About Me

- Talia King
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
- My inspirations and ideas. My family and friends. My husband and baby. Capturing a new chapter in my life since the day I said, "I do."
Monday, June 28, 2010
Karas Birthday!
We celebrated my sisters birthday this weekend!
My whole family pitched in and went shopping for goodies for her.
We got her her own Ipod touch, Finally!!! I think shes he last one to have one!
Were all addicted to those bad boys over here...
We hung out, swam, bbq'd. Did the norm on these summer days!
Friday, June 25, 2010
A little Slice of Heaven!
Its Recipe Friday Folks!
Here is one of our family's favorite dessert! Fruit Pizza, mmm. And it's easy as Pie, well easier.
What you'll need...
Roll out the Cookie on a Circle Pizza Sheet.
Make as directed on Package.
Let Cool.
Here is one of our family's favorite dessert! Fruit Pizza, mmm. And it's easy as Pie, well easier.
What you'll need...
Roll out the Cookie on a Circle Pizza Sheet.
Make as directed on Package.
Let Cool.
Mix the Creme Cheese and Sugar.
Spread on Cooled cookie.
Top with your Favorite Fruits!
Our favorites are, strawberries, bananas, kiwi, raspberries, and blackberries.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Red fish , Blue fish.
One month, two month.
Look how much he has grown already, oh my. It makes me a little sad that he is growing up so fast. He is only 10 weeks old and it seems like I can barley remember how he was when he was born. What am I going to be thinking in 10 years? Or even his first birthday? Ah, time flies too fast.
Here is his announcement we sent out!
xxoo.
Father.
My Favorite Father Quotes
Happy Father's Day Cody. A First one to you. We love you so much. XXOO
My Dad is King of the Castle.
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.- Harry S. Truman
- A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
- I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
- My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
- He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Happy Father's Day Cody. A First one to you. We love you so much. XXOO
I love this picture. Makes my heart smile. My whole life in one picture.
Coming home from a Job, all dirty, and not passing down opening your presents. One reason why we love you so much.
To Cody, the man who blares his music in the shower, who is a game fanatic, who kisses his baby non stop when he holds him, who sneaks handfuls of chips everytime he goes in the kitchen, who can hold his own in a plumbing van, or shooting guns in the desert, or riding a dirtbike, who sings loudly to every song he hears in the car(even if he doesnt know it), who will do anything for his wife, who says silly things to make everyone laugh, who loves his family unconditionally. Happy fathers day to the man our little boy loves, moving his head and smiling whenever he hears his voice.
Happy Fathers Day Papa, aka Dad.
To Dad, the man who opens the fridge just because he's bored, who will always love nascar, who sticks up for his grandchildren no matter what, who blares his ac/dc and jimmy hendrix at everyone of our family BBQ's, who bobs his head when he plays guitar hero, who watches the history channel all night, who can talk to you about anything(and know everything about it), who created an empire of a family , who loves candy,who cracks jokes, who doesnt care what people think,who is the backbone of our family. We love you Dad/Papa. XXOO.
Here comes the Bride...
June 5th was my soon-to-be sister in law's Bridal shower! Us King a Root girls had a very fun time! Helena got tons of cute stuff ! Oh, Brody had a fun time too, he slept through the whole thing. Whatta' good boy.


