Today is Valentine's Day and we celebrated it by getting Nate's first haircut!

Looks like he likes it! Happy Valentine's Day!

It doesn't get more candid than this.

Even though Nate woke up at midnight to welcome the New Year along with the Dayacaps at his Lola Vicky's house, he still got up at 7 a.m. come New Year's morning. The warm sun and chilly air greeted us, and when I saw Nate's uber cute jammies, I knew a photo shoot was in order. I let him loose at Lola Vicky's garden and clicked away. It was an awesome practice photo sesh.

When the rugrat got hungry, he and his Tatay had their fill of watermelons.

Hay, THIS is how you greet the New Year. Happy 2015!

It was when I became a mother that I developed an interest in capturing children's smiles and moments through baby/child/family lifestyle portraiture. It was also when Mike and I became parents that we realized how blessed we are for having a healthy growing family. As a way of thanking God and paying it forward, every year, we decide on a children's welfare cause to support.

This year, I hit two birds with one stone by being part of "Nourish the Children," a feeding program organized by a friend's group, the Health Awareness Initiative. Like last year, Mike and I contributed towards purchasing bags of VitaMeal, a formulation specially made for malnourished kids. One bag of VitaMeal is enough to feed a child one nutritious meal a day for 30 days.

I also got to capture the grateful smiles of children by documenting the child feeding initiative as part of my donation. Here are some of my favorite photos taken during the event.

Truly a treat to have been part of this event.

Merry Christmas, everybody! Happy birthday, Jesus!

Hard to beat our Christmas photo card last year, but I'm pretty proud of this year's photo card since we pulled it off in under 20 minutes. Good thing the little kiddo was sound asleep.

I was worried about Hagupit/Ruby ruining our shoot. But the weather turned out great, and I had a blast photographing Gian and Chesa's two month old cutie, Hugo, at their home.

Here are some of my favorites from my morning with Hugo, Gian and Chesa.

Thank you so much, Gian, Chesa and Hugo, for letting me into your home and allowing me to capture your growing family!