Day after Christmas togetherness

Day after Christmas 2008

Ok so this is my family. the four dark ones are mine in order as standing. Sarai (15) Annika (9) Gillian (12) and Sean (18) (college student) Now the two in the back are my sisters two youngest Samantha (18) and Jared (20). We were all together the day after Christmas because we couldn't get to them the week before when the family dinner was planned. Too much snow. We are very grateful to have the chance to see Jared, he ships out for Iraq at the beginning of next year. I think Feb. What a handsome group huh. Merry Christmas.

Happy Halloween 2008

Think I'll stay away from them, I'm two cute to hang out with a pirate and vampiress. Beside's I want hercules all to myself.

Happy Halloween 2008

One Legged Lillian and Elvira the Vampira

Arrgg Maties, Where's ye ol goddes go?

New school pictures

Sarai Elora Davila
Sophmore @ HBHS
Gillian Catherine Davila
7th grader @ Disco

If you could meet anyone who would it be?

This would be my dream.
Jon Bon Jovi and me.
for my 40th b-day my
friends photoshoped my head
on his wifes body. If only I
was really there. Oh La la.
Some fanticies are good
to share with others, don't you
think so?

New time out spot

I get so annoyed when she doesn't
listen, or does that 3 year old screaming

thing when she's in trouble. So we found a
new time out spot, and it's working so far.
No toys and no temptations.

first trip to San Diego

San Diego Califorina
Top picture is at Tio & Tia's house in
Loma Linda Califorina after returning
from a trip down into Mexico. Sarai is
wearing her pink beaded head dress that
she baught there. The bottem is at the
San diego Zoo, not one of Alex's favorite
things to do. He believes that zoo's are
just about the same everywhere. However
this one was a little different. He really liked
it.

Halloween

Halloween 2003.
Zombie/mummy, Jeanie, Frankie, and
the Lone Ranger.

father and son

This is Grandpa Roy Francis Boat and his first baby Ron, my Daddy as a little baby. I know the picture isn't very good but
it comes form a photo copy.

cute Tina

Tina didn't like the picture I chose before wish her a happy birthday so I found a different picture that I think is so cute. I hope this is a better choice.

6 boats & a Newman

I love this picture with Grandpa & Grandma Boat.
Tina, Marie Newman, Todd, me and Mike on the
floor. Everyone looks so cute.

Yearbook picture 1941 Grants Pass High School

Senior picture 1941
I guess if you look at it
he does look older than
17-18. Edwin was born
3 Sept. 1920 and Graduated
High School in 1941. He must
have missed some years of
school some where.

Freshman year 1938

Grants Pass High School 1938
Freshman Class Edwin Martin is in the back row
In a sweater vest.

Freshmen year Glee Club
Edwin is in the second row just behind
The guy all in white and belt.

Drama Club 1938, I think he is the one int he police hat
sitting in the front row on the right side of the picture.

Tiny red plaid Tina

Grandpa Close, Dad, Mom, Uncle Larry, Mike, Tina and Patty.

an older generation

The old man sitting is Elmer Ebersol, (Laura Martins Father) or GGGrandpa Ebersol and the little boy he's holding is Grandpa Edwin Martin. with he's brothers and sisters. I really like this picture.

Happy Birthday To You!

This is Tina and today is her Birthday. She's "29" and my best friend. It took us a long time to get together, and now if we lived closer I'm sure we'd be together just about everyday. As it is we talk on the phone just about everyday or every other day at the least. It fills kind of strange when we get busy and go more than a couple of days without talking to each other. We share a lot of the same likes and dislikes and really have a good time together. So happy Birthday big sis. I love you.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Tina, Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!

cousins

Edwin, Dick, and Terry. Dick and Terry are Annie's boys and Ed's cousins.
See how the've grown.

Reunion

1961 Grandpa Edwin Martin at his 20 year Class reunion he is the very happy one on the left of the sign down front. He graduated from Grants Pass High School in 1941.

A family all together

Harold, Helen, Myrtle, Annie, Edwin with GGrandpa & GGrandma Martin when GGrandpa was in the hospital. I really like this picture except that GGrandpa is so thin and not the robust figure he is in most of the pictures I have of him.

A true craftsman

Grandpa loved to work with wood, in fact he had his own work shop.

This is him working making what looks like a desk. I wonder if the desk he's working on is the one in the picture. While I was in Utah Aunt Linda gave me a jewelry box that he had made with his own two hands. It is such a treasure to me. I guess I remember him smelling like sawdust all the time. Maybe thats why every time I go to my sister's and pass by the huge piles of sawdust, I love the smell. Well just a thought. But it's true I do love the smell of sawdust.

A gun cabnet he made

A true green thomb

Grandpa always had a garden, he must have love to
grow things, a gift that continued over the years. I guess
this is another thing that skips a generation or two.
I kill just about any thing I try to grow.

Very handsome

Grandpa Martin

Jan. 1945 home on

furlough in his civilian

clothes.

Caged up

Sally Jo Martin 10 months old








Sally again 19 months old in Little Rock, Ark.












this is my Mom. I think she was adorable
and she looks just the same as my girls do.
In some of the pictures you can see my two
youngest girls, they all make some of the same faces.

He loved Grandma

I love this picture not only because his so handsome but also the message he wrote on his chest is so sweet. He love Grandma very much. I have been learning things about Grandpa, all good of course.

Edwin Arland Martin
My Grandpa (My mothers Dad)

Monster Roll

Monster tape. At Young Womens last night Sarai taught the other girls how to make wallets out of candy wrapers. When she asked her dad last night for some more clear tape this was the only roll he could find and there were three of these in the box. I just think it's so cool. She told the other girls that she didn't think they needed to worry about running out of tape. Funny huh.

Happy Birthday Mike!

Michael Allen Boat

My big brother who died at the age of 30, on a fishing boat in Yakina Bay, Oregon. He would have been 45 years yesterday. When I went to his Memorial Service after his death I learned something about him I didn't know before. Bishop Kerr spoke and said that Mike had come to him about a month before his death and talked about his knowlege and his faith. He told Bishop Kerr that he knew the Gospel was true and that Jesus was his savior but that he didn't know how to find it all again. He felt his life had spun so far out of control that it was to late for him to come back. When I heard those words I knew that everything was ok and that so would he be. The song that was sung at her service was. "I Know that My Redeamer Lives" and now when ever I hear it or sing it on sunday my mind again wonders back to my big brother and I miss him all over again. Mike was a wonderful big brother, although he use to love to hold us down and tap on our foreheads over and over again. Yea fun for us too. Not.

A safty company took picture of Grandpa Martin useing equipment to demenstrate safty with a varitey of tools, I just think he was having way to much fun with this. I like to see this side of him.

Mom & Dad

Edwin with his Dad Raymond

Laura & Edwin Mother's day 1959

Baby Grandpa

This is Great Grandpa
Raymond Martin at the
age of 2 1/2 years old.
What a beautiful baby.

Brothers and Sisters

Ambrose, Raymond (ggrandpa), Vivian
and Clair Martin



Vivian, Ambrose, Dora Alice
(gggrandmother)
Bernard, Harriet & Laura
(ggrandma)Martin.

Annie, Edwin (my grandpa)
Laura & Raymond Martin. Annie
Is Edwins sister. So that makes
her Aunt Annie

the next generation

Raymond, William Henry & Clair Martin
Raymond is my grandfather, and William
is his father. Clair is Raymonds brother.
It's kind of cool to have an Uncle Clair.

Dora Alice Hatch Martin

Dora is my gggrandmother
Raymond's mother.





Dora & Laura Martin