Sweet Summer.
Kicking off Summer with a Memorial Day BBQ Celebration! There's no better way! : )
And a day of remembering and thanking our Veterans who served our Country, and thanking the ones to serve today! I appreciate your sacrifice, God Bless the USA!
We like to go big with Holiday BBQ's around here. We leave Big too! Bacon Wrapped Jalepeno poppers, Bacon wrapped shrimp, Juicy lucy's, fruit pizza, rice krispy treats(a must), potato salad, baked beans, chocolate chip cookies, fruit salad, and so much more..
A day full of Sun, food, swimming, relaxing, music, Cornhole, and most importantly family. The kids swim all day and night until they drop, while the moms lay out and the men Drink their Coors, play on their ipods and BBQ. Brody and I watched everyone swim and layout. We can't have fun until next year, but I'm not complaining! I could sit and hang out with him all day. : )
Mmm Mmm Mmm, Summer tastes so good.
And a day of remembering and thanking our Veterans who served our Country, and thanking the ones to serve today! I appreciate your sacrifice, God Bless the USA!
We like to go big with Holiday BBQ's around here. We leave Big too! Bacon Wrapped Jalepeno poppers, Bacon wrapped shrimp, Juicy lucy's, fruit pizza, rice krispy treats(a must), potato salad, baked beans, chocolate chip cookies, fruit salad, and so much more..
A day full of Sun, food, swimming, relaxing, music, Cornhole, and most importantly family. The kids swim all day and night until they drop, while the moms lay out and the men Drink their Coors, play on their ipods and BBQ. Brody and I watched everyone swim and layout. We can't have fun until next year, but I'm not complaining! I could sit and hang out with him all day. : )
Mmm Mmm Mmm, Summer tastes so good.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Brody's 6 weeks Pictures!
May.
May was such a relaxing month! Being a first time Mom, April was definitely a crazy one. New emotions, priorities, and RESPONSIBILITIES all at once was very overwhelming. May seemed to calm everything down a bit. It took a month or so to learn what Brody likes and doesn't like. Nights got easier, as well as days. We finally got on the same schedule!

Brody's toes just like Daddy's.

3 weeks old.
I was having photo shoots with my lil guy to try and get some good pictures for his announcement!

3 and a half weeks.



My First Mother's Day!
Such an amazing day! We hung out with family all day and went to dinner the next night as a family. Of course Brody started crying right when our food came and I had to take a trip to the restroom and feed him. He didn't want to cooperate so Cody got all my food to-go and I ate it in the car. : ) The joys of having a lil one! Cody is not the best shopper so he sent me to the mall to get some goodies for me! The best present of all is of course my little boy! Everyday with him is a present, a blessing, and Mother's Day was a reminder of the year I went through thinking I was never going to be able to get pregnant. My little boy was the best gift I could ever ask for and will be the best gift on every Mother's Day to come. I had an amazing first Mothers Day and Cant wait for many more to come!


Here's Brody's one month pictures! May 13th 2010. I'm taking pictures of him on every 13th of every month (in his boppy pillow with the same blanket) until hes a year! I want to find a big frame with 12 picture slots so I can have his every month pictures! One down , 11 to go!
Brody's toes just like Daddy's.
3 weeks old.
I was having photo shoots with my lil guy to try and get some good pictures for his announcement!
3 and a half weeks.
My First Mother's Day!
Such an amazing day! We hung out with family all day and went to dinner the next night as a family. Of course Brody started crying right when our food came and I had to take a trip to the restroom and feed him. He didn't want to cooperate so Cody got all my food to-go and I ate it in the car. : ) The joys of having a lil one! Cody is not the best shopper so he sent me to the mall to get some goodies for me! The best present of all is of course my little boy! Everyday with him is a present, a blessing, and Mother's Day was a reminder of the year I went through thinking I was never going to be able to get pregnant. My little boy was the best gift I could ever ask for and will be the best gift on every Mother's Day to come. I had an amazing first Mothers Day and Cant wait for many more to come!
Here's Brody's one month pictures! May 13th 2010. I'm taking pictures of him on every 13th of every month (in his boppy pillow with the same blanket) until hes a year! I want to find a big frame with 12 picture slots so I can have his every month pictures! One down , 11 to go!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Family.
Friday, June 18, 2010
My boy!
I have to get caught up with my postings! I don't want to leave anything out, So hopefully I can post a couple posts a day and get caught up!
Coming home with Brody was one of the best feelings. Coming home to meet everyone and starting a new chapter in life with my little boy.
My little 4 pounder was just skin and bones! Poor thing was so fragile! He has now fattened up , but then he was just a tiny thing! I wish I could go back and see him brand new just one more time. I think I'm going to be saying this throughout all the milestones in his life : ) He is already growing up so fast, by the second it seems!
Coming home with Brody was one of the best feelings. Coming home to meet everyone and starting a new chapter in life with my little boy.
My little 4 pounder was just skin and bones! Poor thing was so fragile! He has now fattened up , but then he was just a tiny thing! I wish I could go back and see him brand new just one more time. I think I'm going to be saying this throughout all the milestones in his life : ) He is already growing up so fast, by the second it seems!

