My oldest turned 9! Happy Birthday Samantha!

Samantha's 9!

Happy Birthday Samantha! What an adventure life has been with you in it. First I want to say that you were the only kid who was late on their due date. 2 days late to be exact. This is a 4 generation picture of you after your blessing. There is granny-great, grandma Jo, me, and you.

Samantha is always full of energy. She loves to ride horses, and do gymnastics. She can do her back hand spring, and is working on getting her Aerial(sp?-a cartwheel without hands). She does very well in school and always tries her best.
This is a picture of Samantha's first day of kindergarten. She was so ready for school and still likes to wake up at 6:15 a.m. to get ready. Oh yeah she is NOT camera shy at all. She is always looking for a camera so she can strike a pose.

We are very proud of Samantha and her decisions that she has made through out her life.Samantha thank you for coming to our family. We love you

Twins turned 3!

Well it is official. The twins turned 3! I am very excited about them being 3 and hope that this year will be a learning and growing experience for all of us. Having 2 2year old twins was very hard. They made life very interesting and busy. While I did enjoy them being 2- I can't wait to see how much they will learn and grow and hopefully slow down this year.

We had a birthday party for them at the park. We did a little Easter egg hunt, ate cupcakes, and opened presents. This is a picture of all the twins friends at the party. Very cute little bunch.

AUDREY

Audrey was "baby A" and was also the smaller of the two weighing 4 lbs. 15 oz.. She came out ready for life. When she was just a day old the nurse was holding her over her shoulder and Audrey lifted her head and turned it with complete control. You should of seen our faces. From that I should of know what kind of FIRECRACKER personality she would have. She is very energetic, fun spirited, and her favorite food is nachos. She is a total crack up. We had one of Audrey's nursery teachers put it best. She said "Audrey has such a BIG spirit for such a small body". And boy does she.

MALLORY

Mallory was "baby B" and weighed 5 lbs. 13 oz.. She was delivered breached. If you haven't heard that story remind me and I will tell you later. Mallory is very shy, soft, sensitive, and a total mama's girl-which I absolutely love. Finally out of 5 kids I get a mama's girl. Mallory's favorite food is ice cream and she loves to wash her hands. She gets that from me. She also likes to comb hair. She always asks me if she can brush my hair and I love it.

The Twins

Now this is funny

She seriously cracks me up

Yep that is Audrey wiping our dogs(Tessa) bum with a wippie. The kids were all in the back yard yesterday and Bret goes to check on them and starts to laugh and tells me to come here.

So I look in the back yard and there was Audrey about 5 inches from Tessa's bum just staring at it.So Bret asked her what she was doing and she said that 'Tessa has poop on her bum". Bret says to her 'oh yeah- what are you going to do about it'. Audrey then thinks and says 'I need a wippie'.

So she runs in the house and grabs a wippie and starts to follow the dog around the back yard trying to wipe her bum. It was so funny. The dog was trying to get away from her, but if you know Audrey you know that she is pretty determined and stubborn so needless to say the dog loss. Now if I could just get Audrey to be potty trained herself we would be in good shape. I am offering $50 if someone wants to potty train my twins. I am being so serious.

Happy Happy Birthday Emma Dear

Emma

I love her! She is an amazing girl and has a love for life.

She is a GREAT sister. This is her holding Mallory at the hospital.She always tells me that she can't wait until she is old enough to babysit. She is just so SWEET.

Being her mom I think and know she is BRILLIANT. She is one of the smartest in her class and always plays teacher on her dry erase board. Isn't she just so stinkin cute?

She loves to get all pretty and ready. Every Sunday she asked me if she can wear a little of my lip stick. So she shows up to church looking her best.

She is always smiling and posing for the camera. I love how she is just naturally happy.

The girl can shake her thang. She can dance and do tumbling. Along with that she plays soccer and softball. What a girl!
Emma is a sweet, kind, giving, understand, smart, compassionate,enthusiastic, patient CHILD OF GOD. We love her and are very proud of her. She makes us laugh and smile everyday and we thank our Heavenly Father for sending her to us. We Love You Emma!

My friend Shelly

My friend Shelly

I have a very dear friend Shelly. I have known her since I was 3. She lived in the house that was just behind mine for years and she would always jump the fence and come hang out with me. One of my most memorable moments with Shelly was the year I ran for student body treasure in 7th grade and I lost. Well Shelly was the first friend to call me that day to ask if she could come over and hang out. It was just what I needed. Someone to make me laugh and forget about loosing earlier that day. She was always the nicest friend and made you want to be with her. We continued growing up in the same ward,schools, and have remained really close. We go out to lunch with "our gang" of girls from the good ol days about 4 times a year. It is one of my favorite things to do and I look forward it every time we get together. We don't skip a beat in conversation and pick up like we where 15 years old again.

