Birthday Present

Here's Kyle's birthday present. Noooo it's not the car.
He bought that for himself last year. It's the personalized license plate.

It says SPIKE 12. We had nicknamed Kyle "Spike" when he was just a young guy of about 4 or 5. The name has sure proven true. He is 6' 3". The number 12 is just his favourite number. So we put them together and voila!

Unfortunately his plates did not come in time for his actual birthday, we did order then early enough, but they just didn't make it in time. But the old saying "better late than never" helped.

They came the day before he was to leave for California on a job set-up with Ice Cultures, so he had to wait until today to get them on his car. Kyle was gone for just the weekend. I cannot imagine sending a crew to California for a job, for only a weekend, but I am very glad that they do.

It's probably the only way this farm boy would get to see all the places that he gets to. It's hard to think that he's old enough to be travelling on his own, without either Wayne or I along. What a wonderful blessing it is to know that he is a good kid and he's able to take of himself.

It's one of those things in life, you know you've done a good job raising your kids when after they leave they are able to take of themselves. I guess a good parent truly does put themselves out of a job.

Blessings