Help Me Choose a Camera!

Alright everyone, I'm seriously having an issue w/choosing a camera. I'll probably just pick one the next time I visit Costco. But if any of you have suggestions, I'd truly appreciate it. And my price range is no more than $100. It has to be digital, preferably w/ability to take videos (not just still photos). I really enjoyed my powershot by sony, but I didn't like that it took 10 sec in between photos for it to be ready again.

I'd appreciate any & all suggestions. Thank you.

Samuel swimming.`

We take Samuel swimming a lot. Now he just loves to float by himself. His favorite thing to do is to play around the stairs. He'll jump off the stairs, turn around, and swim back. It is so great to see that he loves the water just like his dad.

Just catching up on pictures

We have brought our picnic table into the house. Our dining room table is on carpet, and the kitchen isn't really big enough for a big table, but this fits perfectly. Now I don't have to vacuum three times a day! We bring it out to the living room when we are having a movie night. The kids love it, and we don't have food mashed into the carpet. And the booster chair for Simeon will strap onto it!

Simeon watching tv and eating pizza crust

If I ever can't find Simeon it's almost guaranteed that he is under a table. I don't know why, but he loves to be under the tables. He will play for a long time all by himself with nothing if he is under one.

Rebekah lost her first tooth. It is so tiny! She has been working on that tooth for a long time. She has four others that are loose, but if they all take as long to fall out as this one it will be months before the come out.

Joseph and Sariah took Simeon into Riah's room and played dress up without me knowing it. Simeon was the doll. He's such a good sport!

Joseph got ahold of the camera one day when it was set on video. He looks so serious trying to take the pictures. The clicking noise is him trying to take the pictures.

Wild Armadillo Park

Gramma and I went to the Wild Animal Park yesterday. Among the pictures and videos we took yesterday, we got this one. We thought you might be interested. You can hear Gramma laughing in excitement in the background occasionally.

I insisted that we have a woppidy woppidy cake for the 4th! Yeah me!

Guacy Finally had her baby! Victoria is beautiful, and Healthy. she was born on June 21st at 3:12pm. She was 20 inches long, and 7 lbs 9 oz.

We got to ride on a elephant at the Del Mar Fair. We had so much fun. We ate Mexican funnel cake! Deliciousness!

This is Samuel in his 'Handsome Man' outfit. So cute!

This is a video from a ward pool party we had a couple of weeks ago. it was super fun.

Our Sweet Children

This is what our sweet children did yesterday.

Fourth of July

We had a fourth of July festival here on post, and we had a fun time at it. Everyone got to cool off with snowcones and we did the bounce houses, and the kids had cotton candy for the first time ever. How is it that they have never had cotton candy in their lives?

Simeon is learning to feed himself now and is loving it. He loves beans! Can you tell?

Gramma and Grampa came out for a visit and we had lots of fun with them. We were able to take a picture with them at church on Sunday, but of course the kids weren't cooperating. Simeon of course had a leaky diaper at church and I didn't have any spare outfits to put on him. He sure is cute even without the clothes! Joseph really didn't want his picture taken.

The Netties

We are coming down with a strange disease at our house we have dubbed "the Netties" Actually one day when Ezra was over he had Lucy do this and so now every once in a while she'll come up to me like this. Of all my kids Lucy reminds me of Nettie the most so it make since! Eliza had to get in the action when she found out we were taking pictures. Also some cute footage of Hannah. We start them young with cleaning at our house!

Just a little perspective

I just have to clarify Dad's entry in the funny column. I just wanted to put a little perspective on his story. The windows in the living room are floor to ceiling and nearly wall to wall. Don't you just love Mom?!

Keller Updates

Hello ya'll.

Sorry we haven't posted anything in forever. The reason being, we no longer have a working camera. Travis dropped it and it got busted. So I am now in the process of searching for a digital camera on craigslist.

Anyway, I thought I should still update every0ne on what we've been doing. Summer has been great here. Not too terribly hot like Alabama!! (hehe) I have some beautiful flower boxes that I wish ya'll could see, red white & blue. Feeling so patriotic. I was able to sing a fun 3 part version of the Star Spangled Banner on Sunday. I got to teach part of the Gospel Doctrine class a few weeks ago, it went well.

Travis has been fishing like crazy, of course, w/brother Adam as deckhand. We've been going on lots of bike rides, like the little Holts. I actually did it alone today with all three kids hoooked to me. We didn't go too fast, and stopped by the library for story time. Tracker still isn't walking, and he always seems to grab onto my legs and scream at me. Trayton is just beginning to learn to ride w/this nice $5 bike some adopted grandparents bought for us at a garage sale. It has training wheels on it.

I've been "putting up" (as I call it) batches of canned salmon and smoked salmon. Travis has been enjoying doing a lot of Red Salmon fishing on the Russian River. I just did a batch today and need to finish up one more, then I'll be done until the next time he decides to go fish! (Ezra, you need to come up!!) I also enjoyed hiking up to Exit Glacier w/many friends in Seward, while carrying Tracker on my back in my 5 yd stretchy wrap. It was fun.

I've been enjoying running w/a friend who's up here for the summer. We did the 6 mile "Spit Run". Down in Homer there's a skinny piece of land that runs out into the Kechamak Bay, and it's been named "the Homer Spit". Cute, huh?

Our garden is thriving, as long as I water it well, and weed it in 2 min increments to make sure Tracker doesn't eat my beautiful flowers. He's developed a liking for daisies. You guys should see the boy's hair, they are so bleached! I wish my hair would do that. Not sure what we'll be doing for the 4th, but I am so excited for it this year! I've been doing a lot learning about our constitution and the founding fathers!!

We've been going to bed around 10-11 with the sunlight shining on us still! That'll change once winter comes around. Can't wait to see ya'll in December. I guess you can know we're trying to get pregnant, but we're not yet. It'd be fun to have a baby w/Rachel, but we'll see what the Lord has in store.

Sorry for making it so long, but as they say "a picture says a thousand words," and I don't have any of those, so there you have it.

Love you all! The kellers

Our new car

Yea! We have our new car! Mom and Dad were so awesome and drove it out here for us. Jacob LOVES driving it! And Joseph wants to go for rides all the time. Thank you, thank you, Mom and Dad for driving out here and visiting us. The kids are already looking forward to Christmas when they can see you guys again. Joseph was calling for Gramma the morning after you guys left. He wanted you to get him out of bed and cuddle. All the kids miss you two. Next time we'll fly you out instead so that you can spend more than two days with us. (and we'll do it when it's not so hot next time!) We love you so much!