We have no good pics together...so this will have to do:)


Mubeen is crazy! So I went out to Gloria's with Mubeen and she told the waiter it was my bday so I got dessert!  It was good:) She's a little crazy, but I still love her:) Thanks Mebooba!

Black mail Pictures:)...Plus some cute ones:)

Best Friends Forever!!
Ethan's such a good big brother! He loves to red to his sister!

I'm so proud of my lil' Ethan boy..he's started dressing himself.  Most of the time he does a wonderful job, but despite his distaste for purple bowls and spoons, for some reason he decided to where purple pants that day:)lol
So you never know what's up in the other room when a girl of two years old decides to be quite for more than 5 minutes!!  OMG she is covered! It's even in her teeth! I couldn't pass up the chance of recording this!  This is definitely going in her Senior High School Slideshow!

Twilight movie!

So I know it's been forever, but I'm catching up...  Just us girls went to see the Twilight movie a bit ago...I actually liked it!  I was afraid I wouldn't,  but I was pleasantly surprised!  It was nice to get away from everyday things and just relax:)
Just us girls eating appetizers and chatting about the movie!


I was trying to get them to both make silly faces, but Mary can't look silly, she just looks cute:)

Thanksgiving at Christmas

On the way to Grandma's house...Hope looks so cute with her feet crossed like that! What a Handsome Boy!

Hope is so talented!
If anyone knows Mark, they know he does not like pie.  He says it's because it's too sweet so we thought he would like Rubarb Pie...
We made him try it and he hated it soo much he had to spit it out...all while we were cracking up, cause at first he was trying to be polite about it, until mom told him if he didn't like it he could spit it out.lol
I made my delish Fruit Brownie by request:) and I found the BIGGEST Strawberry in the world in the process!
Me eating the Biggest Strawberry in the world!

I caught Mark eating all the chocolate

Cute lil' Alley
Thanksgiving dinner made Aiden tired...
Until they decided to make a concerted effort to get in the pantry!
Best buds!

I'm finally uploading pics form Thanksgiving.  Ya I know I'm a slacker:)  We had two wonderful Tahnksgiving dinners that day.  One at my mom's and then one at Mark's moms.  Needless to day we were very, very full by the end of the day!

And here is my latest card! She liked Fabi's so we modeled accordingly.

San Antonio Rock and Roll Marathon!

So as you all know Mark and I trained for the San Antonio Rock and Roll Marathon!  It was fun and awesome however I got injured a week before the race and couldn't run it:( I've already done one, and Mark got injured for that one so I guess we were trading places:) You did great baby!  

Starting line!Lots of ppl waiting in line to start the marathon!Go check out Bethany's facebook to see how crazy dirty the streets were after the race started...people trash their sweaters and long pants after they start running because it gets hot!(no they are not naked...they have shorts underneath)  Anyways the streets are covered in clothing and cups...Bethany and I had a good long walk to the finish line with my hurt foot.  We were trying to flirt with the UPS drivers that shipped all the checked items for the runners, so we could get a ride, but it didn't work:)hehe:)j/k  But it really was for the better bc I ended up going shopping at the Streetshop used hand-me-down store on the way back.  I got a pair of adidas pants and two jacket tops...very nice!  Just so everyone knows...they toss the discarded clothing afterwards so no one was coming to claim them.  I love this pic!
Starting line...

Before the race!
My awesome sister-in-law and me!!  
Being Crazy to kick off the nerves!! Kennon...you were nervous!!hehe For great videos go to Mark's facebook account..it's funny!
Yay Libby!  This was Libby's first half marathon!  Poor Libby got blisters after the first three or so miles, but she was determined to finsh even if that meant walking...so she walked on painful blisters for a billion miles and still managed to finish in under 4 hours!(if I remember correctly) I'm soo glad that Libby and Andy do this kind of stuff with us, it makes it soo much more fun sharing these moments with people we love!  You guys are awesome!!
Andy crossing the finish line!  Go Andy! His time was 4 hours and 35 min.!! We're proud of you!

Those of you who have run a marathon know how unpleasantly awesome the last moments are!  As you can tell by his face, Mark is in a lot of pain...he was trying to scream out for joy, but it came out as a whippered whoo!!  Poor baby:)  But all the pain is worth it when you realize that you just accomplished what you've trained months and months for!  He did it in 4 hours and 25 min!!  Go Mark!!
Painfully tying his shoe
I'm So proud of him!

It might get boring for ya'll but here is another christmas card I just finished. I love the holly tree stuff!

This is an invitation to a Quinceanera that I just finished!  It looks a little darker than it will be, for some reason online it looks darker, but the final print will be perfect so it's all good!  The top is what the invite will look like once put together.  The white part with text is vellum and then there will be a ribbon at the top to keep it together.  I'm really liking how this one turned out!

Here is my first christmas card design of the season!  It's my first religious one!

So despite our hardest efforts, this is the best we could do in getting the kids to sit and be still, and smile.  You should have seen us all singing halloween songs, jumping up and down, calmly placing our children back in their spot over and over, pretty soon there were no spots and it didn't matter as long as they were all sitting!:)  But I'm glad we have a picture of all of them together, I think it was worth it! They are all soo cute!!

So for any of you that do not know, i am a member of the coolest preschool co-op ever!:)  And we have a blast teaching the kiddos every tues and thurs!  So we decided, since we are soo cool, to get preschool pics!!;) Here are all of the kiddos in preschool, except for Ethan bc of course, he didn't want to take on that day.  The group shot will be up shortly!