4th | austin photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-07-04T14:26:28-05:00July 4th, 2009|My Family|

This 4th of July is the first one I haven’t spent with my mom in a loooooooong time. The 4th is always a time filled with family and birthday parties and bbq’s and fireworks and we always spend it together. My birthday is on the 6th and hers is on the 8th, so it’s always a celebration. It’s hard to be away, when I really wish I was there. We distracted ourselves this morning by doing crafts with the kids, we made flags for our get together tonight…..Teagan and Jase had a little too much fun with the pipe cleaners……

I sure do miss you Mom, and thinking of you lots.

a little friday funny | austin baby, er uhm, toddler photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-07-03T10:59:35-05:00July 3rd, 2009|My Family|

I thought we’d kick this long weekend off right with a little friday funny…..

Little dude got into my basket of props, hats and blankets I use for sessions when I neglected to put it away after work this week. It landed by the front door and never made it past the foyer. Later on, after a few minutes of quiet, I went looking for him. He even managed to get one of the baby hats on his head, he loves hats, but he stretched it out with his big old head. In the second shot he’s pulling on the tassel….resulting in the 3rd shot which totally cracks me up. Funny

the last time | austin family photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-30T21:34:40-05:00June 30th, 2009|My Family|

Tonight, for the last time, I put my baby to sleep in his crib. I know it seems silly, but this makes me so sad. It’s the end of an era for our family. No more cribs, our baby is getting bigger, and today he reached out and fell over the edge, hitting the floor hard. Thankfully, he is fine. I wasn’t in the room when it happened, but only steps away and ran to him when I heard the thud. We both cried. It scared all of us, and we had to make some quick decisions tonight that involve removing the crib and replacing it with a toddler bed. My heart isn’t ready for the crib to be gone […]

10 on Tuesday | Austin Photographer Lyndsay Stradtner

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-30T06:13:15-05:00June 30th, 2009|My Family|

1. A few weeks before my Mom’s last visit, Taryn freaked out one night and insisted we take all the photos of her in her room down. She said “all the Taryn’s were staring” at her while she was trying to sleep. Part of me laughed, the other part just knows that this will come up in therapy some day filed under “it’s all my mothers fault”. So after we talked to her a bit, we decided to take all the photos in her room down. The day before my moms visit, she came and asked if Gee was going to be staying in her room. When I said yes, she asked if I would put her pictures back […]

snapshots of the morning variety | austin family photography

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-22T14:52:39-05:00June 22nd, 2009|My Family|

This morning after breakfast, Jase left to go bring Taryn to school, Ty started in on the breakfast dishes and Teagan was roaming around the house playing. As usual my camera was on the kitchen counter and I snapped these snapshots. It went something like this…..(((teagan calls ty “baba”)))…..

“BABA BABA bee-boo?? BABA BABA bee-boo?” (((peekaboo))) Then he’d hide around the corner and pop his head out with a “boo!”

Ty happened to be jammin out to his ipod and singing along quite loudly. While I was wishing for some earplugs, Teagan was shaking his booty.

then it was off to read a few books […]

Oh what a difference a year makes | Austin Family Photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2009-06-21T19:14:48-05:00June 21st, 2009|Austin Photographer, My Family|

Last year, Father’s Day ’08. Teagan was 4 months old.

And oh what a year it has been. What a difference a mere 365 days makes. Father’s Day ’09….

What a chunk. I’m kind of proud of that, how much he’s grown, having nursed him for the last year. On the brink of weaning, I can look at him and say, I helped grow that. Crazy. We really had no intention of ever redoing this shot, but today, just before dinner we were bored and decided to give it a whirl just so we could compare and see how much he’s changed. I dug […]