Est 2003

Carly's 1st Birthday

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Here is Carly eating her cake. She would not use her hands, so she decided to shuv her face into the cake. We think she thought the cake was too sticky and gross on her hands. She is so CUTE!

Our Christmas picture for 2009

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The 19th of Dec

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We all headed out to the Jacksons to have a BBQ, and spend time with Uncle Jim, Aunt Pam, and Chris Darling.This consisted of eating lots of food, and riding quads. This is a picture of Chris crashing into the rental car.

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Just Pictures of Carly

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Carly's 1st Car Ride

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Carly In the Hospital

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Carly at 4 Days Old

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Our Poor Jetta. RIP

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Glock 19, 9mm, semi auto that was left in drivers door.

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Inside the Jetta

Lilly's 3rd Birthday!

2009-10-21T16:34:00.000-07:00

Three years came and went so fast, but yet so very slow. We celebrated Lilly's 3rd Birthday on the 17th. Some of our favorite words from Lilly: everything had again on the end, 2 n 'em, that's the deal, is that a bad word, I'm okay! We love you are silly Li'l Lilly Punkintine.

Sawmill Trail at Mount Charleston

2009-09-24T07:42:00.001-07:00

We went on a hike on August 25th to the Sawmill Trail. It was a short one made into a long one. We enjoyed a picnic first. We then collected specimens along the way. There were many different flowers and bushes and trees. I was surprised to see how many we had collected by the end. Along our trek, we showed Ocean and Lilly how to use a compass and binoculars.

Hi Carly

2009-09-21T12:39:00.000-07:00

Here is Carly "Pinky" as Lilly calls her. As of 9/21/09 she is 2lbs, breech, and healthy.

To the Detective Oral Board!

2009-09-02T13:27:00.000-07:00

With his ($25)00 suit on, he left home looking sharp and very nervous. For months he prepared; ride-alongs, brown nosing, talking to LT for test info., studying, and taking all of the required classes. He Placed 3rd on The List! 20 applied and 10 placed. Hopefully within the year they will pull him up to detective!

2009 Garden!

2009-09-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

Well our outside was burnt by mid June or July, so we were relying on our inside potted plants. This here is our carrots. We were expecting them to be worthy of eating. They ended up being about 1 and 1/2 inches and tasting very rooty. All well. Next year maybe.

Cool Cobra

2009-06-19T18:42:00.000-07:00

A Big Kiss For Uncle Karl

2009-06-19T18:41:00.000-07:00

I was trying to get Lilly till do a pose. We are still trying to get it down, but she sure knows to dance and be free.

Grants Farm St. Lois, MO

2009-06-19T18:29:00.000-07:00

The goats loved milk, and the kids loved the goats. When in St. Louis this is a must see/visit.

The Gateway Arch (St. Louis, MO)

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We were up 630 ft. While we were up there we could feel it sway back and forth from the wind. Follow your dreams and travel, travel, travel. You will never know what you will find, until you find it...... Part of finding is looking!

"Hold On" Funny Funny

2009-06-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

Grandpa's Farm

2009-05-27T18:44:00.000-07:00

Grandpa's land in Missouri just behind his old house. The house wasn't in too good of shape. We had to check on how his fish and field were doing, and it is holding up pretty good. We found a turtle, and saw lots of bugs.

LVMPD's Car show for Injured Officers. Our First Car Show!

2009-05-27T18:40:00.000-07:00

Ocean and Lilly sitting on the back of "The King!"

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Blaine posing as SWAT!

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Ocean's holding a rhino!

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Family Camel Ride!

Trip to the Kallmeyer Farm in Idaho!

2009-05-14T22:33:00.000-07:00

Excuse for me being a slacker on the blog.

2009-05-14T21:40:00.000-07:00

My sister-in-law pointed out I haven't updated in quite awhile. So I am going to try to catch up. We'll back up a couple months. Not that we live all to interesting lives. In Feb. and March I got quite sick. The Dr.'s came up with the obvious symptom, which is why I went in. But I lost about 12lbs. Then quickly gained it back and some more. I am chocking it up to a milk allergy through experimenting. I figured what do I have to lose. I think what triggered it was straight cow milk. ( Mel it's ok, who knew.) Now I know to be even more careful than I was.

