Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

Well, this last weekend was eventful. Okay, so I had a wedding rehearsal Friday night and a wedding Saturday evening. That was pretty much normal for me. Sunday was miserable for several reasons that I will not go into on this blog, but suffice it to say it was a learning experience. Enough said.

But the weekend belonged to Emma Keaton, age 8. Friday afternoon Emma came in 2nd place in a cake decorating contest at her school. Her cake was in the shape of a baby blue Bay haven polo shirt. It was really cute. After my wedding rehearsal we went to see Emma's twirling recital with her "Majorettes" group. I still think it is funny that she is a twirler, but twirling is a big deal here so she is not mocked in the least. Well, she did well. She is probably one of the better twirlers on her squad, considering she does not really practice all that much. The big news of the night was that she was named "Little Miss Bay Haven Majorette Princess." This was the big all-around award for her age classification. She got a trophy, a sash and the all-important tiara.

Little did we know, but she was a winner elsewhere Friday night. I went to the Marina Civic Center earlier in the afternoon to view her art project for the annual art show. She was one of a few students per grade who were in the art show last year and we were really pleased with her "nomination." This year, they did a fund raiser and every child in school had an art project on display this time. I went to look for her painting, but it was not with her class. One of the art teachers goes to our church and helped me locate her piece and put it with the correct class. Well, long story short, she won 1st prize in her grade. We did not know that she won until Monday morning when they brought the paintings back to the school to distribute to the children. Needless to say, we were very proud of our little artist and "dancer." We took her out to Chili's tonight to celebrate her victories.

The only problem: Elizabeth does not quite understand why she cannot play with Emma's trophies. I am just waiting for Elizabeth to stash all of Emma's awards in the closet and pretend like nothing is wrong.