Monday, June 7, 2010
Baby.
So, It seems like every post I write starts with "Its been awhile". It's time to change that! Here's a little recap of what has happened since my last post!
First off, the baby is here, happy and healthy! So thankful and blessed!
I want to Recap my labor experience, just in case I forget how Horrible it was.( I don't think I could ever forget, but what if?)
The first couple weeks of April I had appointments twice a week for stress tests. When I went in for my last ultra sound to check my placenta, (which turned out fine, Yay!) the baby was measuring very small, a month behind to be exact. So the Doctor made me appointments to come in every week to check my water levels. I only had two stress tests before the baby came! I had a regular checkup with my doctor April 12th and that is when he gave us the news. The baby wasn't growing anymore,so why are we going to keep him in? This is basically what his story was and he then sent me to be induced! Being Induced is such a crazy/scary feeling. I waited so long and anticipated everyday of when the time was going to come. I would drive myself crazy! When would I feel my first contraction? Or when my water would break? Not knowing when the baby is coming seemed like such a better feeling. I was excited for the day that something would happen, on its own, surprisingly. I was so terrified knowing that I was going to go into labor right here, right now.
Next We Drive 200 feet to the hospital, texting and calling everyone I knew, as well as my Mom and Husband. : ) I get there, get checked in and ready, get dressed in My Cute (NOT!) hospital gown and the Nurse didn't waste any time! They inserted a medicine into the cervix to start the loosening process. I don't remember what it was called exactly, all I remember was that it felt like a ball of card stock being shoved up my hoo! :/ Talk about unpleasant and uncomfortable! So, The medicine had to be in for 12 hours and then I would be checked to see if it was working. If it wasn't, I had to get another dose. Oh how I was praying it would! I was having mild contractions with the first dose, it was very hard to sleep! The Nurse gave me a medicine to relax me and put me to sleep. That nurse instantly became my bff. : )

So 12 hours comes along, I get checked, and I am only 1/2 dilated! Yep, a 1/2. I thought, Ohhhhh great this is going to be a looong day. So the nurse gives me another dose of card stock medicine (that's my new name for it). Two hours goes by and I start bleeding. I got up to go to the bathroom and blood and big clots of blood were falling on the floor. (Sorry ,tmi! It was quite shocking to me too) So the nurse checks me and the card stock fell out. The nurse said I was dilated to 4 and we were moving onto bigger a better things, Pitocin! Meanwhile, The doctor and nurse don't know why I am bleeding. I am going crazy as well as my family, thinking why aren't they checking my placenta? We ask the doctor (which wasn't my regular doctor. I hate Kaiser!) to check my placenta and he says he thinks the bleeding is from the card stock medicine. So they switch me into a new room, the "labor room" (Dun Dun Dun) to go ahead and start pitocin.

