Happy BirThDaY BreNneN!

Well tomorrow is Brennen's 22nd birthday. It's about time I do a post about him. I do all my posting about Dav so it's time to post about my husband. So, excuse me for a minute while I brag about my husband. I think I have the rights, he's mine! Here are a few things I love about Brennen:
*He honors his priestood. It is so nice to have the priesthood in our home. It's awesome to have him give Davin and I blessings.
*He is an amazing husband. He lets me know how much he loves and appreciates me regularly.
*He is an awesome dad. I have loved watching him with Davin. He takes awesome care of him. He baths him, changes poopy diapers, feeds him, puts him to bed, etc. He does it all..he's awesome!
*He works hard to provide for our family. He is working a couple of days at the Chevron right now so I don't have to worry about working while going to school.
*He helps me out around the house. Brennen is so awesome about picking up chores while I'm at school or whatever. He does laundry, scrubs the bathroom, vacuums, etc.
*He's a mommy's boy. At first, I'll admit, I wasn't too fond of this. But, I've decided I think it's pretty neat. I hope when Davin gets older he loves and respects me as much as Brennen loves and respects his mom.
*He's a good big brother. He likes to pick on them and get them going but he really loves his little brothers. Griff was so sad when Brennen moved out. He wanted me to move in with them.
*He is authletic. I love to watch him play sports.
*He loves to take us to the mountains. He is always asking me to go with him - he pretty much demands it. He isn't one of those guys that leaves their wives home during the hunts, he wants me to be right there with him.
*He has a big heart and cares about others.
*He is hott! His blue eyes are to die for!
*He is outgoing. He hates sitting at the house. He likes to be doing something. Usually something that involves the mountains. I must admit I complain about him being in the mountains alot but I guess I should be glad he isn't lazy.
*He is funny. I hate it becuase when I don't want to laugh and I want to be serious, he makes me laugh.
*I cannot be mad at him. If he knows he I'm upset or something, he always finds a way to make me laugh or do something that makes me give in. I'm a sucker.
*He fits in great with my family. I seriously couldn't have picked a better husband to fit in with my family. He can talk to my brothers and my dad about anything and everything and he has a great relationship with my mom. They just tell each other how it is and it's funny! I think she's heard stuff from him she wishes she would have never heard.
*He is a people person. I remember when we got engaged I had all these older people telling me how lucky I was and that I picked a winner. I would ask Brennen how the heck he knows all these people and I guess it was from carrying out their groceries at Mikes.
*He loves his grandparents. I have always thought it is so awesome how much he cares about his grandparents. He is always wanting his grandpa over to go to the hills with him and he always says we need to go check on Grandma Marshall.
I could go on and on about the things I love about Brennen. He is so awesome and I consider myself the luckiest person in the world to be married to him.
Thanks for listening to me brag!
Happy Birthday Brennen!

My 8 Month Old Baby :(

I cannot believe Dav is eight months old! It makes me rather depressed. However, he is getting so much fun! His personality is so cute and I love watching him grow and learn new things.
Here are some fun facts about Dav at eight months:
*He is an amazing army crawler. He gets up on all fours and goes about 4 steps then drops down and just army crawls.
*He pulls himself up on about anything and everything. He gets really mad when he can't reach something to pull himself up.
*He lOvEs to dance and let me tell you he has rhythm. Whenever music comes on he starts bouncing like crazy. It is so cute. I think he got used to listening to music in the womb when I drove to school all throughout my pregnancy.
*He loves to sleep with his blanket over his head. It stresses me out! No matter how many times I go in and pull it down it will be back over his head in the morning. He is a great sleeper. Sometimes I have to wake him up for church at 9. He usually sleeps about 9-10 hours a night.
*He loves to eat! He actually loves all kinds of baby food and eats 2 jars for lunch and dinner. Now that we give him our food, he wants it when he sees it. If you have a plate in front of him, you better watch out becuase he'll be diving for it.
*He loves to talk and sing. He seriously has the cutest lingo. He babbles like crazy. He likes to sing himself to sleep at night.
*The car puts him right to sleep - love it! I never worry about taking him on trips becuase no matter how tired he is, he will more than likely fall asleep. If not he just sits back and enjoys the ride. I'm so glad he is good in the car and doesn't hate it.
*He loves to bounce and bounce and bounce and bounce! He should have some really strong legs.
*He loves getting in the tub.
*He weighs about 22 lbs. He's a stout little fellow.
*His cheeks are well known throughout Beaver. Everywhere we take him people want to pinch his cheeks and everyone always says how fat and cute his cheeks are.
*Some nick names he has picked up: Dav, chubbs, piggy, large-marg, bud, and Dav-r-doo.
*He is well loved. I have no idea what on earth we would do without him. He is such a blessing in our lives.

