10 to catch up…

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-01-07T21:49:29-06:00January 7th, 2011|My Family|

1. Finally attempting to crawl out from under a rock and rejoin the land of blogging and working again. I realized today I hadn’t posted a single thing in weeks about what has been going on with me and mine. Our Christmas was a good one. We succeeded in keeping things simple this year. We enjoyed hosting Jason’s parents, grandparents and brother for Christmas. I gave myself the gift of getting out of cooking by ordering dinner for 10 from Whole Foods. We may have played a funny, but dirty, little trick on our family relating to the food. We got them good! HA! I think it ended up being cheaper than it would have been to buy all […]

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 and 2 mini session openings!

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-11-30T21:41:31-06:00November 30th, 2010|Austin Photographer, Elf on a Shelf, My Family|

1. I am thinking about opening up 2 last minute mini session spots for this coming weekend with guaranteed Christmas delivery. Any interest? Email me at lstradtner@mac.com for details!

2. My kids are so addicted to these right now. Especially Teagan. Obsessed.

3. This morning I stopped at my desk to pick something up and noticed there was still solid ice in my favorite cup that had been sitting from the night before. First, I thought to myself, wow, this cup really IS awesome. Second, I thought to myself, I wonder what time I actually went to bed…. Third, I thought to myself, I wonder if Ty did this to be sweet, he IS always bring me water refills. Turns out […]

jesse & woody

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-31T22:45:10-05:00October 31st, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

These two are something else. Partners in crime. Duder was not in the mood for photos and spent most of our time yelling “no!” The only smiles and moderate cooperation were thanks to Taryn hiding behind me and popping up to surprise him. I love my sassy Jesse and my grouchy little Woody.

But thankfully, even after a really rough night for Teagan last night, he had a much better day and we all had a blast today. A few things I always want to […]

10

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-22T22:37:11-05:00October 22nd, 2010|My Family|

1. My sweet husband turns 33 today. Happy Birthday Jase!

2. He got P90X for his birthday and I have a feeling we’re about to get our butts kicked. Ty, Jason and I have all lost weight with all the changes at our house (me 29 lbs, Jase 25ish and Ty 30ish) and we want to run with it.

3. The little kids are actually gaining weight. I swear I did a happy dance right there in our pediatricians office. Duder is still in the same clothes he was in last fall and has been between 26 and 28 lbs for well over a year. We are thankful he didn’t loose much while being sick but for he and Taryn to actually […]

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. […]