Hello

I can't believe it's February already.

February has always been kind of a Ho-Hum month for me.

Not a whole lot going on and lots of cloudy days makes me feel lazy.

Gabriel found the toilet paper.

I suppose it's a right of passage that was bound to happen sooner or later.

We've been having lots of laughs with Papa Curts old glasses!

Ain't I perty first thing in the morning?

Ok.  I won't lie.  This was probably taken closer to 1 in the afternoon.

I told you, lazy days.

Amber and I took our photography class with the lovely Tate of Taken By Tate.

Can I tell you that the girl is ah-mazing?!?!

Talk about making something very complex seem like child's play!

I'm now shooting in Manual and lusting after my new lens that I had to put on hold until after Josie's party next week.

But after trying that baby out, it will be mine sooner rather then later.

I conquered two other things this week.

I took a Spin Class (biking, not twirling) and I spoke at MOPS.

The first one sucked.  But in a good way.

I wanted to cry and I couldn't walk up the stairs after but I was proud that I made it through.  I'm not promising I'll be back every week, but it was an awesome workout!

The second I've know I was doing for months but was still totally unprepared.

They asked me to speak about adoption and didn't really give any other direction.

Those who know me for real know I could ramble on about adoption for hours but it's all over the place and not very condusive to public speaking.

But at the end of the day, I went with my gut and just told Josie's story and a little of Gabe's. 

And brought sweet pictures from Josie's first days home.

We've had 4 couples ask to sit down with us to discuss adoption in the last month!

It's been awesome.

One of them was my BFF Amber.  So if you love hearing the gory details of Foster Care Adoptions you'll want to head over to her Blog and follow along.  They are right smack at the start of the process so you can go on the journey right with them!

I let Josie give me a "manicure."

She didn't do too shabby of a job and it made her little day. 

And something so small making her day ended up making my day.

So I let her do her own toes.

Not as great of an idea!

I love that simple pleasures bring such big joy around here.

Can I leave you today with a silly request?

I've hit 115 Followers, which is another simple thing that makes my day.

But none of you leave comments.

Which either means most those Followers are people who used to read along, don't now, and just haven't deleted me or you're all a bunch of Laz-os who don't like to comment.

Which is A-OK with me. 

But just this one time, if you're out there, could you leave some love? 

I'm dying to know if I've lost you all!

I've got lots of Valentines Day Treats coming your way this week plus some pretty funky Fancy Nancy Party details so hopefully you are still hanging out!