When we were living in Carmel, a special spot of ours was along the Carmel Meadows beach. There’s a really cool rock there that Max liked to climb and build on with driftwood, so we christened it “Max Rock” (we are very creative). (Side note, after meeting another family there who turned out to be neighbors a few streets over, we learned that most people call it “Eagle Rock” and suddenly we saw that it did indeed very much resemble an Eagle. We now refer to it as Max Eagle Rock.)

Anyway, it’s a special spot of ours, so when we were planning our family photos in 2020, we knew that’s where we wanted to be. Our lovely photographer surprised us with a beautiful video of our photo session. It’s super sentimental, but I love it. I recently went looking for it and could not find it on either of our computers or any of the drives and I was pretty crushed. It’s been two years, and storage is expensive, but our photographer was able to retrieve it and now it is saved in a safe place on my computer.