Now having said that Shelly found out just about 1 month ago that she has breast cancer. She is an amazing mother of 5 adorable and young children, a wonderful wife, and a great daughter and friend. She is now going through Chemo and then after all her treatments she will have a double mastectomy. Ever since she informed me about her diagnose she has been the most optimistic person I know. She is so positive and enduring. Instead of asking "why me?". She is asking"What can I learn from this, and who can I help while I am going through this". She is truly a person who I look up to and hope to be like one day.

She has a blog of her own where she writes all about her feelings,thoughts, and how all her doctor appointments are going. Her most recent post she mentioned how she would like to help researchers find answers to breast cancer. So down below I copied what she wrote on her blog and a way we as woman can help. If you are interested please go and register.

Shelly I love you and think you are so amazing.

Dr. Susan Love told Robin Roberts yesterday on Good Morning America that she’s trying to recruit 1,000,000 women for the Army of Women, a group of women who on a volunteer basis will be part of research efforts aimed at determining what causes breast cancer. All women are invited to participate. Just sign up here. When you do, you’ll get an e-mail about opportunities for being involved.Love reports that about 200,000 women have signed up so far. She’s got a long way to go to hit that one-million mark. Just like we have a way to go to find that elusive cause of breast cancer. Help if you can.

I got picture tagged....

So as you can tell my life is so out of control. I check in on my good friends about every other day to make sure all is well. Well I checked in with one of my oldest friends blog and found out that I was picture tagged. I think she did this to get me going again.Thanks Brooke!


Here are the rules:


1. go to your my document/my pictures


2. go to your sixth file


3. go to your sixth picture


4. blog about it


5. tag six people


This tagging was so fun cause I just uploaded this picture like it said and this is what is was. WOW look how young my boy was in this picture. I think the date on my camera is wrong. If I remember correctly this is Corbin when he was almost 2 and the twins had just been born. He would just sit on the couches and watch the twins for hours. He is so cute!

I tag:
Leila,Jai,Carly,Angela Barba, Kyle Bashford,Cassie Simonton

The piper was down

Any of you ever seen "So I married an Axe Murder". Well this is a quote from it and pretty much explains why I haven't been blogging lately......."The Piper's Down.....I repeat The Piper's Down". Yep I thought my computer died, but our dear friend Greg came to the rescue and brought it back to life. Thanks Greg. Anyhow I will updating soon. I still need to download my new pictures. Yay I have a computer again.

Hope you all had a great Christmas

Well we kicked our Christmas off by going to my mom's house on Sunday Dec. 21st. We always go to my mom's house the Sunday before Christmas and eat a crown roast with lots of yummy fancy stuff. Then after we eat the kids get dressed up and act out the birth of Christ. It is so cute and very funny. I enjoy this every year. We seem to always have a baby in our family that can play Jesus. However I think that this year with Jillian(4months) it might be the end of the babies. So we just might have to start using a doll.

Then on Christmas Eve we spent it with Bret's family. Bret got it all organized this year and we did dutch oven pizzas. IT ROCKED! We did 10 personalized pizzas and everyone got to participate. The best part was the men did most of the work. The pizza was amazing, and the kids just played with each other outside while we baked them.
Then after the pizza the kids decorated sugar cookies and we did a nice program. Another cool thing is that we didn't have a large mess to clean up. YAY!
Then we rushed home to open one present that mom picked out for the kids to open. SURPRISE it's pajama's. Don't they look so cute. Off to bed they went.

Then Christmas morning we opened presents. The kids got Bret and myself something this year. Bret got this bow and arrow from the dollar store and I got a stuff wiener dog from the dollar store. It totally rocks.

This is Mallory trying to get the presents with out us knowing. She is such a weasel. The twins had so much fun this year. It was fun watching them open things. The older kids thought this year was the best. YAY Santa Claus.
That morning we went to my mom's house to open cousin presents and gifts from my parents. All the grand kids got a curious George monkey. It was so funny cause all the kids starting singing "5 little monkeys jumping on the bed". Later that night we did the traditional money grab. It's where my parents have a huge jar full of different coins and we all get to reach in it with one hand and see how much money we can get. Bret normally does really well at this. This is the adults counting the money. It gets pretty intense with the big kids.

BRET GRADUATED!!!!!

