New Camera

My camera came in the mail yesterday. I was so excited. It's a Canon PowerShot S3IS. In the past 3 years I have had my fair share of digital cameras. Trying to find one that I just love and does exactly what I want it to do. Which is:
Take good looking pictures
Not instantly blur when my subject moves (seeing that my subjects are normally a 2 year old and 8 month old, this is very important)
Quick processing. It must be able to take a picture and turn around and focus again for another picture rather quickly. I always tend to miss perfect moments when its processing.
Durable (I have a 2 year old, enough said)
Good Zoom- sometimes I'm really far away and want to take a picture unnoticed.

Not too much to ask right? Yeah that's what I thought. First I had a Casio. At the time it was ok for what I needed. I didn't have kids and it was more of a "fun" camera. It crapped out rather quickly though. About a year ago we lost it when we were in vegas. It wasn't too much of a disappointment seeing as we were already looking for a new one. Then I bought a Sony Cybershot. Hated it! The picture were dark and grainy. They would look ok on the LCD screen, but once loaded on the computer, they were awful. So that was quickly returned to Costco. Next I had a Kodak Z something or other. It was great! The turnaround time on the pictures wasn't the best, but everything else was good that I let that slide. Well after 10 months of having it, something went wrong. The pictures were all over exposed and had lines through them. Heidi had the same exact problem with her camera ( same model ). So as sad as it was, I returned it. I bought another Kodak and HATED it. I returned it within a week. So for a while I was cameraless. I finally found one and decided to give it a try. The reviews were great. And I LOVE IT! The processing time is great, best I've had. I think this camera is going to last me a while. Which is such a relief since I am so sick of dealing with camera issues! Anyway, I'm done with my ranting. Here are some pictures from my new camera...
This is Aubs enjoying her pizza crust at Costco.


Hailey being a cheese ball- nothing new.

Aubrie just being cute.

Hard Days + Long Nights =

That's right, Aubs finally got a tooth through. She's actually been relatively good. But on top of it she has an ear infection, so she was given antibiotics and now she has a yeast infection. Poor girl wakes up 3 times a night just screaming. All she wants is to be held. Which is different for us because normally she just wants to be laid down and left alone.
Today Aubrie is 8 months. She has been such a good baby. She had a rough start but now she's just happy to be herself! She loves her big sister more then anything! She can just watch Hailey forever and laugh. She is not quite crawling yet. She scoots, but gets so frustrated when she can't get where she wants. She started pulling herself onto her knees a few weeks ago and just likes to look around. I've been pretty slow with giving her solids, mostly out of sheer laziness, but today I gave her toast and she LOVED it. Then at dinner I gave her some noodles and she loved those too. I guess I should start feeding her more, lol. Well thats my update on my toothy girl!

Happy Halloween!!

I now have a computer, wooofreakinghoo! So now I can update my blog (no promises to how often that will be). Next step is to get a new camera. I'm trying to decide between two, and once I decide I will start taking more pictures. So please excuse the utter crappiness of the quality of these following pictures. They were taken with my Mother in Laws camera, and lets just say it is definitely not top of the line.

So Halloween was a blast. Hailey couldn't be more excited. She LOVED running up to the doors and yelling, "Twick Tweet". And she was overly adamant that whenever she was given candy, Aubrie needed some too. So after grabbing 5 pieces out of the bowl for herself, yes, GRABBING, not kindly waiting for the other person to hand it to her (now what 2 year old would do that?) she would look at the person and say, "Aubrie canny?". I think she was secretly scheming to get more candy for herself, because lets face it, Aubrie isn't going to eat Reeces Peanut Butter Cups and Butterfingers, as much as she would LOVE to.

Anyway, here are some pictures of my kiddos!!
I like this first one because I think it looks like both my bugs are gonna fly away, but Michael seems to think that Hailey looks like she's trying to fill her diaper.



Well I have a few more to post, but Blogger is being lame and keeps giving me errors. So I will come back and post those pictures.

New Digital Pages

I cant figure out how to get them side by side. But this is a page I did for aubrie today.

Ugh, The things my family does to make me update!

I've been tagged...(way to go fressia)
4 jobs I've had
1. Preschool teacher
2. Secretary to an Attorney
3. My Gym teacher
4. Gap

4 movies I can watch over and over
1. Green Mile
2. American History X (ONLY THE EDITED VERSION)
3. Raising Helen
4.

4 places I have lived
1. Mesa, AZ
2. Indian Wells, CA
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Nampa, ID

4 Guilty Pleasures
1. ben and jerry's fish food ice cream
2. Digi Scrapping
3. Napping
4. Spending money (that I don't have)

4 places I have been on Vacation
1. Argentina
2. Italy
3. Rochester New York
4. Schnecksville, PA

4 favorite foods
1. Sonic Grilled Cheese wacky pack with tots
2. chocodiles!!
3. Italian Chicken
4. nice big juicy steak from outback

4 websites I visit
1. Gmail
2. babycenter
3. facebook
4. Msn Groups- The Real Hottie mamas (a group of my friends that I chat with)

4 places I'd rather be right now
1. in bed
2. on a boat in a lake
3. with my AZ family
4. camping

4 books I love
1. Twilight - stephanie meyers
2. notebook- nicholas sparks
3. Wicked- Gregory Maguire
4. All anita stansfields books

4 things I would like to know how to do
1. keep my house clean
2. speak another language
3. how to put the laundry away after I wash and fold it.
4. drive a boat

4 things I worry about
1. my family (near and far)
2. my weight (such a trivial thing)
3. being pregnant again :)
4. Michael at the prison

4 happy moments
1. seeing my girls smile
2. getting sealed
3. seeing amy get sealed
4. when my family come to visit, or I go see them

4 things I want to do in the future
1. go back to school
2. have a boy (Faaaaaar future)
3. go on a nice vacation (sans kiddos)
4. find something I am passionate about

4 people I am tagging
1. Hayden Mazzarelli (alright everyone, laugh with me now- pigs will fly when hayden fills this out)
2. Nancy Eagan
3. Carolyn Detro
4. Amanda Hornibrook