Great Job Bowen!

Every year Page has an event called Page Attacks Trash in which all of the community goes out to clean up garbage around town. For your efforts you get a free t-shirt and lunch, not to mention the civic pride that goes along with a better looking community. All of the Martins participated along with Drake's scout troop. In conjunction with this event, the elementary schools sponsor an art contest. Bowen's drawing was chosen as the first place winner among all of the kindergartners in Page! Here he is with his t-shirt in front of the Townhouse where they dispalyed all of the winners' art for the whole city to see. Way to go Bowen!

Ballet Recital

Elise got to participate in her first dance recital on Saturday. She did a great job and really like the fact that she got to wear tons of makeup as the recital was at the Fort Lewis College concert hall. Her next recital is the Sat before Mother's day and she will be doing her tap & jazz. We have extra tickets if anyone can come! :)

I love the photos!

I'm afraid I'm going to have to call Child Protective Services on the Virgina Rosses. Claire just doesn't look like she is truly happy.

I got a bit of a chuckle seeing a bunch of high adventure/high energy pictures of many of the cousins juxtaposed to the serene Easter photo of the Gilleland kids. Not something you see every day. :)

I added all the calendar events I had on my personal calendar to the calendar on this site, but I know that not everything was there, particularly for the younger kids. I added Rex and Claire. If you want to click the Google icon at the bottom of the calendar, you can get a full page view of it and you can see if the events are on there that should be. If we need to add something, please let me know! You can send me an email, or leave a comment on this post if you prefer.

Birthday Shout Outs

Wishing a Happy 4th Birthday to Rex on April 9th (I don't know how to add to the calendar); Happy Birthday to Brad today, the big 3-0 (man I must be getting old if my little brother is 30); and Happy Birthday on Monday to Theo (33); and Kim, uuhhhhh, sorry you are 40 now!

Easter FUN

We had the pleasure of a visit from the Hannays over the Easter weekend, a rare but wonderful treat! We squeezed in all the fun we could with a hike around the rim of Page, coloring eggs with Grandma Ross, swimming at the pool, and topping it all off with a day on a houseboat! Life doesn't get much better than this!

Happy Easter

We hope everyone had a nice Easter. Here is a photo of the kids in their new easter garb. We went to Moab on Friday and Saturday to Pinz around before coming home for Easter in Durango. The weather was very nice although I didn't get to quilt at all! I heard Mom's new purchase is attracting visitors. Hopefully we will make a pilgramage at the end of the month.

A new expenditure

Monday, April 2, 2007

A new expenditure

I went to California to visit my mom a couple of weeks ago. I flew over and rented a car. We went shopping and out to lunch a couple of times.
She is doing well living alone and she is happy to be back in her townhouse. She has a care giver come in a couple of times a week for 2 hours. It was fun to visit with Alan and Connie, Wes and Jan and Julie and her fiance.
I went a little crazy Thursday night and bought a quilting machine. It was set up in the spare bedroom on Saturday night after the quilt show. I thought it was going to be much easier than it is. I have a long way to go before anyone will want me quilting for them! I was planning to give the baby quilt on the frame to Abe and Angela Schoppmann, but it may not be something someone would want. We'll see how it looks once it is finished. It may make a good packing blanket.
We are hoping to go to the title company with our current offer on the house on Thursday when dad returns from Colorado. We have had one other person really interested. So, it may sell! We will keep you posted.
Mom