Only 17 days to go!! it is getting so close and we are almost ready.  We bought Emma's Luggage and got her a debit card.  Now just to get a national calling card and some foreign currency and then pack her bags and we are set.

I don't cry as much when I think of Emma leaving, I know she is in good hands and I will miss her but I want her to have so much fun and soak it all in.  I used to cry every time I heard "On Top Of The World" by Imagine Dragons on the radio.  This song and " Best Day Of My Life" by American Authors have become theme songs for this adventure.  Emma decided in the beginning that she wanted to sing "On Top of The World" on top of the Eiffel tower so I imagine my baby girl at the top of the Eiffel tower belting out this song:)

Well we are so close in getting the funds for this trip.  We have been so blessed by wonderful friends and family who have giving more than we ever expected to receive.  Emma and I got to babysit little Sophia again earning another $50 ($1883 to go) THANK YOU AUNTIE ELISA AND UNCLE MATT!!  We also babysat Jayden earning $40 ($1793 to go) THANK YOU AUNT LISA AND UNCLE DAVE!!

Then Emma did a lemonade stand with her BFF and earned $53.36 ($1740 to go).  They did such a good job drawing attention to get customers, Jumping rope and doing chants. She even had little umbrellas to make the drink look even more enticing.  They work so well together.  Having Dani around really brings out great things in Emma:)

 

Emma also stayed with her Grammies and cleaned out a few more cupboards.  Grammies was very naughty and gave her $250 ($1490 to go) THANK YOU GRAMMIES!! I think Emma should come over again to do some more on that $250 bill.

 

 

 

We had our last P2P meeting with her group of Utah delegates where Emma had to do a project on something of her choosing and present it to the group.  Of course Emma chose the Eiffel Tower.  She did a power point and presented it very well, too bad we weren't in a building with a big screen, that would have been much better. She also showed off one of her projects from school showing food, homes, schools, jobs etc. in France.

I tried to attach Emma's power point here but it didn't work.

 

Emma received her official People to People student ambassador pin and shirt from her leader, Traci Nuttal.

 

 

Here is the group she will be traveling with

 

 

And here we are,  most of the parents/grandparents of that awesome group of kids. 

 

17 MORE DAYS AAAAAAAA!

 

So, to come up with the rest of the money for Emma's trip we are having one last SHINDIG!  On June 27th we will be having a backyard movie night where we will be watching "The Lego Movie" (to be able to do this legally we have to pay $400 or half of what we make on admissions, which ever is larger).We will open the gates early for fun carnival games and food and raffle.  Emma and I have been going around from business to business asking for donations for this activity.  We got a little discouraged when we had no success for the first few days.  Then we went to Sams and right there they gave us a $50 gift card for hot dogs and buns.  This gave us hope and we continued on to other places with no success.  We decided to check back with Best Buy, who we had gone to almost a month ago and hadn't been able to get a hold of Kyle, the assistant manager.  Luckily he was in and he said that he was sorry he hadn't gotten back to us but they were really impressed with Emma and decided to give her an ipad mini and case for the raffle.  I about started crying right there.  It was so much more than we expected.  This will really make the raffle great.  THANK YOU BEST BUY AND SAMS!!! We will keep working hard and see what else we can come up with.