News flash: Addy was an essay contest winner

Note from Mom:

Addy's "Why I Want to Become a Farmer" essay was chosen as one of 20 winners out of a pool of about 200 entries. She is so proud. She says that while she's happy to be a winner and glad she'll be receiving an MP3 player, most of all she's just glad that people will get to read her essay because she really does want to be a farmer. Of course this makes me want to squeeze her cute little cheeks even more.

Her essay was the first one printed in Michigan Farm News.

Columnist Melissa Hart wrote about Addy's essay in the Farmers' Advance. The column also ran in two other farm publications, Farmworld of Indiana and Farmshine of Pennsylvania.

Addy's weather pictures

These are my weather pictures. I drew them for a contest.



Note from Mom: Our local paper runs children's weather art along with the daily weather info. They invited local children to submit more drawings in these four categories.