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5-3-06

This past weekend was a very proud one for our family. On Saturday Ryan took the Silver medal in the Regional track meet, earning the right to compete in the Texas State Track Meet in two weeks! She didn't miss a single jump until she'd secured the second place spot, and then she lost ALL concentration and missed 3 in a row! LOL She's going to have to keep her head in it at the state meet, but we're really proud of her!

Kyra was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society on Sunday. She had told her mom and Paul that she didn't want them to come to the ceremony, but I told Laura she ought to come anyway. We also invited the two of them to go and eat with us afterwards, which they did. All in all, the day went well, though Kyra didn't really talk much to them. I thought it was rather rude, but Laura said it was fine with her so I left it alone. Whatever.

We head to Austin next Friday. Ryan will jump at the University of Texas and she's really excited. This also automatically qualifies her for Texas Relays next year. We had originally planned for this to be her last year of track so that she could just concentrate on volleyball and basketball at school and have her summers on the Nike and Adidas circuits, but with the track letters starting to come in along with the basketball, it is now volleyball that has to go. Craig disagrees with me, but she can't keep punishing her body this way. She plays competitive basketball year round, PLUS the three sports in school. She is in constant pain, she is always tired and she doesn't have a moment to herself. I'm putting my foot down. She doesn't care about volleyball, truth be told- that's what made up my mind.

This is a terrible picture of her, but here she is with her UIL medal from this weekend. The district, regional and state medals are AWESOME looking and unique from the other track meet's medals. Gotta love em.

The paper is coming out to interview her today. She's totally stoked. Great. LOL kdgr