a mad dash...

saturday was one of those days when you have 12 things to do and only enough time to get 2 of them done. i had a photo shoot at work that morning, meaning i had to leave the house no later than 7 am to make it on time. once i arrived and we received our marching orders, our caravan of 10 cars was stopped by a train for 45 minutes trying to leave the plant. that put us a bit behind schedule - all told, we lost an hour.

i had hoped to shoot all i needed by 10:30 so i could make it back to the woodlands for our friend dash's first birthday party. not so.

we missed the party, but managed to stop by dash's house before the family took off for san antonio (dash's mommy ran a 1/2 marathon today - go lauren!!)

thankfully, my mad dash that morning didn't result in a mad, dash. see?

the birthday boy!

real men ride backwards... or something.

at this age this is about as good as it gets
when trying to get a photo of them together!

the rest of the day is a bit of a blur, but it did end with a visit to lupe tortilla. somehow that always lifts my spirits!