Merry Christmas

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hard Weekend

Ryleigh had lots planned for this weekend!

First she had to call a few people!





Then she got right on her chores. First and foremost helping Mom with the laundry!




Then she had to get her hair done!



After that right back to the cell phone call her Meme and tell her about her weekend!




TYPICAL GIRL

NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO HER PHONE BILLS!

Chelsea

Hey Chels We hope you have a great day today! Happy 13th we love you bunches!

Orcutt Family

Sick

This last week has been a tuff one on us! Ryleigh started feeling bad last Sunday, she has a bad cough and runny nose and you can just tell she is not feeling good. We took her to the Doc and her gave her some meds and they turn my sweet little daughter into a zombie! She walks around like she is sleep walking! Marissa and I have both caught it now and we are doing everything we can to keep Ryleigh from catching it and again! Anyway, pray for us all to feel better! While you are praying everybody at work has been sick also, a different kind of sick! So pray for them and their families too!

Family

Let me tell you a little bit about my family. I grew up in the same town as my cousins, and we were more like brothers then cousins. After college we all got scattered all over the US. My sister JoAnne (by the way that is where Ryleigh's middle name came from) moved to the Vancouver Washington area with her family. My brother Luke decided he would like to live out there for a while also and moved out there with my sister for about a year with his girlfriend Anna. My older cousin Joe and his wife Sarah moved to Boston for a year and are currently living in the Ft. Worth area. My cousin Josh is in Stillwater with his sister Jessica my youngest cousin, where Luke is also currently living and going to school with Anna and one of my cousin from my mom's side Timmy (I think he likes to be called Tim now). Anyway to make a long stry short, or at least shorter, my point is that we don't get together very often anymore! But last weekend most of us got together at my mom's place near Tulsa. It was a great time we played games, talked about the old times and some of the stupid things that we had done as kids (I am not going to mention the field fire or catching the building behind my parents house on fire) some of us where pyros but I am not going to name any names! It was great fun! I can't imagine life without my family. I just wish we could get together a little more often!

**LOVE YOU GUYS!

The Ending of T-Day

Well ok so how was everybody's Thanksgiving? Mine was good! Marissa and I spent lots of time with family and ate lots of turkey, among lots of other things. Marissa did some shopping, but I will let her tell you about that. I did some hunting and found out that my brother and I are not good deer hunters. I am ADHD and can't sit in one place for very long! But it was good to spend time with my brother, lots of things are said even when you're not saying anything! Well let me know how your T-days went!

Happy Birthday

Well today is a very special day for my sister! Happy Birthday Sis!!!! How old are you today Sis, 24 or 25?

Where has time gone?

Where has time gone? It seems like just the other day I was sitting on the floor wrapped in my dinasuar blanket watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on saturday morning, ok so I did that last saturday too! :) I will be 25 this year! I have a beautiful wife and a darling daughter. Man time flies! I can remember sitting in my room praying each night that God would make time hurry along so that I could get out of school go to college and start a family. MAN WATCH WHAT YOU PRAY FOR! Well instead of gripping about how old I am getting I thought that I would tell you some of the things that I am thankful for! First of all I am thankful for a God who interacts with me everyday. who has given me so much in my life. I am thankful for my wonderful wife who dispite all my many flaws still loves me unconditionally. I am thankful for my little girl who teaches me how to stay young everyday! I am thankful for the health that God has given my family and I. I am thankful for the friends that my wife and I have at work. I am thankful for so much more, I would type all day! what are some of the things you are thankful for?

Change.....

I knew that having a kid would change my life, but I never thought it would change things this much! Ryleigh for some reason has been not sleeping very well. She has been waking up around 3:30 am ready to play. Of course at 3:30 or 4 I have only been home from work for about an hour so most of the time I have just gotten to sleep. But anyway, the other morning mom had just about had enough so she just brought Ryleigh back to our bed. I woke up enough to know that she was in there, but quickly went back to sleep. I little later I woke up feeling like I was getting stabbed in the back, come to find out it was just Ryleigh's toe nails and cold feet on my back. I rolled over and told her that hurts dad, so she sat up leaned over gave me a kiss laid her head on my chest and played with my hair like she was saying sorry now go back to sleep! She is such a smarty pants!

