November! We began the month with a little date night at Chisai Sushi Club. It’s a tiny, casual spot with a delicious omakase. Office of Accountability at Kayla’s. SFMOMA Followed by dinner at Ippudo. Run club, training for our 10k. Photographing for Cassie at her Chase Center wedding. West Coast Craft. Dinner at Dough Zone…
After a week in Las Vegas, we continued on our grand road trip to Los Angeles for “Second Thanksgiving” with the Yaus. Here is Alex at the Yauhaus. And our first meal, Taiwanese breakfast from Huge Tree. Important activity, watching Michigan beat Ohio State for the first time in a decade! I was born at…
After three nights of camping in Death Valley, we decided to continue on to Las Vegas, which is only an additional ~2 hours east. We were aiming for a nice shower and a week of relaxation and feasting, and it was Thanksgiving, after all! Alex booked us a very nice stay at the new NoMad…
We are very lucky here in California to have nine National Parks within the state. And I am very lucky to have now visited all of them. The last one on the list was Death Valley. In November we packed up the Jeep and hit the road for three nights of camping in the park….
Anna and Tim’s love story has taken them all over, from the Midwest where they met to Anna’s home state of Texas, and now to Tim’s home state of California. On a beautiful afternoon, we headed up to Mt. Tam for their engagement session. A lovely way to embrace their new home and this next…
Jeri and Dan were originally planning for a big wedding in 2020, but of course, things shifted a little bit. They decided to move the big party to 2021 and were still able to have a wedding on the original date– just smaller. But as life continued on, and with them buying a new house,…
October recap! Orange October – playoff baseball for the Giants; a day trip to Guerneville for work; meeting Baby Westy; and the Warriors at Chase Center. Plus more! First, a teeny home project: I added a hook for my hanging plant so that it doesn’t just have to hang from the door any more. The…
Alex and I are lucky enough to have not only our primary residence in San Francisco but also a second home in Cupertino, which is really his parents’ property from when he went to school here. We have really enjoyed not only just the privilege of having two homes, but also the joy of both…
What a delight to capture this beautiful proposal for Jasmine and David. They met through a Taiwanese summer camp that I also attended for a very long time, so I was delighted to be a part of this surprise. The premise: a roommates’ trip for the group of five from Chicago to visit the San…
It’s time for the September recap! We began the month with our accountability meeting, this time at Cassie’s house. With Do-Hee joining online. Dinner with Alex at Nari in Japantown. We visited pre-pandemic but wanted to come support it again. They now have a prix fixe menu, which we opted for. So delicious! Maybe a…
One of the great delights of living in the Bay Area is getting to take little day trips up to wine country, with so many beautiful spots to visit only an hour or two north of San Francisco. These days, after having joined Reeve winery as members and also having more photo sessions again, we’ve…
This meal was two years in the making! Alex and I first made a reservation for SingleThread in fall 2019, but that was cancelled due to fires in Calistoga that weekend. We decided to wait for a future date to book the meal. Then, of course, the pandemic hit. SingleThread was actually quite agile in…