why do the boys always get them? | austin toddler photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-05-30T07:34:19-05:00May 30th, 2010|My Family|

Love his long lashes and I’m every so slightly jealous. He’s been soooo hard to photograph lately. I’ll take what I can get.

In other news, just when I thought Ty couldn’t get any more awesome, he heard Teagan wake up around 6:30 this morning. Ty got up and played with Teagan, they built forts out of blankets and played cars….and let us sleep. Uh, is there anything better than that!?!? Especially when Ty LOVES to sleep in until at least after 10 on the weekends. And Teagan had a blast. Thanks dude!

We’re hoping for a day out today but have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out […]

the flip side | austin family photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-05-21T22:55:11-05:00May 21st, 2010|My Family|

As always, there is a flip side. The daily reminders of time passing watching my toddler and teenager day to day are hard on this momma’s heart. But there is more. So, so much more.

I’ll never forget the day we told Ty that I was expecting Taryn. The smile on his face, one of the biggest I’d ever seen. ((Second only to the day we stood by a waterfall in Alabama where Jason proposed.)) I’ll never forget how he waited so intently and so well behaved while I was in a long 23+ hour labor with Taryn. He kept notes in a notebook and gathered details of […]

break away | austin family photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2010-05-20T23:28:11-05:00May 20th, 2010|My Family|

I usually just file the RAW files away in folders after I take photos of my family. I used to edit most of them within the same month. And then it got fewer and fewer the busier I got with work, and life, and marriage and motherhood. I’m a bit sad that I’m at a point that I’m not photographing them nearly as much as I used to. And very, very few ever receive any love and attention or get shared. But I’m ok throwing them in a folder labeled “someday when they are grown and I am bored”. It means I’m spending more time with my family, I’m loving them. But I have to photograph them. For them, for […]