Birthday Girls!

We celebrated Taelyn's birthday last weekend with a fun party at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and then cake at Zilker park.  We had a great time competing in a scavenger hunt and then making our own bird sculptures!  It is so hard to believe Taelyn is already 3!  I want her to stop growing - I love this age!

Today is Brie's 1st birthday and to be honest we really haven't celebrated the day.  We were woken up early this morning by extremely loud thunder and lightning and then a huge crack!  We jumped out of bed to find that our neighbor's house had been struck by lightning and their roof was on fire and collasping before our eyes.  As soon as they heard the crack they jumped up and grabbed their two boys and ran out of the house.  Chad ended up busting through their second story ceiling and into their attic to put out the fire and ultimately save the house.  Thankfully everyone, including the cat and dog are fine and they are already working on cleaning up the house and getting back to normal life.  It has been a bit of an interesting day and with all the unexpected activity, we decided to just wait until Feb 11 when we are doing Brie's birthday party to celebrate.