My newest baby!!

I have been saving and saving and saving. I have wanted a Digital SLR for sometime now. I have a reg digital camera and film slr but I wanted a Digital SLR to really get back into photography. I had saved up almost $800 for a camera. I was getting ready to go shopping in the stores for my camera. I knew I'd really only get a camera body and probably a 18mm-35mm lense. I have recently discovered Craigslist.com and came across the most AWESOME find.

A guy had a 10 megapixel cannon rebel with the reg lense, an extra 75mm-300mm lense, THREE batteries, TWO memory disks (adding up to 6g of memory), TWO professional grade bags, a charger, card reader, a very nice flash and all the orginal packaging. All for a price just out of my savings range.

I e-mailed him anyway to find out if he'd come down and he DID! I got almost 2k worth of equipment for much much less than that!! I would have NEVER gotten all of this just going to Best Buy!! I am soooo pumped. So if you need any family pics taken, LET ME KNOW- I'm back in the game!

As any proud mama here is a pic!

I KNOW I AM QUARKY

My friend Sarah tagged me in this e-mail awhile back and I forgot about it until today but over the past few days several of my quarks have come out in life so this is perfect timing!! I challenge anyone to find better quarks than me!

Here are the rules, link back to the person who tagged you. List the rules on your blog. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of your own and tag 6 "unsuspecting" bloggers to complete. Pretty simple, eh? Until you get to the 6 unspectacular quirks of your own.

Here are mine...

1. I eyeball my food before I eat it. Take Funoions for instance, I like the bags with the windows because I eat all the broken ones first, then the whole ones. Popcorn is another great example; I like to look for the butteriest ones or biggest ones first.

2. I organize my closet in color coordination. Not just like colors together but in RAINBOW order. ROYGBIV and I often recite the saying to myself to know where a shirt goes.

3. I eat everything in evens. Today my husband gave me M&Ms and he handed me 3, I asked him to get me one more and he gave me 4. I seriously got rid of one. When I eat my pringles, I check to make sure I have an even amount of chips. When I am finishing up my cereal, I spoon up the cereal in even pieces.

4. I get ready in the SAME order every morning. Pee. Shower; Shampoo, rinse, Conditioner, wash my face, shave, body soap, rinse body, rinse face, rinse hair. Towel off. Put contacts in-LEFT eye first then right eye. Blow dry hair. Pick clothes out. Get dressed. Put facial lotion on. Brush teeth (now I also brush Caleb's teeth at this time). Put on makeup. Put on earrings. Ready to go.

5. I wash dishes in the same order. Cups. Silverware. Plates. Bowls. Pots & Pans.

6. When I am ordering food at a restaurant or usually order the same thing every time at each restaurant. Any Mexican place; two tacos, beans no rice. Diner type places; Turkey Club with fries. If I am making a choice and there is a choice between two items; which ever one is cheaper is what I order.

I am Sick huh?

I don't know if I have 6 blogging friends that check my site but I'll pick these and see how it goes Jillynn, Jeremy (I dont think he'll do it), Crystal, Kathryn, Mary and Amber.

Still Learning

I have recently become aware that I cant let Caleb fall asleep for his nap time in the car. Even if he is dead to the world when I get him out of the car by the time I get him up to his room he is usually waking up a bit and by the time I have him in his crib and I am out the door he is awake and just doesnt go back to sleep. NO MATTER how long I leave him hopping he'll get tired and go back to sleep he NEVER DOES. Today I got quite a site when I finally went back in to get him up after a long attempt to get him back to sleep this is what I had found.




Now normally I dont put in to bed in just a diaper but today we had been at the park playing and eating lunch and his clothes were quite dirty and in an effort to not get his bed completely dirty I took is clothes off when I changed his diaper and hoping he'd go to sleep never gave a thought to what his mind might imagine while he lie there away. But did I learn what a 17 month old is capable of.

Getting bigger and bigger

Its been awhile since I've uploaded a movie here. Caleb is now 17 months and was taking a bath tonight and was so darn cute I couldnt help but snag the camera!! Notice how smart he is :)

Almost 17 months and counting....

Caleb had a rough week to say the least. We found a pediatrician and luckily she said his ears were beautiful and wants to wait it out and see how this winter goes before putting tubes in his gorgeous ears. That's fine with me. However he is cutting many many teeth, which is making him a bear. On top of that he decided to hit the terrible twos several months ago and is still in the brunt of it. However, Jeremy says today when he was playing with a DVD case he said "Veggie" And to many of my families delight yes he was playing with a Veggie Tales case. There you go. Other than the sleepless nights he gave us this last week, he continues to be a joy to watch as he dances to ANY music he hears, loves to laugh hard and enjoys exploring new places. Which is GREAT b/c we are in a new nursery every week as we search for a church home. Everyone tells me what a pleasure he was to watch when I pick him up so its good to know he's only bad for me ;)

Here are some recent pics for you to enjoy!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY Past due

So many great things have happened in our time here in Wichita and many of them are post worthy but I always forget by the time I am sitting here. I hope I can remember it all.

First, we went to 99 cent burger night (a cherished college tradition) three weeks ago and got dinner for Jeremy AND myself for 7bucks. I was so totally pumped. UNTIL.... the next week when we got dinner for $3.21!!! WOW I love this place!! Nothing can really top this.

Caleb is adding many words to his vocab. He can clearly say "GO", Jeremy swears he said "Howie" tonight during Deal or No Deal. I also began teaching him a bit of sign language before he was even one. He caught on to "All done" right away but never seemed to pick up on "more" "hungry/eat" and "thristy" But he has been motioning "more" a lot and did it at MOPS the other day for the care giver. And tonight he did "hungry/eat"

I know this is not everything great but Caleb is crying so I gotta go!