My best girl

 Yesterday we celebrated Emma's birthday.

I love her!

I love that she teared up when I was telling her about a children's book I'd read to my class.

(I went and ordered her the book straightaway.)

I love how creative she is.  She is creative in conventional and unconventional ways and I get to be the happy recipient.  She writes music and draws pictures and constructs devastatingly funny memes.

I love how independent she is.  She 100% arrived independent.  It has caused a little friction at times (like when she was a toddler and I kept putting her shoes on the right way and she'd put them on again the wrong way until I finally gave up), but it mostly is an amazing strength she possesses.

I love how faithful she is.  She wants to do the right thing and does nothing out of social pressure.  (Ask me how I know/see above.) She goes to church and the temple because she wants to. Full stop.

I love how kind she is.  She would do anything for someone she loves.  She will be the first to cut her brothers down to size, but she would also walk into a burning building for them.  

I love how disarming she is.  Emma has shaken up my thinking more than once with her unique take on life.  She does things that would never occur to me (she put all her cousins in a Hunger Games simulator to see who would win.  It was Boston, the youngest!).  She blends words and plucks puns out of thin air.  No one should be allowed to be that quick witted and deep thinking all at once.

As my mom would say, I'm glad she stood in line to come to our family.

We met for dinner last night and the only thing that could have improved it would have been if Braeden and Anna and QE were there.

We had Mexican food and then ate medium good ice cream from a food truck and watched some ice skaters at a sort of town square in Millcreek.  

On the drive home, we had an in-depth discussion about planets and moons, led by Mark.  Astronomy is his hobby like the Supreme Court is Adam's and the weather is mine.  We all have our thing to be nerdy about.

It was a good day.  And now, I'm off to school!