10-Year-Old Girl Gets Early Christmas Gift From Obama (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWJ2gsytfYWEW5i4jl9tDQuPbk7oP5IQFVtkQXqEcoWy68APx8IcWkAG0QxB0qQQ4ku_p483j2EfMKaJ1ctkF7iXJNO0xnv1SvtsyPuIypgIDwdNFyIJAq08EXvy91P7HXlTLktf1c2k/s1600/ap_obama_hawaii_autograph1_wy_131224_16x9_608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWJ2gsytfYWEW5i4jl9tDQuPbk7oP5IQFVtkQXqEcoWy68APx8IcWkAG0QxB0qQQ4ku_p483j2EfMKaJ1ctkF7iXJNO0xnv1SvtsyPuIypgIDwdNFyIJAq08EXvy91P7HXlTLktf1c2k/s320/ap_obama_hawaii_autograph1_wy_131224_16x9_608.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the fourth full day of the first family’s winter vacation in Hawaii, President Obama gave a 10-year-old girl an early Christmas present.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During a morning workout at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, near the president’s vacation rental on the island of Oahu, Obama encountered Kyrstin Lavelle, who apparently asked the president for an autograph.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama obliged, writing in the little girl’s journal, “To Kyrstin – Dream big dreams!” Underneath the message, the president signed his name.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kyrstin described Obama as “really nice,” according to a pool report by the Wall Street Journal’s Colleen McCain Nelson. Kyrstin said she gave Obama flowers and that the president joked that he would give them to the first lady and say that he picked them himself, according to the report.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the gym, president Obama was reportedly working out with free weights and shooting baskets.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the sixth year in a row the first family has spent the holidays in Hawaii, Obama’s home state and the place where he spent many of his childhood years.</div><div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ap obama hawaii autograph2 wy 131224 16x9 608 10 Year Old Girl Gets Early Christmas Gift From Obama" height="342" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ap_obama_hawaii_autograph2_wy_131224_16x9_608.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Kyrstin Lavelle, 10, holds her book for photographers to see with President Barack Obama's autograph and comment that reads "To Kyrstin Dream Big Deams" on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Dec. 24, 2013. " width="608" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 468px;">                                      (Picture Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)</div></div></div>

10-Year-Old Girl Gets Early Christmas Gift From Obama (BLOG)

On the fourth full day of the first family’s winter vacation in Hawaii, President Obama gave a 10-year-old girl an early Christmas present. ...

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