Happy New Year World! Wow! I can’t believe it is a start of another year. Time really flies by so fast. I have to say 2011 was epic! Our word last year was GROW. And grow we did…in every aspect of our life. Scott and I grew together in our relationship and we stuck together especially through rough times. We grew in our relationship with others; we met more wonderful people and friends and clients this year that we are so thankful for! We grew in our personal lives and have moved from a tiny apartment to our first home. Our business grew…little baby elephant steps like we said and we did it! But yes we know that there’s a whole lot more ahead of us. We grew in terms of skills and creativity…we learn everyday!

We grew in every step of the way and there is just so much to be thankful for! We are very humbled for all the support and love that we got from fans, friends, families, and clients. You truly made our year memorable! We can’t thank you enough. And we are grateful that God has never stopped loving us and helping us through our journey each and everyday. Even with our crazy schedule we tried to find time to go to church. I hope we do better with that this year, since we really enjoy mass. Okay, enough with the suspense. Scott and I have been thinking about this upcoming year all week and we have come up with our word for 2012. Drumroll please…EXPLORE!

Everyone is looking for that dare to be great situation and we feel that this year we are only limited by ourselves. So, our goal is to explore and challenge ourselves to be the best we can be. We want to explore our strengths and our weaknesses. We want to explore new things whether they are places or things to do. We especially want to explore photography whether it be techniques or our own creativity. We feel like there’s so much more out there waiting to be unraveled. We look forward to challenging ourselves and embracing being different. Bring it on 2012! Happy New Year everyone!

Happiest Friday friends! I know we just celebrated Thanksgiving here in the US yesterday but I think it’s important to be thankful everyday anyway. I’m sure I will have a long list of people like fans, friends, clients, and families to be thankful for. I thank YOU all and I could never thank you enough for sure…for having faith in our photography and for letting us live our dreams! Thank you from the bottom of our ♥ ♥ {Scott + Mine}. And most of all, thank you God for everyday!

These gifts are actually camera key chains that Emi brought from Japan last month during her family visit. They make noise and flashes when you press the shutter release, how cool is that!? I love it! Well friends, have a wonderful weekend and I’ll be posting Brian & Angelica‘s e-session on Monday so check back soon!

Hey it’s Wednesday! Normally we go out for Margarita Wednesdays {we made this up by the way} as an excuse to just put a break within the week. But this week, we are too busy for that and almost too busy to cook our own food. Yes, I know! Even if we eat out, we do still try to eat something quick and something healthy. Today, we are so grateful to have dinner ready for us at 6:00pm by Lili of Sultan’s. I’ve posted about trying something different before and her Indian-Persian restaurant is definitely a must-eat and must-shop for groceries. Anyway, she invited us for dinner and she cooked something special, some delicious homemade Persian food. It had chicken, potatoes, rice, onions, and raisins. Then all these were each delicately cooked then mixed altogether at the end. She actually explained to us how she cooked it and it seemed like she did spend a lot of time and hard work on it. I feel so loved! Without our parents here, she has been our ever caring mother making sure that we eat and not overwork ourselves.

She is quite shy when it comes to taking photos, but here’s a glimpse of her at the Nowruz party. She is so charming and very pretty. =) Aren’t you glad for Moms and people like her? I am. I truly appreciate her motherly love. ♥ How’s your Wednesday going? I hope it’s a good one!

Hello there friends! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you :)

This might be surprising to you but we actually don’t celebrate the American Thanksgiving. I’ve mentioned before that I’m from the Philippines and my husband is from Canada, so when Thanksgiving comes around we either get invited by our American friends or we just sit around the house and cook ourselves an equally scrumptious meal. We just don’t do a big turkey celebration plus we don’t really have families here to gather around and have dinner with.

But hey it doesn’t mean that we are not thankful, of course we are! We are truly blessed with good friends here and in the blogosphere who inspires us a lot, good jobs, caring families even if they are miles and miles away, and we are thankful for every little good fate that comes our way ;) If you ask me what I’m most thankful for…I am thankful to have my husband, Scott. He is my best friend and my soul mate. He is mine, all mine! And he makes me happy everyday, rain or shine or snow or blizzard. I definitely know that the world is so much brighter with him around. This is a photo of him that I took under this yellow tree ♥

Well, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving! I am linking this post to the Mortal Muses “We are Thankful” blog hop. You will find more bloggers over there sharing their family Thanksgiving photos & traditions, how they spent their day, or a favorite family recipe, or just autumn photos. Link up your photos or blogs and you will get the chance to win a Holga camera!!! And if you visit the personal blogs of each nine muses, which you can click on the side bar, most of them are having giveaways on their own site!!! They just want to give back and be thankful for all the support :) Isn’t that very cool!?! Now it’s your turn, go ahead, visit, link up, and leave hearty comments ♥

I did sleep well and woke up with a smile painted on my face today. Another day. Beautiful one. And what could be more beautiful than a husband kissing me good morning and a nice note from a friend, Tammy of Bliss and Folly, greeting me Good Morning!!! I’m so thankful to be blessed with kind friends even in the blogosphere. Thank you for inspiring me. For leaving nice little comments that put a smile in my little heart. This week’s theme at Mortal Muses is in line with the coming Thanksgiving holiday ~ Thankful. I am thankful to be featured today at Mortal Muses. And for them to believe in photographers like me and for the continuous flow of inspiration and beauty from their lenses. Kim’s poetry and photo is so perfect and lovely and it’s so sweet that mine gets to be featured with hers. Click the button below to see her post ♥

Go on over at Mortal Muses, they have lots of beautiful photos and creative posts for inspiration ♥

I am thankful to Kim Klassen’s The Inspiration-Studio for featuring my Focus photo as her i-Studio Daily Pic. I am thankful that when I saw it again, it reminded me to stay focused or keep focus. So for today, I will stay focused on finishing my client’s baby photos tonight. And I’m focusing on that much needed glass of red wine to start my weekend ♥

The Inspiration-Studio is loaded with lots of inspiration on photography, creativity, and life in general. Lots of talented artists in the studio share their vintage finds, love for art, wonderful music, heart-warming posts, and so much more. It is such a wonderful blog! So do drop by and get a dose of it today!

Have a great weekend ;) Thank you too for dropping by!