The Martin Family

Friday, December 10, 2010

Alyssa's 5th birthday

Alyssa had a Strawberry Shortcake birthday.

playing in the leaves

We raked up the leaves one Saturday in November and the kids had fun playing in them, here are some pictures.

Emma had the most fun in the leaves, we couldn't get her out to let the other kids play in them.

Emma trying to blow the leaves out of her hands.

Emma throwing leaves on David.

David jumping in the leaves, he couldn't get Emma out of the leaves so he just jumped in with her in the pile.

This is several months old but here are pictures from Nathan's birthday. He had a Garfield birthday. For games we made a giant game board and the kids were the pieces and they rolled a large dice to move and picked cards if they landed on certain spots on the game board. We also had a game where they went in search of clues to find a prize (squirt guns) and they had to complete activites related to Garfield to find the clue.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halloween

The kids had fun celebrating Halloween yesterday. We started the day out by going to a costume contest at Ashley Furniture. David won first place in his age group and won a bike, which he is very proud of. If he had been in Nathan's age group he would have won a Nintendo Wii. When it was David's turn to show the judges his costume, he walked up, transformed into truck mode, then transformed back into Optimus Prime. Everybody cheered for him! He was the only one that everybody clapped for. The one thing I don't like about the contest is that they call the winner of the 9-12 year olds the grand prize winner even though there is a winner in every age group. But everybody told us that David should have been the grand prize winner. He did get to be on the news with Philip, who they interviewed before he knew that David won 1st place.

After the contest we went to the trick-or-treat street on Main Street in downtown Grand Junction. There were a lot of kids there and a lot of the stores have closed so there weren't very many places to get candy. After that, the kids went to a trunk-or-treat at the church and had fun trick-or-treating. A lot of people on Main Street and at the trunk-or-treat asked David to transform for them and they took his picture. He also told anybody that would listen about the bike he won. If you call and ask him about it he will love to tell you about it and tell you exactly how it looks.

Here are pictures from our Halloween.

Nathan was a Lego Atlantis Manta Warrior

Emma was a princess

David was a Transformer

This is the bike he won.

Benjamin was a pumpkin

Alyssa was a witch

Emma tried on David's costume and made a pretty cute Transformer.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Welcome Benjamin!

Benjamin Luke Martin was born on Monday, July 5, 2010. At birth, he was 9 lbs., 2.7 oz. Both he and mom are doing well.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Easter

The kids had easter in Springville. We had it on Saturday when the weather was nicer and I am glad that we did because the next day the yard was covered in snow.