Update on me and my life...

Well, I really don't have anything interesting to say. Life is pretty much the 'same ol, same ol' but that's good because theres SO many things about life that's great!
I've been learning about the settings on my camera and I'm going to try shooting most of my pictures (gulp!) on manual mode. I'm very nervous, so wish me luck. I still don't really understand apertures, ISO, light meters, zooming, and all that, but I'm experimenting with all of them and trying to figure out the best combos for different effects/situations. I read a book from the library that was over my head a lot of the time, but it really opened my eyes to the possibilities of photography. So, check back with me in a couple of months....I should be a pro by then, right?!
Um...what else? Kydee is still our little reader; in the past two weeks alone she's read The Little Princess, The Secret Garden, another one that I can't remember, and she started Eragon two days ago. Dalan also loves to read, but Calvin & Hobbes, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, and Junie B. Jones are more to his liking. He gets to go to 1st grade for math and he likes that quite a bit, but he's still getting used to having homework almost every night. Elora is still our girly-girl; she wears dresses or skirts almost every day and loves to play Barbie's and babydolls. Elias is growing so fast; he has definitely hit 18 months and throws temper tantrums to prove it. He also has discovered how to climb (and has the owies to prove it!) and he loves to make messes by getting into anything and everything. Dale passed one of four portions of his CPA exam, so the good news is he passed one! The bad news is he has to study more to pass the other three that he failed. Luckily, he only failed by a little bit, so he doesn't have too much farther to go, compared to the past 6 months when he studied 3 hours a day. Well, hope everything is wonderful for all of you out in cyberspace! Bye for now...