I hope everyone has had a wonderful, joyous holiday! We did! Our day was filled with smiles, laughter, dancing, we stayed in our pj’s all day, played with toys, ate and played some more. It was perfect! Ty loves his new Shuffle iPod, a MegaZooka and Lego’s galore. Taryn adores everything she got, baby doll house, play kitchen, bouncin zebra and more belive it or not! Today was perfect, we were comfortable and happy!!! I’ll be posting more photos of our day soon but tonight I promised Ty my laptop to download music onto his iPod… Ok, so all the grandparents have opened their gifts and I can finally post this! I ordered three of these ornaments and absolutely love […]

Frederique challenged everyone to post their top 10 favorite images from 2006. I am posting a little late but still wanted to play! I don’t have a full year to choose from as I haven’t had my dslr that long, but it was still so hard to choose, I have had so many amazing clients this year! My favorite of Taryn, one of the very first images I took with my new camera. A gift of momentary cooperation from Ty. Finally, after suffering with the learning curve on my new 85 mm, I started to “get it” with this photo. It took me 3 sessions and around 400 exposures to get this, total and complete lack of cooperation. This photo […]

…to last year. At this time on Christmas Eve, we were “moving” from the trailer in our front yard into the house. I still can’t believe we did that, but we did. The house was NO WHERE near ready, concrete floors, no furniture, no kitchen, a functioning toilet on one side of the house and a functioning shower on the other, and that was it. Jason and I took shifts painting into the wee hours of the night the week before Christmas, and got it done just in time. We had the two chairs my Mom’s neighbor had given us, a bed for Ty, a bed for us and we had Taryn’s pack-n-play in the closet in her room. It […]

Hi all, I have a small favor to ask. One of my online photographer friends, Erin, has an amazingly cute daughter. Seriously, it’s a fact. Even the Gap thinks so! Little Sarah is a finalist in the Gap Casting Call! It’s so exciting, please vote….just go here and look for little Sarah….here she is in all her cuteness…. Photo copyright of Photography by Erin (used with permission of course). You should really check out Erin’s blog, her photography is to die for! Her use of light, her composition and she is the queen of using negative space….can you tell that her work inspires me? Now stop reading my blog and GO VOTE! Thanks guys!!

We made the deal. We received our “yellow letter” from the LRA (Louisiana Road Home Agency) which is responsible for distributing and overseeing all the money that Congress allotted to Katrina and Rita victims. Overall it’s a good thing. We were given three choices and our decision was clear. Our three options included, rebuild, sell to the State and live in Louisiana or sell to the State and move out of State, each option came with a different dollar figure. The only one we could afford to take was the “rebuild” option. We owe so much money on the house because of the loans we had to take out to begin our rebuild, that selling at a reduced price back […]

Welcome to the blog of Lyndsay Pfenning Stradtner and my family, Jason Stradtner, Tyler & Taryn.  Thanks for bearing with me as I make yet another move!  I love typepad and am happy to make it my new blogging home.  I’m not too crazy about the new banner…what do you guys think?  I don’t know why I have such a hard time designing banners but I do.  Maybe I need to do a photoshoot with designing a banner in mind??

A little bit about how I got here.... I've been taking pictures as long as I can remember, but it [...]