pink
Taryn has been in rare form here lately. She’s super excited about her new room and with good reason, there’s been a lot of "build up" around it. We have been shopping over the last several weekends for a new twin size big girl bed. But it’s not just a big girl bed, is her self-proclaimed "super duper princess bed". And at some point she decided her new bed has a swing and a slide (it doesn’t) but boy is she in for a let down when she realizes her new bed is actually a bed and not a playground. Add all of this into the fact that she’s moving into Ty’s old room, she’s psyched about it all. I […]
burnout
I’m feeling a case of the Mommy burnout today. Weren’t weekends supposed to be relaxing?! My weekend was in one word, frustrating. Weird, cause it shouldn’t have been. Ugh, I’m just tired and burnt out. I think this Mommy needs some "me" time…but I’m not sure when that’ll happen. What I want to do more than anything right now is sit and play with my camera, relax and photograph something, but the batteries are dead in my camera, uhm, frustrating! LOL! How do you guys cure burnout?? Our house has been nuts with us trying to move the kids rooms all around. We have furniture stuffed into every space we could find, a couch, dresser and bookcases are living large […]
2 months
I’m a little late on this, but we’ve been crazy busy here lately. I can’t believe that Teagan is already 2 months old, time is flying by. Not a day goes by that I don’t take time out to just sit and stare at him in amazement. And I often think to myself, this is what I missed with Taryn, this age, this time. Yeah, we were with her, but thanks to Katrina, we were so stressed, so distracted, so uprooted, its such a blur. I feel like in comparison we’re living in slow motion now, which I know it’s true! Ha! Teagan had his shots on Friday. Poor little guy, 4 shots in the leg and one oral. He […]
that silly lily
I had these pulled up on my laptop this morning and I called Taryn over to show her. She instantly did her signature hand over the mouth giggle and said "Oh that silly Lily!" and ran off. She’s right….that Lily is pretty silly…. Have I mentioned that Lily has a crush on Ty? She does. It’s so cute how smitten she is with him. But you know Ty, he’s so popular with the ladies (insert mom rolling eyes here). Are y’all tired of the bluebonnet pics yet? I just have waaaaay too many favorites so I think once I’m done proofing them all I’ll put them together in a slideshow. Thanks to everyone who has entered the free session contest! […]
Attention Locals! Bluebonnet Blog Contest
**This post will be pinned at the top through next week. To see daily posts please scroll down.** I am so psyched to be living in Texas during the spring. I loooooved photographing my kids playing in the bluebonnet fields, and I’m itching to get back out there before the flowers disappear. So I am announcing my first, very BIG blog contest! Can you picture yourself or your child here? Here is the deal, the winner receives a FREE mini session with me. No sitting fee, no purchasing images, the whole thing is FREE! What do you get? 10-15 high resolution, processed images on disk. That’s a value of over $850! The rules? You must be local. This means Austin, […]
AND THE WINNER IS…….
Drumroll please!!!!!! Teagan "Mr. Serious" Stradtner decided to finally throw out that first smile this morning. And who got it? Old stinky Ty…humph. Ok, ok, so Ty isn’t old or stinky. I’m just a sore looser. It was knock your socks off, melt your heart, cute! And Ty is beyond thrilled. Shoulda known, Teagan adores Ty. He’s thrown a few more out during the day today…but he makes you work for it. Now I’ve just got to work on catching one with the camera. In the meantime, here is one of all three of them from this morning…