Ho Ho Ho! It’s four days before Christmas!! How’s your preparation for Christmas guys? We all hope everything runs smoothly and enjoy the spirit and miracle of Christmas =)

Here’s a small post before Christmas, meet a small dog-lover family – the Koestedjo Family. They are Akoy, Vera, and Owen. This is actually my 2nd post of this family. I posted Owen’s photos when he was just 7 months old here. This time is to celebrate Owen’s 3rd birthday. Akoy ordered and re-decorated the cake with all Owen’s favorite toys – Airplanes & Cars!

“So Owen, how do you normally replicate an airplane?”

Ipad has become a blessing for some families, especially with apps that can help educate children. Akoy bought an iPad2 and downloaded a lot of games for Owen to play and he’s very very excited about it.

Meet Lance! He’s actually our puppy. And he has become our model this time!

Akoy used to have a female golden retriever, but when Vera was expecting Owen, he gave her away. Sad! Turns out Owen loves dogs as well. Guess it flows in their blood =)

It was hilarious when Owen kept pointing his finger towards Lance’s bird. Hahaha…

Love the chemistry here between Owen and Lance. Aww…!

During our trip to Europe last September, we stopped over in Brussels – Belgium. There, we had a wonderful opportunity to take a family photo shoot of a Belgian family. They are our first European clients as well.

Father, Damien, is French. Mother, Simone, is German. They are both very sweet and affectionate. And their 3 years old son Julien is super cute! Damien converses in French to Julien, while Simone in Deutsch. We were told that one week before our visit, Julien just started to differentiate between the two languages. Now, he converses in French to his father and in Deutsch to his mother. How cool is that?!

A lot of people have asked me “How did they get to know the wagyu story?”. That’s actually a very good question, in fact I myself asked Simone the same question. The story rolls back to the date we setup this company. Simone was one of the first to be our fans on our facebook fanpage. How she found our fanpage is a very interesting story on its own. She happened to be friends with one of en-en’s friends on Pet Society, who happened to be our fan too. From there, she browsed our photos and fell in love with our works. Some of you may have already known that our main focus was family, instead of wedding like now. Simone then asked us if one day we happen to visit Brussels to let her know. When we published our Europe trip itinerary, the first person to contact us…was Simone =)

Here I present you some of our fave photos…

Meet Julien! We love his eyes and hair so much and he is one super tall boy, he is 3 but looks like a 5 years old boy to us. Seriously, can you believe he’s just a 3 year old boy?

They have a small garden at the back yard. And they plant quite a lot of yummy stuff like strawberries, tomatoes, and spring onion. Damien likes to teach Julien a lot about agriculture stuff, so at his age now he can differentiate which one is edible and which is toxic.

Love to see how they express their feelings to each other, very passionately. You will see more of these kind of photos below…

Julien walks tip-toeing at home, but not when he is outside. And that’s his favorite stove toy, he likes to cook a lot of food there. =)

“The Angel’s Light” – I only realized there is a ray of light shining upon Julien when I viewed this photo on my imac screen. I really wonder where the light came from…

The pine cones below are Julien’s personal collection. He picked them up himself from random places.

On the way from their house to a nearby park, which is super beautiful. How I wish we had that kind of park here in Bandung.

“Hey Mom! Dad! Look, I’m wielding Harry Potter’s wand!”

Julien is a boy with million expressions…

Didn’t I say the park was beautiful?

And there he sneezed!

And he got kissed and squeezed!!

“A Mother’s Love” – how I wish I had a photo like this with my mom… <3

When we’re back to their house, they treated us with Belgian waffles and chocolates. Yummy!!

Ha! I wonder what he was thinking here.. XD

We have the honor to document the Ngkoo family one morning in Sentosa. I personally have known Joyce, the mother, for quite some time as she is my cousin’s best friend. Getting to know her children gets a little tricky, you see… not only she has 1 or 2 child… but she has 5 children! She is blessed with a boy, a girl, a boy, a girl again and a boy again. Amazing right? And their names all starts with K.

Here we are at the Sentosa while they are having some holiday off from school to stay over at the Crockfords Tower, an invitation only hotel that is designed by Michael Graves. Having majored in interior design, I got a chance to learn about Michael Graves when I was in uni and have been in love with his work since. And of course, entering the lobby, I have to act cool… but deep down.. I was looking at hotel in awe and dancing away =p

Anyway, these are some of my favorites… hope you enjoy them =)

Kelsey, the 2nd daughter and the 4th child, sleeping away….

Kendrick, also known as Em, short for Emperor, lovesss to roll his eyes until most of the black are gone, so I asked him where he learned it from. He proudly said… “Myself” =)

It all started when we both left our jobs to pursue the dream we dreamt of.
A year ago today, we started that dream.
A year ago today, the wagyu story was officially established!

A year ago today, we started with a team of 2.

