Orrin At His Finest

Orrin is growing into quite the little man, he will be 20 months soon. He loves being outside, anything to do with trucks, loaders, Elmo, and dogs. He has become friends with twin boys that are about 3 months older than he is. Hudson, Tate, and Orrin love to have play dates and one ends up hitting the other and drinking from another ones cup. Kristy and I have just learned to ignore most of it unless one is crying. I can't wait for this summer when we can all enjoy picnics and taking the boys on fun get aways. Orrin eats much more and definitely has his favorites such as: Popcorn, any fruit, cheese, and anything daddy is eating. Orrin loves his daddy more than anything and is still Todd's little "TWINKLE." We got Orrin some bunnies and he loves to chase them around the lawn. He is talking so much now and other people are able to understand him now. He goes potty on the big boy potty most of the time as long as we are home, which makes me so happy! Soon this little guy will be a great big brother to his "Aya." I can't wait to watch him with her.

My Sweet Boys

Today has been one of those days. As I could hear Orrin in his bed, wide awake at 6:45 I wasn't too sure if I wanted to drag my tired, pregnant self out of bed quite yet. However, when I decided to go get him and he gave me a sweet kiss and SQUEEZE hug I was happy I did. This little guy has changed my life in so many ways. He has shown me that no matter what I look like someone can still love me, that the house can be filthy and he doesn't mind, that I can not do the greatest job in mommy-hood one day and he forgets about it in 15 minutes. My life now revolves around Orrin and I wouldn't have it any other way. For Mother's Day Todd is getting me a patio furniture set, but I have yet to find one I absolutely love. He is such a great husband and an even better daddy. He has given me the gift of our children and the gift to stay home with them. He makes me so happy, we have our rough times but who doesn't. I am so grateful I GET to spend eternity with him.

Pregnancy!

A quilt I made her
Giving sweet kisses to Leila

34 weeks

20 weeks

15 weeks

So now that we all know I am pregnant here we go on the details. I found out October 19th, I was pregnant and it was a very happy day. I went to the doctor soon after and was able to see the sweet little thing growing in my tummy. I am due on my birthday, June 28th and couldn't be more excited. I am now 34 and a half weeks along and it is starting to go by a lot quicker than it did with Orrin. We found out we were having a little girl, and I think I am more excited then Todd is. We have decided to name her Leila Suria, Leila after Todd's great-grandmother Callen, and Suria after a lady who he called his second mother while on his mission. I have been busy at work making things for her and getting the nursery ready, we only have one room close to us in the new house so Orrin and Leila will have to share for a while. This is pregnancy is definetly much different than with Orrin, and she doesn't move as much as he did. I am hoping that is a sign of what is to come because Orrin is a CRAZY MAN! We can't wait to welcome her!

AFTER A LONG TIME AWAY...

I figured it was about time I updated my blog as much has changed and gone on since the last time I did. I believe my last post was after Orrin's birthday. I will slowly but surely try to touch on all the special events that have happened. Starting with oldest event and working our way forward.

• Orrin and I took a trip during the middle of October to visit my Grandpa and Carolyn in Oregon for four days. Orrin was a wonderful little traveler; however, it is not easy packing everything a one year old needs in an airport. We got there and the weather was wonderful. We absolutely enjoyed our time with them and are so grateful for the hospitality. While we were there I wasn't feeling too hot and knew something was brewing. I decided to take a pregnancy test and sure enough got a very solid positive line! It was so hard keeping the news from Todd, but I wanted to be able to tell him in a special way! We finished up our trip and the "THREE," of us headed home. We arrived in Boise late, but I decided I wanted to drive home as the news was killing me. We pulled down our driveway, I got Orrin out of the car and ready to show daddy our news! While in Oregon I found an adorable "I'm A Big Brother," shirt and knew it was perfect. It was a dress on him, because apparently no one is a big brother until size 4T. Knowing Todd wouldn't really pay attention to the shirt, I also wrote a little post car that said, "Daddy, I am going to be a big brother," and hoped Orrin would hand it to Todd once he saw him. Sure enough and daddy was so excited. I will share more pregnancy on a different post.
• Next HUGE event is ... A NEW HOUSE! Todd and I had talked from the time we had dated on the enjoyment we would have or owning a home that was big enough for our future family and one that our kids could grown up in and then bring their kids to. It soon became a distant dream as the home we had was wonderful and worked perfectly us at the time. That dream soon came popping back into my head as I drove on a road I never traveled and saw a home for sell that I fell in love with. I went home that night called my mother-in-law and said I wanted to look at this home, not knowing the price or anything, I JUST KNEW!! Luckily Todd was on board and we soon were walking up to the steps of our soon-to-be home! As soon as I walked in and Orrin took off like he owned the place I knew I had to have it. We talked about it, looked at a few other places, and went back to this particular home many times! Todd and I both prayed about it and decided it was a great choice for us. We did what we had to do and received the keys on November 20Th, and slept here that same night! We absolutely love the house and have been so blessed that we were able to upgrade at such a down time in the economy. As for our old home, it sat on the market since late October until just two weeks ago when we were back in the title company this time signing papers to sell the home!! Again the blessing we have received during this time are tremendous. So happy we didn't have to pay two mortgages for longer than we did.
• We can just kind of talk about all the holidays together as they are the same every year! Orrin was the cutest Dinosaur for Halloween, he would "ROAR" every time I put him in the outfit. As far as Thanksgiving goes, my mom and sister were in Moscow with my brother so that just left my dad and us to celebrate. I cooked the traditional sausage souffle for breakfast and for dinner we had a feast of turkey (my first EVER, and Todd said it was the best turkey he EVER ate considering he hates it that is a very big compliment,) green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, and so on. It was very nice and quiet little holiday. As for Christmas it was wonderful. We bought our Christmas tree from the guy we always but it from. We decided we needed about an 8 foot tree, (we are used to our old tall ceilings,) well we got it home and it was about two feet too tall. I felt like Christmas Vacation with this huge tree going to poke through our ceiling. Todd cut it down and I decorated it soon after. This year I decided I wanted a train to go around the tree for Orrin, so I found the perfect one at WalMart. HE LOVED IT!! Orrin understood Christmas this year a little more than last and loved opening his gift. Santa definitely spoiled him, but when he is as cute as he is he deserves it!! Todd also was spoiled as I searched for two months prior to find him all the old Transformer toys, if you know my husband you know he is just a little kid in a HUGE package!!! He also did a wonderful job getting me gifts. We didn't go all out on gifts for each other this year, as we decided we wanted to give to one of Todd's co-workers and his kids. It felt much better to give than too receive and I am glad Todd felt that way as well.
• Onto the new year... We have welcomed it full swing and are excited for the many adventures we get to celebrate this year soon with the FOUR of us. We have already celebrated Easter, and Orrin did great with the eggs. He knew mommy a.k.a THE EASTER BUNNY, hid candy in the eggs so he was on a hunt. Both Todd and Orrin received an Easter basket as I do every year. They loved them. Onto many more holidays...

