Snap Happy!

Clickity Click! I'm loving having my camera again, although after a month without any practice with manual settings, I'm feeling a little rusty & will have to get all trained up again. I'm getting a new lens next week that I'm excited to try out. It will give greater depth of field & should be quite a bit sharper than the kit lens AND let me shoot in low light without using a flash. Yay!

Today we took the kids swimming and you could tell they'd missed a few weeks. (we didn't go the last few Sat because they had colds) It took awhile for them to get comfortable in the water and Sweetie was panicky & clutchy almost right til the end. Lovey was still her foolishly brave self but wasn't even trying to paddle or kick and would just sink under the surface and then worry about what to do. We had to keep a close eye on her all the time or she'd be hanging just under the surface looking up at you with her eyes wide with panic. Well duh! let's see, you've jumped in 453 times without any effort to swim, did you REALLY think it was going to be different THIS time???? ; ))) Honey however, did pick things back up and was pushing off the wall and swimming underwater several feet to reach us. I'm sure the other 2 will be right there too if we're able to get them back in the pool regularly. Cold season is already upon us so I'm not sure how often we'll get there but we'll try. They're making such good progress and if they spend much more time trying to learn to swim in the tub, we're going to flood the basement.

Murray has decided to cook supper on Saturdays now so that's a treat! He did it last week when I had the sale going on & found he really enjoyed it & said he kindof missed cooking. I wasn't about to argue with him. It's nice to sit back & let him work in the kitchen once in awhile, although he did put peanut butter in the pork tenderloin tonight, trying to give it a little more zest... ; )))

After supper we went for a little walk to get some fresh air (and *cough*cough* photo ops) since we'd been indoors most of the day. The girls love running and chasing each other! When we got back to the house, they wanted to climb the trees and roll down the little hill. They're not always girly girls you know!