Three is a Magic Number

So since this letter was last sent in 2014, Anna

• shaved her hair bald twice more for St. Baldrick's,
• started 4th grade at St. Edward School -- adjusting to new teachers, a new schedule, and making new friends (she's now a 6th Grader)
• played volleyball for the first time, 
• played on an Irish Football team that came in second place at the 2016 Continental Youth Championships here in Chicago, 
• starred as Lord Farquad in the musical Shrek, as Molly in Annie, as the blind Earthworm in James and the Giant Peach, and as Rafiki in the Lion King 
• finally, finally, finally got to be a cheerleader 
• learned how to play the violin
• did a week long Irish music and arts camp
• had an awesome week at Camp Reneker (Go For It) with her cousins Nellie and Bridie (and other family members) in 2015 and 2016
• ran her first 5K AND ran her second 5K in the rain
• did her first ever Science Fair  (testing the hardness of rocks before and after sitting in different types of water)
• danced, danced, danced her way through three St. Patrick's Days 
• continued to have an absolutely tremendous heart of gold!