Christmas in July

We bought our first digital camera about 5 years ago while living in Texas. It is a Cannon PowerShot G2, which we love and still love. It takes fantastic pictures! However, it is soooooo slow with its shutter speed and the battery keeps running down. We have replaced the battery, but we keep missing the shots we really wanted to take!

During our weekend at the Lake, we got to play with Kelly's camera, which is the Nikon D40 and we fell in love with it! We could take so many more pictures with her camera than with ours! Jeff could take like three or four when I could take one with ours! So...we decided to become serious shoppers for a new camera. We scoured Best Buy one evening to just play with the cameras and Jeff talked to a Lawyer/Photographer and many other people at work and all around about cameras. We decided on the Cannon Digital Rebel XSi. We loved our other Cannon camera and decided this would be our best bet!

So, the real reason I am writing this blog today is because UPS is delivering the camera today. I received a phone call yesterday to inform me that I will need to be available from 8am to 7pm today because they will need a signature for the parcel. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal, but we are leaving for the Lake tomorrow and would really like to take the camera with us. Therefore, I am here all day at home until it arrives with two kids who were crying at the same time a little bit ago until I put the littlest one to bed (she was really cranky) and the older one downstairs to play with Thomas the Train and watch Tigger and Pooh! There is calm again in the house of Arnold, but I still have to wait around all day! With my luck today, the camera will arrive at 6:50 tonight! Oh the joy! Oh the fun!