The Stories of our Lives

Kiddos are K.O.
Dips are done.
I’m having a chocolate chill.

Hope you all catch a break today!
Have fun tonight!

Warning, close family members: We’ll be giving out a few copies of these pictures at Christmas (sorry I’ve sort of ruined the surprise, but it was the ideal way to spruce up my best wishes for the blog’s readers).

Frank and I acquired our joint-Christmas gift a little early. It’s a new camera. (What am I saying?) It’s a whole new level of photography. I’ve been snapping shots all day and getting the feel of this new DSLR, and right now this here material girl is loving her new Nikie like a third child.

The kids were asleep when the batteries were finally done charging last night, so we contented ourselves with cat pictures for testing.

All this morning, however, I could let the kids play together (having two of those can be useful once in a while) while I played with my own toy.

Xavier got a bit upset that I didn’t let his toddler hands handle my new expensive piece of gadgetry (and that I had my priorities wrong, having fun with my camera while he rolled around on an non-vacuumed floor).

Although he eventually decided to go with the theme.

I adore my, erm… our Christmas gift this year. It helps me to better show you how much beauty I see when I look at my kids.

For curious fellow DSLR owners, our new baby is a Nikon D60. Just the kit lens (18-55mm) so far, until we get better with it and get out of the automatic setting.