its been awhile

SO i should probably say "whats up" to all my fans. ;) well its been a stressful few weeks... jake is in summer school... still... his second session of summer school actually. blah. he'll agree with me there, too. and i'm going to be taking the state property & casualty insurance test tomorrow to get licensed to be an insurance agent. really, i'm just trying to secure my job... as i'm not planning on being here for tooo much longer... we're still in need of my income for a little bit. i had to go to insurance school for two weeks. monday, tuesday, thursday, friday from 4:30-9:30. sucked since i still had to work all day on top of it. and its SO much information to retain. but hey, i did it and graduated. :) i reeeeally just need to pass the test, though. and its stressing me out big time. my company is paying for it.. but if i don't pass on the first try i'll be paying for every time after that. talk about pressure.
we had an awesome fourth of july with jeff, rayni, & aurora coming down from st george and jake's cousin clark and his friend stephanie coming down from slc. went to hoover dam and played in the sun.. watched the best firework show ever in boulder city. man it was great to have some favorite friends here with us. they are seriously the coolest people ever to want to come see us. the oddlings that we are. jk! (right?)
vegas is hot. like the blazing pit of hell.. which it can definitely be comparable to in many other factors besides the temperature. but hey, we're healthy! haha... na, i mean life is crazy right now- yes- but we're doing good. going on a trip to island park, id the weekend of the 31st, so that'll be a FANTASTIC break. jake and i are going to sneak off to yellowstone on saturday to see the sights- it's 35 miles from the cabin we're staying at. so talk about heaven for us..... we'll get to see BUFFALO and MOOSE and OLD FAITHFUL.. everything anyone could ever need in life! so i'm hoping to take a plethora of images to display to the world of cyberness. so stay tuned.

and since everything is better with a picture, i'll share these images with ya'll. (i'm not at home, so i don't have any of the 4th of july or "goings on" pics..) but a lot of you know this gorgeous gal... jena asked me to take some prego pics of her and these are a couple from the session. isn't she beautiful?! she had her baby boy, kade, a couple weeks ago! seriously good looking family. :)