What a Wind

It has taken me a while to post this, I started this on Tuesday but it is now Thursday. Life has been crazy. On March 22nd (that was a couple of Sundays ago) we had quite the wind storm. Duane heard a noise outside and looked out the window. He saw that the wind caught our pine tree just right. It twisted and fell on the fence and into the neighbors yard. The next day he started cutting it up and if you look at the picture he is not wearing a coat. Well it was breezy and very cold that day as well, so that night he got the chills and a fever. Well then I got sick from him and then the kids got sick one at a time. They are still sick. Janae was complaining about her ear hurting today (Thursday) and when we looked there was puss coming out of it. What fun :] I guess we get to go to the Dr. tomorrow. Thanks a lot you stupid tree.

Janae's Birthday

Janae turned 5 yrs old on March 13th. She wanted to have ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. Wiley picked this one out for her.

Debra & Brian came over and Grandma Martin was here. She got the remote control truck she asked for and then some.

The kids wanted a picture together. The baby was sleeping but these three had fun posing for the camera.

Janae is growing up fast. We are so glad she is a part of our family. She is a sweet, helpful, and thoughtful little girl. We love you, Janae.

Kembree Ann Martin

BEFORE......

AFTER!!!! (Whew)

Kembree's first moments with Mom & Dad.

Kembree with Grandma & Grandpa Rogers.

Kembree was born on Saturday March 7th @ 8:24pm. She was 8 lbs 13 oz and 20 1/2 inches. We are glad to finally have her here. She is sooo sweet. We are glad she is a part of our family.

MY BASKETBALL TEAM

I coached Wiley's basketball team this year with the help of my friend Bethann. Our last game was on Saturday. We had a pretty good season. We played a total of 8 games. We won 4 and lost 4. I enjoyed coaching I just wish I could have done more in practice with them. It was a little hard to run around while 9 months pregnant. But we had a couple of parents who helped out at some of the practices. We took them to the Dog House for ice cream tonight. The Dog House is an arcade. Everyone had a really good time.

Wiley and I decided to sport our ribbons for the camera. Janae took the picture. She did a pretty good job for a 5 yr old. (She will be 5 on the 13th)

Duane's B-Day

Monday was Duane's Birthday but he had to leave for work at 8:00 in the morning and he didn't get home until 10:30 at night. So we (the kids and I) made him some cheese cake and gave him his gifts on Sunday night.

The kids stayed entertained with the wrapping paper for quite a while. Duane was entertained with his new present, so I decided to take pictures. We had a fun time :]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUANE

My Bear

On Saturday we went to the furniture store to get a Lazy Boy rocker recliner. I told Duane I needed a chair to rock the baby. Anyway when we were doing all the paperwork Kinzie spotted these Bears. She stayed by this one the whole time, and if we got near her she would tell us "MY BEAR." She kept her arm around it the whole time. It was tooo cute, I had to take a picture.

Once I got out the camera and took her picture with this bear she decided she wanted her picture with the bears in the canoe too. She had a fun time just petting all the animals in the store.

In memory of TAG

Wiley's bird flew out the front door in January. He was so sad. He had me print this picture of TAG and then he wrote underneath it. I thought it was cute. He was pretty upset for about a week. This bird had a very fun personality and the kids really liked him. He could let himself out of the cage, and one night we came home from Wal-Mart and started unloading everything. The door got left open and Tag took off. It was a very cold night and the kids knew that he was going to freeze. He flew into one of our trees. When I would whistle to him he would answer and at one point he flew out toward me, but then circled back to the tree. Once it got dark I heard him fly but didn't see where he went. I was outside whistling for about 2 hours. The kids kept hoping but they knew when he didn't come back that night that he was probably dead. We had him for about 5 years. Wiley wanted to add him to the blog so when we order a book he will be a part of it.