Surprise!!!

My wonderful, loving, sensitive, thoughtful and oh-so-generous (yeah, I'm laying it on thick) husband came home from work today bearing gifts. Well, one gift, but he handed it to me in 2 parts. The first was a little package with a round thing flat thing wrapped in foam. I had no idea what it was until the light bulb went off in my head...a camera filter. "What's this for?" I asked. We had no use for it on our simple point and shoot Canon PowerShot camera. He just looked at me and waited for me to guess....finally I got it. He bought me the new Nikon D90 camera I've wanted!!!! That's when he handed me the 2nd package...the camera!

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Can I tell you that I am simply blown away that my husband would think to buy me such an extravagant gift in the middle of the year, so far from any birthday or holiday!?! He bought it 'just because'. He bought it because he loves me; because he thought of me today. Heavy sigh!

Here's a photo of it - taken with my old Canon of course...


I am no professional photographer, nor do I ever think I'll become one, but I am an avid scrapbooker who also loves taking photos. So...maybe in time I'll learn about my new camera enough to take better photos than ever before. Here are a few I took this afternoon - before reading the manual and before knowing what I was doing...just for kicks.









To my dear husband....

"Thank you so much honey! You are the best husband in the world...not for buying me gifts, but for taking the time to think of me, my interests and for doing things simply to make me smile. You are truly a gift from God and I am grateful that I am your wife and best friend. I love you!!!"

OK, now I'm off to see if I can make heads or tails out of the 278 page users manual. There's SO much to learn!