Personal Narrative: My Contraguerro Family

My favorite relative is my Pap. He weighs a solid 170 pounds and is in very good shape for his age. Even though he's older, you would never guess that he's 60, which he just turned on July 17th. He's always at the gym working out, or with my family and I. It's not just his outgoing personality but the way is fun and how he still is very energetic. He has a mustache and always tickles us kids with it when he kisses us. I can always tell it is him by the way he walks, his legs curve out a bit and go out to the side. He might have had open heart surgery, but he's still keeps a great big happy smile on his face.

The times of dark hair have going on since he was young but his big brown eyes haven't. He has dimples and there is always a twinkle …show more content…
He lost his dad when he was very young, and his mom just a year ago. He always says "She was one of the strongest women I knew." I can tell that he misses her very much by the way his facial expressions look, if he's staring he's usually thinking. The Contraguerro family is a huge family, but something has seemed to keep the family together through decades. All the siblings and my pap himself were always there for each other all throughout life, and …show more content…
We have so many traditions with my grandparents. Every Christmas Eve we go on a Christmas ride all around Wheeling, go to Fusion, and then open gifts from each other. I love going on these rides and having traditions and I know that my pap enjoys it just as much as I do. Christmas morning is a very important tradition to do with my family. After we open gifts from our house, my cousins and my family go to my grandparents house and have Christmas breakfast and open a truck load of gifts from them. Another thing my pap always says is "Even though you get all of these gifts, you can't forget the true meaning of Christmas, Christ our Savior." That always sticks in my mind and in is