Photography

Its happened... I have slowly, but surely gotten hooked on photography. I'm not the best, still have a ton to learn, but I'm enjoying it. :) I have my own camera, my own lense, my own tripod and a need to take many more pictures. Now I just need a bit more inspiration. I want to take more pictures, but I just can't get it right sometimes and I give up to easily. I think there is one other thing that I'm learning from my dear Husband... ...I'm beginning to have a growing list in my head of things that I "need" in reguards to photography equipement!

Check out my photoblog: http://www.shutupmilo.com/pro/index.php

I can't wait to have a house again!

So yesterday's laundry turned into 7 loads and about 9hours since they turned the water off to the building for a couple hours for some "emergency" that we were never told what it was. Still a farely relaxing day though - I just crocheted all day!
Thought I might post a few pictures of the appartment. It's really not a bad place to live, but so hard to be in an appartment after owning a house - I'm so praying that God will bless us trying to look for a house again in the spring!


Our "dining-room" and the front door - into the hallway outside...
Our living-room...

I can't wait to have a house again! (cont.)

The living room - and balcony...
The view upon entering the door... Living room, then kitchen on the left, then spare room on the left and bathroom on the right, and then our room/office...
Kitchen... and no that's not garbage - just soda bottles I will take back some day...
The spare room:
Spare room - Notice one shelf for Photography and one for crafts (and more cameras) :)
Spare room - or sewing room - or photography room...
Spare Room: Linea's bed :) (or Mercy's of whoever else)
Our bedroom - The afghan I'm making is on the back of the chair in the corner - sure is taking me a long time...!
Just another view of our bedroom:
Our "office" - sure makes the bedroom look a little messy :)

Thatcher Park

I'm always so happy when my work weekend is over - especially when I have the next day off and i get to sleep in! Yup, its 10am and I just got out of bed half an hour ago! Hmmm... Now for the 6 loads of laundry that await - may they keep waiting!!! When we buy a house again, we're going to buy the biggest washer and dryer there is - I can't wait. These washers that only hold 5 pair of jeans are for the birds!

So anyway, we went up to Thatcher Park when I got out of work yesterday. I've been there dozens of times and I can't believe that I never realized that there were waterfalls there! This isn't really one of them, but I didn't have the right equipement with me to really get a good shot. I'll have to try again. Some time I'm going to post pictures on here of all our photography equipement. Not to brag - just because there's a ton and I think it would be a funny picture!

My brand-new Broken car :(

This was what my beutiful brand-new car looked like till yesterday morning on my way to work...

Two months and 1 car payment later - it now looks like this...

I know, I know - it really isn't all that bad - could have been much worse. I have 2 questions. First why did the man in front of me slam on his breaks and stop in the middle of the intersection? (I understand that the sun was just coming up and the lighting was very harsh - blah, blah, blah) :) Second - why is there a stupid insurance law that says its my fault because I hit him - even though he told the cop 3 times that it was his fault?!? Ouch - my heart hurts. I know its just an earthly possession, but its a very expensive one and its probably the only brand new car that I will ever own...! I'm very sad right now. Just waiting now for the insurance people to come take a look at it Thursday morning so I can go get it fixed. Ugh - This dips into the "house fund".

Kris' car has also been in the shop... ...4times this week! That check engine light won't stay off and the car is one month passed inspection! Just praying that its all fixed now... This hasn't been a good car week for us.

Really I must not complain. We have been and continue to be so blessed in so many ways - this week has just been a bit of a setback...

Finally

Yeah!!! I've been trying to do this for days and blogger wouldn't let me upload pictures! ARGH!!!
These are pictures of Kris' best friend's (from Highschool) kids. Sam and Willow (and Bill). We went over to their house to do portraits of the kids - but the kids were having none of it - so I just took a couple of snap-shot. Yes, they look like very cute kids :) - Just not at picture time...

:(

3 days and counting that I can't upload any pictures...

Ugh,

Well, I've been trying to post pictures on here for a couple days, but it won't ever let me!

Catskills

I'm so tired right now! We went on a lovely little treck through the catskill with a bunch of people from DPChallenge today. Met around 8am and didn't get home till 4pm. Saw some beautiful view, met some nice people... Gotta say it is fun to walk around with a whole group of people all carrying camer bags, tripods and cameras! I'm sure we looked like a cool bunch. Anyway, there will be more pictures to come, and this one will look better once I remove the people from it, but I wanted to post something to show off a little from the day!

Ever so long...

I know, Its been so very long since I've posted. I'm not quite sure where all the time goes! I was looking through old pictures today and realized that I had never posted any pictures from my graduation from nursing school, so I thought I might share a few...




Not quite sure why I never posted any of these... Could have something to do with the fact that I was hearing wedding bells and all things wedding seemed so much more important!!! :) So here - 1 1/2 years later is my tribute to the fact that graduation was important too. BUT passing my boards 4 months later was even more important! I'm so happy that I made it through that!

Kris is back in school this semester. He has only 12 more credits to finish his degree and wants to get it done before we have kids. That way we won't be hypocrites for encouraging our kids to go on in school! :) I'm proud of my husband. God has blessed him with a really good job, so he doesn't really need to finish school, but it will be so nice to know that its done and he has his degree! Ah, back in school, don't you just love all the college culture these days?!?