Date Night

Let me start by saying this was not a typical date night.

1) It was not a date with my husband.

2) I went to school.

Despite the depressing statements above, I had so much fun. Let me explain. Amber (sometimes referred to as my cousin, sometimes my sister-in-law, sometimes as 'Aunt Amber'...for all intents and purposes, tonight she is Amber)...

Okay, Amber and I have twins, also known as the Nikon D60. We both admit we are unqualified to operate our cameras and need help! So we signed up for a camera course, specific to our cameras. Yay! A girls night out!!

We made quite the night of it...first we stopped by Gymboree to extinguish our Gymbucks. I am ecstatic over Raegen's Easter sweater...I'll save the pic for a rainy day. ;) I was jealous of all the great deals Amber found for Ashlyn....adorable dresses and pant sets, cutesy hairbows, and of course matching tights!! Girls are such fun to dress. We tried to spend money on ourselves, but came up empty handed...part of being in the mommy society, I guess. We did however snag a great give away at Dillard's, see here for the full story.

Next we had to feed our growling stomachs and then on to class we went. We both assumed there would be less than 20 present, but boy were we wrong. We guesstimate there were among 75-100 present. Here's Amber shortly before the presentation began...

and afterwards, excited over all the knowledge we'd gained!

But oops, that's a lousy picture so we snap another.

The highlight of the night was Amber winning a door prize...yippee!!! She is now the proud owner of a Nikon note pad/cube. Seriously though, the highlight of the night was receiving a $25 gift card to Bedford's. It's good for any Nikon product...basically we got reimbursed for the class. (Can you say "AWE-SOME"!)

We really learned a lot and laughed a lot...of course. Here I am practicing what I've learned...turn the dial to no flash, push the silver button, and viola!! Okay, seriously...it's all about the scarf. Did you notice it Kibbie?!?! I love me some scarfs/scarves (agh?!?!). Thanks to BigMama I've learned some new ways to tie one on. Kibness...let's see if you can bring it. I think you can.

No, we don't know the man in the background, but we have a pretty good idea he was hoping his picture wouldn't end up on my blog...sorry.

We also have a pretty good idea we are

1) the only ones that will remember anything from the seminar (we took notes AND followed along with our cameras!)

2) the only ones that took pictures of ourselves!

As I close, Kibs...I expect to see you in a scarf on Sunday!

Amber....you are a blogster wannabe and you know it...now show it!!