Ever since I can remember I have always loved nature. As a kid I would spend all day outside. I would come home from school, drop my book bag on the floor and run towards the front door. I wouldn't get very far, before My mother stopped me and asked me where I was going. I would explain to her that after spending almost all day at school, I needed to go outside. my mother would look at me and tell me that I could go outside when I finished my homework. she would explain that even though I couldn't see it now, my education would be very important in the future. Even though she was right, I was a kid and all I knew was that the outside world was waiting and I was inside. I told her that I would play outside while the sun was up, and then I would do my homework when it was dark out. She would look at me with a smile and say "only if you promise to do your homework and study hard. " I would say I promise and run out the door before she could say anything else. I would spend my time playing with pine cones, sticks, and the other kids. I would race the other kids on my bike, play hide and seek, climb trees, or lay on the grass under a tree and just let the time pass. I felt that everything was complicated in my life, but when I was outside it was like I was in a completely different world. Nothing was complicated and it just was what it was. Time passed and I got older. I kept here stories about my dads work, Omar Vazquez, and  I would see pictures of what my dad would build. I remember thinking that it would be great to have a job in which I could work outside, and that's when I asked my dad if I could go with him. He would always say no, and that I still to young. Then one day he asked me " do you want to go to work with me? " I told him yes and sure enough the next day I got what I wanted. I got to go to work with my dad. At first I would pick weeds out of the grass, or pick up pine cones and sticks. Time passed and I began to love the work just as much as nature. Then I began learning how to mow the grass, and how to blow the leafs away, and so on and so on. Between the ages of 12 and 18 I would go to school during the weekdays, and work on weekends, as well as holidays. I learned everything that my dad could teach me the first few years. Then I learned to work without my dad telling me what I need to do. By the age of 15 I was working side by side with my dad. after that he started teaching me about the desk side of working in the landscape industry. I didn't find it as interesting as working outside, but I did like it better than working some part time job at a store or restaurant. My father taught me everything he new about the industry, so that when I graduated high school, we could work together to build our company. Now I'm 19 going to college and helping my father make his dream come true, while he gives me the job I always wanted.