Its the first..but I'm sure it won't be the last!

Well, I started back to school this month and I must admit I LOVE IT! I really didn't think I would ever like school - especially college.. I'm sick of school, I'm going to be a super senior, it's time for me to move on with my life, but I can honestly say I LOVE IT! I'm actually kind of nervous and sad it's getting close to the end. I love the education program and I love learning about ways to teach kids and all that fun stuff. This semester I have a class where I go to the SUU preschool lab. I seriously love it. I wait all week to go there. It is so much fun! I get to teach next week and I'm pretty stoked about it. The unit is oceans and I think I have a really fun lesson planned. Anyways, I'm taking 21 credits so its a pretty big load. I'm getting pretty sick of the drive but its okay I guess. All I can say is I am sooooooo thankful for my mom and my mother-in-law. I would be stressed out leaving Dav 5 days a week if it wasn't for them. They are so awesome and its so nice to know my little guy is in good hands. I was going to take the block over the summer and student teach during the fall but I decided to take the summer off. So now I'll do the block in the fall and student teach next spring. Brennen plays bball every Tuesday and Thursday nights and he coaches our wards bball team on Tuesdays. They just started an archery club here on Wednesday nights so he has been doing that as well. So there you have it, life with the Ortons! Here are some cute pics of Dav. and what he has been up to lately. By the way...Dav has learned how to say mamma! LOVE IT! It's seriously sooo cute. Yea, his dad is a little upset but he'll get over it!

Dav loves to lay on our bed and watch Baby Einstein

One of Dav's favorite places to be....lookin out the window. I will sit him on the couch and he pulls himself up and plays in the blinds and looks out the window. Its so cute he bounces on the couch and gets sooo excited. He thinks he is a hott shot...I think he is too :)


Dav has learned how to pull himself up. This table causes me a great amount of stress because he loves to pull himself up on it and then he'll get all excited and ..SmaCk ... he hits his mouth and those two little precious teeth and then he screams. He is a speedy little bugger. He has my magazines off the table in no time and ripping pages and all that good stuff. As soon as I see him getting up on the table I try to move him over to the couch as quick as possible. I am quickly reminded why I am perfectly fine with him not crawling or walking anytime soon...to late I guess! He doesn't really crawl, he will get up and go for a sec and then just plops down and scoots to wherever he needs to go. I'm sure its hard work keeping that fat little belly up in the air that long. It's got to be tough! He just figures he'll roll and scoot to get where he needs to go. He has mastered the army crawl and he loves getting into everything! Let the fun begin... ahhhh!


Pulling himself up has led to this...his first bloody nose. Hence the title...its the first but I'm sure it won't be the last. Brennen and I were laying on the ground playing with Dav and he was pulling himself up on me. Well, he decided to be tricky and push off me and stand on his own. He did this a couple of times and would stand for like 2 seconds and then just fall back on me. Then he was standing against Brennen's legs and he reached for me, right when I turned my head, and he face planted it right in the ground. Yea, he was screaming. It didn't take long and he was over it. The bottle solves everything.

