The Marable's

Sunday, January 29, 2012

a great vacation!!!

blake and I got to travel to playa del carmen with Nuance last week!

Blake is in sales now so since he met his yearly quota he won a trip to the "Chairman's Club" and this year it was at the Fairmont Riviera Maya!

It was an AMAZING trip! The place was so nice and the best part was that Nuance paid for everything! Meals, drinks by the pool, transportation, tips, fees, everything! The only thing we had to pay for was our luggage fee! It was unreal. It wasn't even an all inclusive resort!

The resort had tons of casitas that were like condos and they were spread out over the property all the way to the ocean. To get to the main building and the pool you could use bikes they had around everywhere or golf carts.

here was our casita!

the view from our balcony!

a neat iguana that was posing for us

another amazing thing about blake's company...they paid for us to take two excursions each! We went one day to Xplor. It is a really cool place that has zip lining, ATV riding, rafting in caves, etc. We had a blast! You walked through these caves with stalagmites to get everywhere.

we look pretty cool

you even zip line into the caves at some of the stations

our second excursion was massages at the Spa at the resort! It was soooo nice!

The rest of the trip we read and lounged by the pool! So amazing!

I read "Unbroken" by Laura Hillebrand (who wrote Seabiscuit). One of the most amazing (true) stories! March recommended it and it was awesome! Highly recommended to everyone to read!

Blake enjoyed reading Steve Job's autobiography...apparently one very interesting man!

They even had gifts for Blake every night in the room! I mean it was ridiculous! They even brought in Maroon 5 for a private concert for Nuance the last night but unfortunately we left a day early! I told Blake to get home and get craking on meeting his quota! Next year the trip is Hawaii!!!!

also a special thanks to our parents for watching our sweet girls! We love you and are so thankful!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Molly's family Birthday party!

we celebrate Molly turning ONE with our family

I made it a "Let it Shine" theme...it was a VERY low key party though!
i just wanted to do something to celebrate her precious life!

Blake's amazing mom made chili bean pot roast for everyone...which is SO good! We also had lots of chips and dips...sudan style!

the word that Molly would be "a little beacon of light wherever she goes" was spoken over her life before she was even born (you can see it on the sign below)...which i think is significant since "Let is Shine" is her favorite song!

For the favors I got flashlights...it goes with the theme and what kid doesn't love a flashlight!

more cupcakes for Molly!

mom with her grandkids!

christy & campbell

another attempt at a family picture...why is it so hard with two kids??!

molly getting ready for her cupcake!

reaching out for it

mom & B

EK thoroughly enjoyed the birthday festivities...it is making her excited for her birthday coming in April! She was so cute getting Molly excited for her party!

campbell loving it

being finger fed at this point

good pic of blake and my dad

the engaged couple always smiling!

love my family and enjoyed celebrating molly's first year of life with them!

Monday, January 23, 2012

happy birthday Molly!

My sweet, precious Molly is ONE!

You are such a joy to me & Blake!

You make us smile b/c you have taken your time to move. You just started crawling when you were 11 months old! You were content to just sit and play for so long, which was a blessing to your momma!

You love music...you love to hear daddy play guitar and you love to play piano with him.

Your favorite song is "this little light of mine"...you will wave your little finger. Our favorite is if you are crying in your carseat we will turn on the song and you will stop crying and all we can see is that little finger waving...the sweetest. Another funny time was when you were about 8 months old and we started singing it and you were nursing under the hider. All of the sudden we see your little finger poking out under the hider waving your light...precious!

You are a little peanut. You came into the world at a whooping 8 lbs 14 oz but at a year you were only 18 lbs 10 oz (15%) and you are about 40-45% in height. You may be taking after your mom in the height category...i'm sorry! I love, though, how your cheeks are the cutest things and look like a cabbage patch baby! No one would know you are so little...so cute!

I love how a couple weeks ago we had just moved into the new house and I had left for work early and Blake woke up to a loud noise and had found EK had moved your pack in play (with you in it) all the way out of the room and down the hall.

I love how you both play so well together already, it is so much fun as a mom to see...i pray all the time that you will grow up to be best friends.

EK is more of a daddy's girl lately, but you are truly a momma's girl! I love it...

you have such a sweet disposition...i can't wait to see more and more of your personality!

i love you my precious girl.

happy birthday Molly Elise!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Molly's playgroup party!

our sweet Molly is One!

we moved over new year (more on that later) so it was a little chaotic to organize a bday party for her...so we had a family party at our new house and we had cupcakes to celebrate with her friends at playgroup!

She was very excited to eat her first cupcake...