We bought a membership to the Monterey Bay Aquarium last year thinking we would make the time to go out and visit a few times. We have literally been once in the last year. ONCE. I’m going to try to make it at least one other time before the membership expires so I don’t feel […]

These images were taken when the salt flats were drained. They are currently under water at the Alviso Marina. From my understanding, they are not drained very often and we were lucky to have caught them when we did!

School started on August 30, so the week before we headed to San Diego and Orange County for a last minute vacation to end the summer. We usually drive down, but tickets were super cheap and we used points for the rental car and most of our hotel so it ended up being a fairly […]

In June, my mom came to visit (she and my dad still live on the island of Guam) and we decided to take a little road trip up to Mendocino. I hadn’t been and the week she came was so dang hot (it hit 100 degrees and we don’t have AC!) that we were glad […]

We’ve been living in Fremont for about two and a half years now, and had been living in the same apartment since moving to the Bay Area. We had been looking for a rental house but couldn’t really find anything in our price range that we actually wanted to move to (because moving is a […]

Capitola is a bit of a drive for me but I was happy to make my way out there on a Saturday morning with my husband and kiddo in tow. The weather was lovely and they headed to the beach while I spent my morning doing what I love, photographing an adorable baby in her […]

I’ve been meaning to blog these since September when we took this trip, but work and life got in the way, but better late than never, right? We drove out to Tahoma Labor Day weekend. We left around noon on Friday thinking we’d get a leg up on traffic and proceeded to sit in it […]

Any time a friend asks if I want to head out to Santa Cruz for the day I can’t help but say yes. There’s just something about that town that has my heart. I love the laid back vibe that I think goes missing in the Bay Area sometimes. On a recent trip we stopped […]