This is my first post to test video embedding on the site. It’s a short video of Ryan at 10 weeks, taken by our Nikon S10 digital camera. It is a digicam with video capability, so it’s not exactly hi-def, but could be very nice for uploading bits of video up to our site.
Here’s the little guy getting around in the morning:
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I uploaded a new gallery of Ryan’s 2nd month pictures. The little guy is growing like a weed!
We had a great weekend July 3-6 at the cabin. For the first time since the 80s, Karen and Terry were able to make it – at least for one night as they were busy moving into their new home. It’s great to have them back! Julie made it this year, and Nate and Emma came up as well. Nate brought a boat, so we had two boats to tool around in this weekend. We spent a good bit of time with the boats tied up together in the middle of the lake, just hanging out and enjoying the beautiful weather. As if by design, it had stormed the day before we went up and the day after we got home, but the weekend was perfect.
Overall, we had Mom; Karen & Terry; Julie, Nate & Emma; Kim, Mike, Elise, Zack & Billy; Val, Joey & Matt; Dave, Jen & Ryan all together.
I don’t think anyone enjoyed the weekend more than Jen. Ryan has been a full-time job, and she really needed a weekend to get out of the house. She got plenty of help with him, of course, because everyone got their turn at holding him and helping with some bottle-feeding. Ryan was very good all weekend, his first cabin trip at seven weeks old. I think he really likes the outdoors. He got to take his naps in the new pack-and-play crib that Grandma Lola bought him, lying in the shade with a mosquito net over the crib to keep the bugs off him. We also bought a nice little Coleman ProCat catalytic heater that is specifically designed to be used in tents, which kept the tent at a nice mild temperature all night. I think he was going through a growth spurt this weekend, because he slept quite a bit. The first full day back home, he was at it all day long.
Since we missed Memorial Day weekend this year (too close to Ryan’s birth), 4th of July weekend was much anticipated. We’re going to try and plan another weekend in early August to make up for it, along with the traditional Labor Day weekend trip.
I’ve uploaded a bunch of pics from the weekend in the Dave & Jen gallery. Here’s a quick link.
I published all the pics from Levi’s Graduation Open House party from our camera.
I uploaded 18 more Ryan pictures today. You can find them in the Ryan’s First Month album. Quick link
I found a bunch of pics on my hard drive that Val had sent me some time back, so I posted them in the old family history album. There’s several of Grandma & Grandpa Martin, Dad when he was young, Jessie & John, and Mom.
Val, we need your help in telling who’s who on a few of these.
I’m starting to go back and publish a bunch of photos from our archives. Today, I published a set of pictures from a Northern Michigan trip in July, 2002. Jen and I were living in Memphis at the time, and we were up to visit for the 4th of July.
Included are photos at the cabin with Mom, Kim, Mike, Elise, Zack, Billy, Val, Joey, and us. We also went up to the Cut River Bridge in the UP, and Mackinac Island on this trip.
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I ordered the Primefilm 3600U slide and film scanner yesterday, this thing is going to be great. We can take Dad’s old slides and make digital copies of them for the site, as well as all of the old film negatives we have sitting around.
I put up a new album for old pictures from the family. There are currently two sub-albums, one is for pictures from the Bath family of Michigan Martins and the other is for pictures related to our ancestors.
Soon, we will purchase a slide and negative scanner to get a whole bunch of our old pictures up on the site.
Please use the comments to tell more about the pictures, I don’t always know the who, what, when, where, or why of all of them.