Our Camping Trip

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

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 […]

busted.

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-08-05T17:21:49-05:00August 5th, 2011|Maggie, My Family, Our dog|

I finally caught her in the act. She’s been opening doors for a few months and it freaks me out every.single.time. Mostly because we have an alarm and it makes it beep alerting me one of the doors has been opened. My heart jumps because it means one of the kids went outside unattended without me know or someone (or now somedog) came in. Of course I quickly realize it’s her simply because she storms inside like an F5 tornado, there is no mistaking the presence of The Beast. She’s smart. Really smart. That’s becoming a blessing and a curse. I swear she understands everything we say and feel. I shot […]

Maggie

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-07-28T13:02:22-05:00July 28th, 2011|Maggie, My Family|

Maggie, Maggie Mae, Mags, The Beast. Hasn’t she grown?! Almost 6 months old, huge and figuring out the ways of the world and our little family. She’s smart, sometimes too smart. Even though she’s been doing it for weeks, every single time I see or hear her open a door with her paw it freaks me out. The first time my heart was racing because I heard the house alarm beep and I thought someone was breaking in to the house!! She’s finally starting to calm down just a bit. She still chews, and steals things, but that’s normal for labs. She knows which toys are hers and loves to […]