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Whitney won the Student of the Month award at her school. Each month they pick an attribute and which ever student best exemplifies that attribute gets the award. This month it was honesty and Whitney got chosen. So we got to go to a breakfast and awards assembly. It was pretty neat.

Whitney’s classmates wrote in a little book for her why they chose her. Some of them were kind of funny, like, “So and so thought he was going to get this award, but I’m glad you did instead.” But they were very complimentary of Whitney. My favorite was that Whitney is “the kindest person I know. She is even kind to the mean kids.”

Whitney and Mason both had their end of year soccer parties a few weeks ago, and they each went somewhere to have pizza. Me and Whitney ended up at one place, and Heidi and Mason at another. This is where Whitney got her trophy. It was pretty big and very impressive.

They had a pretty good time playing soccer this season, although the last games were pretty chilly. There is a pretty big difference in the two teams, though, since in Whitney’s league the field is a lot bigger and there are goalies. Mason’s field is about the size of a basketball field and there are no goalies, so there is usually quite a bit more scoring in that league.

We went to Idaho for Thanksgiving this year, which we haven’t done since we’ve been living in Virginia. We had a pretty good time and the kids got to see some snow.

We flew into Salt Lake and spent the first night and Dan and Amy’s new house (and the last night there as well.) Then we headed up to Pocatello to eat dinner with Heidi’s family before going out to Springfield.

Mason’s one request was to go to Craters of the Moon, and so we took a day and did that. The kids also make gingerbread houses, played some video games and some other fun things.

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