding Jacob)

Jacob Conan Mickelson (King)(Long story) was born January 18th 1991 to Jody and Lori. Everyone said he was a happy little baby and always smiling. Jake is now 19 years old. Him and his family live in St. George Utah. Him and his wife have 1 daughter named Zoe Rose King. Using the amazing talents he got from his mom he retails for Dishnetwork, Directv, Verizon, Sprint etc. He's one of the top salesman in the company. Jake loves video games, watching movies, spending time with his family, food and the great outdoors.

Aubree Mickelson was born on February 15th 1995. This girl is an animal lover. She can tell you anything about any animal! She watches discovery channel and animal planet for fun and is always looking up stuff online to find out more about them. She's raised Great Dane's, German Sheperds, Ferrits, Horses and other breeds of dogs here and there. She's also got her moms long, skinny figure and will soon be 16! In one year boys! Aubree also loves excercising, hiking, listening to music, hanging with her friends and outsmarting her little brother.

Jon Luc Mickelson was born November 3rd 1998. At age three Jon was hit by a jeep. His head and body was run over. He was life lighted to another city where he was in critical condition for three months. The doctors said he wouldn't even make the flight down to Vegas and kept saying it as months passed. Lori was at the hospital by his side the entire time and luckily Abby was a baby at the time cause the only way Jon would eat anything was to be nursed. They finally transferred him back to St. George where he had to learn to walk again going from wheelchair to walker. But obviously he pulled through and he's the loudest one of them now! He's also the shortest :) Jon is now 11 and is a ripped little kid. He can do sit ups and pull ups all day long. He wants to be a UFC fighter someday and he enjoys video games, snowboarding, basketball, football and wrestling.

Jade Abigail Mickelson (Abby) was born on January 25th 2002. She's the baby of the family and is now 8 years old. She was just baptized a member of the church a couple weeks ago and is the cutest girl ever! This girl ha got her mothers artistic talent, she can draw amazingly good pictures for her age. You give her blank paper and crayons and she's occupied all day long. She's always drawing us pictures and showing us cool new things she can draw. She's also got a good size attitude just like her mom, so dont make her mad. She loves being with her family, coloring, watching t.v and movies, playing board games, animals and just about anything with sugar in it.

Javion Disney was born October 13th 2001 to Somer and Brandon. He's now 8 years old and has definately got his own unique personality. This kid can dance! You get the right tunes goin and he'll get out and break dance and show everyone else up. He's also smooth with the ladies ;) and always has something smart or funny to say. You cant help but smile around this kid. He likes to skateboard, ride scooters, ride bikes, swimming, watching movies, and like the rest of his family....foood!

Hannah Disney was born on July 29th 2004. Right now she is 5 years old and i swear this girl will be a model. Just like her mom and grandma, she has a long skinny figure and the cutest face! This girl also love clothes, she likes to mix and match outfits and look cute. She's got a sweet personality and likes to watch out for her brother (when there not fighting). Everyone who meets Hannah loves her to death! She loves to swim, dance, watch t.v and doing anything outdoors.

Tank Ryan was born December 11th 2008 to Ashley and JD. He's a little over a year old now and is going to be a heart breaker someday. He's a mommy's boy and Lori couldnt wait for him to be born. She loved him so much and I'm positive she's looking after him.

Zoe Rose was born May 18th 2009 to Jacob and Kelsi. She's currently 9 months old and a big time drama queen! Zoe got Lori's beautiful eyes and for the short time she got to spend with her, Lori taught Jake a trick to getting her to sleep by stroking her forehead lightly and it works everytime. Same as for Tank,Hannah, and Javion, Lori loved her grandkids and she's watching over all of them.

~Funeral~

Night before, Kids were playing with zoe and tank.

Inside of the casket. Good family friend Cathy painted this....

Everyone together.....

Getting the casket ready night before

Cathy also painted this on the outside......exact stuff Lori loved to paint

The Whole Family

All her Kids....

Everyone put there handprint on the casket and signed it....

Funeral Service...

