My favorite part of this little video is certainly Oakley’s obliteration, but the rest of it is fun too. Last night, we watched some video taken by the late, great Thelma. I was struck by the fact that even really bad video can become exceptionally valuable/enjoyable with the passage of time. Hopefully this is reasonably fun, even now.
Ripped!
30 Jun 09 by Tim Martin | 1 Comment | 46 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: aspen, duck, lindy, oakley, video
34 of Our Closest Relatives
28 Jun 09 by Tim Martin | 2 Comments | 84 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: aspen, family, jenn, lindy, oakley, tim
Each summer over the last 14 years, I’ve made the same joke. “I’m going to the beach with 30 of Jenn’s closest relatives.”
No one ever believes me… not until now. Now I have proof.
34 leaves on Edward & Drucilla Williams’ Family Tree
What Have We Been Doing?
28 Jun 09 by Tim Martin | No Comments | 51 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: aspen, duck, lindy, oakley
Father’s Day Architecture
23 Jun 09 by Tim Martin | 1 Comment | 66 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: art, oakley
Check out this father’s day card from Oakley… Our girls have often drawn our house, which I think is really cool. Sometimes they take the time to get the parts of the house right, down to the colors of their respective rooms.
This time, though, Oakley decided to kick it 3D-style. She did this totally on her own, and gave it to me… Pretty awesome.
Sausage Balls, a guest food post
14 Jun 09 by Tim Martin | No Comments | 98 view(s)Categories: food | Tags: bisquick, oakley, sausage
That’s right, folks, I, Tim, am doing a food post. We’ve been eating sausage balls for years, but today, we venture into the post Bisquick world… today we create them from scratch…
Hula Hoop Throwdown
11 Jun 09 by Tim Martin | 5 Comments | 164 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: aspen, jenn, lindy, oakley, tim, video
Ask yourself this… are you ready for a throwdown? –Bobby Flay
Bobby Flay has a show on The Food Network in which he travels the country challenging various cooks to make their favorite dish in a competition with him.
A couple of days ago, Angie suggested that sharing Oakley’s hula hooping skills wouldn’t be enough… We needed to provide some context… We need to know from whence she got her skills.
And so, the Hula Hoop Throwdown was born. Was I ready for a throwdown? Yes I was.
I live with four women
31 May 09 by Tim Martin | 9 Comments | 193 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: aspen, favorites, jenn, lindy, oakley, pictures, tim, women
Well, someday that will be true. Today, I live with my wife and three little girls. And you know what? I sincerely love it. I grew up around women, for the most part, I have a reasonable understanding of them, I even like things that women like. That’s right, I can watch What Not To Wear or a cooking show and embrace it.
My reward for embracing women?
Me and my ladies
Tell me that’s not awesome!
We went out on the front porch this morning after church and busted out the self-timer function on the camera. This one can be set to burst one or many shots. The chronology of the shots is really fun, I think.
Eyes o’ Mine
17 May 09 by Tim Martin | 2 Comments | 132 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: aspen, eyes, lindy, oakley
I’ve been blessed with three daughters, all of whom share many things about their appearance. Some pictures of them from similar ages are almost indistinguishable.
The eyes, however, are a dead give away. For Jenn or me, it’s immediately apparent who we’re looking at in these pictures. Can you tell who’s who?
Keep reading…
Bath Time!
13 May 09 by Tim Martin | No Comments | 38 view(s)Categories: family | Tags: lindy, oakley, pictures
I’m not exactly a big bath time photo guy… I know plenty of cute shots come from it, but that’s a pretty private moment, so I leave it alone. I read recently, though, about how bathrooms are light big softboxes from a photography standpoint, so I decided I’d shoot a couple of pictures of Oakley and Lindy during their last bath. (We’re taking showers a lot of the time now too, thankfully.)
The results were good enough (and decent enough) that I feel comfortable sharing them with you.
We decided that Aspen wouldn’t fit
Scary
Chilling On Mothers Day
13 May 09 by Tim Martin | No Comments | 24 view(s)Categories: uncategorized | Tags: aspen, jenn, lindy, oakley, video
Just sharing a little snippet of life at the Martin house here. Like all the videos on the site, there’s not some “glorious” moment. They’re basically moments captured for me to return to when everyone is totally different in a few years.
Mothers Day was awesome last weekend… just a good day of hanging out together, etc. I was so enjoying watching my four ladies open the presents that I decided to get the video camera. Fortunately, it didn’t really ruin the moment, so I got a reasonable picture of what was going on…