The Hunger Games

So those of you who are fans of Twilight and go to Stephanie Meyer's website might have seen her recommendation to read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I actually got the book awhile ago but I got started reading it when me and Jeff went on our cruise last month. I just finished it today and I loved it. I think that everyone would like this book. Even boys! I know some boys think Twilight was kinda sappy but I have to say this book is pretty raw at times. I have already told Jeff that I think he would enjoy it. So I finish this book about ten minutes ago and am like what that's it. At the end it just says, 'end of book one'. I am glad to find out that book 2, 'Chasing Fire' is coming out in September of this year. I have been sad thinking that the Twilight saga is all done, but now I have this book to look forward to. I am curious if anyone else has read this book and what you think. If you are looking for a book to read and ant to get into something new this is definitely a fun read...and not just that but it keeps going starting in September. This book has romance, suspense, heart ache, and just kicks butt, literally. I had a hard time putting it down. Hope I have inspired one or all. Let me know what you think.

What the freak dude!?

For those of you that watched the Bachelor this season...you know what is coming...WHAT THE FREAK!...I am beyond bugged with stupid Jason. I am totally team Melissa so was so happy when he picked her but then at the after the final rose thing after the finally he was like " Uh, I am a freaking prick so I am, uh ,changing my mind and want dumb Molly instead." I hate him. Melissa was able to get some of her feeling out and confront him on his crap but ugh! Seriously!!! Who does that? I hope Melissa finds an amazing guy and I wish her all the best in the world! All I have to say to stupid Jason is,"Seriously...seriously...you have got to be kidding me. I never liked Molly and now I don't like you either...you chump! Eww...man you suck!"

And that's all I have to say about that!... Boo to Jason and Molly...Boo!

I wanna be sedated!

Adi went to the dentist last Saturday and both the dentist and I agreed that sedating her would be the easiest way to get in get things done and do a cleaning. Adi hates the dentist like most people in the world and it is quite an ordeal when she is awake. I pretty much have to hold her down and I assume it is not very easy working in a mouth of a moving kid. So we get called back and Adi is already leery but the nurse is really nice and gets her watching a movie. So to sedate her I thought they give her gas or something but it is actually a shot they give her in her arm. So they poke in her arm and she starts crying but the nurse is like," Just give it a minute and she'll calm down." She was right because Adi started to stop crying. Jeff asked her," Do you feel funny?" and she said," Yeah!" She was out. So they said for us to go out into the waiting room and that we could come back and check on her and they would come out and give us updates. You could say me and Jeff kind of freaked out a little bit. It was the first time we were seeing one of our kids sedated. It was weird! So me and Jeff would take turns checking on her and then a long while later she was starting to wake up.We took her into recovery where she needed to start waking up and eat a Popsicle. If she kept that down we could go. The funniest part though was when she started to talk. She said some funny things...

"I see two Daddies!"

"Did I fall asleep? Did they clean my teeth while I was sleeping?"
(she looked toward me and showed me her teeth and held her mouth like that for I swear was like 2 minutes. I had to tell her to close her mouth and just rest.)

"I feel funny!"

"I love sugarplums...they're my favorite vegetable."

as she shakes her head back and forth..."It's like being on a ride!"

pretty much everything she did was drawn out so when she said everything it was super loud and her words were all stretched out.

"Ahhh! Everything looks silly!"

"Mama how long til' my eyes fix, I see funny!"

So if you want more of a clue of what Adi was like check out this little kid after he went through the same thing.

Adi was pretty much just like this kid. I wish I would have brought my camera. It would have been pretty funny. Maybe next time...I was just thinking I wanted her to be okay and wasn't thinking how funny she would be.

Seriously just copy the link below and watch it....It is HILARIOUS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs

Cruise'n Craze!

First fancy night on the cruise

Out in the sunshine and loving it!

Quinn and our favorite server Darwin

It was so nice to give all our attention to each other!

First port- Puerto Vallarta

Lunch on the deck in Mexico

Shopping in a crazy market in our second port- Mazatlan

Hi Quinn!

