Annibirthday Present!!!

Do you remember my past billion posts where I mentioned (a few times) about how much I hate our dumb camera?  The camera that refused to take any indoor pictures clearly?  I'd link back to the post about complaining about my camera, but there were too many posts to link to so you'll just have to remember.  Well, our anniversary is coming up next week and my birthday is in 3 weeks, so Jonathan came home from work with an early annibirthday present for me!!  Can you guess what it was?? (Yes, like a good blogger's husband, he was documenting this by taking pictures for me!)

(Please disregard the mess that is behind me that is our office and sewing room.  It's in the basement so it hasn't been on my list of "things to paint and decorate" since no one sees it... except now the entire internet is seeing it.)

Yes, he got us a Canon Rebel T1i!!!  We had discussed the fact that before this baby got here that we would be getting a "good" camera because I wasn't going to miss my child's life because my dumb camera wouldn't take pictures.  And goodness knows that we can't just take our child outside every time we want to get a clear picture of her!  There was some deal or something that he had to go ahead and buy it now and needed to make sure it was okay in case it had to go back to the store tonight, which is why I opened my present a week before our actual anniversary.  NO, it does not need to go back to the store!  This the one I wanted!  He even went above and beyond and got us an awesome image stabilizer zoom lens!

Since there is no baby to take pictures of yet, you will probably be bombarded with Coda pictures in the days to come.  I was trying out both of the lenses and was having lots of fun.

Here's our tree in the backyard

Here's our tree with my zoom lens. 

I was looking for the cardinal that hangs out in that tree but I couldn't find it...so I went back inside with the zoom lens and took some more pictures of Dakota!

(I was standing in the kitchen and he was a room away in the living room.)

Thanks Jonathan for a wonderful anniversary and birthday gift!  I love you!!!  Now we get to look forward to going to birthing classes and beginner camera classes together:)