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I’m a little late but I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!  Mine was great despite feeling a tiny bit like Scrooge this year.  I totally wasn’t in the holiday spirits at all.  I had all these ideas for custom cards and little gifts I wanted to make.  Sadly, it’s been a busy month for me and I ran out of time.  I didn’t even have time to go buy a box of holiday cards to send out to family and friends.  I felt really sucky everytime someone asked for my address to send us a card or when someone handed over a thoughtful gift no matter how small it was.  What finally got me in the holiday spirit was when I decided to host a last minute mini holiday potluck and white elephant gift exchange.  I was pretty sure we wouldn’t have a crazy snow storm ruining everyone’s holiday plans this year.  It turned out not being that “mini”, but everyone had fun even my poor friends who were allergic to my kitties.  One even said it was worth the sacrifice, wow.  Anyway, the week leading up to our holiday event this past Saturday I had this idea to have a photobooth.  I thought it would be added fun and it was!  The next time you throw a party and there’s an empty wall available you should consider creating a backdrop for a fun photobooth.  We live in a small condo with high ceilings and we managed.  Just tape up some fabrics and ta-dah!  It’s that simple.  Check us out, hehehe:

This is a long overdue post I’ve been meaning to share since last month.  My nephew, Eric, turned three years old last month.  His parents decided to go low-key and not throw him a party this year.  I felt bad for the little guy so Seung and I took him to the Woodland Park Zoo.  The new penguin exhibit recently re-opened and we were excited to see it.  However, I was somewhat disappointed in the exhibit or maybe it had to do more with how I couldn’t get a good shot of any of the penguins.  Oh well, I was able to snap a few shots of the other animals (below).  After our little field trip we let Eric pick out a few things from the gift shop and then picked up a cake before heading home where we finally sang happy birthday to him.  I thought he deserved it =).wp_elephantwp_flamingoswp_giraffewp_hippowp_monkeywp_ostrichwp_peekingcowwp_swanwp_snowleopardwp_zebra

Last Friday, I picked up the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 prime lens.  I had originally purchased the f/1.8 after getting recommended by my photographer friends as a “must have” starter prime lens and also after reading great reviews online.  I decided to return the f/1.8 though and eventually pick up on the f/1.4 later, but then I found a decent deal on Craigslist and knew I just had to get it.  I got to test it out over the wonderful Memorial Day weekend and I have to say that I’m loooving it so far!