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My Latest Toy

Yeah. Uh, the main reason I haven't posted for days is because of my new toy. Wednesday night my hubby comes home from work around 10:30 p.m. (he had to make up some hours). I stumble out of bed to open the door, cause apparently he forgot his key. I open the door with my eyes half shut, give him a quick peck, and tell him good night. He says, "I want to show you something. Can I show you now?"

Not wanting to be a self-absorbed wife, I acquiesce to his request. He gets a box, and takes out a small box. I read "Canon EOS" and I can't believe my eyes. I blink several times and it still says "Canon EOS." All of a sudden (and I'm soooo not kidding), the enormous fatigue I felt earlier completely leaves me. I am soooo excited I can feel the blood pumping through my veins. I have to touch this thing. So I ended up staying up until midnight playing around with it.
What is it, you ask? The digital SLR camera (Canon Digital Rebel Xti) I've wanted since last Christmas. And he bought me everything I needed and more. A tripod, Memory Card, Memory Card Reader to download the photos, camera case, two zoom lenses, a camera bag, and a lens-cleaning kit. He totally blew me away. How he thought of everything is beyond me. What a sweet man :) It's a rather professional camera that lets me take cool shots. And I'll take much cooler shots once I understand a few rather important elements of photo-taking ... like apertures and shutter speeds, etc. Dave Peeters to the rescue. He doesn't know it yet, but I plan to corner him in church next Sunday and wrangle a few answers out of him (just kidding! He's super patient and nice about answering my zillion questions every week.)

So, I'm going to show off just a few of the gazillion photos I've taken since last Wednesday.

I took these pictures today at swimming lessons. This camera has a super cool feature that allows you to take continuous shots (up to three frames per second without flash). So the sequence of shots of Carlos swimming was taken using that feature.


These photos were taken yesterday. Carlos put the lego toy together all by himself just by reading the directions. Boys are so amazing that way, aren't they? I wanted to record his first "solo" assembly so he can look back on it years from now. He actually probably won't care, but you never know :)

Comments

Debbie said…
What a husband!!! Very Cool Carmella!! I love the pics of Carlos swimming - you did great putting that page together! Can't wait to see more!!
tjep said…
Carmela!!!! How sweeeet of your hubby! Those pics are wonderful! You are going to have to show it to me!

Carlitos- A big high five!!! (thumbs up):)
DonnaG said…
Woahhhhhh that totally tops any gift ever! Wow for you and a super huge shout out to Carlos for the incredibly thoughtful and very cool surprise. And, Jacob said Carlos in the pool looks cool!

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