Well I can't believe that we are finally here. Yesterday Bret graduated from ASU with his bachelor degree in "Exercise and Wellness", and the kids and I barely made it......
I thought that graduation started at 5:30 so the kids and I get there at 4:50 so I thought I would take everyone to the bathroom before we went in. So we go to the bathroom and take our sweet time since it didn't start for another 30 minutes. Well we all start to leave the bathroom and all of the sudden I hear the music they play when the graduates start to walk in and I yell to the kids "RUN". So I start to run as fast as I could in my hills while yelling to the kids to run, and run fast. Well we just barely got in the room, found our group, and sat down when all the sudden there he was. "YAY DAD" we all yelled. The twins just kept pointing to Bret saying "that's my daddy, hi daddy". It was so cute. I just started to cry when I heard our 5 kids cheer for there dad who was graduating.

Each and everyone of us have been by Bret's side during this and we all understand the sacrifice that was made to get him there. We all are very proud of him.

NOW IT"S TIME TO PARTY! After the graduation I wanted a really big party. When I told Bret that I was going to have a party he said that he didn't need a party. So I then told him that the party wasn't for him. Boy was that party fun. We invite a lot of people who Bret has known for many years and that have influenced him in one way or another. I want to thank those who were able to come and support Bret. It meant a lot to him. The night was field with amazing food, amazing friends, amazing family, and one amazing man. I cant' believe we are done with this chapter of our life. Now we are all a little nervous, and a lot excited to see what is going to be the next chapter. Congrats Bret! WE LOVE YOU!

FHE

So for FHE we went to my friends 3rd annual FHE Christmas Party. It was a blast and the kids had so much fun. They have a really good Santa come and the kids sit on his lap and tell him what they want and then he has them look at the camera so that the parents can take a picture. What a great Santa. For some reason I couldn't find the picture of Corbin with Santa so this one will have to do. Thank you to my wonderful friends for having us over.

ASU Family pictures

Well the King Family barely survived another family picture. Is it just my family or does everyone else have a really high stress level on family picture day. I had everything ready to go. The clothes laid out, twins well rested, kids hair done, when 2 1/2 hours before we were suppose to have our pictures taken Emma got her middle finger slammed in the car door. OUCH! So I thought that it might be broken and quickly ran her to the ER to get it x-rayed. It turned out it wasn't broken thank heavens, but after 2 hours and 15 minutes in the ER Emma and I ran home to get family pictures. I was a little stressed out of how things were going to go. But the kids pulled through and did amazing. Yes it is almost impossible to have all 7 of us cooperate and smile for the camera, but I thought the kids did great.
As many of you know Bret is graduating on Dec. 18th , 2008 and I am a little excited. Ok so I am very excited as you can tell by all the ASU stuff. We had our dear friend Jessica Inglish take our pictures and she was phenomenal(http://www.lmlmphotosessions.blogspot.com/) . She was truly amazing and ended up taking my whole large family pictures a few days later.

Aren't we the cutest family ever. HAHA! We are all just so happy and proud of Bret. He is amazing to me that while he had 5 kids and a wife to support, was the Elders Quorums President, worked 3-4 jobs, he still managed to worked hard to get his Bachelor Degree. I appreciate all he has sacrificed for me and the kids. We love him and are very glad he is ours.

Twilight.....What in the world

Twilight- Yay or Nay?
Ok so I don't consider myself a movie critic, but I definitely have an opinion on this movie.
A whole bunch of us went at 9 p.m. to wait 3 hours to see the movie. We even had fun shirts made up that said "Got Edward?", or " Got Jacob?".
Being with the girls was definitely the highlight of my night. I just didn't really like the movie. I thought the actors couldn't act.
Now this just my opinion so I hope I don't hurt anyones feelings, but I just didn't like the movie. I love the books and it might be because I can use my own imagination and not get to gory,creepy,nerdy,or just plain lame.

I did have fun though with the gals. I think maybe I need to watch it again to give it another chance. It was midnight for heavens sake. Let me know what you thought of it.

Happy Halloween & Sam's dance performance

Yes you heard me......Happy Halloween......Finally!

After having my friend tell me that she has givin up on my blog(thanks for the encouragement Kyle) it got me thinking about how I need to be better at keeping this up. I like it when all of you keep yours up so that I can keep in touch and so I am going to set a new goal. I am going to try to post something new at least once a week. I can do it and I won't let you down(Kyle don't give up on me:).

