Kasen's Birthday Party - Lego Farm

A beautiful afternoon, no rain & not cold, which was filled with fun to celebrate Kasen's 6th Birthday! The theme of the party was Lego Movie: birthday banner, decor, cupcakes and the birthday cake were around the theme.

 



 

Look at the birthday cake. Isn't it amazing?! Credit goes to Kasen's talented mom, Rosa.

 

 

She has made the delicious cupcakes too.

 

 

To our surprise, there were other guests to the party - animals. The backyard was set up as a little farm.

 

Everyone could feed them and touch them.

 

And, kids could ride the pony as well. Love their smiles.

 

Of course, the part that the guests would look forward to the most is hitting the pinata.

 

 

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and choose the album titled "Birthday Party - Kasen"

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Aggy's Birthday Party

It's finally the time to blog about Aggy's birthday party. She turned 4 in March and I was excited to be there. It was the first session that I used my new baby - a full frame camera. Not only I needed to learn how to use the buttons, but also needed to download new software. Now I can communicate with both the camera & the computer and here are the happy pictures.



 



 

It was a fun party. There were endless activities like catching bubbles, hiding under the parachute, passing the obstacle course, and on and on. I guess the guests had a blast. Look at their smiles. And looks like the cupcakes tasted pretty good. Nom nom nom.

Once again, Happy Birthday to the Little Big Girl Aggy!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all lovely moms :)

 

This year, I celebrate it with an additional monkie and the day went nice. The monkie boys got some crafts done at school. Last year, Little Monkie #1 said that mommy cooks the best rice and he's still saying the same this year. Little Monkie #2 did it right this year that it's Happy Mother's Day not Happy Valentine's Day.

 

After school yesterday, they got me a bunch of my fav flower - tulip & a cute mother's day balloon.

 

 

Last night before we went to bed, they told that they're gonna make me a breakfast in bed. This morning, they still remembered and this was what happened.

 

 

Little Monkie #2 was all excited about this 'surprise' and ran into my room with giggles.

 

Little Monkie #1 walked in happily and carefully with my breakfast. Of course, we wouldn't forget about Little Monkie #3 - all say "cheers" ;)

 

And here's my breakfast, see the pancakes were in heart shape. And they're really serious about it that they got a menu for this... so cute...

 

 

And this is behind the scene.

 

 

Needless to say, I finished it all with a happy smile. In the evening, it was my turn to be master chef for the two moms - my mom and mom-in-law.

 

Once again, Happy Mother's Day!

 

PS - thanks to dada for making this happen!!!

Natural Light

Can't believe it's been more than a season since the last post... when we finally gotta say goodbye to the super long & cold winter, it's about the time to write & shoot again :)

Now with more daylight hours, I took the priviledge of capturing some pictures of the monkies after dinner this evening, under natural light. It's already past 7:30pm and the monkies were running happily from one bedroom to another and along the hallway. I was at one end of the hallway watching Little Monkie #3 walking towards me with supports (yap... time flies and she's almost 1). When she past by my mom's room, she was nicely lit.

How could I have missed this?! I quickly got my camera, did a test shot and grabbed her back to the other end. Let her come to me again. And this is what I've got.

Light source from the left, it got through the hallway and bounced to the white wall on the right. So this is a natural reflector that could lit the other side of the face.

Little Monkie #2 would love to join in (he loves his sis veerrrryyy much).

 

 What a great pose and smile, too bad that Little Monkie #3 has moved, so she became blurry. Little Monkie #2 has also blocked out some light from behind, so his face is a bit darker than expected on the left. I still like it tho'.

The sun was rushing to go home that I got only a few minutes for "one round of crawling". Below is another fav shot. If the continuous shooting mode was set, instead of single shoot, this may be a better picture. Oh well, let me try again next time...