we are back minus a new apartment lease

we are back from our whirlwind trip and i intend a long, creative, colorful pictorial (er... with words) shortly. i will say that is was freaking awesome...even better than i recall from last year! what a fantastic city - i will give you more concrete reasoning on this statement tomorrow. BECAUSE we caught a cab at 3 am in NYC for the airport and went straight to a stressful day at work (short weeks are beautiful if you don't think about how all that work has to be crammed in to four freaking days!) and i am too exasted to recap. but, trust me, you are GONNA wanna come back for this one.

so, for now, to satiate you, o anxious ones, i will give you a screen shot of a project i finished up mere minutes before we left for our trip - haha (not a joke) - jennifer's tea party invites! this wasn't my original concept for this invite but i think it turned out alright!

and NOW, my friends, i am retiring for the evening (at 8 p.m.) to watch the Cardinals beat the Pirates. (read: fall asleep on the couch by no later than the 6th inning, wake up groggy when the mlb channel goes all static, and stumble to bed without taking out my contacts. again. )