Within an hour I start gushing blood and the baby's heartbeat is slowly dropping with every contraction. I was having contractions every 3 minutes for a minute long. I tell my Mom, "Mom,I just felt a big gush,look." I will never forget the look on her face and the sound of her gasp "oh my god." (I am trying to remember everything that happened, but I was so out of it and in so much pain, I'm sure there is more I don't remember.) So my mom goes running down the hall looking for my nurse. After 5 minutes my Mom finally found her. The nurse then comes in, lifts my sheets to take a look and starts panicking and yelling for a doctor.
At that point my hospital room turned into a freak out room. So many people coming in and out. People Rushing around and talking. From doctors coming in and out, the doctor telling my family to get out, to the nurse shoving and turning me from one side and over to the next, over and over trying to get the baby's heart rate to change, to the gushing of blood, to the nurse checking me, to the pain of contractions, to my family members looking at me crying and not knowing what was going on and what was going to happen. I was just lying there thinking I am experiencing hell on earth. Did I mention my regular doctor always wanted to give me a C section from the beginning because of all the problems I had and what I faced during my pregnancy? He came in when I first got induced and told me the reasons why he was or would do a C section on me. He was working when I first got to the hospital, not when I actually went into labor. Sad. : (
So the doctor checks me, says I am dilated to 5 and that my placenta is fine. But he still doesn't know why I am bleeding so much, he just doesn't know what it is. It was so many bad things happening at once, I can't even recall what happened next exactly. The baby's heart rate was still dropping with every contraction. I was still gushing blood and in so much pain with the contractions as well. Also, The nurse wouldn't give me an epidural! When a contraction would start she would make me turn from side to side to try and find a position where the baby's heart rate wouldn't drop. If you have been in labor before, you know you cant even breathe during a contraction,let alone get up and move yourself around!
The doctor then tells the nurse to take me off Pitocin and see if the baby's heart rate will get better. She takes me get off and the heart rate does get better. I am still contracting pretty bad and still dilating, so the nurse finally gives in to giving me an epidural. As they are getting ready to give me an epidural I start to gush A LOT. The worse my contractions were, the more I gushed. The doctor checks me again, says the placenta is fine and just decides to break my water to see if it gets the show on the road quicker to get this baby out ASAP. So he breaks my water and it makes everything worse. As soon as he took his tool out I thought I was going to die. I didn't think these contractions could possibly get worse! I definitely thought wrong. There are no words to explain the feeling of contractions. Excruciating doesn't even do justice! Now I was dilated to 8. Breaking my water made my contractions worse which made the baby's heart rate drop to its lowest. It went down to 0 at one point. Luckily it came back up. Now my room was freak out room times 10. The doctors don't know what to do. They try to make things better by inserting a tube into the uterus to give the baby water. They also put another tube up with a monitor on the baby's head to measure the heart rate perfectly. They also put a cathader in. OH EM GEE right? Wish I could of seen that picture.
At this time the anesthesiologist comes in to give me my epidural. I am so happy to be getting this, but little did I know they were just getting my hopes up. Probably just shutting me up because I kept asking or screaming for it! : ) I get the epidural and the bastards only give me a drop every 15 minutes. I now know they were keeping the best interest in my baby, but at the time they were bastards! They didn't want the medicine to effect the baby's heart rate even more. Thank you doctors! : )
15 minutes after I get the epidural the doctor comes in and checks to see how things are going. I am STILL gushing water and blood with every contraction, and now dilated to 9cm. I'm STILL turning from side to side because the baby's heart rate is STILL dropping with every contraction. The doctor FINALLY says this baby is stressing me out, we are doing an emergency Cesarean NOW! HALLE-FREAKIN-LUJAH! I was the happiest woman alive! My husband... not so much, he was crying his eyes out! Poor thing! He was so scared for me and his baby. I was telling him, "Baby, it's going to be okay, I'm Happy!" The doctor saw him balling his out and said, "You better decide if you or her mom is going in with her because we are going in now!" My mom is crying saying , "Cody, are you going with her? Are you going to be Okay?"
He then says yes hes going with me and the nurse then says to him,"It will be okay daddy, Ill be in there with you!". And we were off, strolling down the hallways of the hospital to the Cesarean room. My mom grabs my hand as she is going the opposite way and says, "Good luck" with her quivering voice.
We get into the Cesarean room and the doctors are running around rushing, counting things, and getting everything ready. Then the anesthesiologist gives me my spinal and the baby was out in 10 minutes! It turns out the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck 3 times! When the doctors pull him out I hear them say,"What a stinker!" They also named him turtle because the cord looked like he was wearing a turtleneck! So that's the reason why his heart rate kept dropping. Each contraction was tightening his neck, making it drop.



Now that the baby was out,I could only be so thankful it was all over with and that my angel was here and healthy! And of course hearing my husband yell to me,"Baby,he has all his fingers and toes!" HaHaHa, Men!
This experience was definitely an experience of a lifetime. An experience only mothers can have. The most amazing feeling and happiness attaining from something so frightening and terrible. So bittersweet. Something I will go through again in a heartbeat. Something so worth it!