Health Foods

With the Holidays rapidly approaching everyone is thinking about how to eat healthy, while I am thinking what can I do to be able to eat one more turkey dinner this year! As some of you know, this year I was going to completely miss having a T-day bird, because I have to work (somebody has to be on the streets slowing down those frantic mothers who forgot to buy the cranberry sauce). Then my beautiful, loving wife decides to invite our families to our house the day before T-day and she is going to cook me a bird! THANK YOU! I am all for eating healthy, even though I hardly ever practice it, but holidays are meant for pigging out and loosening that belt. For those of you who know me, know that I eat well most of the time, but I jump at the chance to overindulge! I love the holiday meals! I love preparing the candies and the chex mix, as a family of course. Anyway for those of you who are health nuts be happy this Thanksgiving, go back for seconds! I will leave you with a quote that I just love!

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

My Niece

OK, this has been on my mind lately, oh about 13 years ago my sister had her first child Chelsea.......I believe I was in the 6th grade. Dad came and got my brother and I and we took off to Alva. I will never forget the joy mixed with fear on my father's face. When we got there, there was lots of waiting around, but when the time finally came I was the proudest Uncle Ben in the entire world! I remember holding you just minutes old Chels. If you haven't noticed Chels this one is just for you! At that time you were the most beautiful baby girl I had ever seen! My eyes filled with tears, and of course because I had a tough image to up hold I fought the tears away. Chels I want you to know that we think that you are still very beautiful and you are going to drive the guys crazy! (of course I don't want to hear about it because you will always be a little girl to me) From the time you were born Chels I have prayed for you. You are very talented and have lots of emotions to share with the world! You just remember when you become famous that there are still those of us back home who changed your stinky diapers (at least it wasn't in my truck and got all over my seat like your brother!)

My Nephew

Now it is your turn A. Of course I can remember the day you were born too. What I remember most though is every afternoon the year after I graduated. I don't know if you remember, but I attended Vo-Tech and after class was over i would go to your house for lunch while I waited to go to work at the computer store at 1. We played every day! I ate lunch with you everyday! I miss getting to see you everyday! You got mad at me some days because you got tired of your old Uncle Ben, but I never got tired of seeing you! You are going to have to come stay with me sometime! I will even give you Bailey's spot on the floor for you to sleep on! Anyway I won't get all mushy with you I know you have a tough guy image that you have to look out for! Anyway to both of you guys, we miss you and love you and can't wait to see you over your spring break!

PIGS

Now I know there are some cops out there that don't handle things in a very good way, but that does NOT mean that we are ALL bad guys. I had a couple of experiences last week that have just really got me thinking. Let me tell you about them. First of all I pulled over a vehicle for speeding, the person in the vehicle happened to be a fairly wealthy man from here. Before I could even get to his window he was yelling at me about how this was his town and he didn't get stopped in his town. I proceeded to make threats about calling a local judge that was his friend and that he was going to turn me into my Chief because what I was doing was illegal. To that I responded, "My name is Ben Orcutt my badge number is 58 and my Chief of Police is............and he is there everyday during the week, would you like the phone number?" He didn't like the fact that his threats didn't scare me. Then he began to tell me that this is his town and I was not going to write him a ticket in his town. To which I walked back to my car and wrote him a ticket! When I walked back to his window to ask him to sign the ticket he began to call me every name in the book in front of his 2 children one of which was laying in the backseat without a seatbelt on, and is only 7 years old. I was praying that he would refuse to sign the ticket so could drag him out of that car and calmly escort him to the county jail. But he signed, but not before telling me how big of a di%& I was. WHERE IS THE RESPECT! What I didn't tell him was a week before a caught a truck going the same speed in the same spot and he was to drunk to walk let alone drive! See there i could have saved a life by stopping a person for the exact same reason I stopped him. Will i do it again, you bet with no second thoughts! The next night while another officer and I were patrolling at 3am we saw a guy walking behind a Church, strange place for a guy to be at 3 in the morning, so we stopped to talk to him. After talking to him for a minute we could tell that he was very intoxicated! He told us that he would rather walk then drive, pretty smart drunk! Anyway I told him that if he wanted to get in I would take him home, to which he repsonded, I don't want to be arrested. I told him I said a ride home not to jail! Would a cop really try this tactic, I'm sure there are some, I just don't know any. Well anyway I thought this picture would go good with the theme of the post. Tell me what you guys think about this.

Too Cute Prints

I came across this webpage the other day and I thought that I would share it with all of you!

www.toocuteprints.com

They can handle all your card needs! oh by the way it just happens to be my Wife and one of our good friends! They are awesome at card design! Also a shoutout to my sister who made the site, so if you like it and need one of your owe contact her at:

www.bleuaime.com

A night out with a lady bug!

