Family Night Activity

Latley, Wes has become obssesed with candy and chocolate. A few times a day he will tell me "Mom I need chocolate and candy!". So he loved this activity!

Thanksgiving 2008

Our Thanksgiving weekend was so much fun because we got to have Orrin home for 4 days!! We were invited to Thanksgiving Dinner at our friends home, the Markwells. They cooked an amazing meal for us. It was so nice to have good company and good food. On Saturday we got out our Christmas decorations and put up our tree. Wes had so much fun putting the ornaments on the tree. We only lost a few.

Bradley Adam Mackey

Bradley was born on Sunday November 9th 2008 at 10:02 am. He arrived 13 days early just like his older brother Wesley, to the day. He came very fast, we almost had to deliver without an epidural. He weighed 7lbs 14oz and 20 inches long. We had to stay in the hospital an extra day and came home on Wednesday. He had a temperature and they wanted him to stay and be monitored and tested for infection. The fever went down in a few hours but they still wanted us to stay for a few tests to come back. I was discharged on Tuesday so Bradley was transferred to the pediatric unit and they were able to let me and Orrin stay with him. I really didn't want to go home without him! The pediatric unit was brand new so it was an even nicer room than we had been in. It even had a play room that Wes loved playing in and Bradley got a teddy bear and a beautiful crocheted blanket out of the stay. He is a very healthy boy and has gained lots of weight so far. Wesley is a very proud big brother. He is always wanting to hold him or hold his hand. He also has to make sure he knows where Brad is if he sees that I am not holding him. Wes was able to stay at our friends home, the Monahans. He loves going over there. They have helped us so many times with getting us settled out here. They are great. My mom was also able to make it out here. I love her so much and don't want her to go home--ever. It has been so fun this last week even though we haven't got much sleep, are feeding him continuously, and changing diapers all day, we have so much joy and love in our home. We are so happy to have Brad in our family!

Preparing for the Baby & Finding another Orrin Lee

So this weekend we decided that it was time to get out all the new born baby stuff and set it up. It was a lot more work then I thought. It really wore me out my feet swelled up like elephant feet. After we set up everything that we had, we took a trip to Babies R Us and got a new car seat (Wesley's old one broke) and then also stopped by Target to get some other little things. While we were checking out Orrin noticed that the checkers name was also Oren. Can you believe that is the first time in Orrin's whole life that he has ever MET someone with the same name. Which is not the case for me there are tons of people with the name Christi (Kristi,Kristy,Christie,I can go on forever:) After talking with him we found out that his middle name was also Lee. How weird is that! So there is more than one Orrin Lee out there in the world and we had to go to Oregon to find him.

Halloween Night

On Halloween Night we meet up with some friends and had dinner (yummy chili and broom stick bread sticks that were so cute) and then went trick or treating. We were a little worried that is was going to rain on us because it had been raining all day but the weather was perfect. The kids had so much fun running up to each door and ringing and banging on the door until someone came. It was so cute watching how excited they got. Each time we went to the door I tried to remind Wes to just take one and then say thank you but any time he was able to pick the candy out he would grab a hand full and if he has handed the candy he would just wait at the door until the gave him another one. After a while I just gave up. He got so much candy!! It was a really nice night.

Carving Pumpkins

Orrin had a really busy week at school the week before Halloween but we were able to find time the day before to carve pumpkins together. Wes did much better than last year and got his hands dirty digging out the pumpkin guts. We let Wes pick out the face and Orrin did a great job making just what Wes wanted. I think both Wes and Orrin's favorite part of the night is when we lit them up. Wes had to turn off all the lights in the house and we had them off for about a 1/2hour just looking at the pumpkins.

Our Wards Monster Mash

Since I have had a lot of time on my hands lately I decided to make Wes's Halloween costume this year. It was really fun for me to be a little creative and has inspired me to keep sewing. I already have a list of things I want to make. I don't know if it will continue in a few weeks when I have the baby but we will see.Even though he has never seen superman on TV or read a book about him he wanted to be him for Halloween. He loves being Superman aka. "the man who helps people". Wes was able to wear the costume for the first time last night when we went to our wards Halloween Party.
The party was a blast. They had lots of fun games for the kids, dinner, and a trunk or treat at the end. Wes pooped out on the trunk or treating after the first few cars he was done and wanted to go back to our car and eat the candy we had there. ps- my belly doesn't look that big in this picture but it is huge. Orrin had to help me up after we took this picture :)

When it was time to go Orrin was fussing with Wes to get him in his car seat because of course he didn't want to leave, and in the process Wes kick the car keys out of Orrin's hands. We looked for the keys for about 15 mins using the camera flash as a light.
Then Orrin said out loud "Were are the car keys?" and Wes said "In my bag Dad". Some how they ended up in Wesley's trick or treat bag. If wes didn't hear Orrin we would have been looking for them forever.

