February 5th, 2010

Leaving for the Doctor
My little sweet girl and super helper.
12:15 pm Oaklynn Kay Martin makes her arrival into the world.
With loud lungs and her full head of hair.

6.2 pounds and 18 in. long

Perfect.

Looks like she belongs in the family, huh.

Auntie Meg

Proud Daddy

Proud Grandpa

Minutes old with her sweet Daddy.

Mom's personal nurse and proud Auntie Leese.

Do you want to hold her? You must ask the boss...!

He is the "binky shover inner". As you can see, she loves it. :)

This is THE proudest big sister I have EVER seen.

You can see the love and joy in her eyes. She is finally holding her

sister she has waited, loved, and talked about for over 2 years now.

Welcome Home Oaklynn!

Just for fun....

9/3/2007 (4 days before I delivered Kadence at my baby shower)

I was a big girl! :)

7/4/2007 on August 1st I had Kash.

(This is a awful picture but the only one I have of me prego with Kash)

January 21, 2010 35 Weeks

I thought I would post some pics of how I have grown lately. I am never good at taking pictures of myself and definitely not of me when I am pregnant and want the least camera attention ever. These pictures were taken last Thursday as Kade and I were headed out the door to the Doctor. I woke up having horrible contractions and the Dr. told me to come down. After a lot of sickness the last 3 weeks and a battle with food poisoning I have been fighting pre-term labor since 33 weeks. Thankfully, due to me staying down I dialated back down and have made it almost 3 weeks more. After 2 days in Ogden we came home Friday late afternoon and I am laying down again. I am in labor and have contractions but they are slow and spread out, I am just progessing at home with my kids and in my own bed rather than lay in a hospital bed and pay a ton of money for them to poke and prod me and tell me I am still moving slow. I am just praying hard that I know when its time to get going to the hospital; I sure don't want to be too far to get an epidural. lol Anyway, we are still alive things are just crazy and I haven't had internet for almost 3 weeks now. Hopefully life will be back to fairly normal soon. Thanks to all that have been concerned and all the help and kindness we have received. See you soon!

Christmas Overload

Decorating the tree

He sticks his tongue out when he is concentrating... I think its adorable.

Ward Party Santa

Xmas Eve at Grammy's, he was WILD!

OK, they both were WILD!
Deseret Party, Kash didn't want anything

to do with Santa..... until

he opened his present and saw the awesome

dump truck.... then he ran to Santa saying "Tank you!"

Kadence showing Santa her dolly.....
Telling him thank you.

Christmas morning... Santa really delivered!!!!

Kadence's loot

Kash's load

Dad showing Kadence how her "lawnmower" works. lol

She got a little horse charm necklace she was thrilled.

His tools..... He was absolutely thrilled! His drill.... just like dad's!


Kadence and her armitias


Kash's armitias
Opening presents at my mom and dad's

More tools
A beautiful "princess dress"
Dad got a bit
My little man
Santa Grandpa
Dress up clothes from Grammy and Grandpa
Dad.... being silly.
Kadence and her wonderful daddy, she rode that around for over an hour. Its safe to say the Martin Family was very good this year, and we had a VERY good Christmas. We are very blessed and hope your Holidays are going as well as ours. :)

Merry Christmas!

Family Pictures

Things are very hectic for this little family lately, sorry for the lack of posts. Soon I hope I will get back in the blogging world, I have been missing everyone. Over Thanksgiving weekend everyone came up for dinner and we were able to somehow get everyone together for family pictures. Somehow we all made it out alive and most of us were still smiling, that is BIG for our family. lol Kash was a stinker the whole time and would not cooperate, we were lucky to even get him in the pictures at all.

I hope you all are having a wonderful Holiday Season!! Stay safe and take lots of pictures to share!

Pioneer Woman comes to Salt Lake City!!

All the chaos over this beautifully, wonderful, cookbook. I paid full retail price for this

book in the bookstore the night of the signing. I would do it again in a heartbeat,

the pictures and cute things in this book are worth every penny. The recipes are wonderful and

fattening. I would STRONGLY recommend getting on Amazon.com and getting this cookbook for yourself if not as a GREAT XMas gift for someone you love. This is a guaranteed hit for

a gift for anyone. So worth the 5 hrs of standing and waiting and having my miserable pregnant

body screaming at me the whole time. Fun times!

This is the picture that PW posted on her blog. Notice my sister and

I sitting on the floor in the bottom left corner.


She is as genuine and sweet as she seems on her blog. Trust me, I got to talk
to her... and Missy, and Ladd's mother (PW's mother-in-law). All so so sweet.

When The Pioneer Woman arrived with Missy and her mother-in-law the room exploded with applause and loud cheers. The room was packed to the max! Ree spoke to the group and answered questions from the audience. She talked for about 20 minutes. A few of the highlights: she did her Ethel Merman impression, talked about wearing "spanks," and of course told a few funny ranch stories. She also told all of her kids names and MM's name. Someone asked if they
were a secret she laughed and said No. MM's name is Ladd, then her girls are Alex and ? and her boys are Todd and Bryce.


This was the crowd outside the bookstore WITH tickets.

This was the crowd in the gallery waiting for PW to make her appearance.

See the back of my head and my cute sister in the bottom left corner, we were right

in front of the pulpit, her shoes were right next to mine while she talked.

3 hrs. into her signing

Missy and cute Nanna.

I was ticket E... and E was too long for me. Let alone Z or L or whatever

the last ticket was. Wow. They passed out a letter for every 20 people. So their

were 100 infront of us and seriously 1000 behind us. Then people started even showing

up without tickets and they waited until ALL the letters were done. I have no

idea if they even got in.

You can read from Pioneer Woman's post here: http://thepioneerwoman.com/blog/2009/11/a_recap/

Cheap Baby Bedding... soo excited

SoHo Baby Bedding is on major sale Here. You don’t always see prices this low. Save AT LEAST 60% off! I wasn't sure what I was going to do for this babies room, but I knew I didn't want to spend $200-$300 on it. These prices, I think, are totally reasonable and most of them are 10 piece sets! There are tons of cute boy AND girl sets. Now just to choose one. Decisions, decisions.