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

GreatGrand Parents

Raymond & Laura Martin
My greatgrand parents

A day at the Beach

Aunt Linda

Linda and Kim

Aunt Linda, she doesn't like the old pictures of her self but I do.

Aunt Marcie

This is Aunt Marcie I haven't seen her since I was little the picture in the red and flowered shirts are the way I remember her the third is about 2001 with her husband Sam.

Cool chicks

Gillian, Annika, & Sarai at the LA temple summer 2008.

baby bottle chug!

At Holly's baby shower, the first to drink the most water wins. Sarai didn't win. too bad. We only know two of the girls with Sarai. Nicky klock in the brown shirt and the on in the green shirt next to Sarai is Marilee Kartchner Nicky's sister and the sister-in-law of the soon to be mommy.

Displaying our talents

Activity Day Recongonition Night

Displaying things they've worked on
or made. Gillian wasn't there in person
she was busy with something else but we
can't remember what.

What a cutie

This is Jenny and Cody Gilbert
he's her 9 year miracle baby. Jenny
was one of my flowergirls in my wedding
21 years ago.

home on leave

This is Adam Alvarez.
We have know him for
along time and love
him so much. At one
time he was our home
teacher. He will be heading
to Kentucky next week.
Adam works with morters
he likes to blow things up.


This is Adam & Kate
married about 6 months.
but haven't got to spend
very much time together
as a married couple yet.

Frozen Tee Shirt Contest

7th wards annuel potluck
at Vancouver Lake. The Bishopric
and Loren Lindquist competed in
the Frozen Tee shirt contest.
Steve Ard won but only after getting
his shirt away from Loren Lindquist
who took it ran. at which time a pack
of primary kids took off after him trying
hard to tackle him.

In order to
put on their
shirt they
first had to
unfold it.
It was frozen
solid. Steve's
threw it over
and over again
onto the ground until he knocked it lose.

Our Family 2008

we had this taken just a few days before Sean
left for college. I like this so much. The person who took the pictures is in our Bishopric and working on doing this for a living. I think he does a good job.