Water Park In Gulfport!

We took off for a weekend to mom's in Gulfport! Aunt Heather, Uncle Rain and Josh were there too. We had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the day at the water park. It took Mallory longer to warm up to it, but she had a good time once she did! Makayla loved it and played her heart out on all the slides.. Aunt Heather had a good time riding the slides too!
I guess this is our swimsuit model pose!
Imagine! We ran into some of our friends from Bogue Chitto! This is Riley, Kassidi, Mallory, and Makayla.

Update on House!

This is my granite! I love it.. it is called Cinderella Blue (ha go figure with all the girls in my house...poor brad!) A view of my back porch/gable with window.
Updated View from the front!
View from the front door.

It is all progressing very well, but I can't wait until there is some finish work there! I am ready for something other than wood! HAHA...

T Ball Pics!

Makayla is playing T Ball again this year! She LOVES it! She calls it the "winning game"! Isn't that cute! Our church has sooo many kids her age that we have our own team! Brad is helping coach it. She started out as short stop and is playing first base some too.. She is doing sooo good, I am glad she likes it because her dad and I both are ball players! Looks like I am going to have many years to come at the softball fields! I asked her if she liked dance or t-ball better and she said t-ball without hesitating! Maybe she is not as girly as we thought! ha...

Note the pink cleats!! haha She also has a pink glove and a pink bat! Her dad just LOVES that! ha!
She is the one in between the two guys in blue with her sleeves tied up!

Last Day of Preschool! May 17th

This is the two 4 year old preschool classes! They had a blast at the park for the last day of preschool... Makayla is in the middle on the bridge!

This is Makayla's Benjamin! They have been in class together since they were 2. I will never forget when she came home from school when she was only 2 years old and said "Momma, Benjamin has my heart!" I thought "What are we in store for???" Well they have remained friends for 3 years, and just a few months ago she came home from school and said "Benjamin kissed me on the cheek" "But I didn't kiss him back" I thought oh my, I hope they are not in the same school together next year! I don't think they will be, not sure though! But you can clearly see in this picture that she adores him! haha Mallory even go to go play with all the kids! They had a kiddie area on the park, but she thought she could handle the big stuff! ha.. I was a nervous wreck at first, but then I realized she CAN handle the big stuff!!!
This was so funny, Mallory just pushed her way in to sit by big sister and was stealing all the other kids snacks! Look at Seth's face on the left! Ha!

Happy 2nd Birthday Mallory!

Mallory's birthday was May 9th while we were in Gulf Shores, After a day filled of swimming at the beach and pool, and shopping in Foley with Nana, we celebrated her birthday at the ice cream shop! She loved it and had ice cream EVERYWHERE! She really liked opening her presents... Thank You Uncle JoJo for the adorable outfits!

Mal Mal in her Hat!

Ice Cream cones and Presents!

At the Party...We were so glad Nana got to come down and join us at the beach for a few days..

Happy Birthday to me...I'm 2!!

Gulf Shores, AL!!!

Brad had a conference in Gulf Shores, AL at the Island House Hotel...so the girls and I got to go along! We had a wonderful time and the weather was perfect! Warm enough to swim but not tooo hot. Mallory loved the sand and beach, Makayla did too; but the liked the pool the best! Of course we also went shopping in Foley and played some goofy gulf (which they loved even though we saw a sanke on the course!) Mal Mal in the sand...

Makayla ready for the waves...

On our way to Lamberts...Home of the thrown rolls....this is Brad and the girls favorite place to eat...

On our way to go to the Original Oyster House for my mother's day meal then to play goofy gulf..

Makayla swimming! She finally went under water the last night we were there...She is going to take swimming lessons this summer...

House Update!!

View from the front..There are still two dollhouse things to go over porch area.

Side view of the wrap porch .

View from the front door into the foyer/living room

view of the back of the house/The back porch

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....