Shave and a hair cut, minus the shave

Kensi was brave enough to cut Lukes hair ( his first hair cut) he was such a mover! notice in the pictures all the things we used to try and distract him.... including him sitting in the wagon. the kid is hilarious, always moving like he has an agenda or something. it turned out amazing. we did this about two months ago, I was reminded to post about it because I had to give him another one today and I felt Kensi's pain. he is lucky there was no blood and he still has both ears. I felt like I was sheering him because there was sooo much hair. but it turned out beautiful and I am very proud of it.

Little Cruiser

so luke has been walking off and on for 2 months now, but only the last 2 weeks has he REALLY gotten it dow. He is a pro now and goes anywhere. this is at church in his very handsome new easter shirt.
He was hilarious in church today ! there was a family sitting behind us... youngest child was 16, and they were in LOVE with Luke, he was quite the entertainer. He would sit there and do his awesome new laugh which is very hard to explain... he just lets it roll out of his throat and it is one continuous sound... anyways so they would laugh at him, which made him want more so he would duck down and explode back into view and grab his cookies and give them to his friends behind us, he would grab any object and slash it back and forth in the air while doing his victory yell, he would get his cookies .. smile at them then quickly shove them into my mouth like it was all a performance. anyways it went on all through sacrament and we all had tears coming out our eyes from laughing so hard... silently! He is getting the taste for positive attention and LOVES it!! I love his sense of humor.

home sweet bare essentials home

Here is a little sneak peek into our new temporary home here in the windy city. if you notice in each picture you will see that yes I am living in a house with NO decor and nothing to please the eyes... however I am perfectly content so long as I am with my family. Chris is working very hard to get the office running like a well oiled machine, and I have to say this may be our best year yet! the office is very promising and Chris made a comment last night that he has not been this excited about area in a long time. so I will keep you posted on the goings on of the Orvins.

lukes 1 year pictures + family pictures

THanks to Lexi for taking these pictures, we absolutely love them. I just think luke looks so dang adorable in all of these and there are so many more I don't have time to upload. but I am very excited to finally have gotten them done, and I wont wait as long to do the next ones.

Lukes 1st birthday

This was Lukes 1st birthday and we had so much fun. the night before me and Chris stayed up blowing up 140 balloons and hanging streamers. when He woke up the next morning he absolutely LOVED it! the balloons were his favorite until he had his cake later that night..... and Oh my word the kid LOVES cake!

he was a little shy at first but then he dug in full board with both hands. He tried sharing with the people next to him watching by shoving his cake covered fists at their mouths. haha we loved the whole day and cannot believe he is already 1 year old! time fly's when you are busy taking care of the cutest busiest boy in the world.

O the face, how can it be so cute?

we went to samurai 21 with Kensi and Josh last week and this is us waiting outside for our seats at the hibachi grill! Luke Loved the fire and thought it was awesome. but mostly I just love this picture of luke.

Aloha

we went to the temple and it was so beautiful! both me and chris forgot sunday clothes and had to come up with semi looking sunday best, mines not great, but man o man do I love chris's purple tie we got at walmart, haha luckily we both look great in almost everything :) we ran into some people at the temple that were the parents of people in our ward... its crazy how small the world is when your a member of the church.

I forgot the name of this guy and the story behind him but we thought we should defiantly have a picture with him.

This was the amazing fruit stand we went to almost everyday at north shore! I am absolutely obsessed with mangoes right now and im wondering if it will ever go away.

this is the first day we got to Hawaii me and chris were very excited to have a break but very nervous to leave luke, luckily we had amazing people who helped us, and my awesome parents who stayed at our house all week and took care of him after he got back from his babysitters during the day.

this was at the polynesian cultural center, this guy was Hilarious and crazy buff. we had a blast at the pcc and want to go again when we have more time during the day to enjoy everything it has to offer.
We forgot our camera so we didn't get many pictures but we had a blast! we went kayaking snorkeling , body surfing and a atone of fun things. our goal while we were there was to find amazing food places that were more local... and we were defiantly successful because I seriously gained like 5 lbs. oh well it was worth it and super fun.