January Recap

*January 21st - Happy Birthday Mike*

I want to wish my amazing husband a HaPpY bIrThDaY!

You are the love of my life and I am so blessed to be married to such a
kind, loving, hard working and faithful man.

I LOVE YOU

You are a wonderful father to our four handsome boys....
I couldn't ask for a better example
and role model for my children.

They are so blessed to have you as a father.

And I am so blessed to be your wife....
FOREVER.

Birthday Party for Mike and Dave~

Katie and I decided that since Mike and Dave's Birthdays were so close together we would do a family dinner at my moms house. Here are some pictures.

The Birthday Boys!!!

The cake

Blowing out the candles (Dave your gross!!!)

Hope it was a good one!

~January 28 Happy Birthday Brigham~

I can't believe my 1st baby has turned 7 years old !
I wish I could keep you small forever .....



Brigham you have brought so much joy into our lives...

You are such a good boy with a good heart.



You are so much fun and everybody just loves you
and your enthusiasm for life.



You are such a great big brother and your
little brothers look up to you so much.

We have enjoyed every minute of raising you and
I know you can't wait for the day when you are a grown man...
but we can!

We are so blessed to have you in our family....
We Love YOU!

Busy! Busy! Busy!

I am seriously going to update my blog very soon! Sorry I have been such a blog slacker! I have been soooo busy with school, baseball, our house flooding, baseball, selling our house, baby Ben, baseball, birthday parties, road trips and baseball!!!! I hope you are all doing well!

Family Photo Shoot

OK, so here is the deal. Usually I let Summer take care of this stuff and I just add my two cents here and there - usually just when I have something that I think is funny to contribute. I can't help it today. We had pictures taken before Christmas and those of you who got our Christmas card saw our family picture. But most of you haven't seen any of the other pictures unless you went on Erin's webpage to see them. I can't wait any longer to post them on here though because I am just so dang proud of my family! I just want everyone to see how cool my kids are and how hot my wife is. So I stole these pictures off Erin's webpage and I posted them here. Hope she doesn't get too mad about it.

Well, I guess it has been quite a while since we put anything on our blog. I am not going to try to catch everyone up on what's been going on. I just wanted to post a couple of little videos from our trip to Colorado over Christmas break. The first video is Cooper McMullin (Brigham's friend) and Paul. The second video has Brigham and then Summer and Joseph together. Enjoy.

Benjamin's baby blessing!!

What an amazing day! It started with us getting to church on time for the first time since we moved here!! Mike gave Benjamin a beautiful blessing, and I bore my testimony. When the meeting was over we went home for some grub! Here are some pictures of our special day!


The VIP of the day!


Our little family of six


My Parents





Mike's mom




Kimberly took this super cute picture!


The after party!


some of the Jackson side of the family


Some of the Martin side of the family


The Grub!!

Baby Ben

Here are some pictures of our sweet little Ben in this first 4 weeks of his life! We are so loving him and I am loving having a newborn to snuggle! Kristen this is for you ~ thanks for being so excited about my baby! Hope you all enjoy our pictures!

September Recap

Paul at the fair

Brigham had his first field trip to the LA County fair and I had a total panic attack about someone snatching him, so what did I do??? I stalked his class! I wanted to be a chaperon but I was too prego and I had Paul. I told my mom I was going and she insisted on going with me (thanks mom) so she got up at 6:30 am and drove down to meet me. While we were there we got some cute pictures of Paul. He had a blast, my panic attack worked out great for him :) This was about 1 week before the baby was born.


My kids are so lucky to have such a fun grandma!



Paul with the goats - he loved them!


Feeding the goats....


riding the tractor...



me at the end of the day =)

Friends Shower

I have such great friends where I live! They planned a "girls night out" and surprised me with a baby shower! You guys are great! I love you!


Top L to R : Melissa, Sue
Bottom L to R : Elise, Jennifer, Me, Mom, Amber,
Heather and Kendra.


I got some pretty cute stuff!


This was the same day as the so I talked my
mom into coming along.


Heather and Kendra


Yeah... Heather and Amber were having lots of fun with the
camera!! Thanks again!!!

Fishing with Chad & Heather

On September 19 & 20 Chad and Heather invited us to go to Big Bear to go fishing with them. They got us a super sweet deal at their timeshare so we stayed the night and got up early to go fishing! It was so much fun! The kids had a blast with their cousins an it was nice to spend some time with Chad and Heather and my dad and mom. I think this might have been what put me into labor because I started having contractions the next day.

Me, Heather and Grandma on the boat with the kids.

Grant caught the first fish!! He was so cute!

All the kids (except Drew)

Chad's cute little family...thanks for the fun weekend!

He's Finally Here!

Benjamin was born September 22 nd at 7:42 pm. I already did a post about his birth so if you missed it scroll down.


In the hospital...my sweet baby boy.


So Sweet! Mike and Benjamin.


Grandma brought the boys to meet there new
baby brother. They love him!!

Our 9 year Anniversary

Our anniversary was 2 days after the baby was born so we decided to celebrate by going to lunch at The Corner Bakery. I was supposed to plan our anniversary this year but just got a little busy =)


I love the Corner Bakery! I always get the

Chicken Pommadori. If you haven't had it go get

it now! We had such a good time. Paul and little

Ben were so well behaved. I guess that was their

little anniversary gift to us!


I bought the cake at the restaurant, took the apple

cider and glasses the hospital gave us and the flowers

my parents brought and had a sweet little dessert with

my sweetheart =)

I Love My Family

I have the best family! My mom, sister, sisters in law and cousins had a shower for me at Olive Garden. Katie planned it (thanks Katie) before I had the baby but when he came 2 weeks early we had to push it back. It was alot of fun and I got some great stuff! It was nice to have the baby there for everyone to see :)

L to R : Sierra, Susan, David, Jackie, Katie, Autumn, Me, baby Ben

and Gina, Kimberly, Mom.


L to R: Kristen, Jaime, Sidney, Amber, Heather.

More really cute stuff!!

So that was pretty much my month of September in a nutshell!! Hope you enjoyed!

I got this little video of Paul today. I was watching the kids while Summer went to the store and I lost track of Paul for a minute. I was looking all over the house and then went out back to find him. I called out his name and his little head popped out of the top of this tree and said "What!" He promptly came back down so I made him climb back up so I could get it on camera. Some of you moms with weak stomachs might want to look away. Anyway, for your enjoyment.