12/15/18 - Eventful Day!

This morning I ran 8 miles with my friend Billie (Dytrt) Tingey. She and I ran in high school together. She's way faster than me! Brenda couldn't run today though so I asked Billie to go with me and she did. She's funny! She grew up in Lehi 2nd Ward, just a mile away from me.

This afternoon we went to downtown Gilbert for lunch and to donate through the Light the World Giving Vending Machine the church put there. It is such a cool idea! Local charities/groups participate and we can "buy" an item or service for people in need. We bought recusitation for an infant, a sewing machine, a cow, 1 month of food for a family, and 1 week of food for 2 seniors. We asked William which one he wanted to choose and he pointed to the 1 week of food for 2 seniors. It was super cute that he was very deliberate about his choice and didn't choose anything else. We joked that he was buying a week of food for his grandma and grandpa haha. He got all shy when we laughed about it. It was cute! I also bought $5 for water.

We went to the baptism for Ixtoc Garcia this afternoon. He was getting rebaptized. He had been excommunicated. It was very neat because his 16 year old son was able to baptize him. I'm sure 8 years ago he had baptized his son, and now his son was baptizing him. It was a special meeting. Ixtoc is such a nice guy!

William pooped in the bath tonight. It was so gross! It's the first time he's ever done it. There were lots of big logs of poo floating around. I got him out and Austin cleaned it all out. And William tried to make a run for it out the front door when he was naked while Austin took the poo out to the garbage bin. It was pretty funny. He thought it was a great game. He was laughing and squealing. He also danced in front of the mirror naked and he thought it was so funny.

William loves to dance. It's so cute! He also is very considerate and takes the rhyme seriously when it says, "Don't step on the crack or you'll break your mother's back!" Whenever he is walking and comes to a crack in the cement, he gets down and crawls over it and then gets back up to keep walking. It's so funny and cute! William currently loves eating scrambled eggs and rice Chex for breakfast. And he loves noodles and bananas and raspberries for lunch and snacks. It's so cute when he eats bananas.

Today William finally figured out how to drink from a straw! It was so cute! When he figured it out he smiled really big and kept drinking. He was so proud of himself.

12/9/18 - King Family Christmas Party

On Friday night we had our family Christmas party with all the siblings and grandkids. It was weird not having Mom and Dad there. They video chatted in for most of it. Any is finally pregnant (she's been trying for a while) either her 5th baby. She has 4 boys so she really wants a girl. She found out the gender early with a blood test and did a gender reveal at the party during the cousin gift exchange. Michelle was the only one who knew if it was a boy or a girl. Amy didn't even know. Well, it's a GIRL! Amy is SO excited! I'm really excited for her!!!

Holly and Jordan were in town for the weekend to be here for the party. It was fun to hang out with Holly and Lucy.

I'm finally getting back into running. I took two weeks off during Thanksgiving time. But I'm making my way back in. I went running 6.3 miles with Brenda on Saturday and it wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be.

We're going to Pennsylvania for Christmas to spend it with Derek and Kori and their kids. I'm excited!

We plan to move to Utah at the end of January. I've been stressing about finding a place to live. My cousin Lizzy told me last night that my Aunt Sharon has an apartment in her basement in Orem and that my cousin Warren lived their with his wife and kids for 2 years. So I called Aunt Sharon this evening and she said she'd be happy to let us live there. She also said they have a fourplex of apartments and one is coming available. She doesn't know exactly when so she's going to have Ron (her husband) call the people to find out. That would be great too! It's just nice to know that if we can't find something, we can always live in Sharon's basement for a few months. It'd be better than Chelsea's basement because Johnny doesn't play well with William so it'd be stressful since their playroom is in the basement. And Grant's room is in the basement. So I have some stress relieved!

I need to start cleaning and sorting through things so that packing will be easier. It's going to be a busy month and a half!

William is growing up SO fast! He's starting to understand things a lot better and is starting to communicate a little better. I think it's helping him be a little less whiny. He is so funny and silly! I love and adore him! I love watching him learn and grow! He LOVES the vacuum and the broom. The other day he had a meltdown because I took the broom away from him so I could sweep. He wanted it all to himself!

12/1/18 - Birthday Party for William

William turns 1 tomorrow! How is my baby already a year old?! We had a birthday party for him today. In the morning we had our ward Christmas party and then his party was 12:30-2. We had lunch at the park and had presents and cake. We had family and friends come. It was a lot of fun! William loooved his presents from us and the others that brought gifts. It was cute watching him play. He loves parks! He loves playing in the sand and going down slides. Brenda and Danny came with their families. Our neighbors and some other friends came.

Austin is sick tonight. He got food poisoning or a stomach bug or something. He's pretty miserable. He just threw up though so hopefully that helps him feel better.