thirteen

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-06-06T21:18:42-05:00June 6th, 2010|My Family|

Officially a teenager, a little scary for us, exciting for him. He has an air of confidence around him that shines through the awkward stage he’ll soon leave behind right along with being a little boy. He’s not little, he’s as tall as I am and will pass me up any day. I see him figuring out the world, embracing it, getting angry at it and all of it’s injustices and ultimately finding patience for it all because just when he it figures something out, it changes. His opinions about the world around us and the people in it, they are forming right before us and it’s a joy, and a […]

flashback friday

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-06-04T21:31:01-05:00June 4th, 2010|My Family|

Can it be a flashback if I never shared it to begin with?

The other night, I had just gotten back from taking Ty’s birthday photos and Jase and I were digging through my archives of the kids and comparing how tall Ty has gotten since we moved to Austin. We got lost in the folders together, smiling, remembering with lots of “no way! look how little they were!?”. And we stumbled across this one….

The day this was taken, I didn’t blog it. Instead I blogged this. I never shared it because I thought I looked tired. I WAS tired. Teagan was 6 weeks old. Taryn was 2.5 years old and […]

duder

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-06-03T12:28:09-05:00June 3rd, 2010|My Family|

I took off with the little kids this morning with a long list of errands, but none more important to the duder than collecting the post haircut sucker. Always the highlight of getting his ears lowered…..

He’s been increasingly difficult to photograph lately, so these made my heart smile today.