Boat over to Mazatlan beach

On our way over to Cabo- 3rd port

Hello Cabo san Lucas!

4-wheeling...woo hoo!

Cabo was such a blast! We had so much fun!

Crazy beautiful beach, right!?

Look at me go!

Look at my 4-wheeling man!

Back to our boat in Cabo...yeah we kissed a lot...

no kids remember!

The boat always looks so much bigger from down in the water

This is the last fancy night on our way back to L.A.

You can't see much of me but this is the only

pic we got of the main lobby.

Back on land in L.A. at the Botanical Garden...excited
to get home to our babies!

We had such a great time! Now we need to go on a 10 day fast!

My not so little, little boy!

My handsome man! I can't believe how big my boy is getting.

Hats and more hats!


So cute!....He's becoming quite a ham for the camera.

He is the sweetest little man in my house...sorry Jeff! He is starting to talk and communicate and his personality is so funny. I love his guts! Good thing he never gets sick of his mommy huggin and kissin him. I think he is pretty fond of his momma as well! LUCKY ME!

Long over due and reposted best and worst of 2008

Okay here is my list of the best and the worst of they year. Books, TV, Music and Movies.

Books. I read and listen to a lot of books and audio books this past year, (none of them published in 2008). There a few that stand out. The first was written in 1986, Watchmen by Alan Moore. Watchmen is a comic book or graphic novel, the story about a group of real people that start being Super Heroes. The Story is amazing. The movie will be out in march of 09. The movie is directed by the guy that directed 300 and we know how much I loved that movie.


The Road, by Cormac Mcarthy was written in 2006 is a post apocalyptic novel about a father and his son trying to make it to the coast with little food and a gun with only 2 bullets. This is a gripping novel Its so grim that I wanted to stock pile weapons and ammo after reading it.


Music, My CD of the year is the new Coldplay Viva la vida. Just as amazing as you can expect from Coldplay. I think that there are a few new to me groups that I have taken to this year. Parahamore is one of them. I am just going to list a few bands, Kings of Twilight. Silversun Pickups, Unicorn High school, The Raconteurs are all good. Also the Twilight sound track is really good.

TV: The best new show of the year has been Fringe. Try to get caught up on this show if you can. I am still enjoying the old favs Big bang theory and How I met your mother, The Office and Chuck, Also Dexter was extra good this season.

Video games: I moved from the Wii to the 360 in 2008. I will say the wii was fun for a month or so but it never cured my itch for hard core gaming. The 360 scratched that itch. Game of the year goes to Call of Duty 4. Rock band was the runner up. I played a few good games this past year but I still played Call of Duty 4 the most. Its the best game I haver ever played.

Movies: Okay so This is all about the Dark Knight and the Joker. I love batman but the Joker is pure awesomeness. When I watched the movie I couldn't even think that I was watching Heath Ledger It was just the Joker.

I really loved Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr was perfect for the role of Tony Stark. I remember that they were talking about making Iron Man a few years ago with Tom Cruise in mind as tony. He passed, moron.

Brad Pitt gave one of his best performances in Burn After Reading. He wasn't in the film very long but he was the funniest part of the movie.

Here are a few others, Across the Universe Pick up the sound track if you like the Beatles, Gran Torino , Tropic Thunder again Robert Downey Jr was amazing, and Defiance. I am sure there are others that I forget to mention.


My worst of 2008

Books: Twlight hahah I just put that in to tick off my wife!

I really can't list a bad book that I read this year, a bad book is easy to close.

Music: When we moved back to Utah I gave up my XM radio and has the displeasure of listeing to Utah radio again. In the after noons there was a DJ that did the drive time slot he called him self Parker well he sucked. He was a name dropping self promoting d bag. He also introduced me to the worst band in the history of music Thriving Ivory. I really can't say enough bad about this band the lead singer has the WORST voice ever. Here is a video to prove my point.





Sorry that I subjected you to that, but you understand what I am talking about now.


TV: I have to say that Heroes was a good show when it first started but in its thrid season every darn character got powers and they did so much time travel it was just too much. We as a family gave it up.


