I saw Kannon at the CMN Sonny Bright Duck Race a few weeks ago and I could not get over how much he has grown!!!! He had surgery awhile back to correct some issues and it just unleashed the hulk in him. :) He is getting quite large and boy did he TELL me all about it, when we visited at the duck race.
So, with growing boys comes new needs. And a wonderful organization has selected Zach and Kelli and Kannon to be the recipient of the proceeds raised at a 5k "Get Inspired" in Kannon's honor!!!
Get a kleenex to watch this, because you will need it. I have cried twice, once watching it, and once just thinking about it!!
So, TEAM HOPE wants to get behind this family and have everyone that has participated with us at all the WINGS TO FLY run in El Reno, register and don your TEAM HOPE tshirt and come and help us support this incredibly INSPIRING and loved family!!!!!
I know I'm doing it (this non-running, very sweaty mess) WHO WILL JOIN ME??? Let's get this family a VAN! How fantastic!!!
Get on your running shoes and join us on September 13 in Midwest City. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
There are so many lovely things about this family....come see for yourself!
When Kip decided to get married in California, I was like, "What
about all your OKLAHOMA peeps???" She figured she would just have a
"Super Fun" reception sometime in June. We checked the baby sister's
volleyball schedule (ridiculous) and the ONLY time available, (back in
April, when we set things in stone) that Hallie could be there was June
14, Father's day Weekend. So, we booked the Round Barn, and then,
waited for June to roll around.
Then Hallie's team won
regionals, and a tournament was cancelled and a tournament planned, and
all the sudden baby sister wasn't going to get to be present for the
reception.
BUT in spite of the change, we pressed on,
(and notice I say WE in all this). By WE, I mean, Kip. I got a DJ and
bought a pillow that said, "Hey, Y'all". That was about the extent of
my "Helping".
Picked up my Cali Kids on Thursday late
afternoon, and after a burger at Irma's and a pretty intense game of
Life in grammie's living room floor, we called it a day.
Friday
rolled around, and Kip was a food buying, flower pickin', organized
frenzy of party planner. She had already helped Brandon's mom Pam, put
together one in California in May, so this wasn't her first rodeo, and
as much as she wanted to see all her people, she was ready to just have
an ice cream social in the park and call it good. She had mailed a lot
of signs and things (to the WRONG ADDRESS, for the love) (Hi neighbors,
did you get another box for me at YOUR ADDRESS?) sigh.
Saturday
was on us in a blink, and setting up, and laughing and SWEATING became
the order of the day. But once the friends and family started arriving,
Fun was Definitely HAD.
Brandon's mom, Pam, has the
best costume props and Kip brought them all and set up a photo booth,
and we had some serious fun in that baby.
FUN WAS DEFINITELY HAD .We danced (Well, Lacey danced), even at one point she boogied by and said, "Thanks for buying me a DJ, mom". I decided we invited a bangload of Baptists. No one dancing. LOL. But the few times we did dance, it was a blast.
If Kip ever decided to get in the party planning, catering, wedding planning business she will be an instant success. What fun and I have no idea why my page is doing this so I am signing off for now.
I have two posts to share tonight, because looking through my old posts, I realized I never blogged OK Premier's regional win.
We had a pretty spectacular year.
It seemed like everytime we went somewhere to earn a bid to Nationals, someone was hurt or sick. So pretty much all year, we haven't had our girls be able to show their stuff.
Until regionals in Tulsa first weekend of May.
We went into the tournament ranked 2nd overall, and that's a pretty exciting honor right there. It's a two day tournament (48 teams in our 15's bracket) and I am happy to tell you that these girls went undefeated ALL.WEEKEND. Didn't drop one set to ANYONE. Just came to clean house, and boy, did they.
If you have 9 minutes, you might want to watch this video I put together of the finals we played against the #1 seed, Club One Black from Tulsa.
It's good stuff....
So in winning this tournament, this means we earned a bid to Minneapolis, Minnesota to the Nationals Division (there are 3 divisions, Nationals, Open and USA) at the Nationals volleyball tournament. This is HUGE. People, 2 years ago I didn't even know why that girl in the back row wore a different color shirt (thought she was captain or something). Now we are going to Nationals!
So MUCH TALENT ON THIS TEAM, it's just stupid. Here is the link to their website OK Premier Website if you are thinking you want to get your children involved in volleyball, this is a great place to put them.
This weekend, the girls traveled to Topeka, KS to play a 2 day pool tournament (no brackets, no winners) for just basically an intense practice against other teams in other divisions going to Nationals in two weeks. We played 16 year old teams, 17 year old teams, 15 year old Open division teams, just crayyyyzzzyyyy. The girls did great, winning 4 of 8 of their games. That's amazing, considering we just wanted to show up and do our best. These teams are the top of the top, and WOW, what an honor to play them and get some good insight of what Nationals will look like.
I didn't get to go, because we had Kip and Brandon's Oklahoma Reception (see next blog), so Hal traveled with Christie and Abbey Woodrow and Christie seriously text me every point the first day until I told her ONLY ENDING SCORES, I AM DYING. Laura Thompson (Lexi's mom) kept me in the loop with texts like, "Hallie for the kill and win" and "Kill from Hallie. Ball went two courts over". I seriously love my volleyball moms.
So tomorrow, the parentals are suppose to bring their game and take on the girls from 5-6 at practice. I guess we need to be even more dominated by our nearly 16 year old children than we already are. We already sit, sweating on the passenger side, with almost all of these ladies, let's let them wipe the floor up with us in an exhibition. I, for one, will have on my tennis shoes and stand at the net, facing my much taller baby, and try to school her in her sport. I think to keep her humble, though, I shall make her try to go sell a funeral for me, and see that everyone has their own special talent.
Aww, this is the life.
Corey & Sammi came up to watch Hallie in Tulsa, and Corey didn't get the memo that this was a serious picture. LOL
I especially love this picture because it shows how ridiculously high that big kid can jump.
Actually, this is even more ridiculous.
Tyler and Lacey came to cheer on their younger sis, and Tyler braved the freezing gyms in his redneck shirt. It was AWESOME.
Also, his very loud, projecting voice would help bolster Hal into another level. I love that about him.
Here's one more of her very enthusiastic fan club. Very proud of this young lady!!!
Very excited about driving to Minnesota (cough, cough, cough) to watch the girls play, and I can't wait to get my yell on in two weeks!!!
