February is here!

The great thing about living in the city is that we have not been confined for the winter! We are still going and doing and the season is passing us by!
We have a busy month! Payton turns 6! The girls have parties for school. We attended the school carnival. The girls are still playing basketball on Saturday's until this weekend. The girls decided to take Zumba Kids on Thursday's. We are just 2 weeks into it but loving it! Halle has decided to play Saturday soccer but Payton decided to pass. She really wants to learn karate. Brian and I are tossing the idea around.
Here are a few pictures from the past 2 weeks.

WINNER WINNER WINNER

I have a DEAR friend Melissa (thanks Melissa) that has been helping fine tune my photo motor :) so to speak and thanks to her helps, tutorials, and edits I WON as a runner up in the annual Adoptive Families Magazine!
Here is the "official letter"

Thanks so much for speaking with me just now.
Your gorgeous photo of your daughter, Payton, was selected as one of the 12 Runners Up--from a total of more than 6,000 photos submitted to us this year!

WOO HOO! I don't actually know what I won :) but the picture will be featured in the upcoming issue of Adoptive Families!

Here is the winning picture

Picture Edits

I guess I should also do an update eh?

Still waiting...but now that the 4th is coming up the girls are SO excited and Halle thinks the fireworks are for her birthday HAHA!

I've been trying not to take so many pictures and edit and scrapbook the ones I already have :) its hard when my hands are itching to snap snap snap those pictures, but I NEED to do other work :)

So I thought I would show a picture I finished last night. I am still working on a steady hand so I am going to master one skill before I move on, forgive me in advance for the repetitiveness.