Kyle's Award

Yesterday Kyle received an award below from his school. Each quarter teachers nominate 10 students from each grade level for Character Traits Recognition and this quarter the traits were generosity, honesty, trustworthiness, patience. The school has a dessert where parents can attend and watch the child receive the award, Baba went with us. At the dessert reception they passed out programs and this was what was in it for Kyle.

Kyle – Awarded by Mr. Kitzman
“Kyle sets very high standards for himself and he always demonstrates the type of dedication and character that will help him reach his ambitious goals. Honesty and trustworthiness are just two of his many attributes.”

Way to go Kyle!!

Christmas 2008

I'm a little behind on the blogging so I thought I would play catch up. Christmas Day started out with breakfast at Baba's with the entire "H" clan except for those that don't live here. There were 35 of us from 85 year old to 3 months old. Chris' grandmother cooks breakfast with the help of his dad, Mark, for all us along with each family bringing a small something. Bacon, eggs, sausage links, hash browns, biscuits and sausage gravy, casseroles and rolls. It is great and we love to get together with the family.

We then went over to my sister's house to have Christmas dinner. It snowed and snowed Christmas day so the older kids went outside and played in the snow and the adults played cards while dinner was cooking. We ate dinner and opened presents and had a great time.

We finished our day by going to the movies (our family tradition) and my sister, brother-in-law and their girls joined us this year. All in all, we had a great day.

My youngest nephew playing inside while the older kids played in the snow.
The kids outside in the snow.

And laying down in the snow. They had a blast.