A Birthday Gift!

I was spoiled... again!  Last year I got to go to Disneyland, not just once but twice for my birthday and one of the days was on my actual birthday.  If you want to make this girl totally and completely happy just send me to Disneyland.  The hubs doesn't even need to ask me what I want for my birthday every year because the answer will always be Disneyland!  But since that's not always possible he got me the next best thing (?!)  I got one special early birthday gift this year!  Drum roll please, yep I'm sure you already guessed, a new camera!!  And not just any camera but a entry level DSLR!!  Woot Woot!

I've been oohing and awing over them for a couple years now and when our other camera broke it seamed like the perfect timing to take the plunge and upgrade.  I've always looked into Nikon, probably because I was more familiar with the name and I knew others who had Nikons.  And I was ready to purchase one until shortly before I began running into a few people who were Canon users.  And I started to hear that they were more user friendly and one big selling point was the fact that all their lenses are interchangeable.  Well and the fact that Scotty had a Canon, and let me tell you I need all the help I can get, or at least someone to call and ask questions to try and figure out what the heck I'm suppose to do with the thing!

To be honest, even though I love photography, I don't know a thing about cameras other than point and shoot, haha!  All I knew was that those cameras took pretty pictures and I wanted pretty pictures.

So we decided on the Canon T3i and it came with an EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens, the only thing I can say is that I got a cramp in my hand after holding it for only a couple minutes (sad, I know!) and that's after I got over my fear and touched it and picked it up.  Oh boy do I need help, I have a lot to learn.

So, all that to say I am way beyond excited, totally and completely nervous and a bit, well a lot overwhelmed but here we go on another adventure.  I'm warning you now, the following pictures and posts will be everything from blown out (check out my photog lingo!!) to way to dark, blurry or blue and anything in between but hey a girl's got to start somewhere and I'm starting from step one. 

I hear singing in the background!

I finally picked it up after staring at it for a while

wow!  it's big!

this totally made turning 26 way better!  

Oh and sorry about my appearance, this picture is after a crazy day around here and I had no makeup and pretty much did nothing for my appearance that day, ugh!  Oh well, a little bit of honesty can't hurt too bad, I hope!