New pictures of Claire

This is Claire with her friends! Weston, Claire, Sevy, Teik

ZOO BOO, HALLOWEEN, AND TRUNK OR TREAT

We had such a fun week! Claire's Grandpa Chad and Grandma Sue came to visit and we took a trip to the Houston Zoo for Zoo Boo! It is so much fun! They have candy and games for children. I love seeing all of the costumes and how excited the kids were to be at the Zoo! We dressed her up as a pumpkin and everyone loved our little punkin' When we put her in the pumpkin patch it was like she was a celebrity! Everyone wanted to take a picture of her! She just wanted to eat her hand!






Then on Halloween we went to the Trunk or Treat at the church. It was so fun to see everyone in our ward. Our scouts were especially excited to see us! Claire was a raptor. We also called her a slobbersaurus!

My Amazing and Beautiful Wife Julie

There are so many reasons why my wife is perfect and that there is no one else like her. She is everything to me. She is my happiness and makes me feel like I am the only person that exists in this whole world. She is my best friend and my confidant. I love her more than anything in this world because she truly is my soul mate and I know that we are supposed to be together. Julie has taken me to heights I never knew existed and I know that she has felt those with me. Julie is truly the most special woman in the world. She is the best mom I have ever seen and is the glue for our family. She holds us together and whenever times are hard, she is there to help put us back together. She takes on the responsibility and privilege of taking care of Claire with ease and smiles. She is so thankful to be a mother and loves every minute of it. Julie takes care of me the same way. I don't know where she finds the time or strength to take care of two people at the same time, but she does it everyday. Julie is AMAZING and I love her more and more everyday. Anything she puts her mind to she can achieve whatever that is. She loves life and wants to experience everything it has to offer. Lately we have been talking about our life, both past and future. We both are so excited about the direction our lives our heading and do not care about where we may be or what we may be doing, as long as we get to be together. I know that when we are together we can do anything in this world. I am so thankful for my family and for making me the proudest husband. I want everyone to know that Julie has it all. She has developed all of her many talents to become the woman she is today. She is the light of my life and means everything to me and more. I love you forever my sweet Julie Ann.

Preslie Quinn Martin

Last week we celebrated our sweet nieces Angelversary. Preslie Quinn Martin was born into heaven October 22, 2008. It was the saddest day we had ever experienced when we found out she returned to heaven. Through the sadness, with much faith and many prayers, so many lives have been touched. Preslie is so perfect she didn't even need to stay here on earth. She has helped us all try harder to be able to see her again some day.

To celebrate her many people all over released pink balloons into the air and also did an act of service to honor her. We loved taking the time remembering her and how she touches our lives every day. We love you Preslie!

Here are some pictures of the balloon release.

Claire Roll's Over

Up in the night, and so happy to be

I was up in the night with my sweet little Claire and I started to think of my friend Haylee who is pregnant with a baby boy. I when to her facebook page to see how she is doing and I saw that she has a blog. I was so excited to find this out so I opened it and started to read, this is what I found.

This is a link to a website of a sweet little girl who has cancer. http://www.tayliebug.com/Index.html

Haylee was writing about how someone was generous enough to donate $2 to this little girl and her family for every person who wrote about her and linked it in their blog! Also another generous person is donating a Prada bag to someone who blogs this. Go to her website to see what its about: http://adashofseason.blogspot.com/

This is not about a great Prada bag. (but who wouldn't love that bag!!) As I sat here holding my sweet little baby girl my heart broke. Today in the mail I got a letter and a single pink balloon from my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. On the 22nd of October we will commemorate the one year anniversary of our sweet angel niece, Preslie, who was born into heaven. My heart aches for them. I just held my baby girl tighter and touched her little face and my heart sank for all the losses people face in life. We love Preslie and there is not a day that goes by that we don't think of her. She touches our lives and our hearts in so many ways.

I just had to write about this little girl and hope there is enough money raised for her so her little body can fight this cancer and she get all the help she needs. Please do the same.

BY REQUEST. . .

. . .and because she is just to cute I can't help myself!!


She always falls asleep in her jumper/bouncer! She loves it and just goes crazy in it but I think it wears her right out!


These I took today and tried my hand at editing and playing with colors!!


I think they turned out pretty cute!!


She is so sweet!!!


This is Claire's friend, Weston, who is two months older than her! On Monday we went to the library together to baby story time! It was so much fun! They are so cute!!!