Lots to post!

I know, I have a lot to catch up on with Christmas and all...I'll get to it sooner or later, but I wanted to drop in and say,

WE'RE having a BOY!!!

And they're wrapped....

I love getting everything all wrapped up and under the tree....such a feeling of accomplishment and gratitude! I thought I'd finally take a picture of the tree. I am going to be so sad the day it has to get taken down and all the fun put away for a whole year....

I hope everyone is having a great Christmas break and good luck for the New Year! Once I steal some pics of the Martin Family Christmas Party from someone I'll have to do a post-dated post....




Merry Christmas!


ps...we've lost(broken via multiple methods) approx. 10-12 ornaments this year, how about you??

I forgot my camera.....AGAIN....

Lots has been going on around here, but I still have yet to remember to bring my camera! Kamryn and Tanner both had cute little holiday parties today and I was able to go to both! Payton had an entire day hanging out with Dad! I'll be sure to take some pictures at our family party this weekend and then again on Christmas day!

Speaking of forgetting....I REALLY wish they made medication for memory! Is our memory "really" worse when we're pregnant, or is that a wise tale? I hope it really is true, then it'll make me feel better about these past few months! Of course there's the millions of little things I forget to do on a daily basis, but it's the ones that hurt my kids that make me so sad/mad at myself! Tanner almost missed a field trip last week because I guess I never sent in the permission slip....(I don't ever recall SEEING the slip to begin with) Brian had to rush down to the school as they were loading the buses to sign it. And then today I got to Kamryn's party, and she's on the floor with her class and she looks up at me and points to a book in her lap and lips-"you forgot my BOOK!" Sure enough they were having a gift exchange with new books to trade and I have completely forgotten about it. When she said that, it still took me a few minutes to figure out what "book" she was talking about. I guess her nice teacher had an extra and hurried and wrapped it up for her. Anyway, these were my two least favorite because they affected my kids the most. The most annoying LITTLE thing I deal with daily is every time we load the car (I mean EVERY TIME) I have to run back in the house 1 to 3 times to get something I forgot...! I know we all do this sometimes, but this is ALL the time, and it's driving me nuts!

Anyway, I better go dig out my presents and start wrapping to be sure I didn't "forget" to buy anything!!

Singing Concert

Kamryn had a little recital with her singing class tonight.

She was in SUCH a sad/cranky mood on the way there and would not smile...

I was worried she would be no fun to watch. Before they started I asked her if she was going to sing when they got up there, and she said, "Yeah, I'm gonna sing the loudest of all!" And that she did, in the first song at least. It was Jingle Bells(her favorite) and she was pretty loud, BUT......sang WAY off. Like she's hold the notes (loudly) ONE HORSE OPEN SLEIGH really lloonngg as the rest of the class and the tape was going fast. It was hilarious.


Yes, the kids SHOULD have been singing in this picture, but ALL of them were a little preoccupied with the flash lights....They were making light shows around the room and the boys sure were loving it!! Kamryns light kept going out and that was all she was thinking about...

She had a great time being up there with all her little friends!

THANK YOU DAD!!

So my Dad just left after a fun filled day fixing computer after computer(he was also here until midnight earlier this week). And now, we are back to EVERY computer working again!!

Oh, and by the way, the problem got worse since it started....A third computer got all weird on my yesterday and I spent a total of 4-5 hours on the phone between yesterday and today trying to get my "windows reactivated"?!?! yes, random....but even more random, is a couple hours ago I went downstairs, and what do you know....that screen is gone and it TOTALLY works fine now.

SO, I thought, I'm back, I should post something....BUT thing is, these problems have consumed my week and I really have nothing more to post about! I'm looking forward to this weekend and looking forward to my mind being able to rest for a while.....I'll be back!

Side note: I was in the midst of creating my Christmas card when the drama began, but thanks Rachel for letting me borrow your computer to get it all finished! SO, they will come later than planned this year, but I'm sure that's fine! Also, for you out of towner old friends, I was just going to go around and leave comments to a few of you that I NEED your home address, but I thought it would be easier to tell you here to email me if you want a Christmas card this year!! I don't want to post my main email address, but I'll check my backup one, so send it there.... klmartin22@hotmail.com. THANKS!!

Could be worse....

What are the chances....we have had TWO of our computers hard drives crash this week! Our main one, and then the brand new(well, a few months old, but barely used) Company one in the office downstairs! At least we still have Brian's laptop and our old Company one (a super old one downstairs that failed a few years back and we were able to recover! But that one has never worked the same since....)

The GOOD news is I keep all my photos and my money/banking program on an external hard drive, so I should still have all that! (I haven't checked yet, but I'm assuming it's fine?!) We'll see if my Dad can help get the computers back up and running....wish us luck!