Frustrated with New Camera

After horrible, blurry pictures from Maylee's 2nd birthday party, we came home and tried new batteries, new memory card, and everything else we could think of that would be causing horrible pictures.  Eventually, we decided to mail it off to be repaired.  Luckily, I bought a warranty period for the camera, but it seems ridiculous for a camera to go bad that we have not even had for three months.  Until it returns, we only have our cell phones as cameras.