Big city girl

Some images from our time in New York last week. We spent all our time having picnics in New York's amazing parks, eating good food and wandering the streets. We also met up with some friends because they happen to be in New York the same time we were! It is always lovely to see familiar faces in another city!

While in New York, Ellie became a lot more active. She suddenly became obsessed with pushing the stroller instead of sitting in it! Exploring the apartment we stayed in, walking around the parks (with assistance), meeting new people and going on adventures really tuckered her out by the end of each day.

The main reason we went to New York was for Jin to ride in the 5 boro bike tour with some friends. Naturally, Ellie and I tagged along for the trip! When Ellie gets a little older, I hope to bring her along one year and join Jin on the bike tour, it seemed like a lot of fun!

(I made Jin pose as if he conquered New York after he came back from the ride!)

Until next time New York...!

fun sneak peaks

I photographed 2 really fun shoots in the last 3 days.

Some pieces for Patouche's clothing for children. Ellie was lucky enough to be one of the models!

Danielle Wright's beautiful jewelry. I love her pieces so much.

Can't wait to pore through the images from these shoots!

Give me the drugs

This entire week, Eloise and I have been fighting off a really bad cold. First Eloise had it and since we are together 24/7, I caught it too. She recovered much quicker than I did while mine got worse and worse, the most sick I have been since I was a kid myself! I am usually the one who refuses to go see the doctor or take medicine but it is so bad this time, I couldn't wait to get some drugs.

I feel so much better today. :)

Eloise's Dol

We celebrated Eloise's first birthday this past weekend with a Dol ceremony and a little party! My brother graciously allowed us to hold the party at his place and I decorated it with hot pink confetti stuffed balloon garlands. The days leading up to Eloise's party, she caught a fever and it turned out that she had Roseola. We found out when she started to break out in a rash on the day of her party. If you looked at her closely, she was starting to get pink dots on her skin and I joked that she matched the balloons. The unofficial theme of the party was "Roseola", it couldn't have come at a better time (poor baby!).

I used this party as an excuse to do some serious crafting! I made two party favours for guests to choose from, one was snap on bowties for babies and adults using this fun tutorial! I was so happy to see most of the guys wore the bowtie proudly around the party! The other favour was painted wooden bead necklaces from this great tutorial. I love how they turned out!

Ellie chose her fortune well during her Dol ceremony. She picked up a coin and a badge of some sort. The coin means wealth and Jin's mom explained that the badge was for some sort of high level secret spy working for the government (there is much lost in translation here!) so Ellie will be wealthy spy!? Haha!

Nikole made a beautiful and delicious birthday cake for Ellie and Gabe expertly documented the party for us. Ellie is so lucky and so loved! The Dol props and her traditional Korean dress are rented from Party with Chloe and we had Hammersmith's cater for some afternoon tea. It was most delicious!

Ellie's party was a success!! Thank you to all who helped us put it together and for all who came to celebrate this joyous time in our lives with us! And happy first birthday my young "wealthy spy"! You alone have brought so much happiness into our lives. We are so blessed.

All photographs in this post are by Gabe Li!