Kilbane Happenings

Hi All - I just posted pictures from our amazing Hawaii trip. We were gone for 10 days the beginning of September and it was an great trip! Kaitlyn and Brady stayed behind in St. Louis and had a rotation of grandparents here to play with them while we were away! We are so thankful for our wonderful parents who love our kids SO much and are able to come and help us when we need them! Kaitlyn is having a great time in preschool. My last post in August was of her first day - which was tough one for her and mommy! She took a few weeks to adjust, but now she loves it and enjoys going on tuesdays and thursdays. She is learning all sorts of new things - letters, numbers, colors, and shapes. She even gets to take gym, art and music class. When I pick her up she has a plethora of things to tell me about her class, Mrs. Mary (her teacher) and Mrs. Katie (the aide) and all the things that they do during the day. Brady is a growing, boisterous, full of energy 15 month old. He's not walking yet...

Brian and I took an amazing 10 day Hawaiian vacation to the islands of Hawai'i ("The Big Island") and Maui the beginning of September. We are very blessed to have 2 sets of parents who love our children very much and took turns watching them while we were away. The pictures are in reverse order of how our trip went...we started in Kona, on the big island for 5 days and flew over to Maui for another 5 days. We saw some amazing things - sea turtles right off the beach at our hotel in Kona, star-gazed at 9,000ft atop Mauna Kea, hiked across the active volcano crater at Hawai'i Volcano National Park, zip lined across beautiful scenery and waterfalls. Maui was a bit more relaxing but we still managed to fit it all sorts of adventures - drove to the summit of Haleakala to watch the sunrise (started that journey at 2:30am and endured 40 degree temps and 24 mile/hr winds - but AMAZING!), took a snuba cruise (like scuba diving, but with out carrying the tank) that was like swi...