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.