Visit From a Friend

In early April my dear friend Sarah came to visit.  I love it when she comes.  We always have so much fun catching up, acting like we're still in high school (much to Eric's displeasure), and of course just hanging out.  We watched movies, explored Lake Geneva, ate yummy food, and explored Milwaukee.  We were walking along the river walk when it decided to rain.  Luckily we had brought a couple umbrellas, but they weren't really enough.  We all got wet, and I discovered that one of my shoes had a hole in the bottom soaking my foot.  We still had fun, and enjoyed some yummy food at Safehouse.  It's always sad to see her go, but we sure love that she comes!

Safety Poster Contest

Emma's school recently participated in a contest sponsored by the county sheriff's department all about safety.  I guess it was just for the 4th graders.  Fifteen schools in the county participated.  Each kid had to draw a poster about some type of safety and write a 50-100 word essay about it.  Emma drew and wrote about car safety.  Her teacher (who had nothing to do with choosing the winners) told me Emma won because her essay had a voice and personality in it.  It wasn't just a list like most of the other kids had done, writing "First, blah blah blah. Second, blah blah blah.  Third, blah blah blah." I think it's fantastic that she won of course, but especially since she wants to be an author, and she won this contest based on her writing.  It makes her extra proud.

She won a bike, helmet, plaque, and target gift card, which the winners were each awarded with at a banquet held in their honor last night.  The winners, parents, and their teachers were all invited to the banquet.  Emma thought it was great being able to have dinner with her teacher and meet her teacher's husband.

It was a fabulous night, and we're very proud of Emma for working so hard in school.  And now she's excited to try out her new bike and figure out what to do with her old one.  =)

The Sheriff and Deputy Friendly teasing Emma while awarding her all the loot.  It's funny, they didn't tease any of the other winners, just Emma.  There is just something about her that makes people want to joke around and mess with her.  =)

A nicer one with them.

Emma with her teacher.

Emma's poster.  The scanner cut a little off the corner.  The sun says "Stay Safe."

Emma's essay.  Of course she used almost the max amount of words allowed.

St. Patrick's Day

Just wanted to share how cute Emma looked on St Patrick's Day.  Sometimes it's the simple things that make a day special.  And something as simple as wearing green can be fun.  I think it's funny how times change though.  When Emma got to school the first thing her teacher said was "No pinching."  When I was in school kids pinched each other all day long!  =)

Sledding

Gotta love sledding!  And we finally had some nice snow without the temperatures being into the negatives.  So we took advantage of the beautiful day and had some fun.

At one point Emma started pushing she sled back up the hill instead of just carrying it.
Not really sure that saved any energy, but maybe that's just me.  =)