Precious little Mya

Mya was taken to Primary Children's by ambulance last night around midnight with RSV. She is doing o.k. relatively, but is having a hard time breathing because of the congestion. We're glad she's there because they are taking good care of her, but it's so heartbreaking because she's just so little! She will probably have to stay for a few days. Please keep her in your prayers!

PROOF

Okay, so this post is not Nearly as exciting as the last one of Calvin's was, but nevertheless, it is to show that YES, in fact, we DO have a doctor in the family... and here's PROOF:

you R-E-A-L-L-Y wanna know??

hint: It's farther away than we all suspected.

hint again: I've been there too!

read it from the ELDER himself:

HERE

WE JUST SPOTTED CALVIN's CALL IN THE MAILBOX!!!

Some of us, (especially olivia, maya, 50% of my coworkers, calvin's facebook followers, & I) were BUMMED when it didn't come yesterday, and figured it would be next Wednesday... 

But lo and behold, it was actually in there just NOW that maya and i had a race to the mailbox.  Even through the ice and snow, and her accusations that i ran like an old lady (in my church shoes)... i still beat her, by the skin of my teeth!

calvin's not even home right now... so you all still have a chance to submit your guesses, you KNOW i'll come up with a good prize for whomever guesses closest (just like at my office) -- so you better rush in your posts, texts*, calls, emails, comments!!!  RIGHT NOW!!!

*to 7877885 tonight because i won't have MY cell with me until tomorrow.

Wii be Jammin' Ord style

The Ord family jam sessions have entered the next generation. We've got Sandy on the drums and Karli on the guitar jammin' to CCR " Up around the bend". All done Guitar Hero style!

Juarez Band- You need to come gig at our house now! We owe you! Thanks for planting the seed!

Mountain man Dan...

Hello Family!
I know you are all picking yourself up off the floor, cant believe Im finally doing this.(sue & lindsay roped me into it).Matt,Nick and I are in Utah visiting family and SnowbORDing.
We are all happy and well. Roberta, ashley and I
are planing a 50 mile bicycle ride together on March 14 in Solvang CA. Hopefully Brig will join us. Matt is working with me on the homes were building, Nick is a junior and just finished his first semester finals, he is the 1st assistant in the priest quorum and has his first girl friend. Roberta is busy being the R.S. Pres., baby sitting Jackson, making finish selections for decorating our house, and taking care of me! She works much harder than I and we love her so much for it. Hope all is well with everyone, Luv ya.

Shake Your Booty!

(if anyone knows how to rotate this photo, let me know! I don't know why it did that!)

Like mother, like daughter... or in our case, like daughter, like mother! I guess my mom was jealous of all the attention I was getting with my foot, so she went and had her foot operated on yesterday. Now we're both sporting lovely boots! At least I'm paying her back now and waiting on her a bit while she recuperates...
Luckily, I get my boot off in a couple of days, she has hers for 4 more weeks!
(Posted by Karli on Sandy's account)

Dear Amie. . .

(Sorry for all of you who are not Amie, but this is good stuff for everyone...)

This is in response to your comment on my blog post. I started to write this as a comment on that same post but didn't know if you'd see it. So I'm putting it here & I think you'll see it sooner. . .

World's Longest Comments are just as wonderful to me as chocolate mint truffles. (Believe me, that means wonderful!) Thanks for your uplifting reminder. Upon receiving the gift, I meant to tell you (well, I was going to write it in the wedding thank you card--to be printed on Monday & sent soon thereafter) that I remember that Pres. Eyring talk WELL from the Piantini chapel in the DR. I fully recognized that it was my last General Conference in the field and I have such an admiration for Pres. Eyring and that talk probably stood out to me most. Not to mention the fact that it promoted journaling so much, which I love anyway.

But I shamefully admit that we have not yet used our "Hand of the Lord" journal yet! That night that I read your message, I remembered & I'm excited! (We'd already kind of started doing it vocally each night, but I'm a much bigger fan of writing & leaving a record.) Plus that ritual is valuable on those nights after long hard days. It is so great to focus on the beauty; the positive; the joy; and the power of a loving Father's role in our lives. "Let the earth break forth into singing. . ." and me too! How wonderful to know the name by which we all can be saved. How wonderful to know exactly what God wants us to do as communicated to us by personal revelation and revelation of his servant, Thomas S. Monson. What a joy to know that because of the role of the atonement, there is HOPE! Hope is a commandment and the more we try to hope, the more hope we'll have! (I know that seems kind of obvious, but it has kind of been an epiphany for me and I just want to share it! Does it make any sense?)

That is all.

FOR BRIG... AND THE REST OF YOU TOO...

I'm excited to have branched out a bit this semester: I have one class in my schedule that is not design-related! It's Family History, and I'm really excited to learn all about it. I've always been way into journals, loved scrapbooks, kept tickets & newspaper clippings, certificates and awards, and now I get to see which of my ancestors loved these things too...

My assignments revolve around one family the whole semester. I'm going to email you, too, Brig, just in case you don't visit this every day. But I wanted to let the rest of you know what I'm up to so you can help if possible as well. (Or learn about what I learn too). It's all Greek to me now, but apparently I've got a teacher so she can teach me.

But, FYI, I have to choose one family (one set of parents and their children) with the following preferred qualities (family doesn't have to qualify for them all):

• lived in USA
• at least 4 children
  
• parents married after 1850
• at least one of the children born before 1910
• needed temple work for some of family members

So Brig, (ahem, Family Historian), do any certain families come to mind from that time period? Like I said, these are "more like guidelines anyway"... even if the family has all the temple work done, I still need a family where I can practice using software, gathering information, etc. Any particular family group sheet that I can help with?

Or if any of the rest of you know, I'm hoping for anyone's knowledge and help!

I'm excited about the point of the class: "to come to KNOW and LOVE your family".

HAPPY 2009!!!

Sorry, I know I'm a little late, but HAPPY 2009!!! This is the time for change, I hope you all can come up with GREAT resolutions!! Love to you all!!