Movies: Last year was so easy I hated so many more films last year, I am going to say that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a huge disappointment. Why did they have to go and screw up a great movie by adding a 4th film? Oh yeah money. Someone should put a leash on George Lucas. He only has 2 good movie franchises and he ruined both of them so I guess the worst is over.

Handcock was a steaming pile of garbage. The whole movie was in the trailer, well the good parts that is. Both of them. I don't care much for Will Smith but Handcock was crap.

Okay so this took FOREVER to write and finish. I hoped to have it out the first week of Jan but oh well I am a busy guy.

Puke Party!

So you can probably guess what this post is going to be about just by the title but let me tell you all about our fun weekend...So on Thursday of this last weekend Brooke Gibson and I took our kids on the front runner train and to lunch. It wasn't too cold but I think that Adi was mostly effected by the lovely air quality we get from the inversion. Yuck! Anyway...we got home and Adi was coughing a little bit but nothing too bad. Well on Friday she was coughing more and then sick had arrived by that evening. Fun weekend right!? Well Saturday night was the peek of it all. Adi fell asleep watching one of her shows and woke up coughing and crying. She wouldn't calm down and started coughing so hard that she was gagging. Friday night she threw up a little so I thought we were lucky on Saturday...but the night was not over yet. Kohen had been asleep during all the Adi drama but just after she had fallen asleep and I was about to go to sleep Kohen started to move around and then the puking started...and again...and again. Spaghetti-os and milk he had drank before bed all over my bed. So we cleaned up, changed sheets and p.j's , and Adi woke up in the process. So the kids were up and not acting very sleepy. Kohen gave in first and finally Adi fell asleep too. Ahh! Sleep at last...and it was only just after 2 a.m...but...weird thing...Kohen didn't have a fever and wasn't coughing so I didn't know why he just started throwing up. Well, while Jeff was washing out the towel we cleaned up with Boots' arm from Dora was waving hello. Adi has a book and you can make your own scene with little vinyl stickers and Kohen was playing with it right before bed. It seems he was having fun pulling poor Boots apart and thought his arm looked tasty. I found poor Boots and he is also missing a leg. Hmm... So it's Sunday and almost bedtime. Adi just puked coughing too hard before dinner...hopefully that will be it for the night. I guess we will see...please please please I hope that we are done with puke party! What a weekend!

Hardworking Hubby!

So Jeff is so freaking AWESOME!...There were a couple contests at his job the last couple months of last year and the big prize is a cruise. Well...lets just say Jeff did amazingly well with all the contests and we are going on the cruise. They weren't sure about the destination and date until about a week ago but we found out that the boat sets sail on February 7th. Yeah...pretty quick right! Well I kinda freaked out because that didn't give me much time to get Kohen weened. When we first heard that if Jeff did well we would go on a cruise... I was like, 'uh oh, what about Kohen?' Jeff told me 'if you don't want to ween Kohen and your not ready to go then I can just take my dad'...Ha ha!...I don't freaking think so! I couldn't let that happen. When we get a free vacation let alone a kick butt cruise...I am going to go!...So I started trying to ween Kohen last week and I am happy to say it is going so well. I have pretty much done it. Woo hoo me! Me and Jeff are so excited for the cruise. We haven't gone on a vacation alone since we had the kids. It is definitely about time for some mommy, daddy time away from the kids....I KNOW I am going to miss them like crazy but...what ya gonna do? I am super excited and I love Jeff for kicking butt at work. Freak yeah!...So the juicy details...the cruise is to the Mexican Riviera but more specifically we are going to be on the Princess Sapphire Ship to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas. Yippee! So...thank you, thank you, thank you to Jeff...Jeff's job...Quinn ( for helping Jeff get this job)...Brad (Jeff's boss)...Tim (other boss)...and Kohen for letting me be a little selfish and ween him a few months earlier than I had planned! Did I say I am excited?...I can't wait!

bye bye 2008!

