I'm so excited!

Not only is today the beginning of my vacation, but I get to go and check out the proofs from the teenager's senior portraits today! If they look anywhere as great as I'm anticipating, I'll be leaving the studio much poorer!

Speaking of the teenager, I think he misses us a lot. He's called every day, but he also called Thursday night, all on his own, specifically to speak to each of his siblings. Pretty sweet for a 17 year old boy!

I had a lovely night out with my friends on Thursday. Found a chocolate martini (or two!) second only to the ones Mark makes for me! It was after 12:30 when I finally got home which made for a loooong day yesterday and an early bedtime last night.

As for the rest of the weekend, my in-laws are coming for dinner tonight as yesterday was their 44th wedding anniversary! We're headed to the gym for orientation this morning after the picture appointment and then the kiddos are going to spend the day tomorrow at my mom's house doing some work for her to earn some money! I wonder if she'll pay me to help too???

I'm looking to buy a new camera here in the next couple of months...I love my camera most of the time, but am looking for something with a little less lag time for shooting football, dance and cheer. We've looked at some SLR cameras, but I'm very spoiled with my camera as it has a 10x optical zoom. The SLRs require a changing of lenses for that kind of zoom, but offer faster shooting capability than any regular digital I can find. But the additional lenses make them much more expensive. I have seen a couple of regular digital that offer a 12x optical zoom, but am worried about shooting speed. If you were buying a new camera, what would you be looking at?