Happy Birthday Dad!!

Hope you have a nice birthday. Wish we could be there to celebrate with you! Love you lots

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Family Night Treat

Grandma Mackey's Visit

Last week we were able to have Orrin's mom come and visit us here in Portland. Even though I got lost a few times taking us around town, it was so much fun. We toured Orrin's school and road the tram there.
We also walked around Washington park and checked out a Japanese garden.

It was so nice to have family around again. We loved having her here and can't wait until she gets to come back :)

Wesley's Big Boy Bed

So now that Wes's baby brother is on the way it was time for him to get a real big boy bed. He loves it! I think that he even sleeps better in it because we have not had him sneak into our bed in the middle of the night since we got it. Yeah!

Beaverton 3rd Ward Camp Out

A few weeks ago we packed up all our stuff and attended our ward camp out. It reminded us how much we love camping! It was a nice campsite with a lake that only took us 20min to get to. I am hoping we can do a lot more camping while we are out here in OR. It was a good opportunity to get to know some of our ward members better outside of church. Wesley loved following a group of kids around and getting dirty. Wes had to get used to the idea of sleeping in the tent, it was a little scary at first but he did great.

Our new life in Oregon

We have been here in Beaverton, Oregon (right outside Portland) for almost 3 weeks. It has been a whirlwind and we have been so busy for the last month. Moving was so much more work then I could even imagine, but we did it with the help of so many people. We loaded up the truck and Orrin left on the 22 hour trip with his brother Adam on August 1st. They took a few days to get all the way out here and was able to visit lots of family along the way.
Wesley and I got to spend some more time with family and friends before we left. We went with my brother (Blake) and sister (Emily)to Build A Bear because they wanted to get Wes a monkey with a little message from each of them. So when he pushes on the monkeys arms he can hear them and the message.
We flew up on August 6th which was our 4th wedding anniversary. Which is cool because on the exact date we get to start another 4 years of marriage here in Oregon. These last few weeks we have been so busy trying to get everything unpacked and getting settled here before Orrin starts school but we also took sometime to have fun. We went to $2 Tuesday at the Zoo...
We hiked around Multnomah Falls...


Took a train trip through the forest...

Picked black berries from our parking lot and made jam (they grow wild everywhere right now)...

And took a trip to the coast and played on the beach...

We kept hearing that the beach was really cold and to bring coats but when we got there is was so beautiful. We wish we had brought Wes's swim suit. The water was pretty cold but you could still go in it for a little while. The tide was so crazy there. We parked our blanket and coats and shoes about 50 feet away from the water. We were there for few hours then Orrin went to get lunch. While I was chasing after Wes to put on sunscreen I hear him yell "Mom, water is coming!" and he started to run. A huge wave had hit and covered our things with water. I started to scramble for the bag with the camera and our shoes as they headed on their way back to the ocean. Luckily the trip back to the ocean was still 50+ feet so everything else stopped on the beach about 10-20 feet away. I think that it was fun entertainment for some of the others on the beach to see a pregnant lady running like crazy on the beach. It happened to a few other families while we were there so i didn't feel so embarrassed. It was still a blast but next time I think we will be better prepared.
It has been so much fun spending time together before Orrin starts school on Monday and we will have to get back into a normal schedule.

Annual Lake Powell Trip

This past week we got to attend the annual Lake Powell Trip that my family goes on every July. I have so many memories growing up and taking a family trip out there. We love it so much and never want to leave at the end of the trip. Even though I was not able to do much on the speed boats I still had a blast. Wes had fun playing on the beach that Orrin created for him and Orrin had fun trying out my uncles boat where you are able to Surf off the wake of the boat. I took a ton of pictures as usual so check them out.