Alright... 2008 is over and hello 2009! Last year was a good year with the normal ups and downs but good. It is crazy to think that a year ago we were still in Jersey... it doesn't seem that we have been gone that long but it also seems like so long ago that we were there. Crazy life! It was hectic and stressful to move across the country again but we are so happy to get back to Utah...I think the blog showed that.

Right before we moved Adi turned 3 and in this last year she has become such a little lady. She loves tea parties, lip gloss, dressing up like a princess and anything else, playing mommy with her baby dolls and her little brother. She has been such a help to me and I can't believe what a firecracker she is sometimes. I love that crazy little girl.

This last year has been a fun one for Kohen too. A year of all his firsts. Crawling by May... then he took his first steps in July and all of that while teething...fun, right!? He seems to be talking so much more. It seems like a lot more just in the last weeks of 08. He has the most amazingly fun, and cute personality. He is such a BOY too playing with batteries, and pretty much anything electronic. (like his daddy!) He is always grabbing for the tools when they are out and he lifts up everything he can to show everyone how buff he is. Really, he does! I can't believe how much my little boy has grown. I am happy and sad to say that I am wrapped right around his little finger.

Jeff's new job was a transition but he's loving his job so much. It has been a struggle this year having to start over again but it is well worth it. I have so much faith and confidence in Jeff and his new job. We are just trekking along and happy with life...our goal is to save a then take advantage of the house market. I would be elated to get into a home...not too excited for the mortgage but to have a home again and be done moving for a while would be fantastic.

Life for me has stayed the same...rolling with the ups and downs of life...I am still in love with being a mom, almost always, and having my babies and seeing them grow is so rewarding. Probably more rewarding than I know. They really teach me so much and constantly make me laugh. I have enjoyed my time with my kids and me and Jeff enjoy the moments we get to ourselves. We have loved playing rock band as a family...mostly me... I am trying so hard to get better on the "hard" level. My big break through this year is getting some time in my head for myself by reading. It started up again with the 'Twilight' saga, then I moved on to 'The Host', then I tried Nicholas Sparks ( pretty good) and I am going to start reading 'Hunger Games', a book that Stephanie Meyer suggested on her website. I need to just start reading again but the holidays were kinda crazy. If anyone has a suggestion pass them along...I am always looking for a good book. Reading just gives me time in my head to myself and even some excitement. I love it!

I have to mention the excitement of Twilight the movie this year. I was giddy like a little child and I am sure I don't have to go on because you all know I am a passionate twilight junkie and proud of it! Twilight didn't let me down...(well some of the movie was a little cheesy)... but I still loved it and I still love Edward! Yeah yeah, I am nuts....TWILIGHT FOREVER!

Hope every one's 2008 was a good one and best of luck for the new year! Rock on!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We have been super busy the last month so you haven't seen many posts from the Kings. I am working on a End of the year list of best and worst.

We added a link to our link list Adi got a digital camera from Santa and were going to keep a blog of her pictures and art work she does. So check that out.

Everyone have a merry day!

just an update...

Ok...so I haven't posted anything about what we have been up to. Well...here ya go! The week before Thanksgiving we were packing up and moving. That same weekend my brother and sister came into town and I had showers to go to ,both bridal and baby. Busy Busy! Then we went down to St. George to the King condo for Thanksgiving. We had a nice relaxing holiday and it was really just what we needed. We had so much fun! The only thing with having so much going on is that we were able to move everything over and clean but we didn't get much unpacked. We got back Sunday night and Monday morning the unpacking began...as of yesterday I am happy to say that we are unpacked and pictures hung and that fun stuff. There is a little bit in the garage we need to take to the storage shed but I told Jeff yesterday...I AM DONE! I am really getting sick of unpacking. I think my kids were getting sick of it too...mom and unpacking makes mommy a little stressed toward the end of the home stretch. Speaking of homes stretching ...just in case you were all wondering where we were moving... we have moved into Jeff's sister Jenn's house. She has been awesome in sharing her home with us while we figure out what we are going to next and save some money. Thanks Jenn! So life is finally settling again and Christmas is coming! Ahhh! I have got to get some shopping done...I think my camera is in my box in the pantry so I will post some pictures soon. Hope everyone elses Thanksgiving was turkey-rrific!