Today is Halloween and kids are going to dress up like scary mummies, wicked witches, ugly ghouls, and horrific monsters, but my beautiful daughter is going to be a precious ladybug. She is old enough to trick or treat even though she isn’t old enough to say it. She loves candy, but can’t eat much. Marissa and I love our little lady bug!

Temples

This weekend while at work I got into an argument with a teenager about Marihuana. He wanted to know what was wrong with smoking a little pot. Well first of all and most important, IT IS ILLEGAL! Now I know that not everybody abides by the law, I mean I speed every once in awhile myself, but I do try to be a law abiding citizen! When did law enforcement become the enemy? I mean we are just doing our jobs and doing it the best we can! I chose to write on this for one reason, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” I know that people want to believe in something! I know that people are looking for heroes, why else would we be paying our professional athletes so much money! Why not look towards God. He can fill that empty spot in your heart! We feel like we are always searching for something, because we are! God made us and we long to know our Creator. What would the United States be like if we all treated our bodies like they were a temple of God. I can only imagine! They would be no need for my profession!

Time

Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely.
-- Source Unknown

Count Your Blessings

I was sitting here at work about to send a card to a lady who's husband had past away recently when the song "Count Your Blessings" popped into my head. It's a song that you sing over and over in church, but I never really stopped to think about it. We should be thankful for the things that we do have, but they are often forgotten and we have a tendency to remember the bad things or the things that we don't have. I'll take myself for example. Today is Ryleigh's birthday, instead of being sad that an entire year has already gone by and my baby is growing up, I should be thankful for the wonderful 12 months that God has given me with my amazing daughter! She is truely a blessing. So, think about the song, and if you aren't familiar with it, look the lyrics up and think about it while you are reading them. Count your blessings, one by one!!!!!!

My Baby's Momma

I would like to take a little time to tell you about my wife, Marissa. Marissa is such a caring person, she loves to give (of course she also loves to recieve, especially if it has a diamond). Anyway, I love to watch her with our daughter, she is a great mother! She teaches me new things everyday. She is the one person who helped me understand unconditional love. I have done many things wrong, but she forgives me and prays for me, and we start anew. Sometimes I wonder if I could ever tell her that I love her enough and then she does things that let me know that she knows! I want to tell you about the first time I saw my wife, it was after I had come to college. In high school, I dated a lot of girls. One of which I had become very close to, there was even talk of marriage right after high school. Well to make a long story short, she broke my heart. I dated a few people after her, but being with them never felt right. So I gave my "dating life" to God. I told God that I would quit looking and let Him take over my dating life. I had already given Him everything else, why not this too! I didn't date for almost 2 years, which was very hard for me, because I like the attention of the opposite sex! Anyway, I was at the BSU (Baptist Student Union) aka Baptist Collegiate Ministries at other colleges, (Side note if any of you are in college and looking for a place to hang out with great Christian people your own age, CHECK OUT the BCM) with my brother. Two girls walked in and one of them instantly caught my eye! A blonde haired, dark eyed angel!!! I couldn't take my eyes off her. I asked my brother who she was and he told me the wrong name. Anyway, I told him at that point I don't know who she is but I am going to marry her! Now she is my loving, caring wife and the compassionate mother of my daughter. Doesn't God work in mysterious ways?!

One Year Ago Today

There is a baby site that I go to quite often and there are dozens of message boards, I belong to one that is just for parents that have babies born in October 2004. That way you can talk to all kinds of people that have babies the same age as your own. One of the threads was titled "One Year Ago Today" and you were supposed to post what you were doing one year ago today. Many of them posted about going in for a scheduled c-section or induction (both are quite popular these days) or the first few days home with their new baby. One year ago today was my due date, I was still working and waiting, obviously nothing came, I was still waiting the day after when I went to the doctor, and the day after that when I went back to the doctor. Finally, 4 days after my due date, Ryleigh finally decided to come (shows the Orcutt side right there, LOL).

