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Before Kaylee's birthday party, we had Kaylee's newborn photographer, DCPG Photography and Design came and shot Kaylee's 1st birthday. I couldn't help but took some behind the scenes photos to share with everyone. I had to wake Kaylee up from a nap so she wasn't all that happy when we first started the shoot. Luckily she warmed up pretty quickly after Cies's daughter let her borrow her toy to play on the chair.  Cies and with her cute little personal assistant, future photographer for the DCPG :D Here is the result! They did an amazing job and I can't stop looking at them! Her eyes really sparkles in these photos!  She is just too adorable even when she is crying! Good thing mommy had iphone handy, she was all giggles again. Before the shoot, they took some beautiful photos of the decorations  here . The photos look like they are straight out of a magazine! You can view other behind the scenes photos from all of Kaylee's photoshoot her

You Are My Sunshine Yellow Turquoise Theme Party { :: Above photos courtesy of DCPG Photography :: They did uhhh mazing job, wait till you see Kaylee's photoshoot pictures, will post behind the scene soon!} Our friend carved this watermelon into a cute little teapot, Love the K in the middle! She also craved a stroller for our baby shower  here  too!   I did not have to cook a single dish! Our friend from Minneapolis came and became a chef for the day so mommy can play host. Thanks Nhi for taking time and making this yummy papaya salad for us to enjoy! Cake stand look familiar?  Here is the  diy   We had a total of 4 cakes total!! Holy sweetness! These letters were printed on regular paper and glued to Martha Stewart card stock paper.    (thank you  Lester for this photo! I designed all labels, posters and Kaylee's invites. Invites were printed online and everything else from a local printer.  Sneak peek from Kaylee's photoshoot from DCPG ! Our newborn phot

What a fun and also eventful weekend we had!!! Our sweet sunshine turned 1 last week! Thank you everyone who say happy birthday to her. You guys are the sweetest! I took over 900 photos over the weekend! Yes 900! yikes! I can not wait to share photos from her party, it was simply fabulous! 2 months of planning, totally all worth all the smiles and laugher in return from her! Daddy putting decor up for party last pix of her is just too funny :D Once in awhile you meet someone that make your life just a bit sweeter and willing to help you out whenever they can, these two are truly amazing people. They flew in all the way from Minneapolis to be with us on Kaylee's special day and to hang out with us. Oh yeah, our friend is also an amazing chef too! He was Kaylee's chef on Saturday! Stay tuned for Kaylee's party pictures, our newborn photography DCPG came and took photos for us while this momma was running around. Will share pictures this week!

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been and all you're yet to be. It has been a blessing watching you grow and meeting all of your milestones. Life was has been so joyful since the day you were born. You complete us. You melt our hearts with your sweetness. Thank you for letting us know what it's like to love someone so unconditionally. Happy birthday sweet baby, Mommy and Daddy love you oh so much!

I took these photos of my sweet, dear friend Michelle with her two adorable dogs, Cookie and Teddy couple months ago and finally got the chance to post it up! They are Peekapoo (Pekingese+Poodles) They are so soft with all that hair! My friend Nhi wanted a picture with Cookie too :D I just got a new lens!!!! It just arrived few days ago so I can not wait to play with it and do more fun photoshoot. I got the canon 50mm f1.4. The pictures above was taken with 50mm f1.8 btw. Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day!

DIY Cupcake stand: can be used for many other things like organizing jewelry. Only $2 for this project! Super easy project to do if you have a spare plate that you are not using anymore or you can go to any dollar or Thrift store to find one. I found my pretty turquoise plate and candle holder at the Dollar Tree near our house. Using Krazy Glue, I let it dry overnight under some textbooks and it was pretty sturdy the next day!  I think it would be fun to spray paint the glass candle holder to white or a fun color next time I do this project again.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend! We are cleaning, organizing and more extreme cleaning this weekend! :/ Pin It

I can't get enough of this beautiful weather we have going on today. 70 today, yes seventy in February! Hope it is beautiful where you are at! Dress: Bebop Necklace: Thrifted : Purse: Kate Spade Belt : HM Did you know that the color yellow is psychologically the happiest color in the color spectrum, that's why I wanted to incorporate that color for Kaylee's first birthday party. It represents her attitude and personality in her first year. Her theme is You Are My Sunshine using Yellow and Turquoise as her main 2 colors for anyone wondering what her theme is :) Hope you are having a beautiful Thursday! Pin It

I have been a little MIA lately since it is now crunch time for Kaylee's first party! Still a lot of things to do and plan. So far (luckily) everything has been going pretty smoothly! We got less then 2  weeks left and here is what we have so far. Can you guess the theme? So inspired by all these parties! Love looking at pinterest for birthday inspirations. source:  1, 2, 3  pinterest 4, 5, 6 I know I may be going a bit overboard with Kaylee's first party since she is not even going to remember any of it! but hey, she's turning 1 just once so might as well make it memorable :)