giving back . hurricane ike

Lyndsay Stradtner2008-09-17T07:03:39-05:00September 17th, 2008|Announcements, Client Work|

hurricanes, not my favorite subject. especially when i think about everything katrina took from us. all the heart ache and tears she caused us. precious time she took away from us enjoying taryn as a baby. and photographs. she stole so many photographs.

that is one of the driving forces behind what i do. why i love photography. why i dove in to learning, capturing. my instant and immediate need after the storm to have printed memories again. they can’t be replaced, but many of them are etched in my mind. i so wish we would have taken many of them with us, instead of just some. but i can’t change that now.

when a hurricane hits, so many of us, feel […]

katrina . 3 years later

Lyndsay Stradtner2008-08-28T21:02:06-05:00August 28th, 2008|My Family|

So much has changed for us. Three years ago, we were just home from the hospital with Taryn, enjoying our beautiful little honeymoon baby. Our security, our lives as we knew it, our home, everything, was changed in an instant though.

Last year, I couldn’t face the anniversary of the storm. It was too much. Even two years later, living it every single day. Rebuilding took forever. Our normal, was a new normal. An unfair normal. One we resented. I still resent the fact that she stole Taryn’s early days of being a baby from us. That time we’ll never get back. She changed our children, our marriage. We went through so much, Jason and I. We got married in Hawaii, […]

10 on Tuesday

Lyndsay Stradtner2008-06-03T13:47:15-05:00June 3rd, 2008|Client Work|

and it’s actually Tuesday, how about that?! 1. Our lives feel like total chaos right now. Maybe it’s the fact that summer is here and that means more time outside, more go, go, go. Maybe its the fact that our business just opened up this week, officially, and its been a lot of work getting things ready to go. Ty’s birthday party coming up, Jase is busy with work, Taryn’s taken a liking to using her outside voice 24/7, which Teagan is not liking. And Teagan is teetering on that 4 month growth spurt, it’s coming, and the thought of it makes me tired. He’ll want to nurse non-stop. He’s been really fussy the last few days, thankfully, I ordered […]

running on empty

Lyndsay Stradtner2008-03-24T23:48:54-05:00March 24th, 2008|Uncategorized|

The 6 week growth spurt is kicking my butt. I’d love to know what our little porker weighs. All he does is eat…and eat…and eat some more. When he cries like this I’ve been known to call him a "fuss butt". Taryn picked up on this term and the other day when I put her in the corner she informed me I was being a "fuss butt". Nice. Can you believe it’s been 6 weeks already?! My mind keeps wandering back to when Taryn was this age. At 5 weeks old we were evacuating for Hurricane Katrina. Running for our lives, living on the road, in hotel rooms, with family. I look at Teagan and have no idea how we […]

flashback friday

Lyndsay Stradtner2008-03-21T12:25:10-05:00March 21st, 2008|Uncategorized|

I’m so glad you guys are willing to indulge me with Flashback Fridays 🙂 This was taken with our old point and shoot dinosaur when we were living in the fema trailer after the storm. Such an expressive little thing! And look at that – catchlights before I even knew what a catchlight was! Ha! So excited about this weekend, family coming in and we’re having a get together at our house. The first one since we moved in. Wish me luck, I’m off to the grocery store for the first time alone with all three kids. I’m either brave or crazy. Probably both.

here we go!

Lyndsay Stradtner2008-03-01T18:27:46-06:00March 1st, 2008|Uncategorized|

Soccer is in full swing, as of the crack of dawn this morning. Ty played from the time he was 4 until he was 7, took the year off that Jason and I got married since he would be in Hawaii for 3 weeks of the season and then the league had trouble due to hurricane katrina the following year. Now that we’ve moved to Austin, it feels good to be back out there again, watching the games, cheering Ty on (which Taryn LOVES), the grass stains, the orange slices, sitting in our little fold-out chairs, just the whole experience. Fun stuff, for all of us, but especially Ty, he’s totally psyched about it! As tough as it was to […]