My Mother's Day/Birthday/Push Present/Christmas Gift...

I have been wanting a digital SLR camera for a while now. I have a number of friends that have bought one recently, and the vast difference in quality over my decent point and shoot has been driving me crazy. I love to take my own pictures of the girls. I have actually never had professional studio pictures taken because they drive me crazy. Thus far, I have really gotten some great shots, but I know they can be so much more with a better camera.

So, Daniel was checking his email the other day and, from what I can only assume, had not bought me a Mother's Day gift, yet. He had an ad in there from Costco for Nikon cameras. This happens to be the exact camera we had decided we wanted to buy after a lot of research. It was between the Nikon D40 and the Canon EOS Digital Rebel Xti. They both had their pros and cons, and we decided on the Nikon after noticing what most professional photographers use.


Anyway, Costco was offering an excellent deal on the Nikon with an extra lens. All of my friends with the camera already kept swearing that finding a deal that included an extra lens was definitely the best way to go, so you don't have that on another wish list in the future when you realize you want more zoom.

Well, my camera arrived today, and I couldn't be more excited! I have already been playing with it trying to figure out the manual modes. So, you can expect to see a number of new pictures coming your way in the near future.