Kylan Corey King

Here is to my beautiful wife of to whom I have been married to for an exciting 2 years.  I am looking forward to many more years to come filled with adventures.

Many of you readers out there are wanting the scoop on the birth of our little munchkin, Kylan.  Well here it goes.  Saturday, February 13th I was working at the ORC.  I received a text at about 3:30 from Jentri telling me that she is experiencing "period like" cramps.  I think, "sweet he's coming, we will have quite a while until he actually gets here".  See, in our birthing classes we were told that on average first time labor is around 12 hours.  Well, I get off work at 5 and pick up Jentri.  She was feeling great so we went and picked up some last minute groceries.  We came home and I fixed dinner, at 6:30 contractions got a little stronger but not strong enough to send us running.  After dinner she got into the tub to try and relax and possibly help with the small contractions.  While she sat relaxing I proceeded to get things put into the car.  While in the tub Jentri's sister called and they chatted for half hour or so.  Jentri was doing great, being able to talk through contractions and very cheerful about things.  At 8:30 a contraction hit like non other, doubling Jentri over and lasting for 1 1/2 minutes.  This is when we decided to get a move on.  On attempting to get her out of the tub another contraction hit again dropping her to hands and knees, this one lasting 2 minutes.  Those were only 2 minutes apart!  At this time I knew we had better hurry.  So, in a rush we ran up to the hospital, called our midwife on the way (who is a half hour away and is thinking that we are going up prematurely).  We get into the exam room and Jentri has already hit the phase called "transition".  They hook her up to monitors and find that she os at 8cm!  They also find that Jentri's blood pressure has skyrocketed.  About this time my memory gets blurred.  They transport Jentri to the delivery room, our midwife enters the scene just as our baby is crowning, one more push and he came right on out.  We arrived at the hospital at 9:15-9:30ish and delivered at 10:08.

So, there is the story for my perspective.  Jentri will have to edit as she seems necessary. Now here are some photos of the event.

In the exam room

Almost here!

While the nurses were freaking our midwife was so casual.

Aint no heavy weight!

Aunt Jana, first family on the scene.

First hello before going to the NICU

Just back from the NICU

Hello Daddy

Nap time after a long day.

Baby naps we all nap.

First photo shoot once home!

Watch the photo blog for Kylan's first photoshoot!

He's Here!

He was born Saturday evening at 10:08pm weighing in at 6 lbs 7 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long.  Mom and Baby are happy and healthy.  We had an extremely FAST delivery.  Our midwife showed up just in time to catch him as he came flying out.  We are still in the process of trying to catch up on sleep and adjust to this new friend in our lives.  No name has been chosen as of yet.  Keep tuned in for updates later.

Purely Beautiful

I have always found pregnant women to quite beautiful. I still hold that to be true and I have proof! Jentri was kind enough to be my model for my studio lab.

Birthdays Galore!!!

Here's just a quick little update of happenings here in Iceburg.

Corey had to volunteer to help out with the Special Olympics for a class and just guess what his job was last Saturday, come on Guess.... He had to ski all day at Grand Targhee!!! Poor him right? Since he knew that was going to be his job he asked his dad if he wanted to come with him (since the coordinator said it was ok and that he could have a free pass too. oh yeah did I mention that they BOTH got to ski ALL day for FREE!!!) So Ron came up Friday night, hung out, and went skiing for his Birthday all day Saturday.

Saturday, while the boys were out skiing, I decided to hang out with my sister Jana in Rigby just for the fun of it. We hung out, went looking for fabric so I could make a moby wrap, went grocery shopping, and made two very fabulous tasting birthday pies. (Ron never wants a birthday cake all he asks for is pie, since Saturday was Ron's birthday and Monday was Jana's, we made two.) Here's the recipe, I got it from Rachel Ray.

Chilled Raspberry Cream Pie
Ingredients:
1 cup heavy cream (we just used whipping cream)
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
3/4 cup sugar
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
One 10-ounce package frozen raspberries (any berry will do I promise)
2 teaspoons lemon juice
One 9-inch pie crust, baked and cooled

Directions:
With an electric mixer or whisk, beat the cream and almond extract until stiff peaks form

In a sauce pan over medium heat, bring the sugar, gelatin and 1/2 cup water to simmer and stir until the sugar and gelatin dissolve. Remove from heat, add the berries adn lemon juice and stir until the mixture begins to thicken.

Fold the whipped cream into the berry mixture and spread in the pie crust. Refrigerate until set, a few hours or over night.

 

This was all that was left after the boys got done. Sorry it's not pretty people, I forgot to take a picture before we cut it, but TRUST ME it's yummy!!!

After making pie with my sister I had to run back to Rexburg so that I could go with the boys to the Peking Acrobats up on the BYU-Idaho campus. It was a good show and Ron had a great time. He even said that it was the best birthday he'd had in a long time. After the show we ate birthday pie and headed off to bed. The pie was super yummy and very easy to do, so easy in fact I think I'll make another one for Valentine's Day.

Jana, I'm sorry that I didn't actually make it to your house for your birthday but I want you to know that I love you and I was thinking about you all day. I can't wait to come and play with you again soon. I am so very grateful that God gave me a sister and a friend like you. I don't know what I would do without you.

Our Biggest Wish Items

The few things that we really want for our first and future little ones are some fantastic outdoor equipment that will make our lives a lot easier. They are all made by a company called Phil & Teds. Here are screen shots of each product being as their site is done on flash and you cannot pull images out of a flash. There is a store here in Rexburg that carry each of these for cheaper than you can find anywhere! They will also beat any prices that you may find. Phil & Teds are made in Australia for the outdoors crowd.

The buggy is available now with the extra seat and a bassinet for free!

The traveller weighs only 6 pounds and packs to 2' long by 8" diameter!

The escape comes with rain/wind shield and stirrups for your kid!