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The last couple weeks have been crazy, non stop (isn't life always like that). Jake is working so hard since i am not working right now, so i am the one who is putting together our house, which is the way i want it anyways. But i also have ty and am babysitting a one year old, so its crazy, but fun. I am in LOVE with our house, it is beyond perfect, and way worth the wait and crap we went through to get it. It fits our style and is just amazing. I dont think a lot of people would prefer to live in a 3 story condo but, it is perfect for us. Living without 90% of our stuff for 6 months made us realize that we dont need 1/2 of the stuff we own. So we have been giving away a ton of stuff, and it feels soooooo nice to get rid of stuff i've had since high school that i will never use again. Our house looks a lot better too without all of the crap too.

i got offered a job today, it was one i wanted to get so that is good. But it is a full time job, so that means ty needs to go back to daycare until aug, when school starts but i've been at home with him for almost a year so i am ok with it. And hopefully i can get a schedule in the morning so that i can pick him up from school like i want to.

Not living at our own place has made me slack off on my photography, which has bummed me out, but i felt like i couldnt do what i wanted in someone's house. So now that we are here i am going at it full swing, i bought a new lens (a cheap one because right now i dont have money for what i want) and we are buying a better computer and photoshop within the next month or two so that will be good. I feel like i am getting better, but i freaking need to work a lot more to be where i want. I dont think i've ever been naturally good at anything and i think that i have an eye for photography so i really want to run with it and learn as much as i can. I am taking a photography class at PVCC and it is a joke. i would have dropped it but i missed the date to do that. I already know everything the teacher is teaching and he doesnt really critique our pictures he only wants to see the bad ones so he can show us how to fix them, but i already know how to fix my pictures. And i already know all of the technical things too that we are learning. But if anything i get a dedicated time to photoshop my pictures every week. And we do have weekly assignments so it is forcing me to take pictures of things i hate. The first week was a self portrait and i absolutely hate those, it's harder then people think, especially if you are trying to be creative (which i usually try to be). So i got this...

I dont think it is that great but it was way better then anyone's in the class (that i saw), so that made me feel better. Next week is landscape, which is my other thing that i hate!!! After that everything else should be easy though (i hope).

To celebrate everything in life in the last couple weeks we are going up to flagstaff this weekend so that will be really fun. Ty has been begging to go and see the snow, he keeps wearing his snow jacket around the house!