Buck, Doe, and Fawns

Hey Guys and Gals, Friends and Pals!

Overall this month has been pretty good! 

Picturing the future decor of the house comes along with looking at homes. I'm trying to think of a theme for the house that can easily be changed when and if we want it to. I'm thinking the same color of light to medium grey in every room with a different color pop in each room. For example, my ideas are grey in the bathroom with a color pop of blue and grey in the kitchen with a color pop of yellow. I'm thinking (and hoping) that this will be pleasing to the eye and help the 'flow' of the house. What do you think?

In this month alone, I've gotten a couple of my new favorite things:
a new phone and a new camera!

My husband and I recently switched over from AT&T to Verizon and so we got new phones as well! I've always been more of an Apple phone and an android tablet kind of person, so that's what I did. I got the iPhone 6+ in space grey and an Ellipsis 8 tablet that came free with any LTE smart phone. My husband has been more of an android phone and I'm not too sure about tablet, but he got the same thing that I did. He's not too sure if he's going to stick with the iPhone, but so far he seems to be adapting pretty well to it.

I also recently sold my Canon EOS Rebel XS and upgraded to a Canon EOS Rebel T5i. This is surely making it's way to the top of my favorite materialistic things. I have a lot to learn about all the settings and things (if I only I remember what I learned in my photography class!), but I really love that I can capture memorable moments and not have to rely solely on my mind to remember things. I wish that I could print out old memories that weren't captured by photo or video. If only, right? Even then, photos or videos wouldn't be able to do just plain old memories justice.

My 1997 Volkswagen Golf!

This isn't the actual picture of my car, but it looks almost exactly like it except mine has a (n ugly) yellow pinstripe going from the headlight to the taillight and has the stock wheels on it. It may be old but I am so in love with it. My husband and I drove to Austin to get it. That was exciting and scary at the same time because that was the first time that I drove his car alone. It was at least a four hour drive. He has (had. long story) a 1995 Volkswagen Passat. They're both manual transmission and so that was the most scary part of the drive since I had only just started to learn how to drive those. After driving manual, I will never go back to automatic! Okay, maybe I will, but it will have to be a car that I am IN LOVE with. 

My favorite animal is deer! When I was in school, it was horses, but it's definitely deer now. I've had some kind of connection with them and it's grown higher than the once love I had for horses. (Or hores if you have ever read my poetry book from elementary!) Deer have such a spiritual sense to them. They just seem like they would be so gentle and graceful if any calming person would come up to them. It's unfortunate that they are killed in the wild. It's unfortunate that any animal is, but I favor them the most.

The Oregon Ducks are definitely a favorite. I couldn't find a decent team picture, so Puddles (the mascot) will have to do! I'm not really a sports fan. I watch College Football more than any other sport, but I don't pay attention to pretty much any other team like I do The Ducks! I'm really excited for the upcoming season although the previous one just ended. Maybe time will pass by fast!

There's no way I could have ended this most without adding in my most favorites!

Our little family.

This picture was taken around/on Thanksgiving of 2014. I try to stay away from being in front of the camera and try to get more behind the camera. My family and holidays are an exception. I'm wanting to start the tradition of having pictures of us every year on all of the major holidays. It will be nice to be down the road and see the transformation that we all make.

iphone6+//T5i

images provided by google if not my own.

After so long of waiting! 

(Kinda joking, got 2 day shipping but I've been needing an upgrade for a while now.)

I bought a used Canon EOS Rebel 1000D/XS at the end of 2011. They were manufactured in 2008, so I was pretty much due for an upgrade as soon as I got it. But it was my first DSLR and I didn't want to over-do myself since I'm not a photographer and I don't claim to be. It would have been cool to have kept it to keep in my future office of our future house, but that was wishful thinking and the money that I sold it for went towards the price of my Canon EOS Rebel 700D/T5i. 

I got it off of amazon and all of the extra accessories were suppose to be Polaroid, but that's another story for another day. Even with knock-off accessories, it was still a super good price. I'm not mad about it because I knew it was going to happen with all of the customer reviews. Even if I bought just the Canon EOS Rebel T5i 18-55MM IS STM Kit alone, it would have been the same price if not more.  I'll slowly but surely be buying quality products. I'm really wanting a wireless flash, fisheye lens, a remote control that has a delay, and a couple more accessories.

What are some MUST HAVES that I should get?

I have yet to name it/him/her, but it's just going to have grow on me. You can't just give someone a nickname and it's the same way with my camera! I've seen one named Canon O'Brien and I can only hope that I could be as witty as the owner of Mr. O'Brien. I'm not too sure if it's the normal thing to do but who wants to be normal anyways?!
Do you have a name for yours?

I'm hoping to get a little better and figuring out the settings so I can get perfect moments of our little family. It's the biggest reason of why I wanted a new camera. My XS could do a lot, but it couldn't do video and that was one of my biggest factors when picking out a new camera.