Running in the Rain

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Runnig in the Rain

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We had a great time running in gutter with our rain boots. It's not to often that we get to use them.

Playing in the Rain

2009-02-09T17:38:00.000-08:00

Oceans 4th B-Day

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Lilly and Ocean as SUPER HEROS

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Funny to Us and not to Ocean

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Lilly pushed Ocean when he was sitting on the edge of the coach, and this is how we found him. We thought is was hilarious.

Rock Rash From Jack's Trail

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Jack's Trail Jan 20, 09'

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St. Thomas

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Lilly's Gymnastic Class

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Hump N Bump

2008-11-18T09:45:00.000-08:00

Here was our Jeep trip to Logandale, NV. Each year the Vegas Valley 4X4 club puts on a weekend of offroading and rock crawling. We camped and beat on the Jeep, it was gggrrrreatt.

BAT GIRL

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Happy Halloween

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Uncle Scotty

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A Dogs Life

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Lilly's Birthday In The Park

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Here is Lilly and Ocean hitting the pinata.

This is Ocean and Lilly's cousins Makayla and Logan Jackson.

Oh, and the super cake that Kate made. It had cake, cookie, and brownie. MMM MMM GOOD.

Ocean On The Rock

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Daddy On The Rock

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Lilly's Birthday

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Here is Lilly opening her toys on her birthday, she is such a cutie.

The Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-26T16:46:00.000-07:00

Here are the kids at the Pumpkin Patch. For Joy School they went on a field trip to pick apples and pumpkins

Tagged! I'll play.

2008-10-24T22:20:00.000-07:00

Name and Meaning: Lilly Diela, couldn't tell you the meaning. We came up with all of our kids names when we were on vacation in Newport Beach. We were engaged and eating those yummy fresh corn dogs. MMMmmm. We later wrote them in my scriptures, so it is scripture. Lilly is short for Lillian, who was a teacher when I was around 14. I really looked up to her. Then Diela was after my favorite Great Aunt, who I dearly loved when I was little.
Age: 2 years old
Nickname: Punkin, Scooterbops, Monkey, Crazy, and Sis.
Favorite Foods: Yogurk and juice and snacks. Pretty much anything really unless she doesn't feel like eating, which is few and far between. She'll eat her breakfast. Then come over and go Hum, Hum, Hum until I start feeding her my breakfast. Then when Blaine gets home at 8:30am she will want to eat his also. Like she is still hungry.
Favorite Activities: Loves to read and look at books, Loves our dogs to pieces-shares her drinks and food, loves to give them treats and pet them and hug them and get smeared by Junior(yuck), Loves music, loves storytime, loves to get hurt and be rushed to the hospital, loves to swing on the bars at gymnastics, loves to help mom shop and Help Ocean fill the water bottles, likes to help mom unload the dishes, loves to eat, loves to jump and dance, and finally loves to play with her brother Ocean.
Least Favorite Food: corn and rice
Favorite Music: She loves the song that has the "shake shake shake" in it and another with "Bop, Bop, Bop" in it. Other than that if it is upbeat she'll dance or shake her butt to it.
Favorite Toys: her princess shoes, the car, the slide, her horse flashlight, and loves to play cars with Ocean. Her ducky though is her most prized possession.
Favorite Books: She loves the Elmo series we have.
Favorite item of clothing: Shoes, Shoes, and Shoes. Not that she keeps them on.
What makes her happy: Snacks, Juice, Yogurt, Shoes, Going outside, the Park, and Ocean, and Daddy.
What makes her sad: Owies, Ocean not being nice, spanks, and not having her ducky.

Dog House Built By Blaine & Travis

2008-10-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

The dog was built for Lucy and Junior, but I guess it is big enough for Blaine if he gets in trouble. Lilly and Ocean loved the dog house too. Tonight when everyone came home Lucy and Junior were sound asleep inside the dog house. Junior only poked his head out to see who was home, and then he went back inside.

