Ever since the coolest Batman Birthday party EVER, Ethan and Hope have been Batman and Batwoman as much as they possibly can!!(Ethan is more enthused of course) It's way cute!!  Thanks for introducing batman to Ethan Jami!!

The day after the party Daddy came home and played super heroes with The kids!  Daddy asked Ethan what his Super power was and Ethan said, "A super hero one!!"  He's soo cute!!
Kaden, the Birthday boy, while everyone sang Happy Birthday!

I had to take Ethan's glasses off for the Batman mask, he missed the first shot, but got the hang of it right away!!

This is Tony, one of Mark's friends from high school, aka: Mr. Evil, Crazy, Bad Guy!The kids Beating up the BAd Guy!!


Wow! That a Super cake if I ever saw one!!  It was GOOD!!

Every night before the kids go to bed we read stories to them and sing songs!  This is really nice because it's perfect quality time spent together.

If the kids request a song we don't know than we look it up on youtube and sing it.  Ethan always requests this one song in Pocahontas, it's the fight song.  He's such a boy!  Anyways, it goes..."Savages, Savages, barely even human..etc..."  So everytime we sing  the "Savages" part Ethan copies Daddy and raises his arm and Hope copies Ethan so then Mark and I look like crazy people and the kids look really cute!! (Ethan really gets into it, he's into anything with fighting...the most recent is Jackie Chan cartoons:))

The other day when we were watching the woman's all around medal awards.  Ethan said, refferring to Shawn Johnson," She's beautiful, mommy," I agreed and then a couple seconds later, refferring to Nastia Liukin he said, "She's beautiful too mommy," again I agreed.  Then, a couple moments later he looked up and said, "Mommy you're beautiful," with a big smile.  Awwww!!!  This was the cutest thing ever!!!  He definitely got a bunch of kisses for that!:)  He's so sweet!

I got to babysit Aidan,  Ally and Carly recently and it was SO much fun!!  The kids had a blast!!  There are all so cute together!



I finally got Ethan to learn how to smile for real, but the only problem is that he checks his teeth now to make sure he's using his real smile so sometimes I get this!:)

This baby is really cute, he had the cutest little personality and the cutest name EVER!!:) 

The Breaking Dawn Party was a blast because I had my fellow crazy about the Twighlight series chica with me!!(She was pretty mad at Jacob, but decided to come anyways:))  Kim and Mubeen!!  If I would have only known you two would have come, we could have all gone together, luckily there will be another!!!

Somos tan guapas!!HAHAHA!! Es un chiste no te preocupes!

This is the nicest group of people I know!!  Cheers to the Burleson Ward!!!(ok, ok joshua too!!)

So we went to James Williams Photography Studio in Ohio to get some training on photography and business.  We read a book that James Williams wrote called, "How to create a High Profit Photography Business,"  and we found out that he also does training so we went for a day and soaked in as much as we could.  We are implementing a few things and plan on going back in the future. This is a picture of me that he took...he was demonstrating how to get the lighting just right, to help slim features and create the best portrait possible depending on the facial structure and body type of your subject...it's very interesting.

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So we went to Lousville, Kentucky on our way home from our photography training in Ohio.  And for those of you that don't know, I tried out for American Idol!  It was a really fun experience!  Here are some pics.  We thought it would take all day to get in so we drove straight through from ohio until 4:30 in the morning and then waited in line.  We ended up getting through and leaving by 8:30am the whole line had to have been cleared up at least by 10am.  There were a ton of people as you can see, but the line went fast. So we should have waited til 10am and then we would have had no wait at all!!  That was the line for registration.  Then two days later we got in line for the actual audition at 5am.  We went inside the stadium and sang songs for the beginning of the show and danced and stuff.

We went running to shake off the nerves the day before audition day.  Man!! My face gets so red!

Look at all those people in the stadium!!  The whole thing wasn't actually this full but this picture makes it seem this way.  That's the angle that they shot from for the show to make it seem like the whole place is full.

These are a few of the people that we met in line.
  

Look at that hot guy I met in line..Oooh baby!!So finally it's my turn to go in!!  It was very distracting because there were 8 booths and we had to line up in groups of 4 and I could hear other people auditioning, but I tuned it all out and sang well.  I was nervous waiting in line, but when it was my turn I  put it all aside and did the best I could.

Look at those judges!!  They are soo uninterested!!  The one on left kept on looking away..they were doing this with everybody!!  I guess if I had to listen to that many people sing, I might get a little bored too, but it was annoying, I focused on her as I sang until she finally focused on me.  


Look at my hair!!  Waiting outside for hours in the humidity really helped me get this  gorgeous hairdo!!  So I didn't make it:(  But it was fun anyways, especially to see how it all works.  The reasoning they told all four of us in our group was that the nerves got the best of us.  And this bothers me because I know my voice wasn't shaky or anything. But they don't have time to explain it all to every person I'm sure.  So next year I'm dying my hair black and going as an Asian!!HAHA