New Camera

I forgot to mention... my camera arrived this week. (Yay!)

I read the instructions (before you laugh or judge -if you don't read your instructions for things like this you should- I guarantee you'd be surprised by what some of your gadgets are capable of) and I think I made a good choice!

It can do this...

Pick out particular colors It has a great zoom and macro feature And takes HD videos

With, a great microphone (you can hear Justin watching Back to the Future and my mom talking about our broken stroller in the background -not to mention The Little Man's stuffy nose).

Not your typical Easter Egg

I hope my house isn't the only one that smells like eggs today.

I've been boiling eggs all week long. You see... I found this... and just had to try it. My pictures aren't as cool, but the eggs turned out pretty good!

You start with these...

Do this to them. Soak them in this (overnight) in the fridge. And you get these...

Dinner, (no) show, and a ring.

The other night Justin and I went out on a date. This isn't really a new or uncommon occurrence. Between going to dinner and/or a movie, or just the gym, we go out at least once a week. This night we actually got mildly dressed up, spent a little bit more than usual, and went to The Roof for dinner.

Dinner was great (we saw Elder Scott also dining that night) -nice food, nice view, nice atmosphere. The problem came when we got the check. We immediately gave the waitress our card with the bill... and waited. And waited. And then we waited some more. I'm not exaggerating when I say that she didn't bring it back for over 25 minutes. Which, would have been fine, if Justin hadn't bought tickets to a light show at the Clark Planetarium. A light show -not a movie, where you can come in late and sit on the front row.

I finally left to go and get the car and waited right by the door when Justin (5 or 10 minutes later) came out. It was too late though. So... the price of dinner essentially went up another $20. Not very cool.

I guess the evening was nearly saved because we stopped by the mall before going home. Particularly, we stopped here. Yes... after more than 6 months, I'm going to be wearing my wedding ring again. I'm pretty excited. On top of that, we found out that a ring Justin was given has some pretty nice diamonds in it (possibly a nice necklace or earrings in the future) AND they gave me a new watch battery for free.

We didn't have to pay for the ring to be re-sized OR the watch battery... so I guess that makes up for the missed show tickets.

Cakes and BBQ sauce

Not together, mind you. But I've smelled like frosting for days and then last night when I was driving home, all I could smell was barbecue sauce.

Last night was our Young Women's dinner (and fundraiser). We (there were 4 of us) made and somewhat served dinner for over 100 people, so it's not surprising I went home smelling like something. We tried to make it as easy as possible on us, and had pulled pork sandwiches, salad, beans and chips. We lucked out and got pre-cooked and pre-shredded pork from my mother-in-law (thanks again!) so it wasn't a lot of prep work.

At the end of the evening we auctioned off cakes and other baked goods that people donated. That's where the frosting came in.

I spent most of the weekend baking, frosting, decorating, and frosting some more. I won't even begin to tell you how many cakes I had over the last few days, but it was more than I had to sell (one somehow was in my sink and I turned the faucet on it).

Anyway, I make a few 'Easter Egg' cakes (I only got pictures of two) and an elaborate (by my standards) 'Easter Basket' cake.

Window shopping

I'm not much of a 'shopper'. Maybe if I was skinnier and had an obscene amount of money, I'd enjoy it more.

Since having the Little Man, I do almost NO shopping. I barely even browse the clothing section of Target while walking towards the formula aisle.

I used to have a (severe) problem with internet shopping.

Me and Amazon.com were BEST friends (along with the credit card company that got all of my interest for a couple of years). Since getting my finances in order (and getting married, but trying to get my finances in order did come first) I don't do much internet shopping anymore.

Except for Christmas. 75% of the last couple years of Christmas gifts have been delivered right to my door.

So... I've actually enjoyed researching and finding my next purchase. A new camera. My current digital camera was free (from Justin's work) and wasn't a bad little camera 3 years ago. It's NOT a good little camera anymore, and since the Little Man has come around, I feel like it's important to have a decent camera. (Okay, I just really want one).

I decided early on I would either get a Nikon or a Canon. Somewhere deep inside I secretly wish I knew more about photography and would like to become more skilled at taking pictures.

That does not mean I could justify getting an SLR camera (and the price tag that comes along with it) but I did think I could handle a nice point and shoot with an option to use manual settings.

First I thought I wanted a larger camera, but then I figured that if it was going to get used, it would need to be pretty compact.

There are at least 50 other features I wanted or did not want, and I won't bore you with the details. I finally settled on this.

It's a Canon sx200 IS.

Only problem is... I can't seem to buy it anywhere. The Canon website says it will be released March 2009, and last time I checked... we're about 5 days away from it NOT being March 2009. I found a couple of websites (claiming) to have the camera -and for super cheap. One google search later, and I found out these companies will take my money, and I'll never see a product (yes, not only do I research the items I want, I check out the companies too!).

So, I get on Amazon.com every day -and sometimes twice to see if it's for sale yet. I can pre-order it there, but I kind of want to know it's in stock first.

I guess I'm learning patience, but the thing is, I've been saving all of my Christmas and Birthday money to get a new camera. I've already learned patience. What I want is to learn how to use my new camera!

In case you were wondering...

So... for those of you who see the Little Man and see a mini-Justin (which is most of you)... here's a bit of proof that he has a mother too!

You'll have to excuse the scanned photo's. We unfortunetly started scrapbooking before scrapbooking was 'cool' -we cut almost EVERY photo like these. Including MY 5 generation picture!

If you chance to meet a frown...

I try so hard to not always post about baby that sometimes I feel like I NEVER post about the Little Man on this blog.

So... you've been warned, it's a baby post.

Today was such a nice day we wanted to take lunch up the canyon and go for a walk. While it wasn't very windy in the valley, the Little Man could hardly catch his breath because of the wind once we were there. So, we ate our sandwiches while he slept in his car seat and then just walked around the campground for all of 5 minutes.

The Little Man REALLY hates being shoved in his car seat (as I refer to it as) most of the time. I think he just doesn't like being constricted and left by himself if I'm the only one in the car. These photo's are (obviously) with me back there with him, but I must have not been keeping him entertained... watch the progression.

I guess I could have put the camera down and tried a little harder.

And this is a video I took last week. He's starting to like this bouncer almost as much as his baths! He just always has to be moving!

Oh... have I mentioned his tongue? It's ALWAYS out -we've started referring to him as our little St. Bernard!