Free Session Give Away from Cowtown Camera Girl!!!

Exciting news DFW friends! Nell from Cowtown Camera Girl is giving away a free session today! She has been taking awesome photographs of the Duffy Family since I found out I was pregnant with James. She has captured some of the most memorable events in our family and I cannot say enough wonderful things about her pictures or her business. If you are looking for someone to get some great photographs of your family at your home or a beautiful location (Botanic Gardens, anyone?) in the metroplex, she's your girl, your Camera Girl, that is!

Check out her blog at Cowtown Camera Girl Blog

I had to post some of our "Nell Pics" here from the past year to show off her greatness! Enjoy a look back......

Galveston Vacation - Part 3

Our last night in Galveston, we ate dinner outdoors on the Strand after walking around and looking at the shops. Lots of laughing and cutting up during this dinner. There was a band playing near us and James was pointing out all the instruments while Brendan "danced" to the music.




Afterwords, we got dessert at La Kings Confectionary. Ok, I admit it! We went there twice on our trip. DELICIOUS truffles and all kinds of candy and ice cream and even a coffee bar. Yum! This particular night James had some mint chocolate chip ice cream....he picked it out. It was the first time he ever liked ice cream. He picked it because it was green. He's really into all things green. He also picked out a piece of green candy. We figured, hey, why not! We're on vacation! Poor Brendan, he can't wait to have ice cream and candy!






While we were walking, we came across this.....can you believe it? This has to be about 10 feet above the ground. Hurricane ike was in 2008 and this is still here.

Galveston Vacation - Part 2

We spent a day at Palm Beach (part of Moody Gardens). It was just James, Daniel and me because Brendan was sick and my mom came from Katy and stayed at the condo with him. We all missed B! Palm Beach was even better than I remembered. I had not been there since I was a kid. James was apprehensive about getting in the water during our trip. He wanted to play near it and play with it, but not in it. Eventually, we were able to take him out in the water for a little bit, but he was scared. Our boy used to be fearless, but he has become scared of things lately. We have another vacation scheduled at the end of July and we hope that if he gets lots of exposure to water he might relax some about it. Swim lessons start tomorrow, so I hope that we are able to survive them!

Here's James lounging and checking out the splash pad....he was nervous about it! Can you tell by his worried face?!

On the splash pad. This was so cool! James loved it until this overhead bucket of water dumped on him!

Taking in the sights........



He did pretty good until the end......somebody got tired and grouchy!

Playing in the sand...

Galveston Vacation - Part 1

Last week we spent several days in Galveston. We all really needed a little getaway and our condo there was perfect. Wanting to visit the beach, but keep the cost and travel time low, we chose to visit the Island. Thanks to Moody Gardens, we give this vacation two thumbs up! We kept busy but also attempted to get in some downtime. But let's face it, downtime is sort of in short supply when you are negotiating with a toddler and chasing after a crawling baby during most of their waking hours. The boys were wonderful and very flexible overall. What great little travelers they are. We have a very tired toddler on our hands now, but I would say it was worth it to do all the cool stuff we did.



On our trip, we went to the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, and I was just in LOVE with all of the plants and flowers there! So gorgeous! Looking at the variety I was really thinking about how amazing nature is. I have a couple of friends who are photographers and I was just thinking the entire time how much they would love to take pictures there. Hope you enjoy! More vacation pictures to come in the next week.....

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