- SHOPPING'S ALMOST FINISHED! -

spike & i went out this evening after dinner & purchased most of the last of our christmas gifts that we still had to buy - we now have spike & mine (we just bought this fabulous camera for each other!!!), both our parents, 2 of our nieces on my side of the family (megan & katie), brittan, the 3 bear cubs, MOST of dustins, all the kids' bus drivers, all the kids' teachers & MOST of barbara's done!!

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we'd been looking for a digital camera that does all this camera does, but hadn't had the time to start pricing them - we were at sharels the other day & we were talking about cameras & i mentioned we were wanting to get us a new one with more 'stuff' on it - she said they'd just gotten one that they really liked & brought it out to show us & it was this one - spike said after we got home that he thought their daughter mandy & her hubby shane have the same camera too & probably liked it so much that it just made sense for sharel & her hubby ralph, to get one like it (easier to learn to use that way!) - we went & started our search & found it & got it very reasonable at the electronic place where our son works (praise the lord) - now i need to get with shane & have him show me how to work it!! (shane, i'm gonna be calling you!!)

we also finished sanite, noah, maddie too - i think we've just got to pick up a couple more things for dustin, barbara, kyle, angela & whatever gifts we need to take over to spike's side of the family on christmas day & we're done! (sometimes we do name exchanges, sometimes we do more of a 'white elephant exchange', sometimes we just have the children exchange with each other, etc., but i've not heard what it's going to be for this year... sharel, mandy, patty wanna share what the plan is??) - it's good to be this far along, i can tell ya!