It came today...

So, my camera finally came...at 2:30 it was delivered to Matt's work, I was there shortly after to pick it up! I didn't get to open it until about five though because I got to go do a little birthday shopping with Mary, we went downtown to Soul Mate to look for shoes (I found the cutest pair, or a few of them, but I will be going back for one of them) and then we went to Old Navy where i got a pair of shorts for myself and a cute surfer top for Elliot and the coolest shades ever... I hope to get pics of him in them soon, but he doesn't like to keep them on for very long at all! We also got clothes for the kids to go get thier pics taken in (I'll be taking them), Old Navy has the cutest Black and off white clothes right now, so Angela got a cute floral tank in black and white and some black gaucho's, Landon and D got striped gray and black polo's to wear with denim shorts and Elliot got a gray polo! It's something different than the normal white and khaki or denim, I love black on little kids, but it's so hard to find! Oh, yeah and this is the outfit Bailey got...

This is a better pic of the shorts, they are Seersucker Bermudas (pinstripe)

Here are the boys shirts too... I couldn't find Ange's shirt on-line so you'll have to wait for our pics to see that... if you even really care (I know minor details, no one really cares about but me)




So then we came home and I cracked open the box...and quickly started shooting lots and lots of pics (I REALLY need to read the instructions, but I knew enough of the basics to be able to take some right away). I got a great lens for far away shots... you can see examples below...
I was so frustrated though because it seemed to me that I had to manually focus the camera and it seemed to look clear through the lens but then when I downloaded it was so blurry... but after going to a friends house for a minute she showed me a quick fix... switch it to auto focus (duh!) I was thrilled the fix was so easy, I was beginning to have a little buyers remorse, but that passed quick! The only thing that irritates me about the camera is I was under the impression I was buying a silver body and I received a black body, but really that's just cosmetic so no big deal! I really want to take a class though so I can get the full use out of this camera, not just use it for point and shoot!

Here are some other pics I took of Elliot outside, crawling on the driveway...

I managed to take Bailey to gymnastics today after totally forgetting yesterday. Its just not a great time for Elliot he needs to be eating lunch and sleeping during that time, but what can I do?

It was FREEZING out today, I don't know that it made it over 60 degrees, I had on jeans and a long sleeve shirt, Elliot had on a sweatshirt, yuck, I'm hoping for summer again sometime before next year!

OK, enough rambling... here are a few layouts...




Once again... you can check layouts here.

Have a great Wednesday!