Creative Vision Blog

7 mo Preggers – and feeling quite big

Seanny Ma — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:52:44 +0000

I’m a bit behind on my belly bump pics, since I’m already 8 mo preggo now. But here is my 7 mo belly pics. I decided to sport the shirt my friend Coleen got me a while ago. She gave it to me for my birthday in April, and back then I didn’t feel quite big enough to wear it. Now it’s my favorite shirt! It’s made by 2Chix. and I get quite the smiles and compliments when I wear it. No real cravings still, although I was on a fruit kick this week. Nectarines were my favorite last week, and now it’s black plum week. And Jamba Juice sounds good to have everyday….but maybe it’s cuz it’s so hot. Funny how summer decides to kick into high gear when I’m super pregnant. Didn’t want to be hot when I only had a little belly bump.

Baby is growing everyday and getting so strong. The kicks are getting quite intense and he seems to like sticking his little toes between my ribs….that’s not cool. Especially when I’m sitting. So working in front of the computer and especially long drives are not as fun anymore.

We’re slowly getting the nursery ready. Not quite there yet, it’s just been a whirlwind of busy these days. This weekend will be my baby shower, I’m super excited to see what Kimmy, my BFF, has in store for me. Don’t worry, I’ll share pics of that after. So until then, have a happy Friday!

Julius turns 1!

Seanny Ma — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:49:19 +0000

On August 8th we celebrated one of my best friend son’s first birthday! I just can’t believe how time flies, I remember when we just had Chelsea’s baby shower last year, and now here we are a year later. It was a great party, complete with great food, a clown and a Winnie the Pooh bounce house. The bounce house looked like fun, too bad, me and tummy couldn’t go inside to check it out I spent the day trying to get Julius to warm up to the camera. He was pretty shy, until the end when I was exhausted and he decides to run all over the place and be a social butterfly, that was when I got to get some of the best pictures! Check them out!

Isn’t the cake so cute, it’s from the same place my wedding cake was from, It’s A Piece of Cake.

Road Trip Baby Moon & 6 mo prego

Seanny Ma — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:25:41 +0000

In July, Charlie and I decided to take a week off and go on one last road trip up North before the baby arrives. This time we decided to go to Yosemite, since I’ve never been there before. I always wanted to see the gigantic Sequoia trees and the waterfalls. So that was our first stop. It was beautiful there, and we’ll definitely take a trip back there when the baby is bigger, and by then I’ll actually be able to hike again. Amazing how much huffing and puffing it is when you’re tummy is so huge and you’re carrying it around up trails.

The next day we left Yosemite and drove over to Cupertino where the Apple Mothership was. I know, it’s a little nerdy, but I definitely wanted to check out the apple campus. We basically just went there and checked out the building and I was wishing I could work there…it was nice At the store I bought a “Hello, I’m a Mac” shirt and I bought a little one for the baby too. The first shirt I bought him….good choice I thought….sorry Charlie, baby will be a mac baby

Afterwards we drove up to San Francisco, and had our clam chowder and fried shrimp at the wharf. It’s amazing how it was the middle of summer and it was still freezing in San Francisco. The next day we spent the morning walking around Union Square and buying cupcakes at Cako Bakery.

We saved the cupcakes for later when we went to Monterey. We got there in time for lunch on the pier, and afterwards we had a cupcake buffet with ice cream….it was delish. It was beautiful in Monterey and Carmel. The next day we took a nice little drive through Pebble Beach and ended the drive in Carmel for lunch.

Next stop after Carmel was San Luis Obispo. This time we actually didn’t stay at the Apple Farm, which is usually our Norm. We ended up staying at the Avila Village Inn. It was about 10 minutes from San Luis Obispo. It’s very peaceful and relaxing there and a nice place to stay for our last night on our roadtrip. That thursday night we went to go check out the San Luis Obispo Farmers Market. It was lots of fun. I love Farmer’s markets, and of course we just ate more that night. The BBQ pulled pork sandwich we had was yummers!

Sadly our trip came to an end. The next day we made our way down back to San Diego. It was really a great trip. We always have fun on the road and visiting all our favorites places up North and eating it up all the way! The next trip we take will be so different, we’ll have another little traveler with us and it’ll be fun to experience a trip with the little guy.

That’s the trunk of a Sequoia tree…..it’s huge!

Pebble Beach, the Cypress Tree.

Isn’t it cool how this rock looks like a heart!

Featured in Orange County Bride Magazine

Seanny Ma — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:17 +0000

This is so exciting, because it is the first time that my pictures were featured in a magazine. I think by now you should know Lisa and Nick, because they have been on my blog for the last few months. Well, their wedding was picked to be in the Orange County Bride Magazine. As I said before their wedding was beautiful, here were their pictures on my blog post and here was the slideshow And now check out the magazine spread.

