An Early Anniversary Present

Our entire trip to WDW in January is geared around celebrating our anniversary and no anniversary would be complete without a fabulous present. Simmer down. I am not discounting the love, happiness, and commitment. But let’s keep it real. This is about the gifts!

As soon as my anniversary is over in January, Sonny will start asking me for hints for the following anniversary. For most of this year I have been begging him to upgrade my Cricut. For the uninformed—a Cricut is a die cutting machine with interchangeable cartridges. (Two of the cartridges I have are the Disney cartridges.) I use it like crazy for my scrapbooks, card making, invitations, and other craft projects.

I know to the untrained eye they don’t look different, but trust me they are. The first one only cuts items on a 6 x 12 mat, whereas, the second one can cut on a mat 12 x 24. Can you imagine the Disney projects that I can make with that baby? I wake up at night dreaming about the mickey heads I will cut out of magnetic and sticky paper. I fantasize about the homemade autograph books that my children will proudly carry with them from park to park.

So every few week my DH would confirm with me that I still wanted a new Cricut. I even had someone lined up to buy my smaller one. Everything was coming together nicely. Then the DIS threw a kink in my plans. How you ask? Well I followed a link over to the photography board and started looking at everyone’s gorgeous pictures. Pictures that I knew I couldn’t squeeze out of my pitiful point and shoot camera. Hey, they even have a family over there. I want to be a part of the family! And everybody on the DIS is so willing to tell you all about the great sales that you just can’t miss.

Before I knew it I was chatting with my DH on Skype telling him all about this camera that I just had to have. I mean if it is good enough for the folks on the DIS then it has to be good enough for me.

My poor husband—for the last 7 months he has been secretly checking out Cricut prices and cartridges, convinced that I would be receiving that for my anniversary and here I was changing the game plan. I have to say that he was a good sport about it and I am happy to report that I got my anniversary present early this year.

Drum roll please! My sweetie bought me a Canon PowerShot S5IS which is a major upgrade from my last camera.

Sonny’s rationale in buying it early was that it would give me a few months to get accustomed to the camera. That way I can take the best pictures possible at WDW. The funny thing has been that he seems to be using the camera just as much if not more than me.

I have to say that I am in love with this camera and I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface on all the things that I can do. Here are a few of my initial shots with it—tell me what you think. On second thought just leave me with my deluded dreams that my pictures will pay the bills some day.

I would love to take credit for this one, but my DH had the artistic eye on this one.