This is Me!










Hello everyone! I'm Emma Nelson. I'm a ginger from Idaho and a firm believer in hiking, hammocks, eating cookie dough, and driving with the windows down and the music up. I'm the third oldest out of a whopping seven kids, yet I'm the only one who has never found a spoon they cannot balance on their nose. 

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