Forever Family Day & New Camera Lens

This continues to be a week of celebrations.
Today we officially celebrate our first "Forever Family Day" Anniversary!

For our upcoming (and last) home study update, one needs a variety of family photos and we never seem to get a picture of the three of us together.
The photo below was taken this past weekend at a family gathering celebrating Nicole & Jordan's engagement.

At least we now have one photo for our update!

The photo(s) above and below were taken with our Nikon D40x. We were taking fairly good pictures but we felt they could be better but assumed it was us; in that we didn't know how to use the camera. Turns out it was that :) and more.

A co-worker (who has this blog) was buying a new lens for his camera and knew we had a Nikon also. He offered his old zoom lens to us, a AF-S NIKKOR 55-200 zoom lens, at a good price and we said yes. What a difference!

Here are two pictures taken with the new lens; we are amazed at the clarity of the water droplets we never saw before.


Cropped and close up!


Love the new lens.....except now, Ford wants a lens like the one my co-worker just bought!
I think we'll just work on learning how to use all our camera's features for now :)