For Christmas we had Kimber Barlow come over to the house to paint a mural in Melynne's bedroom. We heard she was a pretty talented artist and painter, but we had no idea. By just looking at the following pictures you can see the amazing talent that she truley has.

Here is the fairy tree. If you look close you can see that she painted light coming out from the middle of the tree as if there is a whole new fairy world inside. The amazing part is the 3-D effect that she gave the tree by making the branches real life by dangling from the ceiling. At night the tree branches light up with hundreds of purple twinkling lights.

One of Melynne's favorite part of the room is the little house that is at the base of the tree. This house is where Melynne lives.

In this picture you can see Tinkerbell's home. At night the light directly under Tink lights up and illuminates her. Melynne thinks that this is one of the coolest nightlights she ever had.

In this last picture you can truley see the detail in the mural.

Kimber was very excited to do this for Melynne. She wanted the other kids to be surprised and have a bedroom to enjoy.

Makayla absolutley loves Panda bears! In her bedroom, Kimber painted a very large detailed Panda. The most amazing part of this painting is the realness of the eyes. The panda looks down on Makayla and protects her while she sleeps.

The matching bedspread really adds the final touch!

Andrew is huge New York Yankee fan, thanks to my Dad. Even though the Boston Redsox are the supurb team, Andrew is so excited when the Yankees are on TV. The amazing part about this painting and all the other painting, is that she free handed all of them.

With the quilt on his bed, Andrew feels like the ultimate pro baseball player.

We thank Kimber and all her hard work. She truely made Christmas very special at ou house. You can look at other great murals that Kimber has created by going to her web site at www.blacksheepmurals.blogspot.com.

We received an invite in the mail inviting us to a dinner where we were both suspected in the death of a well known judge. We couldn't just say no, we had to prepare our selves and meet the remaining participants in this dinner.


The other suspects from left to right are:

Butch Chastity, she is the leader of an all woman gang who likes to rob and murder

Dee Adela Muerta, spanish beauty that has been married more time than we can remember. But she has never been divorsed but widowed every time.

Elvira-Lynn Fekshin

Helena Handcart

From left to right again:

Elias thro Histeeth

Wyatt Hertz

Chief Breakingwind from the Cowpie Tribe:

Pelvis Swagerin:

One of these varmants could be the killer.

The dinner was also a birthday party for Elvira and Butch. Dee and Helena put the party together for the other girls.

October 30, 2008
The annual Martin Pumpkin Carving Party. Here are the kids giving it there all to get the pumpkins cleaned out. Even with their best efforts Mom and Dad stepped in to give the cleaning a little help.


Here are the final results


Melynne's pumpkin is the ghost, because she has quite the spirit inside her.


Andrew's pumpkin is the Grimm Creeper. He just thought it was cool.



And Makayla picked the Ichabod's pumpkin, because it is almost as scary as she is.



Pumpkin Carving!!! SPOOOOOOOOKY!!!!!!!!!!

Taekwondo

Here is the new fighting champion. Andrew has been in Teakwondo just over a month. He is really enjoying it. One of his favorite things is to call his aunt in New Mexico. She is a 3rd degree Master Black Belt.

Scarecrow Festival

Makayla and Melynne have been involved with Hula for over a year. They have really enjoyed learning how to dance, and they love to perform in front of others.

This year they had the opportunity to perform at the Scarecrow Festival in front of a lot of people in the community.



Here is Makayla and Melynne with their hula teacher Madison Brown.



Melynne is in the yonger class. Even though she is in the younger class she has learned to shake her hips like the the older girls.



Makayla is in the oldest class. She has learned some advance technics like the Poi Balls.



The girls enjoy hula because they get to dance with some of their friends. Bailey and Cidney are some of the girls best friends.