My family, 2014

2015-01-03T20:50:53-06:00January 3rd, 2015|Jonah, Jude, My Family, Taryn, Ty|

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Usually, by the middle of December I’m scrambling to organize family photos for my crew.  After busy season and spending months taking photos of everyone else’s family, I realize I need some of my own.  Plumber with a leaky faucet and all that.  This year was different.  This year I realized midway through the year that Ty will likely graduate next fall.  That fact hit me like a ton of bricks.  He could go away to […]

Christmas Tree Farm | Elgin Photographer

2014-12-04T10:17:01-06:00December 4th, 2014|Austin Photographer, Jonah, Jude, My Family, Taryn, Ty|

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I’ve wanted to take my kids out to the Christmas tree farm and do a session with them for the last 5 years.  But the fall is my busiest time of year with work and my own family photos are usually a mere afterthought come the beginning of December.  The fall is just so busy for us.  And then one day in early September, it hit me like a brick wall….this could be Ty’s last year living at home during […]

diy backyard digger construction zone for kids | personal

2014-09-09T20:02:46-05:00September 4th, 2014|Jonah, Jude, My Family, Our House, Taryn, Ty|

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After 7 years of living in our house and having our backyard be a boring empty slate….we’ve started a few projects in our backyard.  Ty decided he wanted in on it and build our first project, a backyard digger construction zone for the little kids.  He did an amazing job on it too!  You can see the before shot HERE.  This was a low cost DIY project, coming in at around $75 for the whole thing, including new digger trucks, the wood frame, pea gravel and stones!  And Ty did it all, start to finish, including purchasing all the materials (driving his new truck […]

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