Global Wildlife!

Makayla had a field trip yesterday to Global Wildlife! It was the first time wee had been..She loved it. It was the neatest thing the way the animals just came up to the wagon and stuck their head inside to get food! She loved the, buffalo, cows, longhorns, and more... Even Kangaroos...

Update on House

The Front Porch

The back porch note on the far left the drop down area..brad informed me that was for the hot tub! I quickly agreed...haha

the upstairs with the vaulted ceiling from living room in background.

The stair case! View from living room.

The view now from the front of the house.... They are putting the walls up for the second floor then can start putting the roof up....

Dance Recital Pics!

Makayla had her recital pics last weeks. The day was hectic as usual on Wednesdays. I pick her up at 11:30 from pre school in Brookhaven, then turn around and have to go back to Brookhaven (15 min trip) for Dance at 3:00. Well with dance pics we had to start getting ready at 2:00; mainly because I knew Mallory always throws in a few unexpected events! haha YES This is Mascara! I thought it got awfully quiet for a few minutes, and mallory was nowhere in sight! Then she came walking into the bathroom like this saying "momma i pretty"...haha...after i grabbed the camera and took a few scrapbooking shots..i got the makeup remover out...yes it all came off! ha
Makayla with her light makeup on...she LOVES getting all dressed up!

The dance class!

All lined up and ready for the group shot!

My little sailor girl!!

After the pics were done and we were on our way home..Makayla says "Mommy guess what daddy did to my dress? He got gum on it!" Somehow in the course of getting in the car, she got gum which got all over her dress somehow....After I went a little balistic on her and called granny asking how to get gum off sequins and Makayla had received her punishment for getting the gum without permission, lying about her daddy doing it, and getting the gum on her outfit (yes it was not fun at our house) Nana came to the resucue the next day and saved the outfit (I think with goo gum)....but no picture day is no fun at the Martin's...but aint she cute!!!

The Mississippi River!

We went to Natchez a few weeks ago to look for house stuff. We stopped off at the Mississippi River to see the flood. The water is higher than it has been since the 1970's! The girls wanted to go swimming...haha...they thought it was the beach! Love that!

I know what you are thinking...but Mom is the one always taking the pics...never in them! haha

More construction!

It's starting to look like a house!

View from the drive way entrance!
the back porch!
putting up the insulated panels...

the garage....

WE HAVE WALLS!!!

I got home from work last night with the surprise of having walls! We are using insulated panels for the exterior walls so they should go up pretty quick now that we are to that point! The front right side- Makayla's room

The back sunroom and living room area.

The girls were sooo excited!

This is what I drove up to...the girls looking out Makayla's window!

Happy Easter

I Know it has been a while...but we have been super busy around here with Easter, building the house, and daily life...not to mention work...haha...here are a few pics from the Easter Season..The girls had a Easter Egg hunt and puppet show at church, Mrs Sandra hosted an Easter gathering with egg hunt at her house for the family, so they got to hunt eggs with the 2nd cousins...and then we dyed easter eggs which they LOVED and had blue and green hands and arms (ps Baking soda gets it off) Then we celebrated the resurection of christ at his church...How blessed we are!!! Happy Easter from the Children of Calvary Baptist Church!

They LOVED the Easter Bunny!

The cousins - minus Carter who is just a few months old! ha

Mallory with one of her many eggs...notice the whole hand holding the egg and the egg dipper in the other hand! ha

Our Sweet Precious girls Easter Morning!!!

Dance Recital Costume

Makayla got her dance recital costume for this year! They are sailors dancing to "Good Ship Lollipop"...She looked so cute, and is soooo exicted!

Update on House

Mal Mal's Dirty Face!

The House from a distance...

The Front Porch

The storm shelter!

We have Wonderful News to share with our Family and Friends!
Makayla was born with a heart murmur- A Patent Ductus Arteriosus- All babies have one while they are in utero, it allows the blood to bypass the lungs, but when they take their first breath of oxygenated air it is supposed to close. There is a percentage of babies that do not- some are symptomatic in which treatment is necessary then and others are not in which they just monitor them. They sent her at 6 months of age to a pediatric cardiologist and they did an ECHO to diagnose it..They told us at that time that if it was still there by age 1-2, that is would be very unlikely to close on its own. This type of murmur/opening can put her at risk for endocarditis if she had dental work or and infection in the mouth. So for every dental appt we have had antibiotics prior to going...It was still there at 1 and 2 and 3 1/2. When she was 2 Dr Braden wanted to do a procedure where they would do a heart cath and go in and close it..well I cried so hard when he suggested it, he decided we could wait one more year. So when she was 3 1/2 it was still there...once again he wanted her to have the procedure but I was 8 months pregnant with Mallory so he said we could wait. Well I have been putting off the appointment for months..but I finally scheduled it for yesterday. She had another ECHO done and after Dr Braden reviewed it he turned around with a smile on his face and said "It looks like someone has been praying! The opening is closed, she is cured,she will not need surgery and she no longer needs antibiotics or to be followed. Her ECHO was perfect!" PRAISE GOD! We of course had tears in our eyes when Makayla said "so did I do a good job?" YES BABY YOU DID, and SO DID OUR LOVING FATHER!

We have Concrete!

They came to pour the footings on Mar 2! And we got 2 1/2 inches of rain the next day! HA! The concrete survived, but it is a nasty mess! There is a 60% chance of SNOW tonight! GO FIGURE! It may snow twice in one year here...I wonder if this is a sign.....
This is the storm shelter my loving husband decided to put in..I had no idea about it until I asked what the big hole was for! We had some terrible storms the other night in which we were in Mallory's closet with a tornado warning in Bogue Chitto...Any time we make the news out here in the boonies we adhere to it! ha...Anyways, I thought at that moment that a storm shelter is not such a bad idea! It will be under our closet in the ground.. It freaks me out a little to be underground, but I am sure Mr.Prepared will have escape routes in mind! ha...
We are building a conventional floor...the loving husband wants to be able to get under the house to fix problems as needed...Yes he is a handyman..kind of like Tim Allen in Home Improvement! Of course I am Very Glad he is Mr Fix it! Anyways, that is why the concrete is in rows like this..there is not a slab.

Update on House!

So the progress has been REALLY slow because IT HAS RAINED EVERY 3RD DAY FOR A MONTH AND A HALF STRAIGHT! WE EVEN HAD SNOW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! But, finally the clouds parted for 5 days and we were able to get a driveway and the footings dug out..then it stormed for 5 hours straight---I am talking about STORMED..haha..so now we have big puddles of mud...but they assure me they can pump the water out and pour the concrete on Monday! Keep your fingers crossed for sunshine!

Happy Valentines Day!

On our way to Dance.....

I love this Dress....Aunt Heather bought this for Makayla and Now Mallory can wear it!

Makayla's Valentine party at school...Notice she is sitting around all the boys...She told me the other day that Benjamin kissed her on the cheek..but that she wiped it off and didn't kiss him back....I also saw her walking from the playground holding his hand the other day...of course she said she just did it because he was getting out of line....haha...what are we going to do with her!

Matching Valentines outfits....