Mom and Dad

I mentioned my Dad in one of my other posts, today I would like to tell you a little bit about my parents. I will start with my Dad. My Dad was a rough, tough man that owns his own business and has been doing REAL physical labor (working with his hands) for his entire life. I really look up to my Dad, and hope that some point in my life I can be even half the man he is! Growing up I can remember my Dad working hard all day, gone before sun-rise and home after sun-set, but he could still make it home to read my brother and I a few chapters out of whatever book we had chosen for him to read. Most of the time it was Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn. He would come into our rooms and we would sit up and listen to him read. The thought never crossed our minds that he had been working all day and he had not had supper yet, but he would still spend time with us first. I remember one summer when my brother and I were little, we had been fighting out back (Luke I think this might be the time you threw the brick at me) and Mom caught us. Previous to this, Mom had busted my brother and he turned and laughed at her, so from then on out we got the “GO TO YOUR ROOM AND WAIT FOR YOUR FATHER TO GET HOME!” Well this time Luke and I went to our room, of course not talking to each other and waited in silence on our beds. I was watching, well probably glaring at Luke, because this was not the first time I was in trouble and it was his fault. All of the sudden like watching a light come on, Luke got an idea, so without saying a word he gets up off his bed strips down to his tighty-whities and started putting more underwear on over the top of his used pair. I told him it would not work, mostly because I was jealous that I hadn’t thought of it. Anyway a little later Dad comes in and gets me and takes me to the other room, and without even asking my side of the story, because Mom was the Judge and Jury and Dad was the executioner, tells me to lean over the bed and he busted me. He then told me to go back to my room and tell Luke to come in, so with tears in my eyes I did just that. I can remember sitting on my bed listening to Luke beg and plead, then I hear the swat, and Luke’s cries. I kinda laughed inside and thought that he got it worse then me! Then Luke walks back into the room by himself, as soon as he gets into the room and pulls the door shut his cries became a VERY BIG SMILE. Moral of the story kids, put on your clean undies no matter what the situation. Once I was in High School, my Dad and Mom both went to every event that I was in, no matter how big or small it was. They would take time to come to basketball games 2 or 3 nights a week. Mom would always have plenty of food ready after the games, because she knew that our house was always full of boys after the games. My Mom is great about that. Now let me switch gears and tell you about my Mom. Remember my story, my Mom was not too weak to bust us, on the contrary, her bustins often hurt worse then Dad’s, but I think it broke Mom’s heart every time her boys were in trouble and even worse when she had to spank us. My Mom is one of the most loving women I know, she would give you her last dollar if it meant you were happy! I love you Mom and Dad, thank you for everything!

What God has instore

Yesterday I was in conversation with one of my really good friends, who just happens to also be my cousin. Before I go on let me tell you about her. She is about 5 years younger than I am and she grew up with four boys around. My brother is a year younger than I am, her 2 brothers (one of which is my age and the other is 2 years older than I am) and myself. I look back on it, and it must have really been a challege for her, having that many boys to protect her and pick on her. I hope she knows that we only did it because we love her! Anyway, while I was talking to her she was telling me about a job interview that she recently had to turn down so she could finish school. It sounded like it was her perfect job, and one that I know without a doubt she would be perfect for. She was kind of torn up about it. Let me get to the point, it seems that our human nature is always wanting us to jump the gun on God's plan, we are very impatient people. Especially in today's society, look at everything around us, fast food, quick stops, drive thru coffee houses, whatever happened to enjoying a cup of coffee? Everytihng around us is in and out business. But God has a plan for our lives, and if we wait on Him and not try to make our own plans then He will surely bless us 100 times over what we couldn't even imagine! The scripture tells us in James 5: 10 & 11 "Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy." Can you imagine the kind of patience that Job had with God throughout all of his sufferings? God please today give me Job's patience and Your love!

All About Me

I am a Police Officer with the Alva Police Department, and I love my job. Lots of people ask me, "why a cop?" They go on to explain, there are a million other jobs out there that pay more, have better hours, and are a lot less dangerous. So here is my explaination, my father Woody taught me when I was young do to the work that I love to do and I wouldn't feel like I was working my entire life! Excelent advice Dad (thank you). I know that I am under paid, and that I take a risk every night I put on that badge, but I love to go to work. How many people can actually say that? Not many, I don't know that statistics, but I am sure 90% or more of the population hate going to their job! So my advice to people is try out jobs, if you don't like it don't get stuck there! Pray about it, God answers prayers! He answers mine, Law Enforcement wasn't even an option when I came to College! Not only do you have to pray about it, you just have to put faith in the fact that God will deliver! God has provided for me and my beautiful wife so many times that I couldn't even begin to keep count! Even working in an occupation that pays next to nothing!

First Post

Ok guys this is my first post, and let me just tell you that I am not an English major! I am terrible at spelling and grammar so don't expect my English to be perfect. I will try, but I won't make any promises!

Ok, I will explain the title of the blog.....boogerbear. From the day my baby was born, October 17th 2004, I have been calling her booger or boogerbear. Now I know that she is going to hate me later in life, but what doesn't kill her will only make her stronger!!