Sunday Post

I would like to begin posting more regularly. More for me than anyone else.

I recently bought a new camera. I went with the Canon 30d with a 50mm f/1.8 lens. I also bought a Nikon Sb-26 flash because I really like to play with light in my pictures. I've wanted this camera for about two years now. So it feels good to finally have it. Sometimes I feel like buying it was trying to live beyond our means, but I take about a hundred pictures a day, so I am getting quite a bit of use out of it. That helps to make me not feel as bad about the purchase. It is something that has always brought me a lot of joy.

These pictures are from a recent trip to the park. I work six days a week and I get home around 6 p.m. every day, so we don't get a lot of time to play during the day. In order to play at the park this day, we had to eat in the van. Natasha made pigs in a blanket and put some koolaid in a Nalgene bottle and I ate on the way there. There was just enought light to play until mommy and daddy were tired. I don't think Elliot does get tired. Or at least he doesn't show it until he is actually asleep.


In the picture of me you can see the affects of an outdoors-all-day job. I look like a missionary again. My skin is dark except where my shirt collar and sleeves end, and I have gotten really skinny from sweating all day and not eating right. I have lost 13 pounds since I started. I am excited to get to California and get fat again.

We will be in Oklahoma until Thanksgiving and then we are going to see my brother's son (who will be born by then) in Provo and then going to California for a month long vacation in December. Then we come back to Oklahoma to start school in January.