I betcha thought you saw everything from our christmas celebration.
I lied.
I lied and now am asking for forgiveness.
PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
I KNOW NOT WHAT I DO.
PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
I CAN’T STOP LOVIN YOU.
DON’T DENY ME
THE PAIN I FEEL IS TRUE
PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
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Nevermind. Anyway. You must forgive me immediately and tell me that we are BFF all over again.
Why? Well, because I want to share with you a early present I forgot to share…and a late one too.
Thanks to my wishlist, my darling boyfriend knew exactly what was on my WANT radar this year. So when I saw this beautifully wrapped present under the tree. Well, you know that Will was like “MOM! STOP JUMPING UP & DOWN. I AM GETTING SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME.”
And that was just the beginning. After I opened the gift, it was like a club up in my belly because of all the poppin & lockin.
Wanna see what was inside?
Yay – I knew you did….
It was this 1.8 Canon lens. Straight off the wishlist. And straight into my ever lovin’ craddling fingers.
Although it has taken some getting used to – once you get the hang of it, it can take some amazing photos.
Like this one where I was able to focus on the button in my ornament bowl.
It only took seventeen tries but eventually it worked.
And this one of Lilley that I shot outside – love how it fades the background. It actually looks like she is in a studio instead of outside on our driveway sitting on a torn white blanket.
So that was my early present. Jeremy got a ReadyWrench & I got a lens. One hundred points Santa.
And that late present I was bragging about?
Yeah. It is amazing.
It’s this here stroller from Phil & Ted’s.
Basically this stroller is the Bower version of a Cadillac. It kicks some serious diapered tooshie. It’s an inline stroller – so that when baby #2 comes along (please dear Lord, I’ll promise to be good) we will be prepared to push em both without getting a doublewide. And it is all-terrain…so I won’t be giving up the beach just because my arms are too weak to carry Will once he hits like five pounds. PLUS….it has an attachment for our carseat (which we don’t have yet) to clip right in. That means Baby Bower can go from car to stroller back to car again without being rebuckled.
The only problem with this sucker is that it costs one pretty penny.
Enter Baby Fund.
Way back in October, Jeremy suggested getting a piggy bank for Will’s gear. I pulled out a jar. Cause I am thrifty like that. And hence, the Baby Fund was born. Ever since, we have stashed our extra change in there, any money we got from Christmas and thought twice about purchasing Bacon Double Cheeseburgers so that we could save every little bit. And guess what?
It worked!
Our baby fund had enough inside so that we could pay cash for the stroller of our dreams!
(Imagine me celebrating by doing the Truffle Shuffle here)
Plus, by shopping around online, we scored free shipping and an extra doubles seat for free. That on top of a pretty great price! So now that we know the Baby Fund works….and the wishlist does too….I just have one little thing to say:
