New Camera

On Tuesday night, our camera started doing some funny stuff and would freeze up and turn off. The ENTIRE Phelps family told us that our 3.1 mega pixel Sony cyber-shot camera that we got almost 5 years ago was basically fried and we should just buy another one. Bill and I decided that we probably should. I mean, we have a baby - we can't go one day without a camera!!! So on Wednesday we went to Costco. Our mission was to buy a digital camera and not spend over $150 on it. We succeeded, and very well I might add. We got an updated version of the same camera we had before, except this time it had 8.1 mega pixels and a lot of other cool stuff. And it was $100 off! So we paid $120 for a $220 camera. I don't know how the camera does some of the things it does. There is one setting where it senses when the person is about to smile and takes the picture automatically - you don't even have to press the shutter button! That is especially useful when we're trying to catch the 'perfect smile' from Marie. But my favorite setting on the camera would have to be this: let's say you're taking a picture but the person is not smiling or not smiling very much. You can make them smile! Here are some pictures we were playing with to see just how big we could make our smile. For all of you Enterprise fans out there - do you remember that funny smile that Dr. Phlox had? Well, I think I may know how they did that! I'm sure there is more for me to learn about the camera, and I'm having fun doing it!