What I am thankful for!

I'll send you good luck, TT, if you send some my way too:) Just two more weeks of the semester and I can begin preparing for my transition to Lourdes college. I have to admit that I am very nervous. It is such a good school. Can I really keep up? I am sure there will be many more apprehensive blogs to come!

I wanted to let everyone know that Thanksgiving was so awesome this year. I really did have a wonderful time getting it all ready and having you all in my home. I think that it was the only thing this house has been missing so far: a Marten takeover! I have so much to be thankful for and when I start reciting the list out loud, it always comes down to one thing, my family. Can't wait until next Thanksgiving. (As soon as we get the picture thing-y uploaded, it will post the pics.)

Eeeeeeee

Christmas :)

Thanksgiving is over and the christmas celebration has officially begun! I love everything about christmas and can't wait to put up my christmas tree (gotta wait til Tom puts his fish tank up first though). Unfortunatly I can't fully let myself get carried away because I have finals in 2 weeks :( I'm a little stressed about my research paper, and I am currently procrastinating by writing a blog! surprise surprise. I'm sad that we won't all be together this christmas, but if it means Kelly will be a lot closer to home then thats a sacrifice I'm willing to make! Christmas just won't be the same though. Well I guess it's time to work a little on my research paper thats due in 2 weeks. Wish me luck :)
Love you all
TT

Wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Love, Mom

Yellow Belt!

Nathaniel Marten earned his YELLOW BELT. Hooray! We're so proud of Nate.

Oh Well

Okay so my elf yourself thing didn't work but it was really funny. You can do up to 5 elves this year and I did the five of us girls and you can select what dance you wanna do and we did the charlston! If you get some down time, try it out cuz it's really funny.

TT

This is how!

when you get to the main page, the "dashboard" click on the blue button that says new post...Then under title, you put a title, then go down to the main box and write whatever you want! if you want to put in a photo you click on the little button that looks like mountains click "browse" to choose your photo then choose a layout then upload image...and that's pretty much all I know how to do still...you guys can all work together on it and figure it out! it doesn't seem to difficult!

How does this work?

Okay, Bean. So how does this all work? It's all new to me. But a great idea. Give me play-by-play instructions and I'll try to keep up with you. Mom

Preface

Hey everyone! so I got this really great idea to start a Marten family blog. Since there are so many of us, and we're not always together, it's hard for us to stay in contact all the time. I don't know about you guys but I don't always have the time to make 6 phone calls everyday. I started this blog for us ALL to use. This way we can all post updates and photos to share information that we can check everyday. For examples...um, Katie gets engaged! or Keri gets a super awesome score on a test, or Nate becomes a yellow belt at power dragons! Now, I still have no idea how to do this whole blog thing, so I'm just going to play around and see what all I can figure out...It can't be all that hard. Also does anyone know if we have a good family picture that we can put as our main picture? I don't have any...actually when was that last time we even took a whole family picture? Texas?...I have no idea.
Anyways, sorry the weathers not so good for you guys, it's beautiful down here, but don't worry, that won't change my mind for moving home. In January hopefully I'll be able to get a final answer on whether or not I can transfer with whole foods to Ann Arbor! I can't wait to be closer to home!
I don't really have much to update on now, Kirky and I are doing great.
one of our favorite things to do is mock nate going "kirk! hey kirk! kiiiiiirk!...want to hear my wally impression? WAAAAAAALLLLLLYYYY"
I'm cooking thanksgiving dinner this year for kirk and his mom! :/ this should be interesting.
I don't think i'll be home for christmas this year, i'm going to work through the holidays so I can save as much money as I can for the move! but when you guys decide to watch white christmas, you should call and let me know so I can watch it at the same time!
I miss you all and like I said, I can't wait to be home!!!! Love yous!
-Bean