Getting Great Newborn Images Without a Professional Photographer

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time By Dawn Fry Getting Great Newborn Images Without a Professional Photographer, March 2010 Newborns, newborns, newborns! Oh how I love them! They are sleepy, squishy and wrinkly. They are tiny, lovely and they make the most wonderful sounds. They smell like heaven and they look uniquely beautiful. [...]

Moody’s Cafe (Leander, TX)

We trekked out to Leander one morning for a late breakfast at Moody’s Cafe. The kids wanted pancakes, and it was a miserably cold, rainy day. That was excuse enough for me not to make pancake batter so Moody’s it was. We have never been to Moody’s before, just saw good reviews on Yelp, and [...]

Touchable Bubbles

For those who have never played with touchable bubbles before, you have to check them out! These are not bubbles that you want to dump into a bubble machine. You want to hold the wand, blow them into the air, and catch them. What makes these bubbles so much fun is not to catch just [...]

How embarrassing!

I don’t think of myself as someone who gets embarrassed too easily.  I mean, my dancing skills are comparable to Elaine’s, and get me dancing in a group, I look like I would fit right into the Brady Bunch variety act.  That won’t stop me from taking an adult hip hop class with my mommy [...]

Art Week Austin (April 21-25, 2010)

Art Activates Austin’s Urban Core this April 21-25 Art Week Austin: five days of art-centric happenings, culminates with Art City Austin, an event for culture enthusiasts of all ages Austin, Texas – March 25, 2010 – Today, Art Alliance Austin announced the lineup for Art Week Austin (April 21-25), and Art City Austin (April 24-25). [...]

Austin Bakehouse

With so many reviews of places in central and north Austin, it was time we traveled a bit down south. There’s a little place on Manchaca, just north of Stassney that lets its patrons travel a little further than that. The Austin Bakehouse prides itself as a server of world foods, and nestled in a [...]

Likkity’s Frozen Custard (way South Austin)

Seriously, folks, you have to go there. Likkity’s is a little trailer on Manchaca Rd in deep south Austin. Hop on Manchaca, point your car south, and just drive. It’s about a half mile from where Manchaca Rd ends, actually. But it’s worth the trip. The little trailer showed up in 2009, and was shortly [...]

The Clubhouse Scene party planners (Austin area)

I had the great pleasure to host a party that The Clubhouse Scene planned, and I literally sat back and did absolutely nothing as my backyard transformed into this magic playland for a “Fairies and Knights” party.  Rebecca Obenhaus, the owner of The Clubhouse Scene wanted to showcase her full-service party planning service, and I [...]

My Smart Hands Austin: baby signing classes

I met Tara Kendrick, owner of My Smart Hands Austin at the Children’s Expo last year where I learned about her baby signing classes which is $95 for a four weeks course.  (On her website, she has a coupon code KDSPRING for $10 off spring registration.)  My intentions were to take my son to one [...]

Vacationing with kids is no easy picnic.

Oh, how I sometimes long for the day when hubby and I would (and could) plan a road trip to places off the beaten path.  We weren’t creature comfort travelers.  We’d find a clean, cheap motel, park it for the night, and drive another 12 hours the next day until we reached our destination in [...]

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