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!

On His Own

Now that we're in our new house we figured it was about time to move our kiddos off the floor and up into beds.  We've moved our kids from a crib into twin beds around the age of 18 months, but we've also kept the beds on the floor and that worked out great while we were in the old house.  But we figured it was about time that we got regular beds for them so thinking ahead we went and purchased bunk beds, the kind that can be used as two separate beds or as bunks.  For now we'll use them as separate beds but if we need bunks for the future we're already set!

The kids were so excited about their new beds and wanted to be apart of the action.  Zeke was no exception and wanted to help his dad build them as well.  So as Nathan began putting the beds together he let Zeke help him out and with each step he'd let Zeke try to do a bit more by himself so by the end Zeke was doing it all on his own!  (he's growing up way too fast!)

For now we have them in the same room, the girls' room, since Papa and Grandma were coming for Christmas and eventually we'll put them in their own rooms.

Zeke going to town building his and his sisters beds!

he learned quickly and did it all on his own by the end!

great job buddy bud!!

their beds!

Back Into the Swing of Things

It's always so hard for me to just sit down and start blogging again after taking a break, and this time that break from blogging was a bit of a long one.  Sorry about that!  I hope you all had a blessed and wonderful Christmas and New Years, we sure did!

So here it is on a sunny Wednesday afternoon and I'm finally sitting down to a pile of laundry that needs to be folded since I took a break from that for a week (I'm not sure if that was the best idea), I have a fussy baby who was spoiled by Papa and Grandma and now thinks she deserves to be held all the time and I'm trying to manage 2 computers and 2 cameras (!!!)  and figure them all out so I can blog about everything that's been going on. 

We celebrated my birthday and I'm sad to say that I've reached the age (at least for me) that it's just not that exciting anymore and I would rather the day not come because I'm just getting older, boo!  ;)  Then my parents flew in on Christmas night to stay with us for a week and we had such a wonderful time with them.  And the projects around the house have slowly but surely been moving forwards, and we rang in the New Year with some organization... literally. 

So stay tuned as I get you caught up on what's been going on around here!