I thought studying ended when I graduated!

Well, I guess I very wrong. I've been studying like crazy, like I've never studied before, and I'm not even in school anymore. I graduated more than a year ago and I'm at this studying thing again. I'm sitting for the CPA exam next Friday. The exam has a pass rate of around 30%. Even worse if you do what I am crazy enough to do and sit for all 4 parts in the same month. Only about 5% of those that take the exam do that. I figured that I may as well give it a try. Why postpone it? I'm really not looking forward to taking an exam that has 4 parts ranging from 3.5 hours to 5 hours each!!! But, it is something that I really want to be able to tack on to the end of my name. Seth Leishman, CPA has a nice ring to it. After this I still have 3 more securities licensing exams, the CFP, and CA insurance exam to sit for. Wow, it seems so far away, but I hope to have all of these done within the next 2 years. That would be really great to do that. Well, back to studying!

Seth

Photo Books

Well, Darcy will be turning 1 year old on November 1st so I was thinking about what I wanted to do for her birthday. Tara is going to plan a nice party, but I wanted to do something special too. Tara and I have been working on a photo book for Darcy that documents her first year on Earth. I've taken around 2200 pictures since she was born, so I had plenty of shots to choose from. I narrowed it down to around 35 to put into this new photo book. There are two places on the internet that do great jobs with these hardbound books. www.shutterfly.com and www.mpix.com are two that do great jobs with these books. Both offer very customizable platforms to build and design the book. The one I did turned out to be 20 pages, hardbound, and glossy pages. All for 30 bucks. Now we have something that will last her whole life and then some and serve to help her and her children see what she was like as a baby. We are very excited to debut it at the party. Anyways, for anyone that is interested and wants more details let me know and I can help you out.

Seth

It had to start sometime!

Well, here we are. A family blog. I didn't know when the day would come for us to start a family blog, but I guess that day is today. This blog is meant to post our family happenings, some photos, and maybe some video if we ever get that technologically advanced. This will simply be the first post to get things going. Both Seth and Tara will be posting as new and fun things happen, or just whenever!