The very newest Orr

As many of you know, we are going to be adding to our family in a few months. The evidence is pointing towards a boy at this point, so we are moving forward with that hope in mind. He is a healthy and happy fetus at this point, with very wiggly legs. We are so very excited to meet him!

Alannah

Alannah is getting around pretty good these days by crawling and cruising around on furniture. One of her new favorite activities is to open the cupboards and drawers in the kitchen; raiding them of their contents faster than her mama would like. As of yet, she hasn't shown signs of picking up after herself, but we are hoping this will come with time!

New paint in the dining room!

So one day, Jessica decided that the white walls in the dining room were rather boring and on a wild hair, painted the 3 walls in green stripe. Nick was undecided at first about whether he liked it or not, but in the end everyone thought it was an improvement. Now if only we could get the rest of the house done...!

The princess campout...

SInce it was the last of the camping season, Emberlea decided it was time for her princesses to hav a campout on the living room floor. They all slept in sock sleeping bags and had their respective stuffed animals for comfort. EMberlea and Mama put them to bed around the campfire one night and they all slept soundly (we can only assume!) until morning. At least no one was hurt this time!

Alannah's First Birthday!

September 30th, Alannnah turned one! We had a small get-together with some of Nick's family over for dinner and cupcakes for dessert. Alannah got to open her presents, with lots of help from her big sister. Emberlea even voluntered to "help" play with the new toys as well. (Wasn't that generous?!) Alannah enjoyed one whole cupcake to herself and had lots of fun looking at her new things.

4 yr. old Cubbies begin again

As fall came around, Emberlea started going to her AWANA club at church again. She is in the four year old Cubbies group now, which meets upstairs with the "big: kids!

Matching nightgowns!

The girls got matching nightgowns this summer, which was a thrill for Ember. Alannah was indifferent! But we got a cute picture of them on Emberlea's bed.

Lane County Fair

We went to the county fair in August and took the kids. It was a hot day, over 100 degrees. Emberlea got an airbrush tattoo on her arm, got to ride the plastic ponies on the carousel, and also a real one! That was a highlight for her. We didn't go on any of the rides, but we did take a look at some of the exhibits (where it was air-conditioned!) and got dinner from the food booths. We were waiting around for 8 o'clock when the musical act was to begin. This year on that Saturday of the fair, it was Chicago (minus Peter Cetera), which we really wanted to see (ahh, the eighties, such good memories...). Although we didn't have tickets to actually sit in the concert area, since it is an outdoor venue, we could stand at the back fence and watch from about 50 meters back; still be blown away by the volume of the music, which you can hear quite clearly, even in the parking lots! We only heard about 4 songs before Alannah started to get fussy, probably a little loud for her baby tastes, and we decided to call it a night.

Family times...

Just some silly pictures of when we were out to eat one time.

Emberlea and Ruthie got to spend some time playing together and running around at the Oregon Garden where the wedding was held.