captured and beautiful, in spite of me | austin lifestyle photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-09T17:51:13-06:00January 9th, 2010|My Family, Uncategorized|

I knew I wanted to make a collage of my iphone pics at the end of the year. thank you Michelle Nicoloff for this post, it totally inspired me 🙂

these moments would have been missed. gone before i grabbed my camera. too lazy to get up and go get it. little blurbs. little glimpses. of my people, my loves. these are the moments in my mind, even more so than the properly exposed and processed ones. imperfect, real. i got my iphone in july. i love it. i love that it forces me to accept the imperfections. i not only accept them, i embrace them. and i forgive myself for it. maybe that is why so many people are […]

don’t be fooled | austin lifestyle photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-07T14:43:31-06:00January 7th, 2010|My Family|

don’t let these sweet little faces fool you. these two are always up to something. al-ways. snapped this at the door as I dropped her off for a playdate this morning. these girls will drop their respective mom’s like a hot potato if it means they get to be together. I think we’re on playdate #3 between our houses for the week…..inseperable these two (wasn’t this just yesterday?!). If they aren’t together, they are asking to be.

T never takes off her half of their best friends necklace (Carol you did awesome with that gift btw!!). Oh, and yes, T also informed me that Alli is a better Mom than me […]

pbk bedding for sale

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-01-07T11:11:17-06:00January 7th, 2010|My Family|

A quick drop in to post that I updated our for sale page with 2 pottery barn kids bedding sets. You can take a look here.

While looking for a shot of the bedding, I came across this old favorite that made me go awwwww. My girl has grown so much….

I’ll be back with another post later today – before the big UT game tonight because there will be nothing between our mugs and TV come kickoff!!!! I really haven’t fallen off the face of the earth or anything, just lots and lots of stuff going on behind the scenes. Busy kids, revamping a TON of […]

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!!!!

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 […]