2008-10-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

Diapers; No Diapers!

2008-10-12T23:50:00.000-07:00

Lilly came up with a joke. She says "Diaper? " And we say either "You don't wear a diaper", or "No diaper." She is potty trained as of 10-6-08. And we are so proud of her and are happy that we are a diaper free house. Yeah! We owe it all to www.3daypottytraining.com.

Yah My Cast is off

2008-09-25T17:36:00.000-07:00

Lilly getting her cast off

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No More Cast

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Buggy

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Lilly was yelling "buggy, buggy, Daddy" and this is what was coming to get her. A Praying Mantis was climbing up the wheel of her stroller.

My Garden

2008-09-21T09:46:00.000-07:00

Lilly Dancing

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30 and Bald

2008-09-15T22:13:00.000-07:00

So, how do you know when your 30, I say, look at my picture. This is what I have to look forward to. In life, as we get older usally we get more of stuff, well here is what I'm geting less of, HAIR. I realised the other night that I can count the hair on the front of my head. In this picture there is 105 hairs.

30 YRS OLD

2008-09-10T17:38:00.000-07:00

Kate baked a Birth Day punkin pie for Blaine!

1st Day of Joy School

2008-09-10T10:39:00.000-07:00

Kate is doing a Joy School with a couple of the lady's in the ward. The kids meet 2 days a week and for 2 hrs. Ocean was so excited to wear his spider-man backpack.

2008-09-09T16:38:00.000-07:00

Today was the 1st time we left Ocean at pre-school. When we picked him up he stopped in the middle of walking and said " stop, I got sand." He sat down, and emptied a whole shoe of sand onto the ground. He proceeded to tell us that he played in the sand box. He told us that one of his buddies had a really cool shirt on. It had speed racer on it "one good guy, and one bad guy." He told us all about the story from story time. It had " dinosaurs, RRARR, snakes, and alligators." I think he had fun.

We took Lilly to get a smoothie, and Taco Bell while Ocean was at pre-school. She really enjoyed that. While in the car I asked Lilly " where's Osh" and she replied with " at home." I think she really felt that it was her day!

Ocean and Shelby

2008-09-09T16:36:00.000-07:00

This is Shelby Melvin and Ocean. They are good friends and have been playing since birth. Hopefully they don't just pester each other in class. The teacher said they did really good today.

Ocean Waiting To Go Into Pre-School

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Let me in I' m ready to learn!

Clean Dogs

2008-09-08T10:23:00.000-07:00

Today we washed the dogs, and after they get washed they get a jeep ride. Ocean and Lilly love to go too on jeep rides!

2008-09-06T16:31:00.000-07:00

Lill's hair braided for the 1st time!

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LIILY EATING GRAPES

2008-09-06T16:21:00.000-07:00

The Cast

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Here is Lilly getting here cast. Her and Daddy were riding on her tri-cycle and her foot got caught in between the spokes and the pedal.

Bloody Lip

2008-09-04T16:13:00.000-07:00

While we were taking a picture of Lilly's quilt Ocean got mad, because he didn't have a picture. So he crashed his car, and it resulted in a picture since our camera was out. Here is your picture Ocean!

2008-09-03T19:08:00.000-07:00

We're ready for the rain!

Labor Day

2008-09-03T17:21:00.000-07:00

We had a fun filled Labor Day. Here are some of the pictures. Oh, by the way we ended the night at the hospital with Lilly. Lilly decided to fall face first into a glass coffee table. She's OK just some minor cuts, but no stitches. I think she will give us a heart attack some day from all her injuries.

Lilly in her outdoor wheelchair. I'm pretty sure wheelchairs are supposed to be propelled by the operator. This one is propelled by Mom and Dad.

This is Ocean's scraped up knee. He's all boy.

The First Blog

2008-08-25T14:46:00.000-07:00

Daddy Blogger: This is our first blog. So hopefully we'll get better at this as time goes by.
Mother Blogger:Okay this is mother blogger checking in. Our gmail address is gomartell. We have a Martell cheer we say after we say our bedtime prayers. It ends with Gooooooooo Martell's!