The Eye of Kris

My birthday was a couple of months ago, but I just got one of my presents this weekend. My parents had given me a gift certificate, and I decided to use it to get the Canon 200EG Backpack for use with our new camera. Don't worry - I didn't pay the list price. It was on sale at Amazon.com, but it was backordered, so I had to wait over a month for it to arrive. It finally came on Friday, and I really like it so far.

I already had a regular Canon bag for the camera, but it wasn't really all that comfortable to carry around for very long. Since I like to take my camera to the zoo and parks and places where I do a lot of walking, I thought a good backpack would be nice. It's got a lot more room than I need right now, but I hope to get some additional lenses at some point. Plus, it's nice to have extra room for snacks and other stuff when we are out and about.

We did actually go to a birthday party yesterday - for Joey Boyd, the little boy that Mary used to babysit. He's a year old now, and we bought him what every one-year-old should have - a big tub of Legos! Owen had a blast at the party, and we had a lot of good food and a nice time just visiting. There were only a few kids there, so it was mostly the parents sitting around talking while the kids played endlessly with the balloons. Owen is still playing with a couple of the balloons this afternoon.

In other news, it looks like the acquisition of my company will finally close at the end of this month. There's still not much solid information about what that will mean for my job there long term, but I've been told that not much will change initially. I'll just be glad when the deal is finally done and we can get past all the uncertainty and waiting around.

There's not much else to say, but I thought I'd throw in a picture of Ivan, since I haven't posted any in a while. He's awful cute. He's become very expressive lately, and it's funny to take pictures of him because you can get photos that look happy, confused, angry, tired, and surprised all within a few seconds.

For the most part, Ivan is a very good kid, much like Owen was. He's a little more active, but still fairly content and happy most of the time. We've had even more people talk about how much he looks like me than we did with Owen. I guess that should be taken as a compliment, since they also tell us how cute he is!

I think we're going to go out for the afternoon and get a little exercise. The weather is still somewhat cool, but it won't be long before it will be biking weather again.