And now without further ado I present to you our son, Mr. Nikon D
SLR D90! I had been longing for one for so long but was trying to wait to see if the price ever was finally going to go down.
Well guess what? This Sunday is Mother's Day and Best Buy was having a sale AND on top of that they matched the price of another sale from Wolf Camera which was also having a Mother's Day Sale. So what does my husband do? He buys it for me. It's a combination of a Mother's Day gift and our upcoming anniversary gift. Bless his heart! He's too good to me!
In this grouping everything is Nikon. I have the Nikon 'body', 1 lithium rechargeable battery with charger, two great lens both with vibration reduction (for shaky hands like mine), the software CD, and cables. Both lens sit in a soft drawstring velvety pouch. (To the left of the picture). The manager in the camera department even threw in the Nikon Accessory Kit which comes with the Nikon Camera Case/bag to hold everything in securely, ANOTHER Nikon
LI-ION (lithium) rechargeable battery, and a Nikon school guide to photography. He said he did this because we were buying the 4 year warranty which he looked down at "Mr. Happy" and said 'Just so you know the warranty also covers accidental damage as well.' He was a great man and later learned that he was also a Christian. See how great God works in mysterious ways? Mother's Day Sale, Lower price with price match, and God matched us up with just the right person who handled our awesome transaction.
What's great about this
camera is
so many things. It has a shutter speed of 4.5 frames per second just in time for Hannah's
cheer leading to begin and both the kids swim lessons starting June 1st. I can literally hold the shutter button down and you just hear click, click, click, click, click frame after frame non stop up to 100 pictures with no lag time. The shutter speed is intense (IMO). That means for birthday's or Christmas, or other special occasion I don't have to do a lot of 'do overs' and retakes. I can just snap away and I'm bound to have several awesome photo's. What's more is that you can do a lot of editing just within the
camera itself, red-eye reduction, adding frames, titles,
etc. And it has a 3" screen on the back if you want to take photo's in Live View, although the sales man warned us that it would use up more battery. It's been rated mostly 5 out of 5 stars from the public reviews but recently I saw one that had a 4 1/2 rating. Good enough for me!
We could have gotten our Nikon a lot cheaper online at eBay or through some Amazon site, but none of them were
authorized dealers and they seemed 'shady' about any
warranty. They had the camera but with
different brand name lens and other 'bundle packages' that didn't seem authentic. Trust me we looked everywhere; online, in stores, even
Walmart carries this camera, but they aren't an authorized dealer who would honor the same policy and back up the warranty from the only 3 stores that are authorized dealers. However you can go to the
Walmart site and read all the specs of this awesome new family member of ours! Even at
Walmart prices we still got a better deal. My husband paid about (usually I don't agree in sharing something as personal as our finances, but this was too good not share) under $16
oo (which is a steal), which by the way included the 4 year warranty. The manager even took off the sales tax by making adjustments here and there. Now I know that sounds like a crud of cash (we don't use credit), but my husband had been blessed recently and he wanted to use some of this on me for Mother's Day. Later I'll need to buy one of the Nikon external flashes, though my Nikon does have a built in one that pops up when needed and later we want to buy the famous 'Photo Shop' for editing images. We get that dirt cheap too because Jesse's mom is a principle at a
school (she got her second Masters degree about 2 years ago) so because of her being a teacher she can get it for a fraction of the price and we would just pay her back.
Now, for some of you who wonder why I have the Thomas
Kinkade cross in the photo; I'll tell you. For years I didn't know what I wanted to do, what my passion was, or if I even had any gift to offer Jesus or any other human soul, that's how low my confidence was. But that all changed when I asked Jesus in my heart (for the 6
Th time because I just didn't feel like He heard me or just wouldn't take me...I dunno why I kept asking for His salvation so many times.). Later, when somehow a camera was placed in my hands, I instantly loved it. This is when I knew that God gave me a passion for staging and capturing images just right; and with love in every click. That, my friend, is the answer to the to question 'What does my new baby "Mr. Nikon D90" have to do with God???' I give God the glory for showing me what my hearts joy because for so long I didn't know. Just in the same way
Edie, who is a Christian blog/web designer who did my site for me; she too shares how she had to figure out how God 'wired' her for her gifts.
So there you have it, that is why the cross is next to the Nikon image; because it was Him who revealed to me my true passion while on this earth. I still have a lot of reading up on the manual, which is why you see it a little open because that is what I have be doing a lot; studying it. This camera is way to high-tech for me so I want to make sure I know all the ends and outs of it precisely. Once He
reveals His God given talent to you than He will guide that God given gift the whole way home.
So how 'bout you? What gift do you feel or know God blessed you with? Or are you working on figuring this out like I was for awhile, which is okay too.
My father just gave out word today that even though my younger half-sister wasn't expected to be home from Iraq until June of 2010, she will in fact be returning to the States this Tuesday, June 2nd. I think I already made an announcement about this on Memorial Day; about how she is serving in the Army, but what a great joy it will be to have her home after being in Iraq for what seems like for years and years; too long. My father and step-mother are planning a surprise 'Welcome Home' party for her at a nearby family park, close to their home. (My sister doesn't usually have time to read my blog being over in Iraq so I'm not worried about making this post.) My husband and I hope that our little family can make it; hopefully Jesse won't be asked to cover someone else's shift; which always comes with a mix of emotions (we could always use the overtime money, but sometimes the timing just couldn't be worse.).
But then I began to think.....
Having the 'Easy Button' would just take away so much from God's perfect plan, even on the most simple things. And especially on the most difficult ones. 
