Kilbane Happenings

From 8/14/14: Today was a big day! Kaitlyn started 2nd grade with Sister Mary Emmanuel, Brady began full day kindergarten and I went back to work, teaching preschool at St. Catherine of Siena.  Everyone had a fabulous day and I expect will be a great school year for all of us.  Kaitlyn heads back to Irish dance Monday and Beady starts rec soccer in a few weeks!  Our carefree summer days are no longer- back to the hustle and bustle of school days! 

Here's a few pictures of our fun 4th of July....

Happy 5th birthday to our sweet Brady! 

Brady decided he wanted to have his birthday party with his friends at Chuck E Cheese. He invited his best buddies from school and we had a great time. He scored tons of tickets in the ticket blaster, had a Star Wars cake and had a great time playing games with all his friends. Here are some highlights from the awesome party! Playing guitar hero with his buddy Logan Playing basketball with Andrew Blowing out the candles Cool dude Doing the birthday dance with Chuck E Cheese Inside the ticket blaster - he grabbed 1,618 tickets (some were bonus tickets!!) With his best buds (Gram, Logan and Andrew)

I am a little late posting this... Brady's tball team had an end of the season party at the park by our house. They had a great season and had a lot of reasons to celebrate. Each child received their trophy of participation and they gave out three special awards: Most Valuable, Most Improved and Most Spirited. Brady received the Most Spirited Player award! We are so proud of his efforts and hard work on and off the field. He really enjoys playing baseball! Looking forward to a new season next Spring. Here are some photos from the party. WATER BALLOONS!!! Tossing...trying not to break it! Ready for cake... With one of his coaches and his Most Spirited Award

Brady had his last day of school Thursday, with his end of the year party and then graduation ceremony on Friday. They put on a fabulous program with songs and prayers and of course, received their diplomas from the teachers. We are so proud of him and know that he will do awesome in Kindergarten. We are sad to be leaving the preschool family at St. Catherine - it is an amazing place! I won't be going too far - I have accepted a position at the preschool in the 4 year old classroom working as an assistant teacher with Brady's current teacher. I know we will be make a great team and I'm looking forward to getting back in to the work force! Here are some of the pictures from the party and graduation. Having lunch at his party Getting the goodies from the piñata with his friend Gram Brady with his teacher, Miss Vicki Graduation...walking into the Church Ready for opening prayer (prayer hands to heaven) Taking his bows when the singing was ov...

Today was Brady's last day of preschool. He had a big party at school. He got a beautiful memory book from his teacher as well as lots of goodies from the party.  We are so proud of all he's learned this year! It's hard to bieve he's going to kindergarten!  Here's his first day/last day photos! He's grown so much!! 

Kaitlyn's teacher is quite amazing. She assigned each 1st grader an American historical figure, they were to write a research report on them and then, here's the cool part.... Each student was to come go school dresses as their historical figure and participate in a wax museum. They had 4-5 sentences to say about their figure to parents, teachers, students and other school faculty. They did all this standing in front of a decorative backdrop (all custom made by parent volunteers and her teacher).  Kaitlyn was given Sacagawea. She did awesome! Here's a few pictures. 

So this is going to be one BIG post! I have been so crazy the last few weeks with the end of the school year and such that I've neglected my blog posting. I do apologize!  Let me get you caught up!  So after Disney World, a very special young lady turned 7 years old!! I can't believe Kaitlyn is 7! She's raring and ready for 2nd grade.  Here's some birthday pics... Next, we celebrated Easter! Some great fun we had when my parents visited!  The last weekend in April, I met some friends from St. Louis in Nashville for a fun girls weekend. Two of them ran the Rock n Roll half marathon that saturday. We had a blast!  Kaitlyn competed in the Peach state Feis the first weekend in May. She danced three dances and placed in two of them. We are so proud of her. She danced in a bigger field of competition this time around, making it more difficult to place.  One of her school friends dances also for another school.  Mother's Day was very special! We went to a won...