routine | austin lifestyle photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-03-18T22:58:18-05:00March 18th, 2010|My Family|

I’m reminded that capturing their everyday moments is so valuable to me. What they do slowly becomes who they are. Every night, we eat together as a family at the table. We talk and eat and duck should food go flying across the table. We ask Taryn to stop wiggling, we shoe the dog away from Teagan. After seconds and sometimes thirds, Ty loads the dishwasher and jumps in the shower. Jase does bath duty with the little ones. They run out, clean, messy hair, giggling. Buzz and monkey jammies with wet noggins they […]

10 on Tuesday | Austin Lifestyle Photographer Lyndsay Stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-03-17T00:15:19-05:00March 17th, 2010|My Family|

1. Bad news first? Teagan’s ear drum burst Sunday night. Through the tube. He started complaining around bath time when it was time to put his ear plugs in. By the time his bath was over he was a screaming mess. He’s not a complainer (sounds like a good thing but it really is not, it’s hard to tell when something is going wrong when he doesn’t complain). We called our pedi who ok’d some ear drops and we gave him some motrin and put him to bed. He woke up constantly until around midnight when he walked into our room with a smile and a “hey”….uhm, ok?! Ear oozing, ear tube sitting just inside his earlobe. UGH. That hurts, […]

kite festival, our version | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-03-14T20:56:00-05:00March 14th, 2010|My Family|

We had every intention of heading to the Zilker Kite Festival in Austin this weekend and the kids (especially Taryn) were super psyched about it. Unfortunately, Teagan has had a rough weekend, we’ve had to increase his asthma meds and he’s still just not doing very well. He scares me. I feel like I’m constantly worrying, watching, listening, hovering….waiting. For him to be sick. And for him to be better. Teagan’s breathing was pretty good this morning so we decided that instead of facing the crowds at Zilker, we’d stay closer to home just in case he took a turn for the worse. Fighting the crowds and the traffic just didn’t sound like fun. Instead we picked up some […]

tea with t | leander children’s photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-03-12T14:36:06-06:00March 12th, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

I’ve been struggling with Taryn for a few weeks now. Her routine is changing and out of whack. Whining has been increasingly worse. Naps are dwindling. She’s tired. I’m tired. One word….demanding. I feel like there is always a demand, something she needs right this moment but before I can meet that need, she’s demanded something else. That’s not to say she is impolite, quite the opposite, I say demanding because there is always an urgency, I’m hungry right now, I need that right away, and then I need this and this and this. I move from one task to the next, with moments inbetween few and far between. I find myself saying “ok, let me finish this first and […]

10 on Tuesday | Austin Family Photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-03-09T14:44:08-06:00March 9th, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

1. Our babies came to us easily. For that we are lucky and blessed. And, thankfully, ignorant when it comes to infertility. We were ignorant. Our friends Lee Ann and Dennis are fighting infertility. Fighting a long fight, a roller coaster of emotions at every high and low. I never truly understood….I mean I thought I knew a thing or two about what those who battle infertility go through, but I didn’t. Not really. Lee Ann and Dennis are amazing. And strong. And open. I know it must be so difficult to be so open about something so painful, but they do it. Jason and I have learned a lot from them reading their blog and I […]

snow day

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-02-23T22:16:45-06:00February 23rd, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

Be warned, this is a marathon post filled with snapshots, color casts, out of focus images and just everyday stuff. But it’s also filled with love, so I can overlook the rest, hope you can too.

Today was good. Today I put work down. I let the house go. I enjoyed the most simple of pleasures with my kids and….it was good. Really good. My husband was grouchy today (what is there to be grouchy about dude?). The kids were crazy. Excited. Wired. Fun. And even though the house got trashed, there are piles of wet clothes and sneakers and socks and mittens by the front door, the stack of dishes and crap piled up on the counters in the kitchen […]