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