diy cake smash photo shoot

when you have a baby, the costs keep adding up. there are the necessary everyday items like diapers, but then there are also optional luxuries such as having professional photos done for your child. like many parents, we opted to do the newborn photo shoot because 1) we wanted high-quality images of penny, and 2)…

penny’s first christmas

'twas a very merry christmas! i was so excited to celebrate our first christmas as a family because it's such an important, and festive, holiday. christmas is also my mom's birthday. it's rough having your birthday fall on the biggest holiday of the year and sharing it with jesus so we try to make it special for…

“ohana” means “family”

it's been a busy month, clearly. i was surprised to see that i hadn't updated my blog in two weeks. the sleep regression finally ended about a week and a half ago. penny is back to sleeping about 12 hours a night with one feeding around 3am. thing is, she started a new leap recently (that…