Open Before December 25

Some gifts need to be opened before Christmas. For example, last year’s big gift (other than the twins) was a recliner. The boys’ early birth meant Davey and Benji would come home from the hospital two weeks before Christmas. We needed the chair early to rock those babies. Similarly, this year’s big gift, a video camera, needed to be opened early too. Had we waited, we would have missed filming their first birthday party and Thanksgiving. We’ve wanted a video camera for long time but hesitated making such a large purchase until we understood the technology better. We chose a Cannon digital video camera recorder. Rather than using tapes, the movies are recorded directly on the camera’s 30GB hard disk drive, which can easily be transferred to storage drives for safekeeping or copied to DVDs for sharing.