Landon Cole Cross!! I don't think there's many people left who have a newspaper delivered AND read it. My mom does.....always has and always will, despite the declining quality of the McKinney Courier Gazette. The beauty of reading the newspaper is finding cute little contests for cute little children. Mom had Landon color the Snowman picture and entered it into their contest. She always did things like that for me. You should see my scrapbook. Thanks to my fabulous mom, my scrapbook is full of certificates, awards, medals, and achievements for unheard of things. According to my scrapbook, I'm one of the most highly decorated kids to grow up in McKinney. Since she signed me up for the Ranger Rick magazine, I was the proud recipient of a sticker, an embroidered badge, and an authentic certificate with gold on it. She sent a picture of me to the Courier Gazette for being the MVP of the Bobby Moffet Soccer Camp. I think my grandmother still has that picture on her refrigerator. She signed me up for summer classes at the Heard Museum...a picture of me ended up in the Courier Gazette. I was entered in contests, summer reading programs, art classes, pottery classes, a baking class, a class where I learned how to make a tie-dye shirt. I was sent to Space Camp and countless soccer camps. I have pages and pages full of cutouts from the Courier Gazette from each and every time my name was printed. I have ribbons from the events I won at field days in school, ribbons from track events...even the green ribbons that tell me I really didn't do very well. I'm telling you...my mom kept everything. And now she's continuing the tradition with our Landon Cole. Landon won 2 movie tickets for his snowman picture. The little guy took the 1-4 age division. Thank you Mom. I have followed in my mom's footsteps and keep absolutely everything. This will go in his scrapbook, that which he will inherit one day. We love him immensely and are beaming with pride.
