Father's Day!

We love our daddy! He is the best ever! He works so hard for our family, and comes home always so excited to see us! He wakes up early to make us breakfast (or buy us yummy bagels) every Saturday morning, and loves his daddy daughter time. He is very loved and we couldn't ask for a better daddy! A few words to describe Tony... hilarious, kind, intelligent, hard-working, loving, caring, sweet, super handsome, silly, clean, friendly, and the list goes on and on...

Maddy was so excited to give Tony all his fathers day gifts, she helped write the card by drawing pics of all the people in our family, and a monkey for some reason.. (=

(Notice the Windex in the background... Windex is pretty much Tony's mascot. He loves Windex and is seldom not having a bottle of it in his hand. I'm so glad it's in this pic cause it reminds us of Tony! (= )

We also made Tony this great tie that he proudly wore to church! Isn't it great!

Here is Tony and the girls... our favorite neighbor Bud is in the background, he gives us chocolate everyday...And in for the closeup...

Happy Father's Day to our one and only! We love you Tony/Daddy!

Mika's Blessing Day

What a wonderful day we had Sunday when Tony got to give a sweet father's blessing to baby Mika. Here we are (daddy's on the grill), my 2 cuties. Check out the amazing blessing dress Mika's wearing made by my grandma and mom. 2 super talented woman. My girls are so lucky to have such great grandmas! More pics to come...

Shake Your Booty...!

Turn off the music by scrolling all the way down to hear maddy's cute little voice..

Goodmorning...

Long nights are worth it when I get to wake up to these cute smiling faces...

Who's the fairest of them all...

I've been seeing alot of this lately..

I think someones a little jealous of her baby sister...

More baby Vann...

Just posted more pics from baby Vann's sleepy portrait session a couple weeks back... Check them out on my photography blog... http://momentsbymichelle.blogspot.com.

Baby Miles

Just posted new images on my photography blog. Click here to check out more of baby Miles Blume...
Welcomed by his big sister and brother, Paige and Mason Blume.. Isn't he cute?!

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! (=

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!

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..

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!

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!

Mika

Love her!

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...

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!

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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...

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!) !