Up Date

Hurray! Jennifer is out of the hospital! She is mending well and in good spirits (when the antibiotics and pain meds have not completing drugged her or put to sleep!). She, Christopher, and Cromwell, will be staying with us until she is well enough to keep up with and take care of Cromwell by herself. Until then the Aunt corp is on active duty! :) Thank you all for all your prayers we are very thankful to have had them!!! God has been truly merciful! Thanks again!

The Martinez         

Up Date

Up Date

Jennifer surgery seams to have gone well. It was only a fifteen minute procedure, the Doctor said the infection didn't go as deep as they expected and the antibiotics she on seam to be working! Lord willing she will be able to go home tomorrow, we don't yet know when she will be able to be around baby Cromwell again. Thank you all for your payers, God is merciful!

The Martinez

Prayer request and Update

Prayer Request and Update

Jennifer is going in for surgery tomorrow to have the infected area removed and cleaned out. Please keep her, Christopher, the doctors, and all of us in your prayers. 

With many thanks,                

The Martinez     

Prayer Request

Prayer Request

Please pray for our sister/daughter Jennifer, she went  to the doctor today to be treated for a skin infection that has been causing her sever discomfort over the last couple of days, and after an examination the doctor ordered her to immediately go to the hospital. She has been checked in via the emergency room and put in an isolated room.  From what we understand it looks like she has a very serious Staph infection.  Please pray that the doctors will have wisdom in treating her, that Jennifer will have peace and comfort while in the hospital, that she will very soon be over this, and that it wont spread to any of the rest of us that have been around her the last couple of days, (especially baby Cromwell whom she will not be able to be around at all for some time).  We sincerely appreciate your prayers!

The Martinez        

Croquet

I am sorry it has been so long since I have posted on the Martinez Family blog! I had plans for one day catching it up from the dark ages where I left it, and chronicling everything that has happened over the last year in a systematic orderly fashion. I have had to give that idea up unfortuneately due to time constraints and have decided to start  afresh with the now. So as far as the world knows 2008 does not exist in Martinezmania. We hit a time warp or a black whole and the rest is not history. I will sum 2008 up in the below picture. 

Martinez's 2008

Now that is taken care of, here are some pictures of the now!

Welcome to Martinezmania 2009!

Though it is perhaps not the most terribly exciting or dramatic way one could wish to open 2009, one has to start somewhere, so I will start with the friendly game of Croquet we played today...

Robert and Calvin playing Croquet... I think.

That's better!

We play are Croquet out in our horse pasture, which makes for very interesting (i.e extremely rugged) terrain .

Ball swamped in Coastal grass.

Getting serious!

Jo's ball

Can you tell we are in drought?

Are less then attractive and enthusiastic cheer leaders.

Calvin's ball got suck in a hole

See how deep Calvin's hole was! (Another clue that we are in drought!)

Maverick, our trusty old Lab Retriever acting as Referee. 

Nice shot Becca!

Neck and neck.

Here's a cute little feller that squeezed under the fence to join are fun! Isn't he cute!!! I just hope he doesn't turn into Cabrito come Easter! (Yum,Yum!:)

Croquet, though not thrilling sport by any stretch of the word, is a great game for an afternoon one wishes to spend at leisure in the sunshine and is a Martinez  favorite for this purpose! Though I must say the people in the above picture seem to have accomplished this with a little more grace, elegance, and poise, then we did!

Hopefully more post to come!

The Loveliness of Christ

"There may be many Christians, most like unto young sailors, who think the shore and the whole land doth move, when the ship and they themselves are moved; just so, not a few do imagine that God moveth, and saileth, and changeth places, because their giddy souls are under sail, and subject to alteration, to ebbing and flowing; but the foundation of the Lord abideth sure."

Samuel Rutherford