Last glimpse of Lori.....

Where she wanted to be buried, at her home in the mountains. Pintura

Lori.....you are so missed

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-08T13:40:00.001-08:00

I would first like to say how much I LOVE the holidays and being with the family and I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Here's a little update on what we've been up too!
For thanksgiving we went down to our beloved STG! It was warm and sunny and familiar and we loved it! We had a hard time coming back but while we were down there we had our own little photo shoot, which was very needed with the recent events. So this will be our first family photo in about 7-8 years! It wasnt everyone but we had me, Jake, and Zoe and then my family and the only family left on my dads immediate side. My aunt Randi, Cousin Lexi, and Cousin Lily. (and look how color coordinated we are!)

The blooper picture, haha no one was ready.

First picture of my gorgeous parents since they got re-married :)

Me and my Jakey!

We never had engagement photos, so i tried to make some

Our precious Zoe Rose! We couldnt get her to smile though cause the grass was cold and she did not like it

Kelsi.Kailee.Karson

Sisters and Friends Forever!

Our little family. Except the sun was so bright and right in our eyes! We all looked retarted trying to smile and open our eyes!

The Loui family, with of course my newer additions.

After our photoshoot we went to my Aunt Lynns for Thanksgiving! It was so awesome to see everyone and of course....we had to play on the tramp!

We were trying to look like the end of High School Musical 3

Updates on Zoe! She can now crawl!! She doesnt do it all the time yet cause she gets lazy but she can also go from laying on her stomach to sitting all by herself! I'll have to get it on video but we have also added Gerber 1st foods into her diet and she loves it! Right when we get her into her high chair she starts opening her mouth haha AND the biggest, bestest news of all! she is sleeping through the night, the whole night, in her own room, in her own crib, and she doesnt cry when we put her down anymore.......I absolutely love it! and we love her!!

She has a foot fedish......?? She loves to suck on her toes!?

After a feeding of sweet potatoes.

No matter how hard I try to keep her clean, I always fail....

But its cute so whatever.

She was really whiney one night and we were trying to get stuff done, so jake decided to give her his vibrating toothbrush and its her new favorite toy haha

She gets excited when we put her in her highchair!

Shes big enough now that we put her in the front seat of the shopping cart and we were debating over some food to get and we turn around and she was out! haha SO FUNNY!

My happy little angel :)

And its so freaking cold up here that this happens every morning........

I miss the heat under my bare feet on the side walk and the sun warming my face and just everything about St. George. I'm going through withdrawels.........aaahh!

Look at all the snow!

But there has been a good thing living up here! We made friends with some awesome people! I tend there cute little 18 month old daughter Kaija during the week, and Kari and Ty (her parents) are way fun to hang out with and are like our only friends up here! There so awesome that for my and jakes 1st year anniversary we went and saw New Moon with them! haha lots of fun! Heres a picture i took of Kaija, :D what a cutie!

Haha

Also we got a little kitty!! This little guys name is Toby......dont ask me why. Jake had an epiphany i guess. But it took him a couple days to get over kodak but now he thinks he's a dog too and follows Kodak everywhere. and us. yay.

And Zoe thinks his cat food is yummy......... :/

And this would be Kodak, being jealous of Zoe, and trying to lay under her high chair while we were feeding her lol poor little guy

And this would be Zoe playing under her walker, I dont know what the fascination is but everytime we put her down. She crawls straight into it

Zoe in a little Christmas outfit, at the neighbors house!

And then there is Zoe's obsession with drinks. She knows what they are and when we have a drink with a straw in it, she will cry until we let her hold it! We usually have to replace it with water cause we learned our lesson of how much sugar is in soda, and how late it makes them stay up :)

Hope you enjoyed! Cant wait to see the family again for christmas and we wish everyone Happy Holidays!!!

Life in Pocatello...

