3 Times Better with just ONE Letter!

So sorry for my long weekend hiatus!  I was having entirely too much fun to sit down and take a few minutes to blog :)  This weekend was a blast from the past! Literally! OU TriDelta celebrated it's 100th year on campus with a weekend full of sisterly celebration.  A little cheesy, maybe.  A lot fun, duh.

On Friday night Dillon and I trucked on down to our old stomping grounds in good 'ol Norman for the TriDelt social at 747.  For those of you who are familiar or ran around in a fraternity/sorority around the time it opened and got popular (2004-2007), it is also fondly referred to as "Club Poison".  I'm sure many of my readers can vouch that it's almost always a good time!

Anyway, on Friday night I was pleasantly surprised by two of my best college friends making their way up from Texas!  We had some serious fun in college and we had a blast laughing and telling our "remember when..." stories.  After the social, a group from my pledge class and our husbands (and soon to be husbands) all went to dinner at Iron Starr BBQ.  It's amazing all the new and cool things that have gone up in Norman since we left only a short 3 years ago.  We had a nice long dinner, again laughing and telling stories and at times wishing we were still in college!

Saturday was a "girls" day and I went to La Luna for a pledge class reunion lunch.  The food was great but the conversation was even better.  I'm pretty sure I scared away a few of the girls from ever having children--I think Charlee literally broke out in hives at the mention of pregnancy :)  After lunch, we went back the house and saw all the new decorating that had been done and looked at all our old rooms.  We were laughing at the thought of renting the house out for a Spring Break and all moving back in for just a week--what a reality show that would be!!  Best vacation ever.

Overall, it was a great weekend and I got to see some of the most influential girls of my college years.  I love you all and can't wait to get together again!!

Here are some "remember when" pictures that are priceless:

Mardi Gras in New Orleans

We totally just jumped on another house's date party bus on a whim

...one of my favorite college memories

Ninja Turtles for Homecoming Skit

Puerta Vallarta, MX Spring Break

2 of my very best friends from college- don't kid yourself, we blew this up to poster size for our house

TTEAMIB as Seniors-- Best pledge class EVER

The Beginning

Ok, so I've decided to start a blog.  I really don't have much reason other than I really like to write and I had an offer to write freelance for an online article publisher but I just couldn't find the time to write when I had a specific subject to write about...I would rather just write about my life and our daily activities as a family I guess!  So here is a little bit of our history to start off this blog:

Dillon and I were college sweethearts at the great University of Oklahoma.  We were both involved in the Greek life, Dillon was an SAE (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) and I was a Tri-Delt (Delta Delta Delta, duh).  We met at none other than a fraternity hall party.  Oh how I miss the blessed days of college when hall parties were still allowed and we had no other cares in the world (literally)!  Anyways, yes we met at a hall party.  And though he denies it to this day, he proposed to me the night we met (several times).  Saying, "I think we should get married."  Needless to say, I was obviously his dreamgirl.

Skipping ahead 4 years, Dillon proposed to me on his 23rd birthday.  We had a good 'ol steak dinner planned at the Ranch and friends to meet us at the bar to celebrate after.  Dillon surprised me with the proposal at the condo I lived in with just us and our two BIG dogs, Owen and Boz.  So, obviously I said yes and cried and wanted to call my parents but he said we should tell them in person...blah, blah, blah. So, we went to dinner. And both of our parents were there to surprise us and congratulate us on the upcoming wedding that I'm sure my daddy was super excited to fork over the money for!

We got married February 2, 2008 in Oklahoma City and had the perfect wedding.  It was sincerely a winter wonderland wedding.  It was frigid cold but the open-bar at the reception seemed to make everyone forget about the cold weather and put their dancing shoes on to cut-a-rug. We honeymooned at Sandals in Negril, Jamaica, returning home a week later to a house in mid-remodel and all our belongings shoved into one back bedroom.  They say if you can survive a remodel, you can survive anything...thank goodness we did the remodel during the newlywed stage! I might kill him nowadays.

In April 2008 we were pleasantly SURPRISED with a positive pregnancy test.  While I walked out of the bathroom into our house that was literally ripped down to the studs, Dillon thought we'd better MAKE SURE so we trucked on over to the AM/PM Clinic.  And, CONGRATULATIONS from the doctor was the comment that started our new family.

In May 2008 my daddy was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, which cancer is cancer, but Pancreatic is pretty much one of the worst diagnosis you can get.  He was only given 6 months to live but he was a fighter, and he was stubborn and he stuck around for us until his grandson, Dillon Kenwood Orr II was born on December 4, 2008. Which, coincidentally was the same day my sister found out she was pregnant! Daddy left us for our Heavenly Father exactly a week later on December 11th.  The Lord truly tested me in those last months and weeks, but I now know that when "God takes a life home from this earth he brings another one into your life" and the circle of life is and will always be a gift from God.