This weekend was CRAZY! Tony and Emma picked me up from work on Friday and we headed straight down to Adrian to visit my friend, Sara. Bradlee got to have a sleepover with Gramma and Boppa (my parents)!!! Sara is also Emma's godmother! :) We met at CMU and have been great friends ever since! Sara is on the committee for fundraising for their local community theater, The Croswell. For this year's fundraiser, they were doing events around the musical, "Hairspray"! This is one of Emma's FAVORITE musicals! :) She's seen the movie, seen the musical on stage, and listens to the soundtrack while falling asleep at night! She loves it! :)
So a few months ago, Sara called Tony to see if he would be willing to come down and DJ for the after-party at the fundraiser. Tony agreed under one condition...that Emma and I could come too and see the show!! Well, not only did we get to see the show, but we accompanied Sara to the pre-party (more fundraising!), the show, and the street/after party, which Tony DJ-ed at! :) We had a great time and Emma just LOVED staying up late and dancing with Aunt Sara!! We also stayed the night at Sara's house, which Emma also loved! :)
Everyone was commenting on how well-behaved and grown-up Emma was and couldn't believe she was only going to be in 1st grade! I was very proud to watch her, also. She stood up on the stage with Tony, waiting for the cast of the show to come out. She helped set up, helped Sara sell some raffle tickets, and told Aunt Sara (who had never seen the musical OR movie) all about the show so there were no surprises! It was so fun!!!
On Saturday morning, we were up and out early to head back to Fenton where we spent 2 hours at the Relay for Life of Fenton with my work. We walked around and did some looking around at the different tents. This was our 4th Relay we attended this year! :) Emma got her face painted and then we found the fish tent. Oh boy. It was one of those small plastic kiddie pools with water in it and a ton of little goldfish! At first, for $1, you could get one "swipe" in the pool with a net to see how many you could catch, and then you got to take home whatever you "caught". As the afternoon went on, they changed it to being able to buy 3 for $1. Emma was "hooked" (LOL) and wanted fish SO bad. Finally, on our way out, Tony and I let her get 3 fish to take home. Of course, we warned her that we didn't know if they would last very long because they had been out in the sun for a long time. She didn't care.
So on our way home, we had to stop for a fish bowl and fish food. Then Emma told me we had to make a habitat for her fish, so we also had to get rocks for the bottom of the bowl. We got home and got them all set. Tony left to DJ a wedding and Emma and Bradlee and I went to my parents' house for dinner. Oh - she named the 3 fish "Relay", "For" and "Life". :)
When we got home, one fish was floating on the top of the water...Emma told me it was "For"...so we flushed "For"....we fed the other two fish and went to bed. When we woke up this morning, the other two were floating on the top of the water...so much for having a pet!!! Emma was bummed, but she remembered that we had warned her...so she was mad at the people at the tent she got them from for not taking very good care of her new pets! :) She was really into having the fish and being able to take care of them herself...so I have a feeling a trip to the pet store is in our future....
It was quite the long weekend....and it's only going to get busier before it calms down! We have a busy week ahead of us, with the Relay for Life of Davison (which you're ALL welcome to come to...we'll be at the Davison High School track/stadium from Saturday, 10am to Sunday, 10am!!), and then getting ready to go to Disney World in 2 weeks!!!
Have a great week! I'll try to find a little time to get those "Kindergarten Magical Memories Night" pictures off my camera so you can see the graduate! :)
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It was so so fun to have you all at the "hairspray" event!!! xoxo
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