the gift that will keep on giving

My husband and I decided that our gift to each other would be a gift that will keep on giving. We decided that we were going to join the thousands of wannabe photographers and get a digital SLR camera. 

We have been taking inside shots of the kids at Christmas...opening gifts, making gingerbread houses, and playing monopoly and jenga. All good events to photograph, but you do not really need the nice Nikon camera to do it. 

Well today, we took outside pictures of the kids practicing basketball and some at the park. It was fun holding down the shutter release button and taking 3.5 frames per second. Nice. We got some action shots of the kids doing lay ups. It reminds me of those books that you flipped lots of pages quickly and it looked like the images on the pages were moving! What were those called?

I would post some of those pictures of the big kids playing ball...but it would be a lot of pictures to get that same desired effect. Not so appropriate for a blog post. But I'll share some cute pictures of the little ones playing in the sand, on the swings, and going down the slide. Typical December day in Southern California...clear and sunny.

Happy New Year! Thank you for coming back to my blog and may your year be the best ever!