New Mexico

Let's try this blog thing again.  I said try, I didn't make any promises. :)


We made a trip to Farmington to surprise Royce's brother, Ben, on his birthday.  Great company, great whether, great food, crummy Cougar game.

Mayla has about 25 words or signs now, and has even started putting two signs together.  Her new favorite trick is to sign "chocolate" for breakfast--and throughout the day when she thinks she can get away with it.  I'll admit, we've had a lot of Nutella lately.  I'm a sucker for chocolate in the mornings too!  She says many animal sounds on command, including cougar.  She gets excited about EVERY motorcycle or loud truck.  I am so grateful for everyday I get to spend with this little angel, and I am ready to welcome another one soon!  Less than four months away!

Anouncements & A Blessing

Jessica worked really hard and got these beautiful announcements created for our daughter Mayla. We can't believe that she is two months old this week. Now the hard part comes with trying to get them all sent out to all of our friends and family. If we miss one of you, we are so sorry, but we would love for you to print out the picture above and throw it up on your fridge.

Sunday we blessed our sweet daughter Mayla Beth King, and we had our first family picture taken. She was really good for the blessing and looked beautiful in her dress. Jessica says pink is her color. I have been raised with the saying "pink, pink, you stink." But I do have to agree, she is a cutie in pink.

Aunt Shari made her a beautiful corsage for her day.

We also had one of Jessica's great friends take some pictures a while ago that turned out really great. Here are some of our favorites.

Introducing Mayla Beth King!

Please excuse the tardiness of this message, but we are happy to announce our baby girl, Mayla Beth King. She was born the 9th of July, weighed 7lbs 11oz and was 20 inches long. Jessica and I both can't get enough of her. She is looker!





Here are Granny and Papa King's three grand daughters. Strawberry, vanilla and now chocolate. We are so happy to have cousins.

SHE'S ABOUT TO POP!!!

So here is the final count down. Jessica didn't want me to post these, but I think they are pretty great.

Barely Pregnant

3 Months

4 Months
(We don't know how the bra changed colors)
5Months

6Months7 Months8Months9 Months2 Weeks to go!!!

She is hanging in there like a champ. We are excited for our baby girl to come. Here are some pictures of the Nursery. Jessica made all the bedding.

It's a Girl!!!

At 15 weeks Jessica decided she didn't want to wait till 20 weeks for the doctor's office to give us an ultrasound. So we went to the Ultrasound Specialists. We are excited to announce that we are having a Girl! She is a little over 4 inches long.

Jessica is Pregnant!!!

So the news is out. Jessica is pregnant. She is 11 weeks a long as of yesterday, and has a due date of July 12th.

We have had fun telling close family and friends. Last night we had a party with my friends where we had a white elephant gift exchange. We decided to tell everybody through the gift exchange by wrapping a positive pregnancy test. It was fun to watch everybody's reaction when it was opened as they looked around the room to see who was going to admit that they were pregnant.

Jessica's friends were also really fun to tell, as we have this one caught on camera. We got all the girls lined up to take a picture and then I said "ok everybody say Jessica is pregnant!"

"Jessica is preggnn.....Really?"

"AHHHHHHH!!!!"

We feel so blessed this time of year to have such great friends and family to share this good news with. We feel like it is a very Merry Christmas!

Christmas Steps

Christmas is a process and each of us take different steps to build toward that special day. Here are a few steps that Jessica and I have taken thus far.

The Nu Skin Christmas party has been a big part of Christmas in our lives for a few years. Jessica and I attended the party last night in which they celebrated the company's 25th year completed. The celebrated with a wonderful catered dinner for all that attended. Jessica wasn't to disappointed that I went another year with out winning any thing because she said she found her favorite dessert ever. I don't know if we ever got the name of it, but she loved it.

The day after Thanksgiving we went up with my family to go cut down our Christmas tree. It is a tradition that I have done with my family for years, and Jessica and I want to keep it up. Here are a few pictures.

Here is my mom, Amilia, Kim, Julia and Shari. Doing a little tree shopping.

We still have some fun steps to look forward, and blog about. Till then....