book-making & cabin fever cures....

i'm here.

been very busy. of course. as always. no surprise there.

soaking up all the little bits i can with these two precious growing babies.

and in all my free time (which is not much).... i am making books. scrapbooks, memory books.... people call them different things, do them different ways.

i am working on a couple of digital ones right now.... digital, meaning that they are all put together on the computer.... and then printed with a printing company into an actual hardcover book. which is wonderful and beautiful.

here's the latest page i put together in carter's book: thought I would share this afternoon since i have been pretty well m.i.a this week. {click on it to make it larger and scroll down to read the journaling}The journaling reads:

after your birthday party.... i watched, teary eyed, as you explored in the backyard. so full of wonder and curiousity, love and beauty. you climbed onto your tricycle and pushed it all over and i couldn't help but wonder.... how quickly that tricycle will become a car.

it won't be long and we'll be celebrating sixteen instead of just two....

and while i love to watch you grow, i hate it just the same.

it's too fast. too fleeting. you're too big. you're too smart. you're a baby, not a boy.

this world is full of terrible things that i fear you will be exposed to all too soon.... and i just want to to shelter and protect you forever. but that isn't possible is it?

someday.... i will have to let you go....

but the beautiful truth is that you will soar. you will do great things in this life. God will help you to develop into an incredible boy.... and one day, into an incredible man.... and i look forward to seeing what our heavenly father has in store for you, sweet boy.

oh, the possibilities. we all have so much to be thankful for and so much to look forward to in this life....

this beautiful weather has forced us outside into the yard where we've been clearing brush to make room for a new swing-set & a big sandbox and we've been pulling the wagon around the yard with two babies inside. we've played in the creek and taken apart cattails and picked up sticks. all the fun spring stuff that we have been longing to do for weeks.... and carter is finally finding the cure for his cabin fever. i snapped this picture of him the other night in the yard.... and i don't think i need to mention that i love it.

i think it's perfect. not perfectly exposed or in perfect composition.... but the boots, the messy hair, the stick, the creek... the moment was captured perfectly.

carterbug exploring. being his sweet, little two year old self. so curious.

i LOVE him to pieces.

i'll be back soon with more pictures and more words.... thanks for checking in on us! ~ J.

ps:

have to share this because it is TOO cute. if you have already seen it- you should watch it again.... if you haven't- i hope it makes you smile today: (oh- and you will have to scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of the page to pause my blog music so that you can hear it. it's worth it- i promise!)