Brody Russell King
April 13th 2010
4 lbs 11 ounces.
5:25 pm.
First off, the baby is here, happy and healthy! So thankful and blessed!
I want to Recap my labor experience, just in case I forget how Horrible it was.( I don't think I could ever forget, but what if?)
The first couple weeks of April I had appointments twice a week for stress tests. When I went in for my last ultra sound to check my placenta, (which turned out fine, Yay!) the baby was measuring very small, a month behind to be exact. So the Doctor made me appointments to come in every week to check my water levels. I only had two stress tests before the baby came! I had a regular checkup with my doctor April 12th and that is when he gave us the news. The baby wasn't growing anymore,so why are we going to keep him in? This is basically what his story was and he then sent me to be induced! Being Induced is such a crazy/scary feeling. I waited so long and anticipated everyday of when the time was going to come. I would drive myself crazy! When would I feel my first contraction? Or when my water would break? Not knowing when the baby is coming seemed like such a better feeling. I was excited for the day that something would happen, on its own, surprisingly. I was so terrified knowing that I was going to go into labor right here, right now.
Next We Drive 200 feet to the hospital, texting and calling everyone I knew, as well as my Mom and Husband. : ) I get there, get checked in and ready, get dressed in My Cute (NOT!) hospital gown and the Nurse didn't waste any time! They inserted a medicine into the cervix to start the loosening process. I don't remember what it was called exactly, all I remember was that it felt like a ball of card stock being shoved up my hoo! :/ Talk about unpleasant and uncomfortable! So, The medicine had to be in for 12 hours and then I would be checked to see if it was working. If it wasn't, I had to get another dose. Oh how I was praying it would! I was having mild contractions with the first dose, it was very hard to sleep! The Nurse gave me a medicine to relax me and put me to sleep. That nurse instantly became my bff. : )
So 12 hours comes along, I get checked, and I am only 1/2 dilated! Yep, a 1/2. I thought, Ohhhhh great this is going to be a looong day. So the nurse gives me another dose of card stock medicine (that's my new name for it). Two hours goes by and I start bleeding. I got up to go to the bathroom and blood and big clots of blood were falling on the floor. (Sorry ,tmi! It was quite shocking to me too) So the nurse checks me and the card stock fell out. The nurse said I was dilated to 4 and we were moving onto bigger a better things, Pitocin! Meanwhile, The doctor and nurse don't know why I am bleeding. I am going crazy as well as my family, thinking why aren't they checking my placenta? We ask the doctor (which wasn't my regular doctor. I hate Kaiser!) to check my placenta and he says he thinks the bleeding is from the card stock medicine. So they switch me into a new room, the "labor room" (Dun Dun Dun) to go ahead and start pitocin.
Within an hour I start gushing blood and the baby's heartbeat is slowly dropping with every contraction. I was having contractions every 3 minutes for a minute long. I tell my Mom, "Mom,I just felt a big gush,look." I will never forget the look on her face and the sound of her gasp "oh my god." (I am trying to remember everything that happened, but I was so out of it and in so much pain, I'm sure there is more I don't remember.) So my mom goes running down the hall looking for my nurse. After 5 minutes my Mom finally found her. The nurse then comes in, lifts my sheets to take a look and starts panicking and yelling for a doctor.
At that point my hospital room turned into a freak out room. So many people coming in and out. People Rushing around and talking. From doctors coming in and out, the doctor telling my family to get out, to the nurse shoving and turning me from one side and over to the next, over and over trying to get the baby's heart rate to change, to the gushing of blood, to the nurse checking me, to the pain of contractions, to my family members looking at me crying and not knowing what was going on and what was going to happen. I was just lying there thinking I am experiencing hell on earth. Did I mention my regular doctor always wanted to give me a C section from the beginning because of all the problems I had and what I faced during my pregnancy? He came in when I first got induced and told me the reasons why he was or would do a C section on me. He was working when I first got to the hospital, not when I actually went into labor. Sad. : (
