Happy Birthday, Emma!

Great news! It is this girl's birthday today. Oh, to be 19 again.

Here are some of my favorite things about Emma at the moment.

1. One time she came all the way to Alabama to visit me during her Spring Break her senior year, and made me run 9 miles with her because she was training for a race.

2. Emma and I have quoted lines from Freaky Friday for oh, like, 10 years now.

3. When I was a freshman in college, (and Emma would have been 11?) she wrote me lots of letters. With lots of stickers and Freaky Friday quotes.

4. Emma is a really hard worker, yet

5. is always up for a good laugh and

6. she rocks the ukelele.

7. She is one of the most loyal friends I know.

8. Emma is not condescending or proud, even though she has lots of reasons she could be that way.

9. Emma is going to be a missionary in Peru for 18 months!

10. Emma made Chad feel really welcome in our family when he tried to play footsie with her under the dinner table and she started wearing running spikes to family meals.

And of course, because she is my sister. Isn't that enough? Love you, Emmalene!