Amberito turns 10!

Everyone knows the Martins have a few birthdays in January. On the the 13th, our y2k gift turned 10 - Happy Birthday Amber!

As everyone likely knows already, the celebration started at 6am, a prayer for the day, and sang happy birthday to wake her (they will likely grow out of enjoying this...). Then pancakes abound. Nana and papa joined us and presented Amber with her first BB Gun (pink daisey red rider). She also recieved a desired cash gift from her parents and TT and Korey.

Importantly, this was Ambers 10th birthday and it was important to demonstrate a right of passage and celebration. 4 years earlier, after denying earings to my daughter, her mother and I were delighted to present the opportunity. She now has beautifully pierced ears!

Ambers pierced ears!!! Light blue to match her beautiful eyes.

We ended the day with a family dinner with the Carrols, nana, papa and the rest of the fam. We did some dancing and horsing around the rest of the night and stayed up late on a school night!

The kids getting funky with TT in tow!

Amber - your name is so fitting. You are truly a jewel to us all. We thank and praise God continually for the gift of you sweetheart. Happy Birthday Amberito!

The Mustangs - Go Amber!

Amber has skills on the court and leadership! What a blast to watch...

Seven!

Seany boy is again turning another corner in age - lucky 7!

We really had a blast in the last week with Sean and his birthday celebration. It started in Friday morning at 500 am when Jenn and I woke to take on the day. We had some coffee, grabbed a few of his gifts, and had Amber join us in getting ready for our tradition for birthdays in this house...

Amber, Jenn, and I went into Seans room and prayed for Gods blessing on his birthday. Next we woke him by signing happy birthday. What came next was even extra special. I asked Sean if he wanted to accept Jesus into his heart and he smiled and said "yes!" We then, together, repeated a prayer which gave Sean the opportunity to profess Christ as his savior and his family had the delight to witness it. He did it with confidence and humility...

As we all went downstairs we did our usual and prepared pancakes as part of the tradition. And yes, place a candle upon the stake of hotcakes and again sang his birthday out.

Gifts we presented from everyone and very special ones: his own tackle box for fishing, his first knife, and a red rider bb gun presented from the grandparents!

Sean unwrapped the BB Gun!

Ready to bust out a few shots!

We are so grateful to God for the precious gifts in our children. God bless you little man. We love you dearly and Happy Birthday!