Lisa and Nick – Trash the Dress Session

Seanny Ma — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:54:56 +0000

A few weeks ago I met up with Lisa and Nick again, for their trash the dress session. It was so much fun!! I’ve never done a trash the dress session before, and I was super excited for my first one. Most brides don’t want to ruin their dress, but Lisa was not messing around when she said she wanted to trash the dress. We started off at the fire station where Nick works, and we got to use the fire truck as our prop…..funness! Then at the park, Lisa decides she wants to climb a tree. So in her skin tight dress and heels, she shimmied up the tree…..quick too…..that was super impressive. Finally we ended our shoot at Newport Beach, where Lisa practically swam in the ocean….I was loving it! All I can say is thank goodness for my 70-200 mm lens, cuz I wasn’t gonna go in that water I think the pictures turned out great, and if I was able to fit into my wedding dress again, I would totally do a trash the dress session too. Check out the slideshow, CLICK HERE!!

Bouquets were by: Lavender Flowers
Hair was done by: Darling Bride

Extended Family Photoshoot – San Diego, CA

Seanny Ma — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:27:38 +0000

On Sunday, June 20th I joined the Jones and the Kopald family for a Family day party photoshoot. They were celebrating lots of things that day…so they just called it Family Day. There was of course Fathers Day, a graduation and 2 birthdays….that’s a lot of celebrating. The family was wonderful and I had a great time with all of them, and they even fed me cake in the end, which is a huge big bonus for me and baby Check out some of the fun and silly pictures we ended up getting that day….and click here to view the slideshow.

Kyan turns 2!!

Seanny Ma — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:25:24 +0000

Last Sunday, June 13th, we celebrated Kyan’s 2nd birthday with a Wonder Pets themed birthday party. I can’t believe he’s already 2, it seemed like just yesterday that he was turning 1, and the day before when he was just a week old! Kyan is turning out to be such a cutie and now he talks so much. It’s a mixture of Chinese, English and gibberish, so it’s pretty hard to understand him all the time. His favorite show is the Wonder Pets, so Alen bought all the wonder pet stuff she could find online. We didn’t even sing happy birthday to him, we sung the wonder pet song….how funny is that. Although I think that’s the only song he knows right now Check out some of the pics from the day!

This is Kyan when you tell him to smile….it’s almost like he’s making a eww face than smiling tho.

So Kyan has a strange obsession with shoes, mainly high heels, the higher the better. I think he likes the sound it makes when he walks. What really funny is that he actually walks better in them than without them.

The pinata looks as big as Kyan!

Doris and James’s Engagment Slideshow

Seanny Ma — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:59:52 +0000

Here’s Doris and James’s Engagement Slideshow, CLICK HERE, to view!!

Doris and James – Engaged!! – La Jolla Cove

Seanny Ma — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:42:51 +0000

On Sunday, I met up with my friends Doris and James and their dog Teji for a little photoshoot at La Jolla Cove. I met Doris 11 years ago. We met when I was living with my friend at the time and he wasn’t home to hang out. Since we were both bored, we ended up talking on the phone then later hanging out ourselves instead and ever since that day we remained friends. Sometimes we won’t see each other for over a year, but whenever we do meet up, we pick up like we’ve always been hanging out, joking and laughing way too much.

I’m so happy for Doris and James that they’ll finally be getting married this summer. Congratulations you two, see you at the wedding!

I like this series of pics….it looks like Teji is thinking…”great they’re at it again.”

4 & 5 months Preggers and It’s a BOY!!

Seanny Ma — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:51:05 +0000

So I’m a little behind on my tummy pictures. I’m creeping up onto 6 months, and I didn’t even post 4 and 5 months.We are super excited to be having a boy!! Some of the names in the running are Aidan or Aiden (don’t know how I like it spelled yet), Brady, Caden (I know that rhymes with Aidan), Michael Buble Jr., Edward, Jacob and Charlie threw in LaDainian Tomlinson, Optimus Prime and Maximus. Okay so those last few names were a stretch, but you never know right. I’m also still trying to decide on what to do with the baby’s room. All I know is that I think I want it to look more modern than traditional babyish type stuff. But time is flying right by, and the baby will be lucky if the crib gets put together on time….eek. So far the pregnancy has been super good to me. No real morning sickness and everything has been pretty normal. I already feel super big, but I know I’ll only get bigger….sigh. No funny cravings, tho I do love turkey sandwiches on a certain wheat bread with mayonnaise and cucumbers, and potato salad on the side. Of course a piece of chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream always sounds good to me too, but I haven’t caved in on that yet. So here are pics of me and my tummy…stay tuned for more tummy pics soon!

4 months

5 months