I got a new camera!!

After a major customer service issue with my old camera in repair, I ended up getting a new camera! I am so excited about my new Canon Rebel T3-I orignally wanted a Rebel but Troy bought the Nikon as a surprise and I didn't want to dissapoint him by exchanging it for something else. So I've been playing with it for the last 2 days. Above is one of our cherry tomato plants. We're getting ripe ones in bits and pieces and they are so tasty!

My pretty purple flowers from the 99cent store! I can't believe how hardy this plant is! I don't always water is daily and it pops right back to shape when i get back to it.. love it! Used my automatic macro setting and this SOOC! Love the color and the blur!

My Sophie riding bikes with the neighbor kids. She had a flat and was walking it back to Dad.

So my friend turned me onto this blog about family photojournalism. The thought of the bloggers is that we need to capture our families as they are, day in and day out. Don't worry about the mess on the floor or the table or the clothes(or lack of ) the kids are wearing. Get photos of the stuff the kids will remember-the couch that was so ugly, the placement of photos and bricabrac around the house. So here is my 1st take on this topic. Maddie and Sophie watching tv on the Xbox360..netflix on demand has changed the way my kids watch tv!

Camera is set on auto..Wyatt in the garage playing with a buddy. While not technically perfect, I don't mind the blur of his toy--toys are meant to move!

Murphy-our poor, brainless, loved mutt. He has issues. but we love him.

Maddie in her true dorky-ness. She's not mine. She's all Troy. LOL.

Needless to say, I'm in love with my camera. It's so user friendly and it has a cheater mode! Well, actually it's called Creative Mode and it allows you to set the blurry-ness of the background so you don't have to mess with the aperture settings..Brillant I tell ya! It allows for color change-soft, vibrant, etc..so cool.

We are down 32 days of our summer and have 46 to go. No major plans.With going to Disney last year, and planning to go again this Christmas, we are going easy on the summer plans. Sophie had a week of basketball camp and all 3 start swim lessons on the 5th. We have been thinking of camping but Troy can't commit to a week off yet..

I'm also planning some home improvments. Sophie is getting a room makeover as part of her birthday gift from us..She wants a soccer room but her room is pink and we aren't repainting. We've decided on pink and black polka dots with soccer accents(framed art, photos of her playing etc). We will be painting her trim and chair rails this week. I hope to pick up a new lamp/shade, a mirror-we actually don't have a single full length mirror in this house! and some pillows for her bed. oh and curtains!

Re-organizing is also on the list. I have one of those worthless cabinets that go back and deep in the kitchen. I really have nothing down there at this time except my handtowels and dishclothes right at the opening. I plan to move my serving dishes that I don't use often into the space. I don't use my gravy boat but a few times year!

And scrapbooking- I go once a month to a CTMH club where i basically glue down pieces of a pre-designed layout but I haven't done much of my own work lately. I want to finish Wyatt's books since I stop the individual books once they hit kindergarten. I'd like to be at the point that I'll only have family books to add pages to. I worked on 3 layouts today, completly finishing one. I got the bug I guess to get things moving.