Tuesday, May 25, 2010

My Little Monkey

Here is our little Mika in her jungle gym...

Tony thinks she is a "Genius!" I think she's pretty smart too. Here she is only 2 mos old concentrating on using her hands to spin the toy on her play gym... We swear she already tries to communicate with us too. She looks right in your eye and coos over and over like she is having a conversation with you.
We went for her (a little over) 2 month check up today and Mika was 11 lbs 3 oz, and 23 inches tall. 50% around the board. We love her little buddha belly and her leg rolls. Tony has always wanted a chubby baby and is super jealous whenever he sees a baby with squishy legs... Mika could be the chubby little baby he has always hoped for!
Also at the docs office today... We were waiting in our little room for the doc, door open, when Mika who was sitting on my lap let out a huge man sounding and smelling "toot." Sweet little Maddy yelled out loud enough for all to hear "Mommy tooted! (laugh laugh laugh)" right as the doctor was coming into our now stinky room... I swear it wasn't me! Thanks alot Maddy! (=

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Vann Lucas Parkin

My sister just had her cute little baby last week and we finally got some pics. Here is a sneak peak of our portraits of the little guy... isn't he so cute!

Welcome Baby Vann Lucas Parkin
Born May 1st
8 lbs 7 oz
20 1/2 inches long


ps.. Yes! This last portrait was very hard to get! (= But I'm so glad we did... I love it!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

1 month old...

I haven't been very good at updating my blog lately, I have alot to catch up on lately... but here is my cute little Mika at about a little over a month old... Just had to post this. She is a sweetie..

Monday, April 12, 2010

Happy Birthday Maddy!


If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops...

Maddy and her best friend Mungo, this cat will follow us anywhere, even into the rain...

There's no better way to spend a birthday than playing in the rain.. I can't believe my baby is already 2! She is such a sweet, good girl! We are so lucky to have her in our family! Happy Birthday Maddy!!

Besties...

Here is baby Mika and cute little Iris Miller born just 11 days apart. Already best friends...

Big and little Sisters...
Gus, Iris, Ruby, Mika & Maddy...

Looking foward to lots of fun times with all these little ones!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

And more Mika...

So my photography blog may be filled with only pics of my sweet daughters Maddy and Mika for awhile since I am taking a short maternity leave from my photography business to focus on my family for a couple months. I still need my photography fix and whether they like it or not, my little girls get to be my models! We haven't ventured too much outdoors since Mika is still small, so I set up studio on my bed, couch, or wherever the natural light hits and take pics whenever I get the urge and my little girls will let me!

Here is my baby girl Mika modeling her cute little hair flower and outfit given to her by my good friend Katie of Mia Moo Designs... Check out her blog to purchase cute hair accessories, dresses and more... This little girl laughs in her sleep! We will hear these funny little giggles and look down at her and she is actually laughing! (Probably thinking of all the funny things she can do to make sure mommy doesn't sleep at night (= )! She smiles a ton too...

Thanks Katie! Love the little tutu!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Look what the stork dropped off...

My friend Ashlee and I collaborated and pulled out the infamous tree branch structure to get this pic of Mika. After over 3 hours of trying to get her to sleep, we finally got the pics we were looking for! I'm so thankful for Ashlee for not letting me give up! I love the colors and love my squishy little baby girl in these shots Ashlee and I got...
Mika was 1 week old in these pics. More to come later...

Friday, March 19, 2010

Sisters...

Maddy LOVES her baby sister Mika, and has been such a sweetie and such a great helper! She was only jealous for a second, and now she is so cute with her sister. She says "Love you Mika", "where baby Mika?", "Soooo cute!", "ewwwwww" (when the baby has a dirty diaper), (= and lots of other cute phrases about her sister all day. She loves getting diapers and wipees, and throwing away the dirty diapers for me. I'm so lucky to have 2 sweet little girls...
This pic was shot by my good friend Ashlee who helped me shoot some newborn pics of Mika since I was too tired to do them alone. There are more to come! Thanks Ashlee!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Give Away Today!

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Baby Mika Susan Nguyen

We are so blessed to welcome our newest addition Baby Mika Susan Nguyen, born March 10th, 7 lbs 8 oz and 19 inches long. She is the sweetest baby ever! We love her to death and never want to put her down...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Happy Valentines and Happy New Year!

We had a very eventful weekend! We celebrated Valentine's Day at Javier's (my fav!), Chinese New Year with family and a Nascar race with great neighbors! Pictures of Maddy in her traditional Vietnamese dress to come... Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

BTW - 3 weeks to go! We are being induced to have our new little girl on March 10th, if she doesn't decide to come a little earlier (which I wouldn't be surprised!) !

Monday, December 21, 2009

I heard a little rumor...

Cafe Rio is finally here! Opening day is Dec 28th! I don't know if it's being pregnant or what, but I've been craving this since the day I heard it was coming to town (like a year ago!) I hope it's still as good as I've been remembering from my Utah days...and dreaming of!

I think for sure the next Cafe Rio should be in Huntington Beach! I'd go every day!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Oh Santa Clause...

A picture is worth a thousand words...


Ho Ho Ho...

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!

We are so excited to have a real Christmas tree this year and to be in our own home! Last year we were moving around, and it is so nice to have a home to decorate and put up a tree in! Maddy had so much fun at the Christmas tree lot running around through all the baby trees...

She was so excited to have one of her favorite people ever Noah to come play with her and help pic out trees! Maddy loves hugs!
Luckily we found a great tree! There wasn't many this year on the lot. Our poor neighbors went home empty handed... guess they were just not as quick as Tony...
Family Portrait with our tree. I didn't realize I was being swallowed up by the tree, but maybe it's a good thing! My belly is getting pretty big!
Cheeeeese!
Decorating the tree...
balls, balls, balls... one of Maddy's new favorite words..

Happy Holidays everyone!

Monday, November 16, 2009

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year... Almost!

Just a little sneak peak of my little dancing queen in her new Holiday dress! We are trying to be early instead of late this year on Holiday cards...


Can't wait for the Holidays to arrive!