Saturday, December 25, 2010

Playing with my new Lens

Playing with my new Lens
These are the first pictures I've taken with the new lens Brian got me for Christmas. I LOVE IT!! It's a Tamron 70-200 f/2.8. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with it. Wish I had the time to take some photography classes, because there's so much I don't know about my camera, my lenses and photography in general. Hopefully I can get better with a lot of practice too.





For the record, I'm not very fond of this picture. I look terrible. But I like how the lens was able to keep me in focus and really blur out the background. (pretty darn cool) I love pictures like these. Too bad my really nice camera/lens can't make me look better!!! :)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!
We had a wonderful Christmas this year with both my parents and Brian's parents. Everyone decided to meet at our house at 5:30 am, so that they could see the kids wake up and see what Santa brought them. We had to plan it early, because I had to be to work at 11:00 am. (It was my turn to work Christmas this year.) Daxon was so excited to see what Santa left for him! He got a Nintendo DS with 3 games, a Nerf battle axe, shield, and sword, and a Bop It from Santa. Destri got a baby doll, stroller, crib, and a princess chair from Santa. They of course got spoiled by us, along with their grandparents. Brian got me a really nice lens for my Nikon (which I am totally excited about!!) I got him some nice warm snow camo for his coyote hunting! My mom and dad got me a forerunner watch and some other fun stuff. Brian got a really nice ice tent from his parents. We are so excited to go ice fishing!! :) It was a fantastic morning we were able to spend together. I am lucky to have such a wonderful family! It was a very Merry Christmas!!
Leaving food for the reindeer!

Santa was here!

New chair!
Battle axe!
DS
Letter from Santa
"Dad of the year award" Dax picked it out and was super excited to give it to him!
A pearl he picked out for mom
She finally got her "baby"!




I love ALF!!

Helping Grandpa Boyd
A fur real puppy!




Love it!
NFR shirt Dax picked out for his dad and paid for with his own money!





Can't wait to test this out!



Feeding her baby monkey!









What a mess!!




Cowboy hat from Grandma Sherry and Grandpa Boyd

New boots!


Nerf war with Grandpa!