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Lyndsay Stradtner2011-01-11T23:06:30-06:00January 11th, 2011|Uncategorized|

1. Hey Photogs, is anyone going to Imaging USA? I will be at the expo on Monday and I’d love to meet up and say hi! I’m super excited about the fact that I might finally get to meet THE Erin Cobb! I’ve been hoping for our paths to cross for years!

2. I am thinking about opening up a few mini sessions on January 29th or February 5th – just in time for Valentines Day. Any takers? Email me at lstradtner@mac.com for details!

3. I feel like I owe a bit of an explanation about my poor fell asleep on the kitchen counter hubby. He really was asleep like that and I was shocked to find him that way. I […]

One Frame A Day

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-12-12T23:15:17-06:00December 12th, 2010|My Family, Our House, Uncategorized|

Erin Cobb made me do it. She drew me in with her shiny press printed book and talk of real moments and real memories and day to day photos with meaning and simplicity. I can’t resist any of those things. Especially since on the day she posted, I had been looking through my strikingly empty personal photo folders. It hit me. Hard. Yes, I have a good reason for not photographing my family all that much this year. Yes, we were busy, we were struggling, we had dark days. But you know what, there were shimmers of hope, even on the darkest day and I cannot convince myself that I couldn’t have found one single beautiful moment to […]

10 on Tuesday

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-11T23:10:11-05:00October 11th, 2010|My Family|

1. I woke up to a rude awakening of toddlers yelling directly into the monitor over who called who stupid at 5:03 am. Maybe room sharing was a total dream…..sigh. For the record, it was the duder. We’re working on ridding his vocabulary of the word “doo-pid” and it makes me crazy. I don’t like that word at all. It went something like this:

Taryn: MAAAAAWWWWM! Teagan called me stupid!!
Teagan: No I didn’t!
Taryn: Yes you did Teagan!
Teagan: No I didn’t! Doo-Pid.

5:03 am. Sigh.

2. I made homemade, from scratch, banana bread on Monday with the kids only to leave it in the oven too long and burn it. It smelled soooooo good. And it was in the shape of little pumpkins. […]

10 on Tuesday on: a secret, parenting advice from a toddler & getting busted

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-21T10:52:41-05:00September 21st, 2010|My Family|

1. Tuesday is now officially the busiest day of the week at our house. I think I’ll start calling it “this day is going to kick my butt Tuesday” for short. Up early, big kids off to school, music class with the duder, trip to People Rx, home for lunch, quick nap for Teagan (I almost always have to wake him up, bummer), leave for carpool to pick up Taryn, back home to fix a quick early dinner and then back out to go watch Ty play football. Then home again, way past the little kids bedtime, spend an hour doing bath, pj’s, supplements and medications, put the little kids down, fix lunches and THEN, it’s time for me to […]

the reasons

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-06-20T20:51:32-05:00June 20th, 2010|My Family|

When asked what he wanted to do today to honor him on Father’s Day, he answered that he wanted to see the kids smile. Not that he wanted a day to himself, or for me to take the kids off for the day, or to go do something specifically for him. He knew the new carousel at the mall would do the trick to get the kids smiling, so off we went, knowing full well the mall is not his favorite place. And smile they did, Taryn from ear to ear and we all got a good laugh at Teagan yelling “giddy up ELVIS”, the name of his horse. He smiled right along with him and I loved every moment […]

10 on Tuesday | Austin Family Photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-05-18T13:38:54-05:00May 18th, 2010|My Family|

1. I feel like I’ve been living in a box tethered to my computer for the last month. This past weekend cured that. And I needed it more than even I realized. I’ve been chasing kids all day then logging on and working 12 hours. It’s catching up with me fast. Friday Jason’s parents came for a visit because they had a wedding to attend out on Lake Travis. It was perfect timing too because they were able to keep the kids Friday night while Jason and I went to see Conan O’Brien live in Austin. And while our seats suuuuuuucked, the show and Conan were ah-ma-zing. Seriously loved him, he was hilarious. My favorite part is that the […]