Happy 234th Birthday America!

Here is a flashback of some 4th of July memories from last year:

Yay Annie!!!

Sammie, Chef Jane, Me & Annie:




Aww memories!
Hope everyone have a safe holiday!!

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A weekend outdoors

This past weekend we met up with a familiar family to this blog for a mini outdoors session (their photos will be coming soon). We were going to sleep over at our VA family so we arranged to meet up at Meadowlark Garden on our way. So, of course we had our little ones with us. Here are a few photos I captured with my G10 and a few TT captured along the way.











You might notice a little thing beside babyboy's right eye. That's because 3 weeks ago, he was playing with a blanket and tripped/fell onto a glass coffee table. It split his skin and as a mom that I am, the thought of scarring has always been my #1 enemy. That night, I had a hard time sleeping, thinking of ways to heal the wound, and it was still slightly bleeding. Growing up, I've been very familiar with Turmeric which is used to help with lightening the scars on skin. With kids in the house, I always have a few fresh turmerics in my freezer. Ok, so I definitely was going to use that. (I was told to scrape the turmeric, use the little bits of juice that comes out and apply that on the skin- btw, this is the reason the fingers that I use to hold the turmeric extract are dyed with the orange color- I don't want to go through the hassle of wearing gloves each time- but the colors come off eventually). Anyways, I also was seeking other ways in addition to using turmeric. Somewhere in my mind, I thought of Aloe Vera. I googled and found that it too has wound healing properties that speeds up the healing process. Exellent! Knowing a friend of ours in the neighborhood has a nice big aloe vera plant, I came to her place and she cut me a piece for babyT. Her mom told me how to use it. It's simple as scraping out the gelatin juice extracts from the plant and apply that on the wound. (I put the aloe back to the fridge in a zip lock and was able to use it for a couple of weeks). I also try to air-dry the wound as much as I can, but when babyT goes to school, I slightly place a bandaid cut-to-fit the wound. Also it's important to not peal off the blood clot once it starts to itch. I told babyT don't scratch it else it'll bleed like before. He's such a good boy and listened to that. Everyday for two weeks, I routinely use turmeric and aloe vera gel to apply on babyT, in the morning and evening. I stopped using aloe vera after a couple of weeks. Before typing this section, I had just applied turmeric on him while he's sleeping, I can continue to do this until I feel I can stop. I just wanted to share my first (small) open wound experience now that it healed pretty nicely. Hopefully it won't leave something too noticeable :) I love turmeric and I also need to go get an aloe vera plant to grow in my house too. Not only it looks nice, but it serves as first-aid, yay to that!

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Baby Lucas

I need to do some catch up on photos I haven't posted yet. A few months ago, a friend of mine welcomed Lucas to the world. I came by to visit at the hospital and he was soooo adorable! They had a one month celebration with the family for the baby and we came by and captured a few photos. Congratulations to you..proud mommy and daddy Thanh & Duy!

I'm saying this again, how adorable is this...they're so lucky, eat/sleep/cry & other stuff...but most importantly they always find someone there with them.



Why babies get all the attention!! Cuz they're ADORABLE little GEMS!


This photo reminds me that MY BABY is growing up...I'm trying to hold them but they're just dangling on me and not within my arms:


I'm currently still working on the website...making albums, processing photos...Stay tuned for more baby photos...

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Diem & Trinh's Pre-wedding preview

Here is Diem and Trinh's Pre-wedding preview from the memorial day weekend. For some odd reasons, I'm realizing that the place where we went always struck us with rain. The sun was shining so bright one minute and the next, we were in the Japanese Teahouse at Brookside Garden listening to the "rhythm of the falling rain"! When we were there 4 years ago, it poured on us too. So I knew it was my luck. But look on the bright side, rain is good luck and a sign of wealth for our culture ;) Not to worry, we will pick up another photo session with them this weekend, and the weather looks like it might love us. Here are a few for your viewing:









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Hang & Thanh's Wedding

Travis and Daniel Bui aka Dung Bui of Glamour Photo have known each other for almost 10 years and they are in constant contact. If you haven't already seen Daniel's work, definitely check him out here. He's been in the industry forEVER and has built himself a reputable name BEYOND our metro are. Every so often, TT reaches out to help several of his photog friends, and Daniel is one of them. Several weeks ago, TT traveled with D to York, PA to capture Hang and Thanh tying a knot. After seeing the photos, I wanted to share these with you. Hope you enjoy SOME of the happenings as much as I did when processing these:

Hang and Thanh had a traditional Vietnamese tea ceremony. The groom's family comes over to the bride's family to obtain permission for the hands in marriage with the witness of both sides of the families and ancestors. The groom also brings over the flowers. One cannot resist the vibrant colors in all of the cultural wedding ceremonies:



Jewelries, are the traditional gifts from the mother/grandmother of either sides, can consist of any of the following: bracelets, earings, and/or necklace


Can the colors of the Ao Dai be any more gorgeous:












Then they headed to church for the ceremony:





Then to Reception:

Hang and Thanh had their cake and first dance prior to greeting the guests:



The bridesmaids made a toast:

I would get teary too if I were there:






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