Last Sunday the Bean family and I went to the U. S. Botanic Garden in DC for their Christmas photos. I’ve been friends with the Beans for many years and have always been blessed by their friendship. This session was special because I had the chance to play with Alex and spend a little more time with Andrew the latest addition to their family.

What an absolutely loving family. I had such a great  and relaxing time with them. While editing their photos seeing the smiles of Alex (their 3 1/2 yr old) would just make me smile – he is the cutest thing and very photogenic which always helps

Here are some of my favorites from their session. Enjoy!

Cameron was such a little star in front of the camera. What a photogenic little guy. I had the opportunity to do a photo session with Karen, Kwa and Cameron at the Brookside Gardens in Maryland. It was getting cold but Cameron was such a great sport. Here are some photos from that session.

Karen and Khoa thank you so much for letting me share this time with your family. I hope you like your photos!

I got to spend the afternoon at a winery with The Leffins a couple of weeks ago. DJ works at the winery so they thought it was only perfect that we did their family portraits at that beautiful location. I was thrilled to be able to do that. Their little girl Alaithia just turned one. She is absolutely adorable and has recently learned to walk on her own – it was a lot of fun sharing a brief moment of this precious time in her life and help document it. Here are some of my favorites from that session.

DJ+Leighera – thank you for letting me photograph your family. I had a great time!

A few weeks ago I was scheduled for a photo session with a family at the Brookside Gardens in Silver Spring, Maryland. However one of the family members ended getting sick right before the session so we had to cancel. Well since I was already at the location with my camera I thought why not take this wonderful opportunity to capture some of the beautiful Fall foliage as well as Chrysanthemum exhibit they had on display. It was such a nice afternoon and the beautiful flowers and foliage that surounded me just made me ever so thankful that I am able to enjoy God’s beauty.

Here are some of my favorite photos from that day. I hope you like them too.

As I was preparing these images I thought they would make really beautiful wall art. So if you are interested in any of these as a printed piece please let me know and i can let you know the options that I have. Some options that I can do with these photographs are: canvas wrap, matted photograph or framed photograph. Let’s get these photographs on your wall!

If you’ve been following my blog you would know i’ve been on the South Beach diet.
I got really tired of the crustless quiches for breakfast so i decided to try something different.

I know i love egg salad so i put this together, it turned out really delicious.

Curried Egg Salad and Baby Arugula Leaves

Ingredients:

• a few dashes of curry powder
• 4 eggs (1 yolk and 4 whites for lower cholesterol option)
• handful of baby arugula leaves
• 1/2 TB honey djion mustard
• 1 TB vegenaise
• white pepper

Method:

• boil eggs, when cooked, shell the eggs and remove yolks from 3 of the eggs
• mesh eggs with all ingredients except arugula leaves while egg is still warm
• mix everything with the leaves and you’re done.