So the doctor checks me, says I am dilated to 5 and that my placenta is fine. But he still doesn't know why I am bleeding so much, he just doesn't know what it is. It was so many bad things happening at once, I can't even recall what happened next exactly. The baby's heart rate was still dropping with every contraction. I was still gushing blood and in so much pain with the contractions as well. Also, The nurse wouldn't give me an epidural! When a contraction would start she would make me turn from side to side to try and find a position where the baby's heart rate wouldn't drop. If you have been in labor before, you know you cant even breathe during a contraction,let alone get up and move yourself around!
The doctor then tells the nurse to take me off Pitocin and see if the baby's heart rate will get better. She takes me get off and the heart rate does get better. I am still contracting pretty bad and still dilating, so the nurse finally gives in to giving me an epidural. As they are getting ready to give me an epidural I start to gush A LOT. The worse my contractions were, the more I gushed. The doctor checks me again, says the placenta is fine and just decides to break my water to see if it gets the show on the road quicker to get this baby out ASAP. So he breaks my water and it makes everything worse. As soon as he took his tool out I thought I was going to die. I didn't think these contractions could possibly get worse! I definitely thought wrong. There are no words to explain the feeling of contractions. Excruciating doesn't even do justice! Now I was dilated to 8. Breaking my water made my contractions worse which made the baby's heart rate drop to its lowest. It went down to 0 at one point. Luckily it came back up. Now my room was freak out room times 10. The doctors don't know what to do. They try to make things better by inserting a tube into the uterus to give the baby water. They also put another tube up with a monitor on the baby's head to measure the heart rate perfectly. They also put a cathader in. OH EM GEE right? Wish I could of seen that picture.
At this time the anesthesiologist comes in to give me my epidural. I am so happy to be getting this, but little did I know they were just getting my hopes up. Probably just shutting me up because I kept asking or screaming for it! : ) I get the epidural and the bastards only give me a drop every 15 minutes. I now know they were keeping the best interest in my baby, but at the time they were bastards! They didn't want the medicine to effect the baby's heart rate even more. Thank you doctors! : )
15 minutes after I get the epidural the doctor comes in and checks to see how things are going. I am STILL gushing water and blood with every contraction, and now dilated to 9cm. I'm STILL turning from side to side because the baby's heart rate is STILL dropping with every contraction. The doctor FINALLY says this baby is stressing me out, we are doing an emergency Cesarean NOW! HALLE-FREAKIN-LUJAH! I was the happiest woman alive! My husband... not so much, he was crying his eyes out! Poor thing! He was so scared for me and his baby. I was telling him, "Baby, it's going to be okay, I'm Happy!" The doctor saw him balling his out and said, "You better decide if you or her mom is going in with her because we are going in now!" My mom is crying saying , "Cody, are you going with her? Are you going to be Okay?"
He then says yes hes going with me and the nurse then says to him,"It will be okay daddy, Ill be in there with you!". And we were off, strolling down the hallways of the hospital to the Cesarean room. My mom grabs my hand as she is going the opposite way and says, "Good luck" with her quivering voice.
We get into the Cesarean room and the doctors are running around rushing, counting things, and getting everything ready. Then the anesthesiologist gives me my spinal and the baby was out in 10 minutes! It turns out the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck 3 times! When the doctors pull him out I hear them say,"What a stinker!" They also named him turtle because the cord looked like he was wearing a turtleneck! So that's the reason why his heart rate kept dropping. Each contraction was tightening his neck, making it drop.
Now that the baby was out,I could only be so thankful it was all over with and that my angel was here and healthy! And of course hearing my husband yell to me,"Baby,he has all his fingers and toes!" HaHaHa, Men!
This experience was definitely an experience of a lifetime. An experience only mothers can have. The most amazing feeling and happiness attaining from something so frightening and terrible. So bittersweet. Something I will go through again in a heartbeat. Something so worth it!
Brody Russell King
April 13th 2010
4 lbs 11 ounces.
5:25 pm.

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