I'm No Katie DeBoer or Tina Vink. . . But . . .

For the last year and a half I've been dreaming of a new camera . . . I've been having terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thoughts about our point and shoot camera - its the POS model (if you know what I mean).

Anyway, thanks to Uncle Sam and our incentive check, I am now the new owner of a Canon Rebel xTi. It's the most beautiful, wonderful thing to take a picture without having to wait for the flash to "warm up". It's an even beautifuler thing (yes I realize this is bad grammar) to NOT HAVE to use the flash because I can adjust the apeture and ISO . . . wow! Another wonderful thing is the zoom . . . it came with two lenses - one of which will allow me to zoom in from very far away. But, best of all, the memory card can hold 1200 10mpx pictures . . . instead of my 22 5mpx pictures that my point and shoot allowed! I can snap until my little heart is content . . . and delete what I don't want.

Mike is calling this my Mother's Day, Birthday, Christmas for the next two years gift . . . but it's worth it!

I may never be a Katie DeBoer or Tina Vink . . . but I'm well on my way to better pictures of my kids!

I Like to Ride My Bicycle . . . I Like to Ride My Bike!

I Like to Ride My Bicycle . . . I Like to Ride My Bike! 2

For some reason, I'm unable to put any text with my slide show . . . so here's my addendum!

Tuesday was a BIG DAY in Faith's life - she FINALLY learned how to ride a two-wheel bike! Bella, too, is very proud that she has graduated to a "big girl bike" with training wheels! She's getting the peddling thing down . . . now we have to focus on the steering part!

I was very glad to have my new sweet camera to capture this Kodak Moment! I was snapping away, taking picture after picture of Faith and Mike, and didn't even realize that Bella was in the pictures riding toward them. Notice in the slide show that as Bella gets closer to Mike and Faith, she veers off to the right and crashes into a tree! Ha Ha! It was awesome to have it captured on film.

To say the least, Faith was very excited to be able to ride a bike sans training wheels! We still have to work a bit on the take off and landing, but the balancing part is down-pat! Great job Faith!