2009-11-09T15:29:00.000-08:00

Well Pocatello definately is not like our STG! Its so cold up here! We are having fun though :) we live in a great ward and have awesome neighbors! Jakes job is going good, he likes working at he office alot better than door to door sales. Zoe is mobile! we have to make sure things are picked up and the floor is always vacuumed. She's not crawling but she scoots and she scoots fast! She is now to the point where we have to entertain her with toys so here comes the shopping. We got into a really nice place, very spacious, with three bedrooms and a garage! Were coming down for thanksgiving and cant wait to get to the better weather and see everyone! and here are some pictures of recent events! :D
Jake had to get his wisdom tooth pulled, 1 for now, the rest later. He was in so much pain! i felt so bad for him but thankfully he had vicadins haha here are some funny pictures from the dentist and of his monster tooth!

Then there was HALLOWEEN! this was seriously jakes first time carving pumpkins.

.....and he was afraid of the pumpkin goop hahaha

....so afraid that he wouldnt touch it! such a baby!

...and he didnt know you could cook the seeds either. but he liked em :)

Here is our pumpkins!!

Halloween night, Zoe was a Pea in a Pod! She didnt really get what was going on but we got candy out of it!

Here are some pictures of our place, its bare cause all of our stuff is still in storage but it works!

And to finish it off, some updated pictures of our 6 month old gorgeous daughter!!

Moving Forward

2009-10-13T11:20:00.000-07:00

First i just wanted to say how grateful I am for my husband. A friend told me that we need to honor our husbands because when the kids grow up and move out, he's still going to be there and be one of the most important people in your life. I really took that to heart and thinking back on our relationship, me and him have been through alot of hardships and have faced tough adversary. Sometimes people you trust or love will do you wrong, but Jake told me its all part of being on earth and the life test. Those people will have to face what they have done but we get judged on how we react and grow from the experience. It seems lately that the adversary has been targeting our family hard, just stuff after stuff. But i've also noticed that with each thing that we deal with, me and Jake become closer and we grow as a couple. Me and him are in it for the long haul, and its a journey that we've just begun and i cant wait for the rest. Among other things my parents got back together!! After being divorced and apart for the summer i think they both realized how much they needed each other and how stupid they were being! But there together again and very happy. After coming back from the fair, jake started building up a crew and we ran our own team down in st. george and we got so close to getting into a house and literally like the day before we were gonna put the money down he got a promotion and new opportunity.....in Pocatello Idaho.....the last place on earth i would have ever wanted to live but we prayed about it and decided to do it! Jake got to hang out with his friends steele and cord while i hung out with my girls the night before we left. It was alot of fun and we decided were coming back for like every holiday! So were up here now and we just found the cutest house, were moving in today when jake gets off work! Its in a new, nice, mormon area and right by all the shopping areas! I feel me and jake have been blessed and we love our Heavenly Father and all of our family and friends for all the support and help they have given us! Zoe is a couple days away from being 5 months old and she is as cute as ever! she's almost mobile too which is making me nervous! she can roll over and scoot and squirm so not very much longer and she'll be crawling all over! but i've got tons of pictures of Zoe and swimming with the family and me and my friends so enjoy the pictures!!

California State Fair!

2009-08-31T10:18:00.000-07:00

So after a long 14 hour drive to Sacramento we got to our hotel and slept!! Then it was off to the fair, which became a very hot and tiring issue. They had us working from 10 in the morning when the fair opens to 10 and night when the fair closed, and it was over 95 degrees all day long every day! and we were in the the trailer so it was like an oven, i kept zoe in front of the fan all day so she got to stay cool. lucky her. and then me and jake teamed up and kicked everyones butts! we came a couple days later then everyone else and by the end of the week jake had more sales than the top rep there who had been selling for seven years! He's awesome! This first picture is of Zoe of course, she had ahold of a dishnetwork pen! everyone that came into the trailer apsolutely loved her! :D my little cutie!

Right out side of our trailer there was this really pretty lake with fountains and stuff....very pretty...

This is the Dishnetwork Trailer!! ow OW!

haha and this would be jake being himself

Zoe was awesome through the whole thing, she just slept and chilled....

