Christmas Cards A La Shutterfly

I love getting Christmas cards in the mail. But it seems like every year I get less and less! I'm either losing my spot on my friends' and families' lists or people aren't sending them as much anymore. This year Shutterfly.com is making it really easy (and cheap) for me to send out mine. I've been busy busy busy this year, so I'm so happy to see that they have great card templates to choose from so I don't have to design my own like I usually do. Here are a couple of the templates I like: I love the Family Wall Red one to showcase all the family pictures we just got, or maybe Glitter Glamour with a cute picture of my kids. I'm going to have fun picking one. This picture might be hitting a mailbox near you:

Okay, maybe not that one, but Eliana's face is hilarious in it.

Shutterfly.com has a ton of good stuff. I just printed a photobook from there a couple of weeks ago as an anniversary present to my aunt and uncle. I got so excited when I saw that orange package arrive! They also have Wall Calendars, which make a great Christmas gift, Folded Christmas Cards (I can picture my three kids on this one), and cute Birthday Invitations.

Go check out Shutterfly and browse their cute stuff for Christmas gift ideas!

Thanksgiving 2010

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. We usually go to two houses in one day, which means we eat double the food and see double the family. But this year my parents and aunts and uncles were in Colombia, so we only had one side of the family to celebrate with. Although I missed my family, we had a great time with my in-laws. My father-in-law drove the kids around on a trailer on the back of his tractor. Here they are getting ready to go on "Grandpa's hayride".On their way backPulling into the driveway We ate tons of great food and had a lot of fun. I had photoshoots to do on Friday and Saturday, so the kids spent a lot of quality time with Marcelo (while I spent quality time with my lovely camera). Friday evening I took the boys to Zumba family night with me to work off a few of those Turkey Day calories! We had a wonderful weekend (up until this morning when both boys were sick) and I'm going to miss Marcelo when he goes back to work tomorrow!

Family Pictures

My friend Happy and I did a photoshoot swap last week. We took each other's pictures and then edited our own. We didn't get to go to the location we wanted and had to pick a last minute spot that neither of us were familiar with, but even though it didn't go exactly as we had planned it, I am SO SO happy with the results. Happy did such a great job and taught me some new tricks. :)

Here are a few favorites. As you can tell, I had a hard time narrowing it down.

I love how these pictures capture the boys' personalities. Ohhh Celo.Diego cracks me up. He loves posing for pictures. She got so many mother/daughter ones that I love. Here's one:And a great father/son one!And I'm sooo happy to have an updated pic of me and this handsome guy.
Thanks, Happy!!!

Halloween

This year Marcelo and I did a theme costume with Eliana. The boys are too old for it. They have their own ideas about what they want to be. Last year they chose McQueen, so we went with it and still tried to do a theme, but this year it was just too hard. So Marcelo was the Mad Hatter, I was Alice in Wonderland, and Eliana was a white bunny. Celo was Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Diego was a racecar driver. Showing his tail.

He's not a Jeff Gordon fan, so he asked if we could pretend that he was Juan Pablo Montoya or Kasey Kahne.The annual Halloween party was at the studio where my cousin teaches Zumba this year. It was a lot of fun and Diego danced all night. I posted all the family pictures on facebook. :)