I'll now have to add pictures, but unfortunately I have to do that from my other computer so it may take a bit. I am so grateful for the blessings I have received and the gift of a wonderful son and husband.

Orrin's 1st Birthday and Zach at Home

We got to celebrate Orrin's 1st birtday by going and picking up Uncle Zachie at the airport. I was a litte nervous that Orrin wouldn't recognize Zach when he would come home, so I have been showing him pictures every day. Luckily when Zach got there, it was like he never left. Orrin was so excited to play with him once he got in the car. We brought up Zach's wonderful girlfriend Carrie with us, and that was also like Zach never left as soon as he arrived he snuck up behind her and scared her. What a dork!! So that is how we celebrated Orrin's actual b-day, well we also went had two lunches one with Auntie Kenzie, and one with Gma Sandra and Papa Dennis. The next day is when we celebrated. Unfortunetly I was very sick and Orrin had a cold the day of his party DARN IT!! Mommy headed off to get birthday cakes, THREE to be exact. I had planned a party for Orrin about a month prior to have it at Hop 2 It, which is this huge building full of blow up bouncy toys and slides. However, I completly forgot ORRIN was afraid of those kind of things. Once we got there he very much enjoyed it. All of the neices and nephews helped Orrin open his gifts, and he got so many wondeful things. We thank all that made it. We then went home to let Orrin eat his own cake and open his present from mommy and daddy. We got him a cozy coupe which he is always in and packing all of his stuff for his "road trips," daddy got to put it together but was such a good sport.

Cabin Trip...

Orrin and I were lucky enough to make a 5-day long trip up to Alturas and stay at the Callen Family Cabin. We spent the vacation with Grandma Sandra, Auntie Manda (and all the kids,) Anne and Rob's family, and a little of Papa Tash! Rob had borrowed a friends boat and I was able to do quite a bit of wakeboarding (which I have missed very much)!!! Orrin was okay on the boat, but HATED his life vest!! We were able to spend a lot of time just hanging out on the beach and enjoying to beautiful mountain air. Like I mentioned in my earlier post Orrin is not walking, so that was pretty difficult with many bad things to trip on or get into, luckily we had no injuried! The last day we were there we made a trip down to Redfish where we layed in the sun, and Orrin actually played in the water. We went on a paddle boat and floated around on a little blow-up toy! We very much enjoyed ourselves, but we were very happy to get home to daddy!!! Here are some fun pictures of the trip!

Way TOO Long!!

So, It has been way too long since I have gotten on here. It just seems like I can never take the time to actually get this blog up and running the way I would like it to. Not much has changed with Todd and I, his birthday is coming up soon and I am planning a little time to ourselves!!! Also, we are coming up on our two year anniversary... HOW EXCITING!!! As far as Orrin goes a lot has happened. First off... HE WALKS EVERYWHERE. He is saying Rampa (Grandpa,) he says mom-mom, da-da, and he calls the puppies and kitties. He has gotten down patty-cake, and especially loves the "throw it in the oven," part! I can't believe he is just about a month from turning ONE!!! Time goes by so fast, and I am so thankful to have such great family that has helped me from day one. We have done some traveling that I will add tomorrow.