At the end of each day they would set off firework, not a great picture but you get the idea

One of the days i was walking back from the other Dish booth and these Jamaicans were performing the limbo and this guy was AMAZING! they kept lowering the bar till it was like a foot off the ground and he went under it!!!!!

This picture is out of order, it should have been the first picture but i got lazy. anyways on our way to California we passed this area with thousands of little windmills! and jake for some reason thought it was so cool....so im posting this picture for him.

Me and Zoe decided to go on the monorail (benefit of working at the fair, you get free ride tickets!) She loved it! There was so much to see that her head was going back and forth and her eyes were all wide! so cute!

The trailer from the monorail

Jake in the red shirt trying to sell some old lady! hah

Me and my zozo

On my way to the bathroom i saw these two girls doing a dance with fire sticks, and they were flipping in front of there faces and stuff, it was crazy!

lol She had an accident....

This would be anthony trying to be a studd attaching dishnetwork key rings to his ears....

This would be the band TONIC! we got V.I.P passes to the dinner and concert buffet two nights in a row.....it was sweet

I thought this was pretty, it was outside the concert area,...

Jake TRYING to look like a retard

HAHAHA! Jake caught his pants on the chair somehow!? and ripped his pants lol

hilarious

My baby girl

Back at the hotel, jake put her in the suit case and she thought it was so cool

Just more pictures of my baby :)

Terry gave her this bouncer and she loves it! it has bubbles that come up and it plays music and vibrates and flashes colors, it kept her entertained for hours

She can lift her head up so high now! first time i saw it and had to take a picture!

Precious.

She was very tired after the long days.

lol and jake balancing her on his hand while we were packing up!

So our trip ended early cause after the owner of the company left, he left this retard to manage things and i have never met a more rude person than this man. he was like bi-polar, negative, retarded and we decided we had enough of it and wanted to come home! So now were back home and will probably be here for good till next summer!

A Short Break

2009-08-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

Well our Summer in Colorado Springs got cut short because Jakes boss wanted him to go to the state and county fairs in California. To get a booth in the fairs is ALOT of money and they trust Jake to make them money so Jake was pretty happy about that. He had a great summer, top sales rep for the whole company and he made lots of money :) After we packed up the U-Haul we stopped by I-hop to eat and Jake thought it would be funny to give Zoe some Lemon Juice and she had the funniest faces! haha

After that Charles, Paul, Taft and A.J came over to help us with the rest of our stuff and me and charles were playing with our new cameras. mine was better of course.

And in the middle of all the mess and chaos jake left me a beautiful surprise just to let me know he loves me :)

And while i was packing my clothes, i had two piles of clothes on the bed and i put Zoe in the middle of them and came back a couple minutes later and she had herself tangled in the bra! she had it wrapped around her arm and head and it was so funny!

Finally we got on the road and it was a LONG 12 hour ride home.....but we finally got home to our family. My mom was ECSTATIC to see us and held Zoe as much as she could

Jake crashed pretty soon from the long drive.....

Kailee got her hair dyed and is now a hot chick at Pine View Middle

Zoe was happy right along with us when we went to the Stephen Wade Nissan dealership to get our new truck! No one ever told us how much of a LONG and TIRING process it is to get a new vehicle...

Jake was so hyper while we were waiting and the inside of the dealership was soooooo nice! i had to take a picture AND we got to actually meet THE Stephen Wade! nice guy haha

DUM DUM DUUUUUM!!! 2005 Nissan Titan, and its ours!! such a sexy truck!

After that we went to my dads house to show him the truck and so he could see Zoe, he missed her so much too

After that we were driving back to my moms and my best friend Danielle called me cause she heard i was in town and wanted to know if i wanted to go trash Julie's car for her birthday! so jake dropped me off with them and we filled her car with 75 balloons and wrapped and covered it in ribbons, toilet paper and streamers and car shalked it and it was so much fun! We got a picture of all of us in front of the car after it was done, but i dont have it yet, so here is her vehicle while we were still working on it and the best picture i could get of julie on her birthday!! hahaha

And just a cute picture of my girl....

