exhale | austin children’s photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-05T21:36:35-05:00June 5th, 2009|Austin Photographer, My Family|

first day of summer vacation. i survived. barely. just sat down. 11:17 pm. got up running and didn’t stop. splash park early. fun friend friday. sunscreen and laughs. at least 50 baby kisses. lunch with friends. ty out of school early. loud, giggly blonde divas. playdate and playstation. books and stories. nursing and cuddling. sunkissed babies. editing, galleries, orders, albums, emails, facebook. mohawks and dinner. birthday photos and shopping. ordering cake. and balloons. sleepovers and trip to six flags tomorrow with friends. packing and dropping off and chatting. bedtime stories and kisses goodnight. prepping for sessions tomorrow and downloading and google mapping and emailing. finally sitting. summer, day one, success.

the aforementioned mohawk. for a few hours today, jase and i […]

what day is it again? | austin family photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-04T07:35:38-05:00June 4th, 2009|Austin Photographer, Client Work, My Family|

1. Tomorrow is Ty’s last day of elementary school ever. Yesterday we went to his end of 5th grade award ceremony and it was bittersweet. He got 5 awards including being voted as a “promise keeper” by his peers. The little kids and I went and had lunch with him before the awards and I got to meet Ty’s girlfriend. I was pleasantly surprised when she walked right up to the lunch table, put her hand out to shake mine and introduced herself. She sat across from me and we chatted, super sweet kid. I am still not ready for this phase to begin, but I like her more than I thought I would. I certainly didn’t have that confidence, […]

wordle template | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-03T08:50:42-05:00June 3rd, 2009|Austin Photographer, Client Work, My Family|

Remember this?

I love the wordle site but wished I could print a great big one at full resolution for my house (we have it printed and it is gorgeous, but haven’t hung it up yet). I am working on one for my friends nursery and I thought I’d come back and share the template. So here is the deal….

Should work in all versions of photoshop, created in CS4.
Consists of an unflattened .psd file. Each word is its own layer.
Sized big at 15×30 and 300 dpi, but you can easily resize it for printing purposes. Leave the dpi at 300 though for best results.
Just change the words to your own. You […]

thank you | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-02T22:02:37-05:00June 2nd, 2009|Austin Photographer, My Family|

I thought several times about posting here today and just felt blah about it. I hate that. This is my place. To document my life, my children, my work. I don’t ever want to feel blah about that. I am thankful for all the comments and support, I honestly didn’t have any idea how it would all go down putting it all out there. So thank you. Hopefully it will send a message, but overall, it makes me sad that I feel more protective and have the urge to pull in the reins some. Yet here I am. This blog is mine. And if I want to post, I will. If people don’t play nice, I’ll password protect it if […]

sass | austin kids photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-05-30T10:13:46-05:00May 30th, 2009|Austin Photographer, My Family|

sass. that word alone sums her up here recently. the other day in Target she was demanding this and that and I kept reminding her to talk politely, say please, etc. finally, she looks at me, exasperated, and says “Mommy, I’m all out of pleases today!”. I told her then I was all out of “yes’s”. she proceeded to scowl at me for a bit, but got over it. she’s always thinking, the wheels are always turning and some days i feel like i just can’t keep up with her and her constant antics. when people ask me about the differences between parenting the boys vs. my girl, i always easily reply “my girl is twice as much work as […]

progress | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-05-29T13:58:59-05:00May 29th, 2009|My Family|

After my cry for help, we started to get to work around here. First up, tackling my desk. We bought some supplies, boxes, cubbies, dividers and a new bookcase to house everything from paper to portrait packaging supplies like ribbon, presentation boxes, albums and so much more.

Jase put the bookcase we bought together last night and I LOVE it. The best part is yet to come, the doors are big frames for (what else) PHOTOS. How flippin cool is that. Big photos! 15 in x75….yummmmm-e. And you know you’re hardcore organized when your labels need labels….

Funny story, the other day when […]