Davin's First Christmas

Christmas was a blast this year!! Even though Dav didn't have the slightest idea what was going on it was alot of fun! I loved setting out his toys, putting him in his lil' pjs and all that fun jazz! Christmas Eve we had a dinner down in Milford at Brennen's aunt Robin's. It was so nice with lots of yummy food and a good time visiting with each other.. Then Christmas day I think Dav knew Santa came because he woke up at like 6:30 which was very rare.. but I was so excited we brought him in and let him see his toys and everything. We got ready and went down to Brennen's parents and watched his little brothers open all their presents from Santa. It's so fun becuase they are young and get so excited! Then we went up to my parents and had lunch with all my siblings and nieces and nephews. It was lots of fun as well. Brennen and I were very spoiled as well. I got a new camera, which was a total suprise, a Roberts gift card(love love love Roberts), a Dooney and Burke?? purse from my in-laws(THANK YOU), and some other fun stuff. Brennen got a new rino radio with a GPS in it, shoes, clothes, ties, etc. He also got a really nice coyote call and some camo from his parents. Christmas was a success at the Orton House!
Our big present..new TV!! Thanks mom and dad!

Christmas with Dav was so much fun! He got this cute little Rockin' Homer that I love and I am also disappointed in...I thought it was alot bigger..it looked alot bigger in the catalog but it is still super cute and Dav knows just what to do on it. It sings the ABC's, take me out to the ball game, and counts. He got alot of clothes, books, and fun toys. I can't imagine what we would do without him!

New Pics

My cousin Shanell just started taking pics so

we had her do some of Dav for a Christmas

card and his six month old pics.

These were some of my favorite.

This one has a nice drool spot...he never

has a shirt without one.

Christmas bow on his back

Little Shepard Boy!

Tonight was our ward Christmas party and

we were asked to dress up like biblical times.

I couldn't really get creative with me and Brennen

but I thought Dav sure looked cute! It was

a really neat program and a great way to

remember the TRUE meaning of CHRISTmas!

(He is extremely tired of being a shepard boy

by now so thats the reason for sober sam!)

A Little Orton Fun!

WARNING: This is a pretty long post! ... I haven't updated for awhile so here are a few pictures of what we have been up to.

So I didn't really get any good pics on Thanksgiving.

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving. We had it up to my

mom's this year and then we went out to Brennen's

house later that afternoon and hung out with his fam.

It was alot of fun. Dav LOVED LOVED LOVED the pumpkin

pie with whip cream, rolls, and a little soda! Here he

is chillin with the boys watchin football.

Here's a nice blurry picture of Dav's FIRST TOOTH!

He cut the second one yesterday but you can't see

it good enough to take a pic of it.

Dav seeing SANTA for the FIRST time! He liked him, he didn't

really notice anything special, but he liked him. The big

flash things went off in this pic but I still think

it is pretty cute.

Here's a random pic of Bren at the Turkey Bowl.

I didn't get alot of good pics because quite frankly

it was to cold to get out and I didn't want to freeze.

I know...i'm a baby! Anyways, his team took second

this year and he had alot of fun. He played QB which

was fun and interesting! He was so sore the next

day I think he was sure he was going to die!

Here is Dav chillin in the car at the Turkey Bowl.

Unfortunately, we had to stay in the car becuase

it was FREEZING cold.

Dav watching TV. He can roll over from

his back to his belly but he CANNOT figure

out how to get back over. It's so funny

he'll like get his arms in place and everything

but he just can't get his hips to move. I

think I'm okay with him not getting

to mobile yet though. It's only a matter

of time before he's into everything.

Dav sitting up. He's doing pretty good sitting up.

He'll stay up for ten minutes or so. I guess i should say

when he's in the mood other times he just lays back....

Like in church when I think I have him sittin perfect

and I'm totally into the lesson and all the sudden he

starts screaming because he fell over and hit his head...

other than that he does pretty good :)

How CutE Is ThiS?
Dav patiently waiting for the next bite..

you better not make him wait to long or
it turns quite ugly!