The next day we went into Hurricane to see Jakes friends and we were hangin out at matts house and Terry gave Zoe this bouncer and Tyler just couldnt stay out of it lol he was sad she was giving it away. i thought it was cute but after that we all went to the lake and the boys of went cliff diving, in one of the pictures Andy did an arial in the air

Then we had our reunion with our puppy Kodak!! he was so excited to see us!! im sad we cant take him with us to california but soon we'll have a house for him :) but we stayed the night in Pintura with his family and had dinner. It was nice :)

Before we headed off to California we headed to Cedar so my grandparents could See us before we left and once again Zoe was the center of attention.

Then we stopped by to see Randi and Lily while they were working and Lily wanted to pose for the camera

Then we got to Vegas and Aubrey came with us so that we could drop her off with her sister sommer and she also needed jake to fix her car, which he spent all night on BUT finally got it working. In the meantime me and Aubrey got to hang out in there 2 million dollar home! it was huge! and sooooo nice, we also went swimming and took pictures of Aubrey trying to model haha

So we spent the night with these guys and then packed up our stuff and hit the road!! OFF TO CALI!!

This Week in Pictures....

2009-08-11T13:53:00.000-07:00

Well we decided to give Zoe just a little bit of baby food. Were not taking her off milk or starting her on solids, we just wanted to see how she liked it. We gave her apple sauce. :) Here's the video..

Also we went bowling with mitchie, albert and his wife Glenda. They also have a baby girl who is like one week younger than Zoe, her name is Annalise. She's so cute! but basically me and Glenda wooped the boys butts! all of there scores combined didnt reach ours! It was so much fun, good music, cool lights, soda pop and nachos. and ....Zoe slept the whole time :) haha

Jake bowling a strike

Glenda Bowling a Strike

Mitchie Bowling a Spare (which he didnt make)

He was praying to bless the nachos and drinks

Albert and his daughter! so cute!

And this i just wanted to add cause Zoe has become a TV junkie, one of the ways to calm her down, get her in sight of the tv! lol her and jake spend quality time here :)

Water World

2009-08-06T10:37:00.001-07:00

For Jakes monthly work meeting with all the managers and all the sales reps from Colorado. They decided to take us to Water World! Jake got recognized as top sales rep for the month out of everyone and recieved 350 dollars as a prize!! He worked hard for it and is going for top rep this month too. So water world was wayyy fun! Logan and Michie helped watch Zoe so me and jake could go on some rides too. We went on a tube ride, and the lazy river and jake and albert went on the ride that shoots you down a tube and then just dropes out into a pool of water. Then me and jake went on a really steep slide, talk about major wedgie! we also went in the swimming pool wich turns on the waves every ten minutes and it was SO intense lol (i had to rescue jake from drowning) and we also stood under the bucket that dumps water and got soaked! Here are the pictures!

After waterworld we were feeling it!! me and jake got SOOOOO sunburned :(((((

And after we showered and put on a ton of aloe vera we all got dressed and went to dinner. Jake wanted to dress Zoe up and he had fun with it!! haha

We LOVE WATER WORLD!!

Our Weekend!

2009-08-06T09:31:00.000-07:00

Well this last weekend was pretty eventfull! On Saturday Jake went to work as usual and he got a phone call from his dad while he was out on the doors. His dad had just found out that there long time family friend, who was like another dad to jake, passed away from a massive heart attack. Chuck was young too, in his 50's and jake was really upset. He came home early and we just hung out trying to get his mind off it. On Sunday we went to church expecting to start our temple prep classes and the guy wasnt prepared at all cause he just got back from a vacation or something so were "supposed" to be starting the class this coming sunday! were really excited! Also this weekend me, jake and Zoe went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! It was kind of expensive for such a small Zoo (i'm comparing it to the only other Zoo ive been too, San Diego Zoo in California) but it was still cool! and it rained on us like the whole time! but there was enough trees and tents and stuff that we didnt get soaked. i cant wait till Zoe can be old enough to understand where we are and have fun! got a long way to go! but one of the coolest things we got to see was the grizzly bears! we got an upclose video of the bears swimming right on the other side of the glass, it was so cool! Here is the video of the grizzlies!

