What about the children?

The Christmas cards have descended upon our house. Every year our friends send us pictures of their children in holiday attire and a one page insert that summarizes the year marked in vacations and snipets about the pictured children. My friends are particularly zealous about including every detail involving their kids so their one page season's greeting is in the smallest readable font and single-spaced. I've thought to include a synopsis of 2007 for Kevin and me. As we have no children except for my feline son, Pigg, and yellow lab step-son, Scooby, we would be the "kids". The pictures on the card would be Kevin speeding along on his new tri bike and aero helmet, looking so aerodynamic Dave Zabriskie would be envious; and my finish line picture at Eagleman, victorious in my HIM PR. Our rundown, printed on festive red and green paper, would read like this:
Merry Christmas! We hope Kevtima's holiday newsletter finds you all injury-free and ready to crank out watts after a restful off-season.
Little Kevy had a great season in his new age group this year with 2 podium finishes at the Sodus triathlon and Danforth duathlon--which was supposed to be a tri, but the swim was cancelled due to freezing temps in the Lake. Poor Kevy was ready to go on the shore with his swim floaties, but the plaque for 3rd place more than made up for his disappointment. He's in his second year of training with power and really loves his Powertap! He enjoys sweet spot rides, track work-outs, vanilla GU, and riding his mountain bike. No matter how hard we try, he still won't weight train or do running drills.
Kitima is a big girl now and did her first Ironman in Lake Placid this summer. At mile 12 on the run she had a bit of a meltdown/tantrum (Girls will be girls!), but her girlfriend, Shari, promised to get her a pony and she snapped out of it. She's into running in skirts, long rides with her friends Dana and Marian, and strawberry banana GU. In fact, she saved over 200 empty GU packets and got a free pair of GU socks from their Stash-Your-Trash program. After a long off-season, she's ready for the 2008 season and is enjoying her E-pace runs...really!
Kevtima took a trip to Maryland in June with Mary, Bill, Sharon, and Hannah. They camped and rescued Mary from being eaten by her tent in a wind storm. Bill, Kevin, and Kitima had PR's at Eagleman that weekend; and Mary had a triumphant HIM where pacing, nutrition, and complete abscence of barfing lead to a breakthrough performance. Also, while in the Chesapeake Bay area, Kitima wanted crabs and boy did she get them! Soft-shelled and fried in butter!
We're truly blessed to have such a wonderful life where we can swim, ride our bikes, and run races with each other and our friends. We have absolutely no plans in the future to grow up and retiring only means more time to play! We wish everyone a wonderful holiday. May the New Year bring all of us closer to race weight, out of pool for aqua-jogging, and a fulfilling tri season!