One of our best purchases to date has been a Customizible Photo Book from Shutterfly. Easy to make and professionally done, this is a relatively inexpensive way to create something special for you or as a great gift for the grandparents or other family members.

Costco is our "go-to" place for getting quick prints from our digital camera. While Shutterfly has some similar services at lower prices, Costco is perfect when you don't want to wait for prints to be shipped to you. All you need to do is to upload the photos on the Costco web site and pick them up from any Costco in about an hour. If you have families in other parts of the state/country, you can even send photos to other stores. Having convenient locations in South City (x2), Foster City, Redwood City, Mountain View and others is another plus.

In our opinion, Flickr is the best photo posting and sharing site out there. It's very easy to get set up, tag and sort the thousands of photos that you are sure to take during the first few years.

What do you do once you've taken, printed, stored and shared your photos? Print them on a t-shirt or mug! Cafe Press has hundreds of special gifts for all kinds of occasions. You can choose from set designs or make your own t-shirts, bibs, hats and mugs.

Picture People is your typical mall photographer, but they actually can be pretty good if you know what you want up front and tell them. We pulled our own props from their collection and gave the photographer ideas for shots when we went, which came out quite well when all was said and done. For the price, they can't be beat. Make sure to set up an appointment ahead of time, as it gets really busy on the weekends. Locations at Hillsdale, Stonestown and Serramonte.

Starr Photo is pretty expensive (over $500 for the session and photos), but when you add the convenience of "house call" photo sessions and really good creative shots it makes up for the high price. We had Sherial come to our house on a day when our son was in a terrible mood, and she was able to come up with some great photos that are some of our all time favorites.

This is by far our favorite camera, and it has served us well since we got it. It's really compact, has a good clear screen and shoots photos quick enough to capture those few times our son will sit still. Enough zoom (3x) and resolution (7.2 Megapixels) for most uses, this is the only digital camera that we have recommended to friends and family.

This is the perfect digital camera for folks that don't want a simple point and shoot, but don't want to spend over $1,000 on a professional camera. Great functions and features that you would expect from a Nikon camera, including over 10 megapixels, continuous shooting mode and a superior auto focus system.

Our parents got us this camera before our son was born, and it has exceeded all expectations. It's small and pretty light and takes great video in all settings. The camera uses a mini DVD disc, so once you are done you can either load them onto your computer (you will need a big hard drive) or watch them straight on a DVD player. Really cool.

A few of our friends have already switched to HD video cameras, and from what we've seen these cameras rock. The recordings are amazing, and you can still record in standard format if you don't have enough space on your hard drive. They are a bit bigger and (much) more expensive, but once we've gotten full use out of our DVD Handycam Camcorder we are totally getting one of these.