Kid Triathlon 2012

This past Saturday was the annual Kid Tri here in our town.  It is such a fun event!  Kate and Abby have both competed in years past, but this was Grace's first year to "Tri" it out... We might have even bribed her a little bit to get her to give it a shot!  And... She actually liked the experience!!  Here is a visual of her reaction when she found out that she won 3rd place in her age group!

 We actually had three winners in the Killian household... Grace won 3rd in the 7-8 year old division, Abby won 2nd in the 9-10 year old division, and Kate won first in the 13-14 year old division, and she was also the overall winner, with the fastest time of all competitors, including boys and girls.  Here is a pic of our 3 winners on the medal podium.  We were so super proud of them for giving it their all!!!

Happy 50th Anniversary

Friday was my mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary. In true mom and dad understated style, they did not want anyone to make a "big deal" out of their big day... So they celebrated quietly at home. Just another day, like the many that have come before. So, happy 50th, mom and dad. I love you both, and am so proud of you both!

Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday was our 18th wedding anniversary. :-). 18 years later, I still love him as much as ever, and we are still as goofy as ever. Thanks for making me laugh EVERY. SINGLE. DAY, babe. I love you! Happy 18th!

Spring Band Concert

Last night was Kate's 7th grade Spring Band Concert. We were lucky that Nana and PaPaw got to attend, as well. :-)

End of Year Music Program

Each year the fantastic music teacher at our school puts together the most fantastic programs. Today was one of those... It was all about summer vacation! Grace's class members were little frogs, and Abby's class members were baseball players. Then after the program they went around to stations that were themed to match the "summer vacation" theme. One of the stations was a Fishing station. They practiced casting with a rod and reel, and they looked at different types of bait, one of which was live worms. The kids loved them!! Here are my two little fishermen, all excited about the worms. :-)

Family Pics

We had our family pics made on Sunday by the amazing Elizabeth Marquess, and she has posted ONE for me to see... So far I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!! We took them out here on our land. Can't WAIT to see more!!

Diva Dash

This past weekend I went to Austin with a group of my BFF's to run in the Diva Dash. It was a 3 mile run that was filled with obstacles like balance beams, tires to run through with big bouncy balls hanging in front of them, a maze, a spider web of stretchy cords, hurdles (which we slowly crawled over!), a bubble tent to run through, a log to carry up and down a hill, water obstacles in the lake to go over, another lake experience that had us putting on an inner tube and walking out waist deep around a buoy, and finally a cargo net "wall" to go up and over! It was one of the funniest races I have ever done!

Here is our team, BS2. (Betsy, Shelley, Brisgette, and Shelly.). Between us we have 12 daughters, and 1 lone boy. Baker's dozen!!

No more metal mouth!

Kate has has braces (her second set) for almost a year now, but yesterday was the day she has been waiting for... The day they come off!!

Here are the "before and after" shots... She looks great, and was super excited to be free!

Now for the retainers... :-)

The results are In...

... and she made it! Kate's an HJH cheerleader again.Way to go, babe! Super proud of you! :-)

Rah! Rah!

Tomorrow is the big day... My Kate will try out for Jr. High Cheerleader again. Here is a pic of her from last year... Awww.. She looks so cute!!I think she is going to do GREAT, and I hope everything goes well for her. Good Luck, Babe. I am proud of you!! :-)