Maternity Photoshoot: Mercedes+Stephen

I met Mercedes at Millennia MMA a little over a year ago. She is my kickboxing instructor & I am proud to say that she has helped me get my body back into shape. Mercedes is the most bad-ass, super fit, pregnant woman I know. She can still kick my butt any day... lemme rephrase... she DOES kick my butt everyday during kickboxing class, making sure I finish my 400 sit-ups & a dozen sets of the following exercices: 25 push-ups, 10 up/downs, 12 8-count push-ups, etc. etc. Did I mention she makes us sprint & run for for-e-v-e-r! She is THE BEST instructor & wouldn't change her for the world. Thank you Mercedes for busting my booty back into shape everyday =D

We had so much fun doing their maternity shoot at the cove in Corona Del Mar, CA. It was the perfect autumn morning at the beach. Mercedes & Stephen were so easy to photograph. Their love for their first child was oozing from the both of them. 

I felt so bad for making Mercedes climb up & down the cliff side, but she ensured me that it was a piece of cake. We started the shoot at the top of the cove then worked our way down to the water. We got some great shots of the both of them +baby bump! They are expecting a little baby girl come the new year. Congratulations again to Mercedes & Stephen!!!

The baby was actually kicking in this photo above.

My sister-in-law came along to assist me with the shoot & we were cracking a few jokes. We asked them to spoon, but only spooning... because we all know spooning can lead to forking!!

I'm glad they got our corny jokes... LOL.

Gorgeous mommy-to-be!

My FAVE!

Food Feast

On this holiday I'm thankful for my family & friends. The hubby & I are off to spend half the day with his family then later on in the evening with mine.

Since Thanksgiving always revolves around food in our families, I wanted to share some of our foodie adventures from our weekend in Chicago.

Have a safe & joyous Thanksgiving weekend peeps!!

XOXO, Tawny

I'm turning Chinese (not Japanese)

I love that 80s song..... but in this case, I've turned Chinese.

Sorry folks for the pause in posts, but I have been away on business these past few weeks. I never thought I would get an opportunity to tour the world on business. Although its work, I manage to have fun in the midst of all the stress that comes along with the job. I thought I would share a little bit of my travels to China & Hong Kong.

A quick plane ride... 16 and a half hours later, I found myself half way across the world in a place where mah-jor business happens. When you see on items that you purchase from the retail store "Made in China," you may feel that everything nowadays is "Made in China." I can honestly say...... the Chinese people do indeed make everything!!! Such an amazing experience to do business with wonderful & intelligent people.  

Not only was going away for business a fantastic career opportunity, I was able to explore the vast culinary cuisine China had to offer. Just call me the Asian girl version of Andrew Zimmern. This was actually my second visit to the country, so I was prepared to feast on the exotic eats.

Below was our menu of choice........ and YES, I did eat each & everyone of them. Not too bad at all.

Hong Kong nights.

We ended the work day early & hit up the department stores in Time Square.

I really think about half of the 1.3 billion population was in the Sogo department store while we tried to shop around. Talk about a crazy mob of people. It was like there were mad black Friday sales going on & everyone was trying to buy the deals.

I also noticed cars in other countries. This was a funny Toyota van driving next to us. So goofy looking, but extremely useful to taxi people around in.