hello new faces!

some visitors who came to meet brand spankin' new heath. the pictures are not great because we were using whitney's camera and we are terrible with it, as it turns out. 

whitney!

our baby photographer! thank you thank you thank you for coming in the earliest morning hours and hanging out and being there for ALL of it! heath just really likes you... you can totally tell.

auntie saige!

i was so happy to have saige in the room this time (they wouldn't let anybody in with beckett!) and for her to get to meet heath the moment he was born! i hope she thought it was cool and not traumatizing. i think she was fine about it. and she videoed! yeah! heath of course loves his auntie so much.

yiayia!

yiayia was boarding an airplane to seattle as heath was being born... since he decided to come a little early. this made her go a tiny bit insane, but she got here just a few hours after he was born! heath found time with yiayia very relaxing right from the beginning.

natasha!

natasha spent the morning with a confused and dramatic beckett, while heath was being born. thank you natasha for hanging out and being so sweet with our boys.

lonnie!

heath is so appreciative that lonnie took a picture with him! lonnie got our meal deliveries organized so we wouldn't have to cook when we got home. we just have a lot of really great friends. we are thankful!

jennifer, grace, and jane!

i think jane maybe thought about kidnapping heath. she just loves babies so dang much. it really is pretty much the cutest. mike (jennifer's hubby and the girls' dad shares a birthday with heath!)

i look like a slug in this picture, but i'm over it.

thanks for coming to meet heath on his first day of life!

it's a nice day for a white wedding

sometimes you have a friend that has four babies. and because she had a sickie pregnancy and is providing nourishment for many, many mouths, she loses a lot of weight. and she makes a comment about how she could probably fit in her wedding dress again, after over 15 years. and a 15 year marriage means a 15 year old wedding dress... which means the 90's in all of it's glory. and you think that you probably need to see your friend in that dress. but that would be weird... to make her wear her dress for no reason. so, you decide you should put on your dress too. and also some other friends should wear dresses. and it will be like a wedding dress party. and that dress from the 90's... it does not disappoint. it is awesome. and it has a veil that matches in style and awesome level. did you know that the taller your veil is the better? it means you're closer to god. i just learned that. and do you know what a silk flower bouquet means? it means you have your bouquet to use in a photo shoot 15 years later. whoa. as icona pop would say... i. don't. care. i love it!

mother's day

"mothers are all slightly insane" jd salinger

(true that jd...)

for mother's day matt planned a lovely brunch at the kreitlow's house. we had crepes and other good things, but mostly i only care about the crepes. with whipped cream and strawberries. yum. the kids crafted and we ate and hung out and took some mom pictures and it was relaxed and nice. 

i hope all the moms i know had a great day and felt loved and appreciated... because our job is hard. the hardest. and also the best. sometimes the worst. mostly fun. except when it isn't. no wonder it makes us cuckoo bananas.

lonnie's birthday

for lonnie's birthday this year, we went to red robin. and you know... ate french fries. and celebrated the birth of lonnie.

check out harper. she is already spent on these ridiculous boys. love her face.

i tried to take a table shot... it didn't go well. 

lonnie loves loves loves having the spotlight on her. she is a major diva, so she loved the happy birthday song.

happy birthday lonnie!

welcome to the planet, sawyer belle

so, this is another delayed post! i was holding out for my own pictures, but that's not happening and now the time is just getting away from me. i am very happy to say, that sawyer belle has officially joined the king family. she came pretty quickly after her due date (totally opposite her big sister... she already just wants to be unique). i met harper just a few short hours after she was born, but i couldn't get over to meet sawyer until she was 13 hours old. i am ashamed! sorry, sawyer... i swear i'm not going to play favorites in the future. sawyer is very precious and looks a lot like harper (some people don't agree, but she does... trust me). i am so thrilled for lonnie and ryan and their newest (and apparently final) addition to their family. welcome, welcome sawyer! we can't wait to get to know you better!

(lonnie made this announcement and i stole it. i'm not a total weirdo who makes announcements for other people's children. i swear.)