Exciting

I subscribe to Parents Magazine and a couple months ago I noticed they were having a "cover model" contest. I put the magazine aside, got busy, and forgot about it. Then my friend, Monica, emailed me urging me to enter. So I upload some pictures of Emery that I had recently taken. Done. Forgot about it. Then this past Wednesday night I receive a call, "May I speak to Emery's mother please?" Ok, weird! Is my daughter in trouble already?? :) It was Parents Magazine telling us that she was a semi-finalist! They narrowed it down to 20 semi-finalist (and there were over a million pictures entered!). They told me they would be emailing me that evening and I would need to answer a couple questions and submit five more pictures by July 15th. They will then narrow it down to 5 finalist who will get to fly to New York City for a photoshoot and a chance to be on the cover of the magazine! I have no idea if we have a chance or not, but I am just so thrilled she is a semi-finalist! I think she is pretty darn cute, but I am a biased mother and all! :) Even if we don't win a trip to New York we will have a chance to win an ipod nano (woo-hoo!). They will be putting all semi-finalists pictures on their website and everyone will be able to vote for their favorite. So when the voting starts for that I will let you all know! But now the pressure of actually getting five pictures to submit that I just love is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought! I just like to take pictures of her for fun and now I feel like there is pressure! Oh well...I just need to relax and let her be herself. The pictures taken for the first round were not specifically taken for a contest afterall. Anyway, I thought I would share the five pictures I submitted. I have no idea if one was the "winner" or if they take them all into consideration, but here they are. And if we hear any additional news, I will be sure to let you know!