Claire’s Grade 8 Graduation, June 23,2009

What a wonderful evening we had at Claire’s grad. She was lovely and poised, and looked older than her years. Our friend Victoria once again worked her magic, and completely straightened Claire’s hair. Her Annie-hair is still growing out, but it looked lovely despite this fact.

Claire won three awards, which was pretty astounding since she was in a very strong class. She won the High Academic award (won by Alison last year!), the ETFO Award for History and Geography, and the Art Award (this is the only one she was secretly hoping to win!). Her Auntie Kim was particularly proud of the ETFO Award, which is sponsored by the Ontario Teacher’s Federation (Kim is on the executive). The theme for the night was “Hollywood” and the kids put a great deal of time into decorating.

Claire, leading her class in:

The Sophiasburgh Central School Class of 2009:

Mr. Stone presenting Claire with her diploma:

Nanny and Papa with the three kids:

Proud parents :-) … :

Us with all three kids:

Claire with her Principal, Mrs. “Pooky” (rhymes with bookie lol) Scott

Claire with some of her friends:

Claire and Kevin dancing the first dance, which by tradition at Sophiasburgh is a Father-Daughter/Mother-Son dance:

Claire, dancing with a BOY!! Gasp! (In fact, the “boy next door” … he invited her to grad as her date, however we don’t allow dating quite yet ;-) … )

One of Claire’s awards … check out the 2008 winner.

We had a genuinely great evening with Claire and her friends, many whom we have got to know over the last couple of years. It was awesome to be there to encourage them all!