hello. this is probably going to bore you.

well, justin & ezra are sound asleep but i took a two-hour nap today so naturally i can't sleep yet! so i thought i would blog. just update and what not. so here it goes...

ezra is over ten and a half months now. i can't believe how fast time is going. it has almost been a whole year since he was born. it is fun how old he is acting. he walks really fast everywhere he goes, loves to get into the kitchen & bathroom cabinets, does this face where he puckers his lips out really far and squints his eyes, waves at everyone/everything he sees, licks everything he touches, and gives open mouth, tongue-hanging-out kisses. what melts my heart now is he will walk up to me and say "ma ma" and then pull his kissy face. ahh i can't stand it! he's my best friend in the world and i love being his ma ma. 

justin is loving his new job. the days are long [seven a.m. to six p.m. monday thru thursday] but he is really enjoying it. i love seeing him go off to work in his slacks and button-up shirts [even though i am usually still half-asleep when he comes to say goodbye at six a.m.]. he is really grateful for the job he has, as many of the people he works with are much older than him and are working the same job. the benefits are insanely good, too. he is still doing his training but next week he will get his cubicle with a view of downtown SLC which he is excited about. he is also doing school full-time working on his MPA at the U so two days a week he doesn't get home until 10 p.m. which sucks, but not too badly. he has a positive outlook and works really hard and i feel so lucky to be married to him.

i am loving the classes i am taking. documentary photography and photographic lighting. as a photographer, i am beginning to ask myself questions that i have never asked before. it is crazy to me how deep photography/art really is. people don't give it enough credit. i seriously have headaches after class sometimes because of the discussions we get into. its almost like philosophy or something like that. sometimes i get frustrated that there really isn't a "right" answer in art. at least in math [a subject i am terrible at] always has an answer. photography isn't the same way. but in a way that is what i love about it. anyway, i am becoming a better photographer every day and am so grateful to be able to learn so much about it. i'm thankful for my mom, justin, and my mother-in-law for helping watch ezra so i can go to class. now i am trying to figure out my schedule for the summer and fall now that i am close to finishing up my degree. hopefully i can get it done in two more semesters but i'm not sure if i will get all the classes i need to. we'll see.

hopefully i didn't put you to sleep [unless that was your reason for reading this post...] just needed to keep ya posted.

xoxo.