Also we got to feed the giraffes and i have never seen such crazy tongues! they were long and squirmy and slimy AND they used there tongues to pick there noses! anyways we got to ride a ski lift thing up to the top of the zoo and back down and we got to see so many animals. We got a picture of a hippo and a hippo skull (i think the hippo is one of the ugliest animals i've ever seen) but we also saw a mommy orangutang or something reading a newspaper to its baby, if you look closely you can see the baby laying in its lap. But some people seemed to enjoy looking at Zoe more than the animals. People were stopping us to gawk and take pictures and saw "aaaawwww" and two people asked to hold her......it got VERY old. but she did good and seemed to be happy! So here are the pictures from our trip to the Zoo... This Zoe before we went, we were getting her sunscreen on haha

New Beginnings

2009-08-02T07:33:00.000-07:00

Zoe is growing up so fast! Half of me is so excited for the new things coming like crawling and stuff like that and the other half of me feels like she was just born yesterday and i want her to stay little and precious for ever. (Because my mom says they dont stay that way for long!) But she is almost already out of size 1 diapers and she just got into them!! Also, i can officially say that Zoe is sleeping through the night!! wahoooooo!!! for the last week she's been going to sleep around 11:30 or 12 at night and doesnt wake up till around 7:00 in the morning!!!! I LOVE HER!!!

Also! Zoe has moved on in the "taking baths" area! She has outgrown the newborn net in her baby tub and took her first bath without it!! I was worried she would fall over or be uncomfortable but she sat up the whole time and seemed to love it!! she was coo'ing and babbling like crazy

The other thing thats new and improved is her gripping and grabbing skills! For one thing, just about every time I'm holding her she finds a way to grab and yank my hair :) and i let her. She's always grabbing on to her shirt or her blanket or if she's in her car seat she's got her hands gripped around the straps. but the cutest things so far is her grabbing her binky out of her mouth and waving in front of her face! its so cute!

Zoe is also getting so much stronger in the legs. If we stand her up and support her balance, she can stand on her own for a while! She likes it too, she always gets so animated everytime!

Then of course her beautiful face is smiling more than ever!! She smiles on command now, well not really command but all you have to do is smile at her and say her name and she'll smile right back everytime :) or if not smiling she'll give some funny facial expression. haha

Gorgeous at 2 Months Old!

2009-07-16T11:07:00.000-07:00

I cant believe its been two months already! I remember feeling like her birth was never gonna come and now she's 2 months! She smiles and can stand when supported and she coo's and she's getting better at sleeping. She loves the swing, no matter what it always calms her down! She also loves watching t.v, only if its disney channel! She seems to loves baths cause she always calms down and never cries and me and jake love her more then ever! Here are some I took yesterday :)

Boys....Are So Messy....

2009-07-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

Well michie and his roomates are idiots and they didnt pay there water or power bill so none of them wanted to sleep in the dark so they all came over to our house. And i had just spent aaaallll day making the house spotless and then they come and its a disaster. Smoothy juice all over the kitchen floor. cups in every corner, trash everywhere. Twin bed in the middle of the computer room and a clogged toilet. great. Pictures of the damage. :(

Proffesional!!

2009-07-16T10:04:00.000-07:00

For my mom's birthday in June, my grandma and me took Zoe to get her pictures taken! She slept through the whole thing and had no idea how many different poses we put her in! The lady said she was the best and easiest baby she had taken pictures of! We had to wait a long time for them and i just got them so here is my beautiful daughter Zoe Rose King.

Bored at Work with Zoe!

2009-07-11T12:05:00.000-07:00

Jakes boss hired me to help out the other girls in the office. Emily works mornings and i work evenings and then Kara works aaallll the time. lol but i just have to take phone calls and schedual the technicians for jobs and stuff so pretty much i get paid 10 bucks an hours to play on facebook or do whatever while the boys are out selling. but last night Zoe was wide awake and in such a happy mood. i got the cutest pictures of her!

