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 […]

10+1 | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-02-20T16:35:05-06:00February 20th, 2010|Announcements, Austin Photographer, My Family|

1. Yesterday on the way home from preschool Taryn chatted in the backseat about the clouds and the sky. Then all of a sudden I hear…..”Mommy, I bet God is old, you know, reaaaallllly oooooooooold.” So I asked her how old she thinks God is and she said “thirty“. Awesome. I’m older than God. And I thought older than dirt was bad. That’s ok, its not quite as bad as the time when Ty was about her age and asked my Mom what it was like to live when the dinosaurs roamed the earth….bwahahaha!

2. Another car thing….when we leave our house we have a choice of two entrances to our neighborhood to leave through, one to the right, one to […]

the birthday party that wasn’t

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-02-18T00:45:31-06:00February 18th, 2010|Austin Photographer, My Family|

Teagan hasn’t been feeling well and while we had his birthday party all planned, the cake and balloons ordered and the house all cleaned and ready….it just didn’t happen. Poor little guy, it is not fun to be sickly on your birthday! And while we had to forgo the party on the day of with all his friends, Jason’s parents still made the trip up from Corpus to help us celebrate our dude turning two (thanks Grandma & Grandpa!). And even though the house wasn’t filled with fun toddlers like we’d planned, we still had cake made by the fabulous Humble Pie Desserts in Round Rock (so yummy!), opened gifts and just enjoyed our little dude.