Photography class

So I signed up for a digital photography workshop and have had a blast!  I had no idea what this fancy camera did that Mike bought me and I've had it for almost a year and a half.  So I've been taking a million pictures trying to work with the "manual" and apeture settings on my camera and have noticed a lot better pictures.  I even found out I can shoot in sepia which I've been trying to figure out for a long time and I have a timer on my camera so I can do our family pictures.  Which I'm going to try to accomplish today since we don't have a family picture with Ashley in it.  I've also been reading a lot more on photography and am beginning to realize how truely dumb I am!  Ha ha!  on the bright side...I have been doing a lot of things correct and not knowing it and applying a lot of rules I didn't know were "rules".  So all in all I have a LOT to learn but hey at least its a start.  I'll be posting to flickr more often now so go see my pics and see what you like and don't like.  Here are some pictures of my babies!