He’s almost figured out crawling – so determined. I sure won’t be posting tomorrow…even as I write I can almost taste the turkey and dressing. I can eat my weight’s worth in Thanksgiving dinner. LOVE IT. I hope you all have a great time with family and friends….life is good. My cup overflows.
Awwww… Everett is getting so big! You probably should commit to eating the weights worth of Chris instead. You might not get a full plate with only your weight! He….he.. Happy Thanksgiving!
I love the tongue out determined look on Everett’s face to move! My family is very thankful to have the Campbell five in our life, we are blessed by your dear friendship! Happy Thanksgiving
Besides orders being placed the most common email I am getting right now is “I want to get a camera for Christmas. What do you suggest?” So here goes… I recommend a dslr over a point & shoot…even if you don’t know how to use a camera on anything but the automatic mode. The basics...
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I couldn’t wait until Christmas so I took the plunge and ordered the camera above from Beach Camera as Ashley suggested. At least my birthday is in November!! I even compared the prices and it was $40 cheaper than Best Buy – and no shipping or tax. I know I need to learn how to use in manual mode and am going to wait patiently for the lessons, but even in auto mode, the pictures are great. Thank you, Ashley, for taking the time to give us your idea and suggestions – we love them!!
Girl, you know I have my eye on one! Thanks for the suggestions!
Okay, that has been my one biggest question, how do you get your backgrounds so blurry. I have a rebel xt and I can’t find where you see the f/? information. any suggestions?
I can’t figure out the f/ thing on the XSi! Hey, I just got home from Target and noticed the camera above was $150 more at Target than beachcamera – plus you would have to pay tax. I would take the beachcamera.com route for sure.
The “f/thing” is called an “f-stop” 
You won’t see it on the camera because it is a lens component. Typically you can see it on the lens. For instance on the camera above it is 1:3.5-5.6. That means at the widest (smallest number – most blurry) it is 3.5. Since that is a zoom lens it can change from the smallest being 3.5 to 5.6 depending on how far you are zooming. You can buy a Canon 50mm f/1.8 for under $100.00. It isn’t a zoom, but is an AWESOME lens for getting that blurry background. I have one similar and do 95% of my stuff with it.
okay, the next thing that the great ashley ann should do is teach a crash course for us dummies (no offense, Jeanette ) that bought expensive cameras and don’t know how to get our monies worth out of them.
All in due time Bopha…keep checking the blog…hint, hint, hint
oh my gracious…if you are going to teach us I will be BEYOND thrilled. I’m ordering a new camera today! Oh I can’t wait to check new posts! So excited!
Happy Friday! I thought I’d share a little photo tip/challenge for the weekend. To me photography is about telling a story – especially when it comes to my kids. In 20 years I will look at this picture and remember who Hudson was at 2 years. You pretty much never see him without cars in...
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Oh, the boots, I love them! You realize you still have not missed a day yet (good for us).
I did miss the 18th Bopha! The posts are much shorter
Thank you so much for the tips! I always love getting such practical tips that I can apply to my everyday photos of my kids…although I won’t be taking any this weekend as my slr ended up in the bathtub full of water (in the case and all!)! Yes I cried and my heart is so sad but just another day in the life of my crazy house:)
good idea.
i can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.
that picture is great…so crisp.
Didn’t know if you’ve seen this so I had to share just in case: http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome
I LOVE this picture as it is SO Hudson right now!
I missed the challenge – I am just catching up on the blog. I will try this though.
Poor you….with less pictures now some posts will have more words! I always love to hear ideas from other parents on things they do with their kids, so I thought I’d post a few of mine. First let me say I used to be a reader. Back in the days before kids I had favorite...
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Sweet video. Did someone at TCABC do this!? Great message Ash, thanks for posting the link to the catalog. I have to say Hudson’s face cracks me up!
That is the best video I have seen! Thanks for posting it! Hope you don’t mind if I share it!
This is what we do with our kids. Instead of giving gifts to our families who have too much already we give gifts in honor of them. My dad works alot with Habitat for Humanity so we give there in honor of him. My sister-in-law does a lot with Uganda so we give to Invisible Children for her. Then we mostly choose things from World Vision Christmas Catalog. It is a way to show the love of God and teach the lesson that others are important to God. AND our families appreciate too because they see the value of it.
So I was wondering…the glass in front of Hudson that is empty….dirty or clean water?? =)
Samaritan’s purse does a great job. I love how you involve your boys in giving! You guys are great!
I saw this video a while back…so powerful!!! Our family loves Heifer International. This is where our gifts are going this year. Thank you for sharing all these wonderful ideas with us!
Just a reminder if you want your order in time for Christmas the deadline is tomorrow – Nov. 20th.
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