Nice shots - of the sunsets, I prefer the second because of there being less foreground clutter. I find the roof on the right of the first a little distracting. The first might be better with that cropped out, but then there's an inexplicable round object... I keep trying figure out what it is, while the trees and rooflines are just foreground in the second.
I prefer the first squirrel - great position! It looks like it's about to jump off the fence and beat you up for having stolen its soul.
I know what you mean about school taking all your shooting time - even when I have a little time to pick up my camera, I feel so scattered I just know I'm shooting complete garbage. Then I left my camera home when I went with my father to close up the family cottage, and hadn't a tree gone and fallen on the ancient garage and smashed the roof in, and there I was with no camera to take so much as a snapshot!
Julie