i love their taste in names | austin maternity photographer

About midway through their session we discovered that the sweet baby girl they were expecting would share the same name as my daughter. I only know of two other Taryn’s so I was pretty excited! They had no idea that I have a daughter named Taryn! They said they’d had a hard time coming up with a middle name but had finally chosen one and were curious what we’d chosen. Taryn Elizabeth….ha! Seriously, what are the odds! My clients have THE BEST taste in names lol!

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-06-18T23:31:39-05:00June 11th, 2014|Austin Photographer, Client Work|

catching up

The last few weeks have been overwhelming. Mid-may, we went on an amazing camping trip and were lucky enough for my mom to come along. We made so many wonderful memories and even captured a few. The day after my mom went back to Alabama, my step dad got sick. Within a day, he was pretty sick and in the hospital. He wasn’t responsive, but rebounded after the first day in PICU and we all had hope he’d be fine and the plan was for him to go to rehab upon discharge. But then he took a turn for the worse. His blood pressure was low, he had a high fever, pnemonia and was septic. The infection was […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-06-11T17:50:11-05:00June 11th, 2014|My Family|

in memory

With a heavy heart, I have to share that my step dad, Larry Lee, has passed away. It’s been a long hard road since his spinal cord injury 15 years ago.

I met him as a little girl, he’d take my mom out dancing. He’d let me and my friends ride in the back of his truck down to the corner store where he’d buy us country lemonades and a kit kat. My mom followed her heart and we left Oregon and moved to live with him in Louisiana when I was 12. My grandmother loved his accent and thought he hung the moon. He adored her and her Maine accent right back. Larry […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-06-02T22:58:36-05:00June 2nd, 2014|My Family|

Our Camping Trip

My best memories growing up in Oregon revolve around going camping as a child with my dad, and also, my grandparents. I love everything about it. So when my mom suggested that instead of our usual girls trip to New Orleans over memorial day, we hunt for a cabin in the woods and take the whole family camping instead, I jumped on it. It’s hard for our family of six to travel. We had to give it up for awhile as when we’d travel after Jude’s vaccine injury, he’d regress, have demyelination and various chemical sensitivity reactions. We’ve tried a few small trips within driving distance in the last year and he’s done amazingly well. We haven’t taken the whole […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-05-21T15:18:02-05:00May 21st, 2014|Jonah, Jude, Maggie, My Family, Taryn, Ty|

mini session roundup | austin mini session photographer

I think I’m finally all caught up blogging through the fall and the end of 2013 for client sessions. I didn’t really blog that many mini sessions in 2013, mostly because of time constraints on my end. But I have to admit, it’s hard to file images away on my hard drive once they have been lovingly delivered to my clients. There are just some I love so much and wanted to come share….so here is a roundup of just a few faves. I love doing mini sessions throughout the year!

And a few more….

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-05-21T14:43:02-05:00May 21st, 2014|Austin Photographer, Client Work|

holistic first aid kit

I thought I’d come share what went in our camping first aid kit after getting some requests over on this instagram photo.

I know going in that my husband is going to roll his eyes joyfully at this post. I know this because he’s been sweetly snickering every time he passes the pile on the kitchen counter for the last week. It’s ok, I can embrace my neurotic love of all things first aid kit. I think it makes me quirky and loveable. And even though we gave up most things that come in a traditional first aid kits, I still find myself […]

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-05-18T13:47:24-05:00May 18th, 2014|iphoneography, My Family, Uncategorized|