I saw Twilight!...eeek!

Can you tell that I was excited? I was so excited....like Christmas morning excited. I even listened to the soundtrack in my car days before and on the way to the movie too. ( I know I am a complete nerd!) I have to say that over all I loved the movie. I was let down with all the stuff they cut out of Harry Potter from book to movie so I went into Twilight trying not to get my hopes too high. I won't go into any specifics so that I don't mess with your expectations but I have to say I was happy with the movie. I look forward for the next movies because you get know so much more beyond just Bella and Edward. I love these books so much and I don't think there has ever been a movie that has been better than the book it was made from. I have to say I love it!!! I look forward to seeing it again. I am curious to see what Jeff thinks....hmmm! Maybe I don't want to know what he thinks...we will see I guess. If you have seen Twilight post and tell me what you thought. Twilight...Edward....ahh....so good!

Disney on Ice!

We went to Disney on ice last week. Just us girls! We had a lot of fun but there was some of the stories that Adi didn't care much for like Penocio(sp) and Incredilble's. She has seen Incredilbe's but just doesn't care for it much. She cared more about the princesses, obviously. They did the story of Beauty and the Beast but she still hasn't seen it yet because it hasn't come out of the vault for a while now. You would think they would think about what movies have come out lately and focus more on those.The did have some of the princesses but it was kinda quick. They were there and then they were done. Anyhoo!...It was still really fun and Kohen and Jeff had great manly might as well. I am not quite sure made it manly but there ya go. We are moving this week so I am going to post more pics once things are a little less busy. Oh...I forgot my camera in the car so I googled to get this one. Mickey and Minnie were Adi's favorite part anyway. She is now telling me a Jeff that we need to go to Disneyland. I am sure they have some subliminal messages in that show somewhere...I would love to go though...we will see!?!

4th Album 4th picture...

My Friends Brooke did this on her blog and it was funny so I wanted to do it too. If you've seen it and get curious than you should do it too! Go to your pictures go to the forth album down and find the forth picture and post it...Adi is the photographer in this picture. She actually does this a lot. She just grabs the camera and takes pictures. Some make sense but others are just blobs of colors. Here is one that is actually really cute. She took a picture of her sweet little feet. Cute, right! We sure think so!

Going Private

I think the trend to go with a private blog is going to hit here at Hailtothekings.com. I have been tracking the visitors to our site and I don't really know anyone outside the USA (Other then one cousin) and we are getting A LOT of visits from places that are just weird.

I think that were going to make the change on Sunday the 9th Prepare.

If you would like to keep visiting our blog please e-mail us admin@hailtothekings.com to be added to our blog

Thanks - Admin

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Halloween!

We started our day with Grandma Fisher. We went to the Halloween party at her Senior Center and we had so much fun!

That night we did our trick-or-treating with the Gibson's...stopped at Aunt Jenn's and then moved the party to G-ma and G-pa Kings house....then stopped at Jeff's Grandma's. Quite a busy night....but a good night!

Dorothy... her ruby red slippers were her favorite part!

What a cute scarecrow!

He wasn't too fond of his hat...

....but he was the cutest anyway!

Happy Halloween!

back to the Black Island!

I said before I wanted to go back with Jeff and we did. We had a blast...I think this is a new King Family Fall Tradition. SO MUCH FUN!!!Kohen knew the way to go...actually he fell asleep half way through and woke up right at the end. It was actually me who kicked the corn maze right in the butt and got us right though with no problem. Yeah I know I am amazing!!! Oh, yeah Jeff helped too! Adi was all about the maze at first but we kinda had to drag her through toward the end. I am sure she was getting tired. What Kohen?...go that way...?

Sitting on the hay bale waiting for the pig race to start....the pig race that Adi was picked for...she had the green pig... and the green pig won!....woo hoo! Adi won a cute baby pumpkin.

We all love the sweet nectar...mountain dew...woo hoo!
I tried to get Kohen in his own cow but he kept trying to climb out!