The Great Move North

For those of you who haven't heard, we've moved! (Well, almost). I (Peter) got a job with the Diocese of Winona in Minnesota and we moved out of our house in Louisiana three weeks ago. We spent a week and a half with Theresa's family in Louisiana and took three days to travel. We took a day and a half off in Kansas where we spent time with Theresa's relatives and we got to see Uncle John and Aunt Kristen too! We arrived in Wisconsin about a week ago and we will move into our new home in Minnesota tomorrow!

I'm posting all the pictures I had from the last several months. We've not been real good about keeping up with the Blog, but we'll attempt to do much better.

Welcome Summertime 2010

We just wanted to share with you a selection of pictures from the past few months. Enjoy! (You'll see a small icon in the bottom left if it is a video... clicking on that picture will start the video in another window.)

Have you met Leonardo?

I've been meaning to do an exclusive blog just on Leonardo for the longest time... I always feel bad because we don't seem to take many pictures of him, yet he's so darn cute!

I hope you'll enjoy these pictures of Leonardo. He's such a precious boy and always so happy!



The videos are not the greatest quality because we have resorted to using our phones ever since our camera died, but they show some pretty cute moments of the little guy. I added some of when he was young just to show how he has grown. (Just click on the video to watch... I think there are 12 altogether.)

Belated Update

Well folks, with the completion of my STL, I can finally get to some of these things that I have put off.

We haven't updated our blog in six months, so I basically just went through and added a collage of photos. Our digital camera broke sometime in the last 6 months, so we rely on our phones. There are quite a few photos (I think 75), so take your time and enjoy! (Too much has happened in the last six months to summarize here, so I'm hoping the pictures will tell the stories.)

God Bless you all was we await the celebration of Christ's Birth!

Our House (Part 2)

There is only one more video of the house: the backyard. Not included in the videos is the ground-floor basement that is not finished. It is used for a work-out room and another play room for the boys. The apartment is the last part of the house. It is just a one-bedroom, but it is cute and perfect for Naomi, our nanny. It is an ideal situation. Again, God has tremendously blessed us.



And we found some bonus videos (they were on Theresa's phone):

In the first video Leonardo is only 3 months old.




He was 4 months old in these last two.


Actually, no, Louis did not shrink, that is just an incredibly large chair... you know, kids are so much bigger these days that they have to accommodate with an over-sized chair.


Isn't he such a sweetie?



This last video was just taken this morning. Louis actually started singing this song in bed before we let them out of their room. Gregory chimed in and they were actually singing in unison. We asked them to sing it again for the camera... The funny thing is, they've only seen that show once at their cousins and it was a while ago. I don't even know the name of the show, but they obviously liked the song!

Our House (Part 1)

Well, we're finally getting around to uploading videos of the house. Sorry it has taken us so long, but here you go! Our camera was full after doing this first group, so we'll post another blog with Part 2. Let me just say that we are incredibly blessed to have this house and are grateful to God for his continued generosity to us, his little ones. Enjoy! (It takes about 3 and a half minutes.)










Did you see poor little Louis trying to get in? You can even hear his faint call for mommy. Most of the time all he really has to do is push on the door, but he hasn't learned that yet.

Mardi Gras!

Here's a little look at how the Martin's spent their Mardi Gras:

Finally Updated!

Sorry for the long pause... here are the much awaited updated pictures of Leonardo. The poor little guy doesn't get his picture taken much, but alas, we can only do so much! Leonardo has been a very healthy little boy and has been cooing and smiling at us for some time now. He will finally be baptized on March 7th at our Parish here in Metairie.



Gregory and Louis have been getting along very nicely with each other and have been excellent big brothers to Leonardo. Here are a few pics of them... our camera hasn't gotten a whole lot of use these days as you can see!



Finally, here are a couple of short videos of Leonardo:

The video's a little dark, but it's cute to hear Gregory say Leonardo's name!


In this video Leonardo is getting a lesson from Daddy on how to laugh. Daddy's not so good at it considering the cough that he's had...

Finally, for those of you who would like to see videos of our new home... well, we're still unpacking. We've got pictures up in one room of the house, but it's still a work in progress. Thanks for visiting our blog!

God Bless,

Pete, Theresa, Gregory, Louis & Leonardo!

We're home... again

Well, we made it safely to New Orleans... Praise God! Thank you all for your prayers! We had a lot more work packing the POD than we at first thought, so our departure time was delayed by five hours... we left at midnight and drove a total of 150 miles the first 5 hours! The fact that we had been moving boxes for 7 hours straight on top of the fact that we were both up late the night before made for some pretty rough driving conditions and we spent quite a bit of those hours parked at Rest Areas. It's funny because I decided to drive at one point in the wee hours of the morning and made it as far as the next rest stop! We didn't get to Atlanta until 3 or so the next afternoon.

I was able to get some sleep there and thanks to that and good strong coffee, was able to drive straight through the night to New Orleans. We were exhausted, but we are very glad to be home.

We slept a few hours that morning and then later that afternoon visited our new house:


It is a huge old house with a lot of charm. We look forward to moving in next week when our POD arrives.