Today, we’re a team of talented, dedicated, creative, and always hungry party of 5.

Today, we are celebrating our 1st year together and we would like to thank God for His unbelievable and never ending blessings for us.

From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to THANK all our families, friends and clients for the amazing support and trust.

And this below, is for YOU all =)

Hi guys! Meet the Martiandys! For those of you who go to GII EGI for sunday service, you’ll sure know who they are. Yussin and Evelynn are both activists at EGI, and Evelynn is our beloved friend, Atep’s eldest sister.

On one fine Sunday, the Martiandys paid us a visit to have their family photos taken on our new purple wall

Let’s meet them one by one in person…

We love how Yussin and Evelynn show their chemistry here… =)

These are their beautiful daughters… on the left is Audrey, the eldest and on the right is Dhea.

When we gave Audrey the moment to pose in front of our camera, she knows what to do…

But..when we asked Dhea to pose, she refused and gave us a long face. Audrey said Dhea doesn’t like to be photographed.

HA! This was when ‘the candy bribery trick’ came in handy and useful. Once we passed Dhea our polka dot candy case (see below), she found her most favorite candy in it – the milk candy!! Shortly after, she threw her widest and sweetest smile… XD

I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to pull out this simple concept and finally have it now…like how this turns out =)

I believe this is their most exciting moment during the photoshoot – throw candy! Can you see Dhea is still chewing her fave milk candy?? Haha…

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Hi everyone =) I hope your week has been going on great. It has been a busy yet blessed week for us. One of the highlights that we had was a family photo with my cousin’s family, Philip. I’m so blessed that even my own family support us in our photo business. We really appreciate it guys!

Kathyrssa and Karl are their precious children and they are only 364 days apart =) They both love flowers so much that they start plucking the flowers in the garden. I got scared that someone might actually caught them and fine them. Well… you guys know how fine Singapore is, right? ;p We hope you guys enjoy this series =)

Both Kathyrssa and Karl love kissing. They kiss each other, they kiss their parents, they kiss me too =D

The kids got hungry after 10 min we arrived at the park. Luckily, I bring my “I-can’t-live-without” macadamia chocolate chip famous amos cookies =D I love how they enjoyed each every bite of the chocolate melted cookies =)

Karl loves loves looveesssss flowers, his face lights up when he’s surrounded by them =)

I love how she’s so full of life =)

I’ve always love how father interacts with the daughter… remind me of my own dad… I <3 my dad

I’m glad I caught them silently… hehe

Kathyrssa has lots and lots of expressions… this expression is the one she can compete with Karl (look at the photo after this)

His mom said that this is one of Karl’s favorite expression. hehe. He’s so funny even when he looks angry.

We were talking about how awkward my cousin’s smile is, and earlier, he was telling Karl that his smile is awkward too. And we’re like “dude… look at yourself!” hahaha… and he started laughing out loud.

Here is the awkward smile we were talking about… hahaha

The gorgeous mom

I love how their parents are calling them over, so welcoming and filled with love. Look at how excited Kathyrssa is. The reason why Karl was walking slowly is because he’s holding his precious flowers in his hands and he makes sure than none fell off =)

Please feel free to comment/critiques/say anything you want.

Have a blessed week ahead everyone!

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had a wonderful celebration. We celebrated ours with our family in Fukuoka – Japan, counting down ourselves while watching fireworks all around the world on CNN. No, it doesn’t sound as pathetic as it seemed, we had an awesome time together =D

We came back last week and had a chance to do family shoot for Sam & Susanna’s family. Susanna is my cousin and she has been wanting to get her family portraits done for a while now. We finally got a chance to do it =) It was definitely quite a challenge for us as her kids are super active. And they are not quite fond of people with “big guns”. Moreover, it was their first time meeting Tata and he carried a huge turtle back pack full with big guns. But we love the results and we had so much fun shooting them. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have.

Introducing Abigail, she’s 5, the big sister. She’s definitely a sweetheart. She loves her sister and brother so much; we could definitely see it in her actions. To others she acts cool, but when it comes to her sister and brother, she becomes goofy. haha

We love this photo of Abi. Look at her, she definitely has some model potential =)

Jacqueline is the one that won’t stop moving. She knows exactly what she wants and what she doesn’t want. She loves her TV and of course, her DS. I love her sweet smile, it just melts my heart. Oh..she just turned 3 on 01.01.10. Happy Birthday Jacq! See the doll and her pink shoes..those were her birthday presents from her grandma…so sweet!! =)

Little Warren is 18 months old. He’s the precious little boy and anyone who meet him, just adores him. He and his bolster goes together like peanut butter and jelly. The way to make him sleep is to give him his bolster. =)

We snucked in when Warren was asleep, took his bolster away from him and shot a few photos of him sleeping. hehe…

Aww…aren’t they sweet?

The proud mom =)

One big happy feet family.. hehe..

Have a blessed Sunday =)

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