First photo from photoshop!!

So I downloaded photoshop to my computer 2 days ago and ever since then I keep opening it up and staring at it with my mouth gaping open. If any of you have ever seen photoshop you will know what I mean....."what the hell does all of that shiznipp mean!!!" They seriously need to make a photoshop for dummies!! Layers, and channels, and paths oh my!!!! Luckily I remembered that a favorite blog of mine the Pioneer Woman (if you have never seen her blog go now, seriously NOW, you will thank me for it!!) had a section in her blog for photography and so I went to it. And THEN I discovered that she had these Actions for photoshop that you can download for free (as long as you have photoshop)!!! So I did it and it worked!! Angels sang, I cried a little....ok not really, but I was pretty giddy about this picture! The colors are so cool! It's called "seventies" and I am in love with it, and the Pioneer Woman.

The picture below was the before picture.

Merry Christmas to.....ME!!!

I got my Christmas present early, a new camera!! I have been wanting a nice camera for a while now. I love taking pictures of the kids and playing around with editing them. Josh was just going to buy me one and surprise me, but then he found out that I had really been researching cameras and told me to pick one out and he would get it. Ummmm..........OK!! So after much debate between a Canon and a Nikon, I chose the Nikon D3000. Walmart actually had the best deal on it! I got it yesterday and have had so much fun playing with it and taking pictures. Finally tonight it occured to me that I had not done one single thing around the house all weekend!!! Josh may regret getting me this, we may have nice pictures but the house is gonna go to crap :) Here are some of my first pics. I am still figuring out the settings, and editing stuff. If anyone has any tips or info about this camera, or editing software, let me know!!!