Vanessa and Brad made it official a few weeks ago at The Historic London Town and Gardens in Maryland in front of family and friends.  It was a beautiful day to celebrate such a joyous occasion and you could feel the love in the air.  Many laughs and tears were shared amongst the guests throughout the day.  They are such a fun couple, they made my job easy.  Congrats Vanessa and Brad! Hope you guys had fun on your honeymoon!

Joshua came all the way from Portland, Oregon to celebrate his 1st birthday with family and friends at Mon Ami Gabi in Reston, Virginia.  Although he didn’t take a nap in the morning, Joshua was full of smiles and laughs throughout the whole party, he even kept his hambok and hat on for the majority of the time.  At most of the dols, doljabi raffle winners usually got a gift certificate of some sort but at Joshua’s, they gave out a golf club and a bottle wine.  Of course the winner of the wine was a minor. Haha.  He and the guests had a great time and Joshua even got to taste sugar for the first time in the creme brulee which he looked like he enjoyed.

Twins, Sebi and Kylie turned 1 and came down to Virginia to celebrate with their family.  Here are some pictures from their birthday celebration at Wildfire Restaurant in Tysons Corner, Virginia.  The party was planned by Lillian Lee so if you need a good coordinator, let me know and I can send over her contact info. Happy birthday Sebi and Kylie!

It’s been a year since I first visited Mr. Smiley, Alex, at the hospital. This past weekend he had his Madagascar themed 1st birthday party with some of his friends.  Alex was in a great mood all afternoon and was smiling and laughing like crazy.  The little guy was adored by everyone there especially his family, who put in all the time and effort to make sure the party was a success.  Happy Birthday Alex!

Sweet little Nora is turning 1 in a couple of weeks so we went out to take some portraits for her party.  She was so amazed by the beautiful outdoors, it was very hard to get her attention throughout the session but we managed to get some anyways.  Just like any other kid, she is curious about everything that’s around her and loves to talk your ear off.  Here are some pictures of Nora from the session.

It was a wild 1st birthday celebration for the twin girls, Ava and Gia, that took place at Diya Restaurant in Vienna, Virginia.  Lots of family and friends came out to enjoy the great food and dancing with the girls.  The girls were in great spirits and seemed to enjoy everything that was going on around them and stayed up til pretty late.  Happy Birthday Ava and Gia!

We had a small celebration for Nicolette’s 1st birthday at the house. It’s crazy to think that she was born a year ago at 1.7lbs and still has the same fiesty spirit as day 1.  She will be having the traditional Korean birthday celebration in a couple of months because her parents didn’t want to expose her to any flu or cold germs that people tend to carry during the winter.  Nicolette had a great time tasting her 1st cupcake until she gagged from the sugar rush.  Happy 1st birthday to my goddaughter!! I can’t wait to celebrate more birthdays with you

Several weeks ago, I assisted Steven Kim Photography for Teresa and Wei’s traditional ceremonies.  The morning was filled with lots of laughter, joy, and tears by family and friends.  There was definitely a lot of excitement in the air as the day progressed and happiness was oozing out of the two love birds. Congrats Teresa and Wei!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! and what’s a better way to ring in the new year than a newborn baby.  Meet Isabell, she is Maddy’s new younger sister.  You can tell Maddy is going to be a great big sister and these 2 girls are going to team up against their parents.  Here are some pictures from the session where Isabell was wide awake and alert the whole time.

We had a quick holiday session for Nicolette so that her parents could send out some Christmas cards.  Although she was a little uncooperative, I managed to get a few useable pictures of her adorable smile and look.

Jacob and Kaiden are now 4 years old and growing fast before our eyes.  Lucky for me, the portrait session every year gets easier and easier as they begin to cooperate more and more.  This year the key was letting them play with my spare camera with the 35mm on it and as long as they could take pictures too, they smiled for me.  After looking through the pictures they both took, they definitely have the natural ability to take use the camera even though most of the pictures were blurry.  Here are some pictures from year 4.

The pics the boys took of each other.

Melody has already turned 1 when it feels like last week I had seen her for her newborn session.  We celebrated her birthday at Bazin’s on Church in Vienna, Virginia.  It was an afternoon of delicious food and lots of sweet treats for all the guests.  Melody enjoyed her first tasting of sugar in her birthday cake and had fun with her little friends.  Happy Birthday sweet girl!

My UVA friends and I took our 2nd annual golf trip last weekend to Scottsdale, Arizona.  The west coast and east reunited for a weekend of fun and golf.  Little did the east coast people know that it would be so cold there when the sun wasn’t up.  We were very shocked to see the weather in the 30s which we thought we escaped from in DC.  Nevertheless we managed to stay warm with high socks and sweatshirts.  Our golf games weren’t that great but the view was nothing but spectacular.  We can’t wait to reunite again for next year’s trip!