Christmas Festivities

We started off Christmas Eve sledding with some friends. Eli had the most fun.

Christmas morning. This is like the 4th year that Mason has wanted some kind of sword thing. This time it was a sword that turns into a gun. We keep getting bigger.

I am so against any sort of gaming system. X-box. PS3. Daegan has no self-control when it comes to those things. But.....I wanted the Wii. We have only had it a few days and it's a lot of fun. (Daegan did stay up 1 night playing Mario kart until 3)

After opening presents we headed off to Idaho to see my family. The weather was n-a-s-t-y.

Here we are eating at Jaker's. My sister is a waitress and hooked us up with free food. My grandparents from Star Valley came to visit us. I love old people.

Daegan got me a gift card to a spa which I am really excited to use. I LOVE being pampered. I hope you all had a great Christmas. We have really enjoyed getting all the Christmas cards. Maybe I will get crazy and send out cards for Martin Luther King day or Easter.

Opposites

This is what Daegan does when it's -11 degrees. This is what I do.
Would you be inside with me sipping hot chocolate?
Or freezing outside with Daegan.
Seriously.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I didn't send out Christmas cards this year. All the family pictures we tried to take I just didn't look good in. Hard to believe, I know. You can stop checking your mailbox twice a day for a letter postmarked Montana. I am wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!!! (via blog)

Love, the Orrs

smart thinking

The kids had some chocolate cake yesterday and it was all over the kitchen and the carpet. I vacuumed today. The kids wanted more cake. I made them eat their cake outside. Because I'm not vacuuming twice in one day. It was a comfortable 40 degrees. They ate it fast.

This could have been all over my floor. Smart thinking. And I didn't even go to dental school.

I should write a parenting book.

happy happy happy

My little girl turned 4 yesterday. She spent the morning at pre-school and later we had a family dinner at home. What? You don't want to go out for your birthday? No, she wanted mashed potatoes, chicken, and green beans. Tomorrow I am taking her and 2 of her friends out to lunch. Here is my baby on her blessing day.

Such attitude.

Another reason to celebrate.....I made fondant for the first time.

All she wanted was a baby. And a crib for her baby. I don't have a picture but we got her a little pack and play for her little one.

Happy Birthday Camden!