sleep over

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-10T20:00:41-05:00October 10th, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

These two have been inseperable here lately. I love it. It makes my mommy heart sing. We’ve earned that the hard way. Taryn genuinely wants to be with him all the time, play with him, love him. I can’t blame her one bit. Anyway, these two have been asking for weeks if they could have a “sleep over” together. Tonight turned out to be the perfect night for it…no school tomorrow, I don’t have a session at the crack of dawn, no one has to get up early (although they probably still will…sigh) and Ty is staying the night with a buddy which means they won’t wake him up if […]

my girl

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-10-09T12:03:04-05:00October 9th, 2010|My Family|

I had the morning off today and since the kids woke up pre crack of dawn (yuck!), I decided to take T out for a little sunrise session. I desperately wanted to photograph her in front of the purple flowers again that show up in our neighborhood every fall. But last year, she was just so sick. We were dealing with bout after bout of strep and couldn’t keep her well, not to mention the fact that she broke her arm. She had surgery to remove her adenoids and tonsils along with a lot of scar tissue last mid-October and it took weeks for her to recover. Fall was tough. But this fall, this fall, we are embracing […]

now i can breathe….

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-27T21:34:30-05:00September 27th, 2010|My Family|

go here. and most definitely go here.

i see three angels: my baby, the amazing woman who helped us save him and my wonderful friend behind the camera who helped us celebrate.

i can’t stop crying….but now i can breathe….

finding our new normal

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-09-26T08:41:35-05:00September 26th, 2010|Announcements, My Family|

I honestly never thought there would be a day that this blog wouldn’t be the only blog I’d ever want and need. I’ve always poured my heart and our life and days into it along with my business. I’ve never regretted that, not once. I am who I am and I’ve been blessed immensely by blogging. I’ve met wonderful people, made lifelong friends, laughed, cried, documented, shared, and carved out my little space of the web for the sake of my children, my husband and myself. Why? So that we can remember.

And then Teagan got sick. And our days were painful and long and we were in crisis mode. And I couldn’t blog about it. I hated that I couldn’t, […]

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 […]

T vs. Kinder = Knock Out

Lyndsay Stradtner2011-01-10T22:16:53-06:00September 17th, 2010|Funny Places Taryn Sleeps, My Family|

Kindergarten is tough people.

Not for the weak.

I was trucking along down the aisle when I noticed a few people giving me strange looks. I stopped and looked in the basket. Her feet were up and out on either side of the basket, head propped on my purse, sound asleep. I tucked her feet in and moved on….

Totally out of focus iphone pic taken in the middle of Target today. Just had to document yet another one of her funny sleep moments (and here and here). I’m making a book out of them, I decided.