Fredericksburg & Enchanted Rock

To ring in the new year, Scott's parents invited us to stay with them in Fredericksburg, TX at a Bed & Breakfast style cedar cabin for a week. It was so nice to get away and enjoy the simplicity of life. There wasn't much planned - just relax and enjoy the surroundings. Here are a few pictures of our cabin and the view.


Every morning Austin would wake us up so we could experience the breathtaking views upon sunrise. No wonder the cabin was called Moonrise!!






This was also Austin's 1st Road trip. Austin's becoming quite the traveler. First a plane ride to Arizona and now a road trip, which he did remarkably well considering he was confined to a carseat for about 5 hours each way.

On New Years DAY we decided to take a tour of Enchanted Rock since we were in the area. Here are some pictures of that trip:



Now that Austin's more mobile, he wanted to get down and climb apart of the mountain. Here are a few pictures of him climbing his way to the top!


Here are a few misc. pictures as well.

Family Christmas Portraits

For Austin's 1st Christmas and our 1st Christmas as a family we decided to have professional portraits made. Here are a few. Enjoy!!!

So Big!!!

Austin turned 9 months on Thanksgiving Day. I can't believe it took 9 LONG months for him to arrive but yet the 9 months he's been here has flown by! In these nine months he has managed to have Mommy, Daddy, Nonna, Poppa, Grammie & Grandpa wrapped around his lil fingers. At his 9 month check up he was:
Weight: 20 pounds
Height: 28 1/4 inches

He's accomplishing so much! He's still a talker and his vocabulary is growing every day. He started crawling properly mid-November. I say properly because for the 1st half of November he'd crawl but yet drag his head. It was definately a sight to see. I'll try to load up some video of him soon!! Now that he's crawling he's EVERYWHERE!! It's so amazing to see him explore things that he's seen before but now that he can get to it himself it's so much more interesting! He's also a fast crawler. If he knows he's not suppose to go somewhere or get to something and he sees us approaching, he'll crawl at lightening speed while laughing. He is also starting to master pulling himself up from a sitting/crawling position to standing.



Every Tuesday we are going to Storytime at our local library and he loves it. He's such a great listener. He loves watching all the other babies/kids play around while watching the libarian read them a couple of stories. He loves to play with his books and he's collecting quite the library. His favorite books so far have to do with Elmo.

He's already starting to eat us out of house and home. We go through about 112 jars of baby food per month - and that's just for lunch & dinner! For breakfast he's enjoying YoBaby Yogurt and on Friday he gets blueberry pureed Pancakes compliments of Daddy. In addition to his solid food, he's still nursing and it is still going strong! [I am also still able to donate to the National Milk Bank] He is getting better and better drinking out of a sippy cup. He's realized if I stop chewing and suck water comes out!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!! Our Thanksgiving sure was different than last years, what with two new lil ones. I still can't believe that last year Christa was 8 1/2 months pregnant and I was 6 1/2 months pregnant. Let's just say this year there were a LOT more leftovers since the family wasn't feeding 2 very-hungry pregnant women!

This year the whole Lutz/Bradshaw clan all went to the Bradshaw's house and had a wonderful time. We all of course ate way too much and afterwards enjoyed watching Trista & Austin play around while watching the Cowboy's Football game.

Here are some photos's of the day:
All the momma's with their babies

Mom (Nonna) & Travis with Austin (9 months) & Trista (11 months)

Austin being a ham to the camera

Poppa and Austin


Couple of pictures of Trista & Austin together

Austin's EIGHT months old!!!

Man has the time flown by, last week Austin turned Eight Months old! He's grown so fast and has learned so much over these months. I can barely remember the little boy that would do nothing but eat, sleep, & repeat. ~He now has 6, YES SIX, teeth!! His top four are ever so slowly coming in and they seem to be more painful than the bottom two. ~He is throughouly entertained by menus! Who knew that menus could entertain a baby for so long!?!? ~He loves giving kisses - even to his stuffed animals. Open mouthed baby kisses are so sweet. ~He's been getting better and better at eating baby food. He's now onto breakfast, lunch & dinner as well as his snacks. Here are a few pictures of Austin enjoying a Yogurt Melt. As you can see in the later pics, he is competely oblivious to the one on his cheek!!~He still loves books! Loves being read to, reading to mommy, or eating them! ~He claps, waves "bye bye", and is constantly talking! "Dadada" is his favorite phrase right now. ~For the past two weeks or so, Austin has been up on all fours rocking away and trying to crawl without falling face first into the floor. We're thinking anyday now he'll master it!

~Austin's been getting better and better at standing while playing! ~With fall now here the weather has been SO nice! Here are a couple of pictures of us at the park. For Halloween, Austin was too cute - he was a Rooster. And in perfect "Rooster-style" he was flapping his arms and "talking" to us!