My Dreams Have Come TRUE!!

I got a present in the mail yesterday.  It's my Christmas present (and probably Valentine's Day, Anniversary, and Birthday for the next three or four years!).  I got a new camera-- a Nikon D40x.  And I gotta say... I'M IN LOVE!!!

I feel like I've been held back for a while with the camera I have.  Don't get me wrong.  It's a great little camera.  But there was a bit more that I wanted to do with the pictures I was taking.  I had been researching online and reading a book Chad got me a while ago about how to do what I wanted to do.  But no matter how I tried, I couldn't get the pictures I wanted.

So came the idea for a new camera.  I've been thinking about this for a while, but tried to forget about it or just put it out of my mind.  I knew we wouldn't be able to afford the camera I wanted.  

But wait a minute!  I'm married to the biggest deal guy there is!  Chad buys everything on ebay and ends up saving a ton of money.  We got this Mac on ebay and it's been a dream.  So, of course, Chad found the deal of the century.  This camera came with a second fabulous lens, a big camera case, and two dvds to help explain the camera (good thing...my old camera's manual was SO confusing!).

Anyway, enough text here.  On to some pictures:

This one is a bit blurry, but I still like Cameron's expression

 

Cameron's Halloween costume last night--thanks grandma! (We went to a party at one of Chad's co-worker's house and then stopped by some neighbors' places.)  This was taken with my old camera.

During Cameron's nap today, I went to the mall.  After that, I stopped in a neighborhood near ours and took some shots.

He looks so bloated...like those little toddlers in Africa (although,  he's quite a bit lighter than them!).  Well, it was after dinner!

Turning in a circle/dancing

Can you see the goose-egg on Cameron's head?  Notice how it isn't in the first few pictures of this post (that I took this morning).  Yes, Cameron had a fall down the stairs today.  This is his second time falling down the stairs, although the first time, they were concrete.  He didn't make it all the way down (somehow I managed to grab him before then--I was at the bottom of the stairs and told him not to come down, but he wanted to cause both Chad and I had gone down).  I could see it in slow motion.  I felt horrible, but luckily, Cameron's really good at calming down pretty quickly.  I just held and rocked him a little and he was fine.  What a trooper!  And yes, I win Mother of the Year award...again!

I get this face a lot lately!