Our year with Denise.

This is my family without our son of course. We are at PDX picking up Denise Reiner the blond. She is living with us for the school year. Denise is from Germany and her cousin is a friend of ours from church. She is a sweet girl who so far doesn't eat much. Taken Sept. 2, 2009. We went out to lunch after picking her up it was nice.

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.

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.

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)

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