Living Like Kings

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Favorite Time of the Year

It's the best time of the year...FALL!!

Heath and I love fall with the comfortable change in weather, the beautiful colorful leaves, hikes, bonfires and of course FOOTBALL!!

Hiking in Cartersville, GA with Coalie...


Puppy loves exercising to the point of pure exhaustion!

Bonfires at home...

Raking leaves (Coalie helped)...

Bama Football

Heath got to attend the Alabama vs Mississippi State game in Tuscaloosa

Mr & Mrs Gray

For those of you that attended our wedding you will remember our friend Sarah Luke. She was the wonderful lady in charge of making me look so beautiful that special day!

Heath and I got the chance to help the stunning bride, Sarah, celebrate her wedding on September 26, 2014 in Dahlonega, GA at a stunning winery setting.

Congrats and all of our love to a dear friend as she embarks on one of life's greatest journeys!

Some friends offered Heath and I tickets to the Garth Brooks concert in Atlanta this past September. Heath has seen Garth in concert at least 2 times back in the 90s but I never have. I didn't really care if we went or not but after going I am SO, SO glad that we did. It was a total bucket list experience!

First of all, Garth still absolutely rocked it despite being his 5th performance in only 3 days.

Secondly, I had not realized just how much Garth's music had been the soundtrack of my teenage years. He was also my first introduction to country music. Almost every song Garth played had me reminded of a different high school moment. It also made me reflect on what a journey my life has been on to land in Georgia, married to a true Southern gentleman, expecting our first baby together!

Thirdly, this was also around the time that I first started feeling the baby move and could tell that he/she was enjoying the music and dancing as much as I was!

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Prince -OR- Princess

If you haven't heard the Royal Couple is expecting baby #2. Will Prince William and Princess Kate be adding a prince or princess to the Royal family?!?

AND in other news, the Kings will be adding a PRINCE or PRINCESS to their palace in the red clay.

"Baby Makes A Splash in February 2015"

Heath and I are beyond thrilled, anxious and a little nervous about becoming parents!! So far the pregnancy has been going very well and baby and mom are healthy. I am still exercising regularly, mostly running and taking Coalie on hikes. I have also been lucky enough to convince Heath to wait until Baby King makes it's grand enterance into this world before we find out if we will have a little PRINCE or PRINCESS!!

It's funny how some people we tell that we're waiting cannot imagine the idea of not knowing the sex. Some people can't imagine not being able to plan ahead based on sex but I truely don't feel like knowing the sex will help us be any better preparded for the extreme life-altering event that is about to occur! Instead I feel like it keeps the excitement elevated and I can't imagine a greater surprise in our adults lives! It also doesn't allow us the chance to become anxious about our abilities to raise one sex or the other. And beyond that, I very much look forward to the calls to our family members and friends revealing the news...Prince or Princess, Son or Daughter, Grandson or Granddaughter, Neice or Nephew!!

Overall, our anatomy screen at 20 weeks went very well. Baby is hitting all of the markers as expected. The baby does have a Choroid Plexus Cyst in the brain but our doctor has reassured us that all other tests and measures indicate that this is an anomaly that will completely clear up. We will have another ultrasound at week 28 to verify this. From what we have learned the choroid plexus cyst is present in the non-thinking portion of the brain where the cerebral spinal fluid is made and is somewhat like a blister, not a defect of the brain itself. The babie's body should reabsorb the fluid with no long term issues.