In the age of abundant DSLRs, one sometimes forgets why anyone would spend lots of money for family portraits. But then when you begin to realize just how hard it is to wrangle a 2 year old into smiling…

Last year, Miss L wasn’t walking at 14 months, so there was no Easter egg hunt for us. But this year was a whole different story. She learned to love peeps and bunnies and how to hunt for eggs wherever…

      I tend to think of family lineage within the past few generations… who came over to America from where and basically how in the heck both sides of the family ended up in Northern California. But my…