Martin Family: June 2010

Summer Parties

She ate a lot of marshmallows that night!

There's that love/hate relationship again! :)

and she ate a bowl of ice cream...i almost left her at Jessica's!! Surprisingly though she passed out as soon as we got home...despite all the sugar she had!

This is the child that hates the pool but LOVES the trampoline! I don't get it!

Emory LOVE her Coley!

Every other week this summer we are getting together with our lifegroup to fellowship, so expect more posts like this!

Is it too Early to Start Planning the Wedding?!

Roughly once a week, Kate and I get Garrett and Emory together for a playdate. I love these times because it give the kids a chance to play and it also gives Kate and i a chance to have a little adult time! Two weeks before Father's Day, we took them to a new pottery place in Providence to make gifts for the daddy's. Both the kids picked out mugs and decorated them with their favorite colors. They turned out great and I think the dad's will always cherish them! What better gift can you get them, then something made by your children!! :)

This past Friday we drove out to Kate's house. She is a ticking time bomb at this point with baby Baxter and doesn't want to go far from home. Not to mention she doesn't really have the energy to chase a 2 year old out in public. I can't blame her, I hardly have the energy and I am not 9 months pregnant!! Anyway, we set up the baby pool and sand and water table, put our chairs in the shade and let the kids have fun! This may be the last one of these for a little while since baby Baxter will be making his debut next week!!! YAY!!

Our Pool Adventures

As most of you know, Emory is not exactly the most adventurous child! She comes by it honest though, neither am I! However, I have NEVER been afraid of the water. I was "swimming" by 18 months. Emory on the other hand just wants to look cute in a bathing suit. We went to the pool the other day with a friend of mine from work. We were there for about 4 hours, and it took Emory about 3 to get use to the idea of being in the "big bath." She was jumping in and loving it until these big kids came in and paid NO attention to the 2 year old that was near by. I mean seriously, they were jumping in right nest to her. So needless to say, we didn't last long after that. Overall I think we are getting better at the pool thing. I just have to keep introducing it to her!!

Memorial Day Weekend

The boys being boys...

The girls being girls...

Emory had to do everything that Gracyn did.

Rachel fishing out the evidence :)

Because of this scene there is now a love/hate relationship between these 3! They are always watching their backs!

Rachel, after Chase dumped her onto the deflating wet slide!

Apparently the girls were not watching their backs close enough, Chase managed to drench both of them!

Courtney, Hailey, and Emory waiting on the movie to start.

So this post is a little out of order but I had forgotten that I hadn't blogged about this. I thought it had been my last post but I was wrong! Oh well! I know I have said this before but I LOVE our church family. We have truly made life long friends with these people and I know that I can count on them for ANYTHING!!! My favorite part is that we can be ourselves at this church! There's no fakeness and people are accepted regardless of their wrongdoings...which should be the case for every church, but we all know that isn't true!! Anyway...memorial day weekend was a nice relaxing weekend. We spent Saturday afternoon at a friend's house grilling yummy food and talking. Sunday of course was church and Sunday night we took Emory to see her first feature length film...at the drive in..."Shrek: The Final Chapter." It was pretty cute and Emory loved it since she is slightly OBSESSED with Shrek right now. (and when I mean obsessed, I mean I have seen that movie at least once a day for the last 3 weeks...sometimes twice a day!) At one point in the movie she yelled "mommy, shrek is naked!" He did have on shorts, but a bare chest to her means naked! Just what I wanted my 2-year old daughter yelling out for everyone to hear! The Parkers joined us at the movie. Since it was a late night Chase and I were lucky enough to have Emory sleep in the next morning until 1045! I know we're spoiled! Actual Memorial Day was spent with just the three of us!

10 Year High School Reunion

I am SOOO far behind in blogging...oops! I plan on spending the morning catching up and getting everything blogged from the past month!

I am starting with my high school reunion. If I was honest with myself, I would say that I was a little apprehensive about this trip. I didn't really know what to expect and if it would be any fun. It was and I had a great time...Chase was a little bored but I think most of the spouses were in the same boat. That's ok I will be there next year when Chase has his. So late afternoon on Friday, Chase and Emory and I loaded up the truck and made the trek to Birmingham for the fun filled weekend!

I graduated with 270 students and we had close to 100 (+/- a few) attend. The first night was at the Wine Loft on 1st Ave North. It was a great atmosphere and gave everyone a chance to talk because it was MUCH quieter than our Saturday venue.

Notice Chris, Jess's husband, in the background.

Much better...no photo bomber!

Saturday afternoon was a picnic in the park for the families. It was nice to get together with everyone and meet their children. We've of course seen pictures of everyone's children on facebook but it was nice to meet them. Aside from the heat, it was a very nice time. We had to finish the afternoon off with a trip to Doodles...one of the many food/dessert places I miss most about Birmingham.

Saturday night was a banquet at the Rouge Tavern. It was the dressy-er of the three events and it was nice to get dressed up since I don't do it often. Two night in a row I was out until 2am...that NEVER happens! One night maybe but definitely not two! I was exhausted but I kept thinking, "I haven't seen most of these people since the night of graduation 10 years a go and chance are it will be another 10 years before I see them again!" So I stayed out late!!

The Class of 2000

The Cahaba Heights group

A toast to the weekend and the class of 2000

While I was at home I was able to locate a few pictures from the past. Since digital photography did not quiet exists while I was in high school, I had to spend time looking through actual pictures! Anyway, here are a few of my friends and me from high school.