Zoe's Boyfriend!

2009-07-11T11:50:00.000-07:00

Our friends Emily and Craig have a baby boy named Hyrum. He is two weeks older than Zoe and he is such a cutie! When we went over to there house to watch the simpsons movie they both looked so cute next to each other in there bouncers sleeping. Hyrum seems to get excited when he hears Zoe in the room and on the other hand Zoe looks like she thinks Hyrum has cooties!! haha here are some pictures of them :)

My 18th Birthday!

2009-07-11T11:13:00.000-07:00

My birthday was alot of fun! We drove to grand junction and spent the whole day with my mom and she took us to Applebees! Jake got a silver heart locket necklace that says Mom on it, its sooooo gorgeous! (except i accidentally broke the clasp so we have to go and exchange it) but we said bye to my mom and kailee on the 4th and drove to Denver. For my birthday we bought a GPS for our car and its the coolest thing ever invented. and then he took me shopping at the Denver Mall which is the BIGGEST mall i have ever even dreamed of in my head. holy cow! escalators, floors, shops galore! it. was. awesome. After that we met up with Tyler,Kara, Emily and Craig to watch the fireworks. It was kind of lame though cause the fire fighters said it would be like right above our heads and then when it started it was clear of in the distance. but whatever! lol and zoe slept through it. Sorry there are no pics but it was a way fun weekend!!

Three Weeks With Kailee!

2009-07-11T10:11:00.001-07:00

After two weeks in the Springs we decided to let my sister kailee come and stay with us. and just because of how long the drive is from St. George to here, she stayed for THREE WEEKS!! haha she was definately ready to go home by the end of it. but i miss her cause she helped me so much! she loved to hold Zoe so i was able to get alot more cleaning and stuff done those three weeks. and Jake is gonna miss picking on her but while she was here we did tons of stuff! One of the first things was our trip to Seven Falls. It was absolutely gorgeous and it was this enourmous waterfall, we climbed 285 steps to the top of it. Here are some pictures!

We also went bowling a whole bunch and kailee got pretty good and almost beat michie and jacob twice!! and then me...i'm just too good at it and beat everyone everytime.....except the time Logan came. He had his own bowling shoes! what the? but anyways on Fathers day we went to I-hop and there was this balloon guy there! he could make any animal or anything with balloons! it was nuts! he made us a Panda bear on a tree, holding a heart haha

A couple days after the transformer movie came out we went and saw it at the imax theatres! Jakes boss tyler and his wife Kara went and then the regional manager Sean who was here from idaho came and then paul and charles also went with us and it was awesome!!! The screen was huge and it was Kailee's first time being at an Imax theatre. Then Zoe slept through the whole, loud, big experience like always. Me and kailee got all dressed up to go and this was after the movie. at two in the morning. ugh.

We also went over to emily and craigs house one night and everyone was there. We watched the Simpsons movie on the wall with this really cool projector screen! and Emily used to work at Jamba Juice and she made the most bomb smoothies ever! The movie was hilarious and another night we drove about 45 minutes to a Pizza party for the guys and it was wayyy fun! Except we had to drive with Michie....he'll make you crazy. Then of course, what we went and did like every single day! SWIMMING! me and kailee were trying to see who could get more tan and we ended up the same lol here are some pictures of our movie star pool where we live!!

We drove half way home to meet my mom at the end of the three weeks and dropped her off. me, zozo and jake are gonna miss her!! here are just some pictures of me and kailee goofin off.

