explore | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-04T22:11:53-06:00January 4th, 2010|My Family|

While my mom was here we had a free day with not much planned so we decided to take the kids out exploring. Teagan and I have been to this particular sculpture garden several times before, we like to go out exploring new places while the older two are in school. He loves this place. It is peaceful, never overrun with people and he just has the space, time and energy to be a boy. I knew the older kids would love it too so we gathered up our fancy smanshy magnifying glasses and headed out.

Exploring involves leaves, rocks and sticks. Touching them, throwing them, dropping them into the water and […]

hot chocolate | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-03T23:33:53-06:00January 3rd, 2010|My Family|

As mentioned in my previous post, my family drank a lot of hot chocolate in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Perhaps it is because it’s freezing outside. Well, ok, freezing according to Texas standards…but in my defense it has snowed 2 times at our house this year, once on Christmas Eve no less! And our house is drafty in the back. And we like chocolate (ovaltine and milk really). Christmas Eve we all gathered in the kitchen as Jason prepared our tradition of hot chocolate before bed.

This year, a certain someone was juuuuuust tall enough to do this:

Marshmallow thief!!!!

tonight | austin photographer lyndsay stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-03T23:14:26-06:00January 3rd, 2010|My Family|

I’ve been grasping to Teagan’s baby days. And yet they are escaping me. He will be 2 in 37 days. But there are so many things I love about having a toddler boy in the house again. Rough. Tumble. Sweet. Dirty. Funny. The way he makes car noises with instinct. The way he clutches onto things with his chubby little hands and drags them with him everywhere he goes. His fascination over anything with wheels and dinosaurs and anything big or loud. He’s turning in to a boy. And I love it.

Tonight, as I laid down with him in his bed to read him a story, he clutched on to his favorite buzz lightyear glow in the dark flashlight. We […]

you must make these

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-02T16:11:05-06:00January 2nd, 2010|My Family, Recipes, Uncategorized|

My house smells heavenly right now. Hea-ven-ly. I’ve promised a bunch of recipes for food we made over the holiday to those who were with us…and I’ll start here. Not my recipe but one of another Austin momma.

Katie’s “Killer” Chicken Taco’s

Note: I added the killer part because it’s killing me to a) stir and b) wait until dinner time

-Take 1 chicken taco seasoning packet (you can use a reg. taco seasoning packet, but it really doesn’t taste nearly as good), and cover the bottom of the crockpot.

-Lay 6 frozen tenderloins or 3 frozen breasts on top of the seasoning.

-Take one container of fresh pico (use H.E.B.’s hot variety for kick) and […]

random | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-01T23:03:48-06:00January 1st, 2010|My Family|

1. Not sure if this will be 10 but I’ve been MIA and feel the need to catch up.

2. Favorite moment from the first day of 2010…..Teagan throws his arms up in the air and yells “HA-PEEEEE NEW YEAR!”. We all smile and clap at him. So he smiles, soaks in the approval from us, throws his arms in the air again and yells “TOUCHDOWN!!!”. I love that kid.

3. Iphone pic….I find it oddly amusing and ironic that these two rung in the new year just like this…..

Actually, this was about 10 minutes before midnight (yes, we let our kids stay up, it is tradition). She pushed him, got sent […]

we made it | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-12-29T15:49:41-06:00December 29th, 2009|My Family|

through Christmas. and the sugar rush. and we did it all relatively healthy. no surgeries. lots of breathing treatments. tons of grandparents. lots of gifts. very few meltdowns. some good food. way too much hot chocolate. a getaway for Jase and I (wahoo!!!). a holiday filled with a whole lot of love. i’ll be back soon as we try to find some sense of normal again….until then, we’re enjoying my mom being here for just a few more days….

and since I feel bad posting without a pic….one of my three monkeys that I was holding on to until all the gifts were opened….