Family Pictures...

Hello, again, everyone! I figured I should probably take a break from my studies and everything else to update a little bit.

First of all, I have been pretty busy lately. I have been babysitting for a friend down the road when she needs me. They have three kids, so caring for six kids total, as I'm sure you can imagine, doesn't leave much computer time.

Also, I have begun my second semester of courses. In this semester, I have officially started my degree program. I have already completed one course but have about 6 more to go in this semester. This is a bit more time consuming due to the fact that I now have class "discussions" I have to enter each week as well as respond to my peers. As this is for my Associate degree, I am trying to focus more on my studies instead of "blowing it off" until last minute. I don't feel like I took my General Studies courses seriously enough. I refuse to feel that way about these courses when I finish them. So, with that being said, please bear with me in my blogging.

Now to the more fun part! PICTURES! As many of you have already seen, we had family pictures done last weekend. There are a few photographers here on post, but their packages start at $150, and I am cheap, I guess. So, I just asked my friend to snap a few of us and edited them myself. Considering none of us are professional photographers/editors, I am very pleased with how they turned out! Feel free to let me know which is your favorite! :)

 Just so you know, that is how tall Trey is... we have Alex standing on a rock, but Trey and Wil are au naturale!

 My handsome guys!!

 I absolutely love this one.... mom and her boys!

 Not trying to influence anyone, but I think this is my favorite of all of us.

 This is the House of Shu! :)

 I like this one quite a bit too, but I know it is hard to see the boys' faces.

Definitely one of my favorites of the two of us. I have others but may share those later. :)

With the holidays amongst us, missing family is always harder this time of year. So, we try to continue some traditions we were raised with. One of them that we haven't done in years, unfortunately, is making fried zucchini. We picked up some zucchini to have with out Thanksgiving dinner but forgot about it until a couple days later. Whoops! Luckily, it was still good! We decided to fry them up just like we used to! (A BIG thank you to Aunt Fred for reminding me how that was again!) 

Our finished product! 

The boys had either never had them or hadn't for so long that they had forgotten. But, they were a huge hit for everyone! Papa Shu is the one that did the actual frying. I tend to catch things on fire when I fry anything outside of our CoolDaddy. Ha! Therefore, he stepped in and saved the day once again! We are definitely going to be continuing this tradition! After eating a few slices myself, though, I couldn't help but have the sudden urge to visit Metamora. I suppose we'll just have to wait on that one. :)

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