Kodak

2009-07-11T09:22:00.000-07:00

The fourth member of our family is Kodak. He is my furry baby boy! He's half aikida and half standard poodle and was born in January. Jakes dad had the puppies up in Pintura and from the second we saw them we knew we wanted one! There were four puppies, 3 boys and 1 girl. Two of them were all black and the other two were white and black. the puppies mom Mitzu was jakes dog along with Hero. Hero and Mitzu were both full bred aikidas, so when we found out Mitzu was pregnant jake was excited. Well Hero went missing soon after and never came back. Jake was brokenhearted about his pup and was glad to get one of his puppies. Well they were born and we found out that the stupid standard poodle Soloman got to her first. :( They are still way cute though! Jake picked Kodak out from the beginning and he's the best dog ever! We potty trained him, and he loves people and is SOO kind! he would never bite anyone! He loves to get all wired up with jake. He never barks and he loves to cuddle. When we first brought Zoe home he was really jealous. He would sniff her and then go lay down and whine. haha but he knows we love him! We brought him and his brother Bodie (the other black one) with us to the springs but the living space was too small for them so we had to take them home. So right now i'm missing Kodak really bad! Every time i see a dog i get sad and i cant wait to see him when we go home and the end of the summer. Here are some pictures of him from birth till now.....

Colorado Springs

2009-07-11T08:59:00.000-07:00

Well Jake is a natural salesman!! He started a job in March selling Dishnetwork and Direct TV and boy can he sell! He was so good at it that he got an awesome opportunity for the summer. The company is called Big Dog Satellite and they are a retailer for Dish and Direct and they have something called the Summer Program. Basically they come out here to Colorado Springs, Colorado and sell. The company puts you in luxary appartments for free. they take care of the rent and everything! and then you get half of the money for each sale and then at the end of the summer you get the rest of the money in one big lump sum. During the summer you get points for selling and awards for getting the most points or being the top sales rep. Theres alot of company outings and parties and trips and the people are awesome! So here we are in the springs and its so beautiful here! it rains alot and there are cute little rabbits everywhere! Here is a picture of me and Zoe in our lovely apartment in the Springs!

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Graduation - Pine View High School 09

2009-07-11T08:35:00.000-07:00

Graduation was a big mile post that I'm so glad to have experienced AND gotten out of the way! Zoe's due date was three days before graduation and i was worried that i wouldnt get to walk or miss it all together. But i had her on her due date and was able to walk, even though it was very painful. Early on my senior year i decided i didnt want to take classes at the high school because it was just to difficult so i did the packets that i could do at home on my own time and it was hard. there were some nights towards the end where Jake would help me and we stayed up all night getting them done. Even though extremely stressful and completely pregnant I made it and i'm so glad i did! Graduation was awesome! Kayle Kimzee an old friend and validictorian gave an inspiring speach and the senior class video they showed was awesome! I loved being part of the group being able to throw our hats in the air and say we did it. Zoe, three days old, was able to be at the graduation with Jake, my dad, Kailee and karson. Every one else was sick :( but thats ok. Here are some pictures from after the ceremony with friends and family!!

Baby Zoe

2009-07-09T12:42:00.000-07:00

When i found out our baby was going to be a girl i was SO excited! and so was Jake, i've never seen him smile bigger! i started thinking about doing her hair and picking out clothes and doing nails! Right after the appointment i rushed to my moms work to tell her the news and show her the ultrasound pictures! Her and all the other nurses in the office freaked out along with me and my mom.Then i just kept getting bigger and bigger!

Finally i had my baby shower that my mom and aunt threw for me. It was so much fun and all my family and friends were there! i got the cutest stuff and just about eveyrthing i needed! i'm so grateful for everyones gifts and support. including jake! he was the best and did everything he could to make things easy for me.
About a month after the shower, 1 day before Zoe's due date me and jake decided to go into labor and delivery. My doctor told me to go in if i was getting headaches and swelling cause that could be a sign of toxemia. When i went in they checked me and told me i was fine but i was 2 inches dialated and they told me i was ready so they put me in a room and got me started! Jake acted like a kid at christmas! he started calling everyone in his phone and couldnt be happier. YES i had an epidural and now im a firm believer that everyone should have it and if they dont then they are amazing and not human haha. but it was an easy labor after the meds and Zoe Rose King was born the next day at 1:09 in the morning weighing 6 lbs and 12 oz. She was and still is the most beautiful thing i have ever seen. Me and jake absolutely love her to death. Here are some pictures of her from birth up to now at 1 and 1/2 months old.