Cosmos in Chaos

Overheard last night...

as Kate slides herself up to daddy's keyboard and starts punching some keys.

"I just need to check my e-mail."

It's pretty rare

to get a photo of Andy and me that is out of this world awesome :)  But my mother-in-law snapped this one while we were on a walk near their house in Austin.

and I just scrapped this page with it. Sometimes, scrapping is completely effortless - this page was like that for me. It just all fell together. Part of it was the perfect kit - "softly spoken" at {we are} storytellers. 

journaling: today we took a walk, and i took a million pictures of the kids, but we stopped for a second to have a picture taken of US. i know the US easily gets lost with two little kids around. but i love it when we stop to celebrate it. and when i see this photo, it reminds me of some of my favorite lyrics - "there’s nothing fancy bout the way i love you. but it sure is fancy how you love me."

I got the best

portraits of my two beaks today! SOOOO excited about it, and can't wait to print and frame them.

Do they really have to grow up?!? 

We vacated

to Austin - to avoid hurricane ike. We're counting our blessings that it didn't wreak too much damage on us, our family or our friends. But since the power is still out in our neighborhood, we're getting to enjoy fun times in Austin.

Like visiting my alma matter with my two sisters and my kiddos. Good times.

My baby boy

is really one! The party was great on Saturday. This week is flying by, and it's another one of those weeks where there's too much to do and too little time. So, I'm going to post a FEW  BUNCH (and if you think this is too many, you should see all the ones i restrained myself from posting) of my favorite pics from the party and get outta here :) 

First - my wonderful mother-in-law made the most awesome cake EVER. I told her I wanted the "theme" of the party to be "things that go zoom" (planes, trains, cars and trucks) and look what she whipped up. And not only did it look amazing, it tasted SOOO good. (just ate my last piece last night :) )

and yes, my love affair with cupcakes continues with the two ginormous "cupcake cakes." Aren't they fun?!?

  

ok, enough of the cake - onto the birthday boy. one of his big gifts was the megaland pop-up playset and a tent and tunnel

he loves them, and stayed in them for a lot of the party.

playing with aunt han

he got lots of fun presents - lots of cool cars, trucks, tractors and buses and clothes (what mommy loves)

oh yeah, and dollie came down to celebrate with jacklad

we sang happy birthday and blew out the candle (and kate cried like she always does when everyone starts singing happy birthday)

jack consumed an entire piece of cake (with a little left on his face...and hands...and arms...and shirt)

and not to worry - kate was getting plenty of attention (at least now that she changed into her princess dress mid-way into the party)

we paid a buck a piece for these helium balloons - they had to be put to good use.

yes - they really got put to good use.

and while we were doing crazy photo-ops with the birthday boy, they other boys were being...boys.

but most importantly, i know jack had a good time, and i know he is so loved by his family and friends. thanks everyone for making it a great day!! love.