So hear are my kids all ready to trick-or-treat. This year the twins kind of mixed it up a little by Mallory being Tinkerbell with a crown and a set of yellow wings. Then Audrey was Snow White with a crown and pink wings. They crack me up. I was going to get them all dressed up,but they kept putting all the other things on. It made them so happy so I thought isn't that what this is about. Emma was a groovy chick and that she truly is. She loved it cause we colored her hair orange.
Then it's pretty obvious what Corbin was.....Batman. Then Sam wanted to be a devil so I told her that was great because I wouldn't have to buy a costume. Sam says "Haha mom". So here they all are. We got tons of candy, so much that I can't even keep up with it. YIKES!

This year Sam is on a performing dance/tumbling team. They perform at things like Veterans Day parade, Globetrotter game, Coyote game, and the state fair. This is a picture of her performing at the state fair. She did very well and made us very proud. Her cousin Courtney is also on the performing team, but with the girls a year younger. This is a picture of the two of them before they went on. They are so cute. Afterwards we went on a few rides and had a couple funnel cakes.YUMMY

OK OK I am back

So things have been a little crazy,busy. Ok so that is an understatement. I feel like things are getting way to busy and going by way to fast. So I am going to fill you guys in on what I have been up to. The most recent and most to blame for me not blogging that much is that I read the whole series of THE TWILIGHT. Yes ladies I said it. I finally gave in and read my first book in 15 years. It was really good and I am glad I read it, but I don't think I will read another book for another 15 years. Just kidding. It just took so much of my time. Onto other events.
Audrey got an adorable haircut from the fabulous Melissa.

I took the twins on a field trip with the rest of the joy school kids to the mothers farm pumpkin patch. They loved it.
Then we went on the ward campout where I was in charge and so we didn't bring the twins cause I was afraid I would loose them in the forest. We missed them but we had a blast. We stayed an extra day with some other families and Bret did all the cooking and cleaning. It was awesome. He is an amazing cook and always kept us well fed with things like shrimp, breakfast burritos,pineapple cobbler. Oh it was delicious. I really liked him doing the dishes also.

We had so much fun at the ward camp out that a month later we went camping again with more families. Bret did all the cooking and cleaning again. I think we might go camping more often. Bret made this pizza in a dutch oven while we were camping it was da-lish-us.

Then during Samantha and Emma's 2 day fall break we 3 went to Connecticut to visit the cousins. Bret's sister lives in Conn. and has 8 kids of all ages. So we spent time with the cousins by going to school events, and driving to Baltimore for a piano concert(Jon Schmidt an LDS guy), and just hanging out. Yes the one making the face is related. Let's just say he is 16. HAHA-We love you Taylor!

Then I took the girls into "THE CITY". We took a train into NEW YORK CITY and spent the whole day there. It was so much fun, but the girls(mostly Emma) got really tired. We first went to China Town and shopped like crazy. The girls thought it was so cool how you could talk them down in price. The loved China Town and so did I. Then I took them on the subway so that they could experience that and let's just say they got the whole experience. We then went to the M&M store, FAO Schwartz(where the girls got to go on the big piano from the movie "BIG"), then to a yummy cupcake store, and then back to China town. I took them in a taxi and showed them how to flag one down. That was pretty funny. But the girls just wanted to shop in China Town and I did too.

This is us on the subway and train ride home. Can you tell the girls are exhausted. I could of shopped another 4-5 hours :)

Last But not Least.....Bret had a Birthday!

He turned 32 while we were in N.Y.C. He stayed home with the 3 other kids so that me and the older girls could go have fun.He is amazing and I am very thankful to have him and his example in my life. He is a great dad,husband,brother,son-in-law, and friend. I want to tell him thank you for always being a great friend and husband. I have known Bret for about 16 years and the longer I know him the more amazing of a person he is to me. Thanks for letting me and the girls have a get away. You are the best.We had a blast but missed you and the kids. WE LOVE YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDWARD-O!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!Today was my dad's birthday and this is a picture of him as a little boy in Alabama where he was born and raised.
I love my dad in so many different ways. He is always polite and has taught me to mind my P's and Q's. He loves to shop- I know kind of funny. He loves any kind of baked good which is where I get my 'I need to eat a bake good every night before bed'. He loves to golf and tries to sneak in 4-5 games of golf a week.
He loves his kids and especially me cause I am the favorite. HAHAHA! One of my favorite memories of my dad is when I was a little girl I thought my dad was sooooooo cute. I thought he had to be the best looking dad in the world. So I would purposefully- accidentally leave my lunch at house and I would write him a note telling him that I forgot my lunch and I needed him to drop it off in my classroom. That way all my friends could see that my dad's was the most handsome dad ever. I still think he is the most handsome dad ever and show him off where ever we are.
Dad thanks for everything that you have done for me and for helping make me the person I am today. I LOVE YOU