My MIL's family is a tight-knit, fun loving group. To celebrate Cedric's Great Grandma Pearl's 80th birthday, they surprised her with a family reunion, location: the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. We rented a cabin big enough to hold eight families (including 6 kids) in Townsend, TN. We had a great time! Peter and Stephanie rented a van so that both their family and ours could make the 8 hour drive together. Cedric and Eden ("Eddie" as Cedric says) really hit it off. It made my heart melt to see the two of them so interested and enlivened by each other.
The park itself is very nice - the perfect blend of wildness and accesability. We hiked several trails and took a few scenic drives but when Zach and Peter were ready to forge their own trail and be adventurers, the park offered plenty of opprotunity. We did not see any bears, but some other family members did. The park has a very interesting history, which you can read about here. Cedric's Grandpa taught him new words for water such as rain and river. His interest in specific words for things is high right now. He also started saying phrases like "all done" and "all gone." But I know what you really want to see are pictures, so without further ado here are some of my favorites.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Early Birthday: Pentax K2000
From the time that Cedric started walking, it became harder and harder to get good photos of him. He is such an active boy and our camera was very slow to take a picture, 3 seconds with no flash and about 5 seconds with the flash. My boy can be across the house in 3-5 seconds, which means all I get pictures of are body parts or blurs! Since Christmas I have been saying that we needed a new camera and for my birthday Zach agreed the time had come. Because of a family vacation, I actually got the camera early and I could not be more thrilled with it.
The Pentax K2000 is a digital SLR with which we got an 18-55 lens a sort of all-purpose lens as it does wide angle and close up. The camera is very user friendly! The menus are intuitive and straight forward, unlike the Cannon and Nikon models we looked at. It was hard to spend so much money for a camera. Both Zach and I are used to disposables and the point and click variety, but when we got home, I giddily took the camera out of the box and snapped a few pictures. The purchase was completely worthwhile! This is one of the best pictures of gotten of Cedric since he was just a baby.
The Pentax K2000 is a digital SLR with which we got an 18-55 lens a sort of all-purpose lens as it does wide angle and close up. The camera is very user friendly! The menus are intuitive and straight forward, unlike the Cannon and Nikon models we looked at. It was hard to spend so much money for a camera. Both Zach and I are used to disposables and the point and click variety, but when we got home, I giddily took the camera out of the box and snapped a few pictures. The purchase was completely worthwhile! This is one of the best pictures of gotten of Cedric since he was just a baby.
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