Category: 52 Week Project

Photographs of my daughters, once a week, every week, this 2014. Week 14.

Just another one of those afternoons where the girls are out to play with their Daddy.

..while I capture as many photographs as I can, laughing with them, smiling from the other side of the camera, and trying to keep my heart from bursting.

Hayyy. These girls. See those funny-slash-poker faces Dawn makes? (She does that a lot!) And how Rain smiles at her Daddy? (She adores him! And vice versa.)

Oh. my. heart.

I have no further words.

Xoxo,
This lovestruck Mommy

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Photographs of my daughters, once a week, every week, this 2014. Week 13.

Rain: Loved walking back and forth the aisle before the ceremony started.
Dawn: Loved twirling in her pretty flower girl dress. Ahh, so adorable!
Dawn & Rain: Ended up not wanting to walk down the aisle on their own, we had to walk down with them. Parents have to experience escorting their babies down the aisle at some point, right?

It was their first time to be flower girls, and in typical stage mother fashion, I.. was more excited than they were. In fact, I think I was more excited about the twins being flower girls than the bride and groom themselves.

That said, you can never take enough photographs of your daughters’ first flower girl gig. Bunch of first timers here. ;) Here’s more from my Instagram:

I don’t think I ever stopped swooning the whole night, glancing at my husband through lit candles, watching the girls twirl and marvel at the world around them, and feeling the love that filled the place.

Times like this you realize that there’s so much to be grateful for, not just on special days like this one, but even in ordinary days when you’re given the opportunity to breathe, to live, to love. Hope you spent the Holy Week thanking the Lord for every good and perfect gift too, as we did. :)

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Photographs of our daughters, once a week, every week, in 2014. Week 11.

11/52: The four of us, back in the place where this whole journey began.

One Saturday afternoon in March, my husband and I took the twins with us to a wedding at Fernbrook Gardens in Alabang. The wedding was beautiful, and my husband was reunited with some of his friends from New York who were here for the wedding too. What can I say, it’s always good to reunite with old friends and to revisit old places.

Meanwhile, the girls totally loved running around the place! There was so much space for them to explore, new things to see. And in typical mommy-and-daddy-of-twins fashion, we followed them around (often in opposite directions), pulled them here, carried them there, wiped their dirty hands and knees while the ceremony was happening. Anything, as long as you’re happy, darlings.

A nice cool breeze accompanied the golden hour; making it the perfect time to take photographs and to just.. bask in the love and the memories of that place. I longed to tell Dawn & Rain stories of that day, except of course they wouldn’t understand or remember a thing. At least not yet.

It was the same venue of our wedding, almost 3 years ago, and for the first time since then, we’re back.

We’ve come full circle. Wow.

How do you handle days like this? It’s one of those days you wish you could just step back and watch your life from afar, rewind and replay over and over again. I was just getting married here! How did it all go so fast?

Fernbrook Gardens to me will always be a place where dreams happen. Once we were just standing there, committing our lives to each other before God and our loved ones. And suddenly we’re back with these two little girls who happen to be the greatest validation of the decision we made 3 years ago. What a milestone! I’m glad I took lots of photographs. This one’s definitely for keeps.

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Photographs of my daughters, once a week, every week, in 2014. Weeks 9 & 10.

9/10: Drinking their favorite strawberry yogurt after playing outdoors.

10/52: Since Valentines Day, buying balloons has become kindof a regular thing.

This week should be Week 14, and I’ve been contemplating if I should just go ahead and skip through these weeks and just backtrack them later. But this is exactly how I dwindled in my Project 52 last year, and I refuse to let that happen now.

So here’s weeks 9 and 10, with photographs from our extra-ordinary, ordinary afternoons at home. I know they’re not the most perfect of photographs—our house is a chaos, the girls are sweaty, even my husband is caught in an unflattering position (sorry about that, Lol), but that’s our life right there in all its beautiful mess. And I love everything about it. <3

I’m not sure where it started, but we’ve somehow developed this nice little afternoon routine where we take the twins out for a walk or some outdoor playtime after they had their nap. I think it’s their most favorite time of the day, and it’s starting to become mine too, especially now that summer has kicked in, the husband doesn’t have classes, and I get to work most days at home. I never seem to run out of work to do, but I treasure afternoons when I can take a quick break from whatever I’m doing and just enjoy some QT with my little family.

March has been such a busy month, and April is starting to become full too. But I’m excited for the little non-working holidays that this month brings, like tomorrow! yay! And next week (Holy Week)! Double yay! Simple joys, what can I say?

How have your days been? I hope they’re nothing short of awesome.

Photographs of my daughters, once a week, every week, in 2014. Week 8.

Dawn & Rain: Can you guess which Disney princesses they are? Clue: One is the fairest of them all, and one has a long, magical hair.

Photo credits: Lola Amy for their pretty dresses all the way from New York; sugar rush from Kuya Isaac’s candy buffet earlier that day; and their Daddy who never runs out of ways to make them laugh.

You’re growing too fast, little ones. Slow down!

More about Project 52 here. View all posts in this blog series here. Linking up with Jodi.