Parents Weekend

My dear husband surprised me last week with a brand new camera. (Wait, I'm behind a week in posting... this whole post refers to July 15-21)  I had to be the usual me and asked "Did you use my allowance on this?" and he replied "Nope, I used my bonus from work". Ouch. When am I going to be more grateful and kind towards him? I said it in jest, but it didn't need to be said!
This camera is a real camera, in my opinion. I've only had little point and shoot digital cameras and this one is changing all I knew and thought about cameras. Meet my new camera! (I think I need a name.. any suggestions? :)

This past weekend I had the perfect opportunity to use my new camera. My parents came out to  visit for a few days. I'm not sure how they do it, but my parents always wear Jason and I out and it takes us a few days to recover. I guess we are the oldies ;)
Over the weekend we went to two Twins games, did some shopping, enjoyed a park by the river in Downtown Stillwater,  painted/hung a shelf dad made me, and finally gave Dad his Father's Day gift. (We gave him a kindle, so we wanted to give it to him in person so we could help explain and show him how to use it.. gotta ease in the technology sometimes :)
Here are a few pictures from their visit!

This first one is of me figuring out the back light setting on my camera can give you multiple heads if the subject is moving :)

Here we discovered that the fun cute cafe we found by my house makes a great backdrop for pictures. Orange umbrellas are perfect for pictures! and the other three of just me, well... Monica was playing and I liked the background of the pictures too, though the pole is annoying ;)

And here are the last of the photos from the trip.. did I mention we went to two Twins games, Andrew's soccer game, and Jason's softball game that weekend?
Thanks Mom and Dad for coming out! It was a fun weekend!

I like to end posts with a picture... and here is the perfect one of my handsome husband :)