Photo school

This evening I enrolled in the New York Institute of Photography. I am going to take their professional photography course. I've been feeling kind of stagnant in my photography lately, like I'm just not getting any better. Hopefully, this will give me the skills to take my photography to the next level. It's a study at home, at your own pace kind of thing. They say it can be completed in half a year. I'd like to finish in two years, but they allot up to three. The tuition goes up $200 at the end of the week, that's why I decided to enroll now. I also got $350 off the current price. Now if only I had a couple of friends who also A) wanted to take the course and B) could afford to take it.

rechargable batteries

The problem with rechargables, they're always dead when you go to use them. This just doesn't work when your child's favorite toy needs new batteries, or when you need the sparkling symphony to play your baby to sleep, or you need the leap pad to entertain your child during at least part of the five hour trip to grandma's. But I found a sulution, eneloop. They rock! They're rechargables that actually hold a charge (85% after a whole year of storage), and they come charged. They have AA's and AAA's, and they have C and D addaptors. If you have kids or have a baby on the way (hint,hint, Stephen and Amy), they are a must. You will save lots of money over the years that you're not using disposables and they have 1000 recharging cycles. That's a lot of batteries not in the trash. I'm slowly replacing all the batteries in our house with eneloops. In fact, I may finally have enough to call it good. Of course, they're for sale at Costco.

Rose-Tu delivers

We were in the elephant museum when her water broke today. Unfortunately, we couldn't stay to watch the birth (on the monitor). We'd planned to come home for lunch. Just wanted to take Josiah on the Dino walk before it closed on labor day.

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legos rock

My mom thinks I'm crazy. I think Wes understands. Ashby seems to love my models.

I am using legos to help me work out the details of grace academy. This is what my most recent models looked like. Of course, I'm redesigning now. But hey, they're legos. I can pull it all apart and put it back together differently. I wonder how many legos I have now...

sunblock did this

one more picture I have to share

Ethnos Camping trip

reading the paper

Nothing like a Sunday morning with the paper.

Pretty necklace, Jenn

The braclete's cool too.

too darn cute

Mommy's helper

wipes are for cleaning with

looking forward to camping, but...

...packing is stressful. I dislike packing.

sleep betrays me

I slept a couple hours.

Now I cannot sleep.

I am tired.

I am frustrated, anxious, sad, mad, annoyed.

No one asked me.

I am trying to get over it.

I feel ill.

Tomorrow is going to suck.

My tomorrow starts in about three hours.

Josiah's future wife?

Josiah keeps telling us...

"When I grow up and have a farm and Ava's my wife and we have ten kids..."

It makes me laugh just thinking about it.

This is a picture of our friend Tiffany reading to Ava, Adaya, and Josiah.

A picture or two or three or...