Monday, December 26, 2011

My Christmas Story...

Here's hoping that you had a VERY Merry Christmas and that you were all good boys and girls!
I'm super excited about what Santa brought me (guess I was a good girl, after all).  A Sony DSLR camera!! I've been wanting a DSLR for awhile now but never dreamed that Santa would deliver!  About two weeks ago as I was editing some photos from my point and shoot, I got extremely frustrated with the image results and spontaneously decided to hop in the car and check out DSLRs at Hoyer's Photography.  Bob was being (what I thought at the time - stubborn) and he decided to stay home.  Little did I know that several weeks prior, he had already purchased a DSLR camera FROM HOYER'S for me for Christmas!  As the story goes, Bob frantically called Terry at Hoyer's to let him know that I was on my way to "look" at cameras and whatever it took, PLEASE don't let me leave with a camera!  Bob knew that anything was possible with me so he wanted to make sure that I didn't come home with a camera.

Terry "convinced" me that the cameras would be on sale right after Christmas and that it would be well worth my while to wait for the sale.  Needless to say, he had me at "sale"...hook, line and sinker.  Bob was thrilled to see me come home with only a pamphlet in my hands.  I'm so glad I waited because it was worth the surprise (something that's pretty hard to do with me).  I felt like a kid again!

I'm hoping to hone my photography skills so stay tuned!  I think Q is getting really tired of "posing" in front of the Christmas tree - especially for the photo above.  He carefully sat on top of a stack of "fake" Christmas gifts.  Any little movement and the pile would've toppled over!

p.s. Guess it pays to be a good girl all year! :-)

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas Puppy...

Merry...
 Merry...
 Merry...
 Christmas!
And Happy New Year to all!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Have treats, will perform...

Just last Monday, Q showed you some of the new tricks he had learned - lay down and roll over.  Since then, it has been an interesting week with our new performer (this boy will do just about anything for a treat).  Each day, we take a few breaks throughout the day to either learn a new trick or brush up on the tricks from the day before.

This week's tricks include: shake left, shake right and play dead.
I stopped filming too quickly and missed Quincy flop down in the "play dead" position as if he wanted to continue the routine!  It was too cute!